Nathan Englander Humor

An author’s form of word usage and manipulation provides stories their feeling, tone, and pace while simultaneously creating a reader’s suspension of belief. Elie Wiesel in his book Night tells us of the year he spent in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Like many people have said and proven true, a lot of things can happen in a year making it almost impossible to retell every experience down to a tee; with this information in mind Wiesel writes of the moments that stuck with him, and would possibly with readers.

In Anne Sexton’s poem “After Auschwitz”, the speaker uses death as a metaphor to show that onlookers were the cause of the persecution of Jews and that men are evil but capable of beauty. Anne Sexton was a confessional poet, often writing about topics that were not embraced and talked about during her time period. One topic that was a painful topic to talk about was the holocaust, which was the persecution and murder of over 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II. Sexton opens up about the Holocaust and how no one is to blame for the death of millions but ourselves. The poem, “After Auschwitz”, was written to call out those who stayed silent during the Holocaust through the use of sound devices, personification, and metaphors.

Many, many people suffered during the Holocaust war. The Jews in particular were in grave danger. The drama ‘Anne Frank’ outlines so many ways that this historical event caused a shift in the mood of the characters and their relationships. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just an ordinary Jewish girl living in Germany. A German leader named Adolf Hitler developed a plan to destroy the Jews and to rule over the specific places where they lived. What Hitler did to these poor Jews, and the sheer terror they endured at the hands of this Nazi leader is purely unfathomable.

As the famous journalist Iris Chang once said, “As the Nobel Laureate warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.” After experiencing the tragedies that occurred during the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel narrated “Night”. Eliezer wrote “Night” in an attempt to prevent something similar to the Holocaust from happening again, by showing the audience what the consequences are that come from becoming a bystander. Elie illustrated numerous themes by narrating the state of turmoil he was in during the Holocaust. In Night, Eliezer provided insight into what he experienced in order to teach the unaware audience about three themes; identity, silence, and faith.

The mass killings of entire races are important events to recognize and understand so that history won't repeat itself. One genocide that was clearly documented was the Holocaust. Ellie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust who wrote a fluent account of his experience in the camps in his memoir Night. In the memoir, Wiesel creates an articulate style with the use of a few style devices which help portray his narrative clearly.

The Holocaust was a massacre of over six million Jews that occurred during the Nazi Regime that has been regarded as one of the most significant events in history. However, multiple forms of media such as literary works and films have incorporated this horrid event into a lesson about an aspect far more common and greater in today’s society, indifference. Indifference is literally “the lack of interest, concern, or sympathy towards someone or something” (Holocaust). Night, by Elie Wiesel, is an excellent example of a literary work that depicts the theme of indifference through the main character, Eliezer. Night is not only a nonfiction novel about the Holocaust, but is written by a Jewish boy who was in an actual concentration camp. In

Many outsiders strive but fail to truly comprehend the haunting incident of World War II’s Holocaust. None but survivors and witnesses succeed to sense and live the timeless pain of the event which repossesses the core of human psyche. Elie Wiesel and Corrie Ten Boom are two of these survivors who, through their personal accounts, allow the reader to glimpse empathy within the soul and the heart. Elie Wiesel (1928- ), a journalist and Professor of Humanities at Boston University, is an author of 21 books. The first of his collection, entitled Night, is a terrifying account of Wiesel’s boyhood experience as a WWII Jewish prisoner of Hitler’s dominant and secretive Nazi party.

Spiegelman’s book presents us with a unique way of showcasing a person’s personal experience of a historical occurrence, that being the Holocaust. According to Hatfield, Spiegelman’s manner of sharing this tale is not exactly the best. Hatfield states his disagreements over Spiegelman’s book.

“Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.” The thought expressed by actor Stephen Moyer portrays that conflict brings out a reaction from people, but they may not always be the same reaction. Being victims of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank have different responses with some similarities. Both characters have a very similar response to write about the (hardships) they faced or were facing. Although Wiesel and Frank share the will to write about the (hardships), key differences developed throughout there (hardship). Wiesel lost faith in God, and as time lapsed Wiesel’s viewpoint on the future grew negative. On the other hand, Anne Frank stayed Optimistic about the future and found hope and passion through Peter.

The play, “The Diary of Anne Frank” tells the story of a girl named Anne Frank and the events that occur during her time hiding from the Nazis in the Holocaust with her family, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel. While the two families were in hiding, they all suffered tremendously with limited food portions and the need to remain quiet in order to not get caught. During this period, if a person were to be not fit in the Aryan race, which consists of blonde hair, blue eyes, and tallness, then they were to be sent to concentration camps or be killed. Although all of the characters were put into the same circumstances, Mr. Van Daan drastically took advantage of the rest of the Annex. He was portrayed to be selfish and gluttonous because of the fact that he would do anything in order to obtain cigarettes and because he has been given or taking a significant amount of food that is supposed to be for the whole Annex. .

The Message of the Memoir Night Eliezer Wiesel writes, Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish Holocaust survivor, an author, and a human rights activist. At the onset of the Holocaust however, Eliezer Wiesel was a thirteen-year-old, small-town-boy of Sighet, Transylvania who by all accounts was “deeply observant” (Wiesel 3). The Holocaust was a dark time in Jewish history in which Anti- Semitics; mainly the German Nazis led by Hitler, tried to exterminate the Jews. As an author, Eliezer uses an array of rhetorical appeals. Rhetorical appeals consist of pathos, logos, and ethos.

The Holocaust appeared to be a time of darkness and it seemed like on Earth and in heaven, each doorway of humanity, empathy, and kindness had been closed down. Those who did not encounter the Holocaust cannot begin to comprehend what it was like, however, those who did cannot begin to express it. Torture, genocide, and cruel acts started to fill brains and souls. The Holocaust was an event where millions of people were being murdered during World War II. The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is based on Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps, in order to give readers an insight of someone who was a victim of the Holocaust. The young narrator, Elie Wiesel, faces countless struggles for survival among the horrors of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Eliezer, the passionately, devoted boy with a benevolent family, is taken from his home and sent to a concentration camp. Through their unstable and dangerous journey, Elie is detached from his mother and sisters but lingers on with his father, only to be relocated from camp to camp. Elie mentions the death of numerous family members, the death of his own identity and innocence, to an extent in which living or dying did not matter anymore. In Night, Wiesel reveals that the exposure to an unsympathetic, bitter world generates to the destruction of the three main themes throughout the memoir which are; religious faith, identity, and family.

Thesis: Today I will discuss the young and short life of one of the most well known Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was acknowledged for her quality of writing. Her diary is one of the world’s most widely read books and there has been many plays and films written on the basis of her story.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people, mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after, the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne Frank’s once secret diary has introduced the immense suffering and horror that occurred during the Holocaust.

Many people were hurt by Adolf Hitler's plans and one thing he achieved was killing six million Jewish people including children. Anne Frank and her family were one of them. They lived in a secret and tiny annex where Otto used to work. They started off just going to stay there for a few months till the Allied Forces could invade Holland but that didn’t work out. In the drama wrote by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett eight people crowded into annex for 2 long years not being able to go outside. Many historical events were impacted in the drama Anne Frank. Even though these problems took place outside of the secret annex it changed the mood and relationships of the character.