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Night by Elie Wiesel was one of the best books I have ever read. Night is the story about Elie’s horrible time spent in Auschwitz and Buna the death camps. This story impacted me the most because all of this is real. Elie’s mother and sister were murdered as soon as they arrived. The story goes on telling his unimaginable experiences with his father in 1944 during the Holocaust.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses a distinct writing style to relate to his readers what emotions he experienced and how he changed while in the concentration camps of Buna, during the Holocaust. He uses techniques like irony, contrast, and an unrealistic way of describing what happens to accomplish this. By applying these techniques, Wiesel projects a tone of bitterness, confusion and grief into his story. Through his writing Wiesel gives us a window into the complete abandonment of reason he adopted and lived in during the Holocaust.

Language has the ability to impact the mood and tone of a piece in literature. In Night, Wiesel uses imagery, symbolism, diction and foreshadowing to illustrate dehumanization. The deeper true horror of the Holocaust is not what they Nazi’s did, but the behavior they legitimized as human beings being dehumanized by one another through silence and apathy.

With this book, Wiesel has helped to ensure that the holocaust is never forgotten. The events that he and the other Jews endured and put in this book are memorable to any reader. Jews whose job were to help in the crematories, sometimes even help with putting others to death is pretty memorable. One man had to put his own father into the furnace (35). This is very memorable because they had to watch others just like them being burned to death, and one day others might have to do the same to them. They had to work in a place full of the dead, until they themselves were put to death. Another memorable event was when the dead bodies were thrown off the wagon (94) as if they were useless weight. That was memorable because those people had a previous life, with families that loved them, and their dead body meant absolutely nothing to the SS. It is moments like these must be remembered, in honor of the diseased. As Wiesel said, “For the survivors who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and the living...to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (XV). Using good imagery and drilling the suffering of those who lived in these camps into the reader's mind, he has helped assure that

There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

    Wiesel began his story off with having to leave his own home. All Jews in Sighet were forced to board cattle cars which would travel to one of many concentration camps. When Wiesel and his family arrived in Birkenau, they knew they were in danger. Weisel described the smell in the air, the smoke rising from chimneys, and the flames in the distance. The Jews were ordered off the cars and were told to separate women and men.  He wrote, “Yet that was the moment I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine, we were alone” (Wiesel 29). This quote helps establish the purpose of the novel. The purpose of “Night” is to make the readers understand how horrible the holocaust really was.  This single quote gives a small idea of what the Jews went through, such as being separated from loved ones. The imagery included in this quote helps the reader picture what truly happened in the concentration camps and what Wiesel went through

Wiesel uses imagery to paint you a picture, a terrible one but, it 's one that you will not forget. Wiesel wants you to understand that these concentration camps were no girl scout camps, but a camp where it was life or death at any given moment. Wiesel shows you through his diction that the events that occurred at that camp still eat away at him to this present day.

The Holocaust was a time of death. It was initiated by Adolf Hitler and his German army and was the mass genocide that killed over six million Jews. Among those were women and children being sent to death right away, the others were then “selected”, Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky ones. He was a survivor who lived to tell about his experience in the death camps. Elie Wiesel wrote the book ‘Night’ because he felt it was his duty and responsibility to show readers what really happened during the Holocaust. His writing style effectively develops his point of view so he is able to convey a compelling story-his story.

In the concentration camps, Jews have witnessed and experience violence towards them. One way Wiesel’s life became challenging is by the loss of his innocence from witnessing his father being stuck in the face. In Auschwitz at a concentration camp, Wiesel's father asks the Gypsy a simple question that results in him getting slapped painfully, in “ My father had just been struck in front of me, and I had not even blinked” (Wiesel, 39). As Wiesel’s father is being slapped in front of him, Wiesel becomes frozen in fear. He begins to understand that violence is real in the world. Wiesel has never witnessed anything that has ever made him fear for his life. He says this in “ I had not even blinked”, where he petrify in fear. As his father is getting slapped, Wiesel is silently

In this 1999 speech, Elie Wiesel tells the story of his involvement as a prisoner in World War II. When he was freed from the war, he reported that it was if he had died. He was no longer able to enjoy the things he liked before the war, and he lived in a constant state of worry that disasters such as the Holocaust would occur again (Wiesel, 1999). Wiesel, therefore, urges the audience to avoid indifference because this is the trait that leads people to be able to accept events like the Holocaust. He claims that when people believe the world’s events are not related to them, it is easier for them to rationalize their occurrence. Thus, Wiesel uses his emotion to demonstrate the problems of indifference and urges the audience to avoid experiencing this trait.

Although Wiesel’s main reasoning for writing “Night” was most likely to share his horrible struggles during the Holocaust, a reoccurring theme that he used throughout his life was that “indifference to evil is evil,” meaning that even though the people at the time of the Holocaust knew what was happening, they were just as much to blame for what happened since they never acted on what terrible things they saw (Kolbert 72). This statement shows how much he saw the struggles against moral apathy gives more reason as to why he may have wanted to write “Night." The impact of Wiesel’s story on the world was that it greatly opened people’s eyes to the fact that the Holocaust did happen in the past, and that it shouldn’t be pushed aside and forgotten,

Elie Wiesel has said that all his works are “commentary” on Night, his one work that deals directly with the Holocaust. His novels are odysseys of a soul fragmented by the Holocaust, in quest of tranquillity, an attempt to move away from the night, reaching the shores of day. The key to understanding Wiesel, then, is his memoir in the form of a novella, Night. It is a slim volume that records his childhood memories of his hometown and his experiences in the concentration camp. It also contains the themes, images, and devices that recur throughout his novels.

An important nonfiction book that I think everyone should read is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1960 by Hill and Wang. It has 116 pages and it is told by a man who survived the Holocaust. This was a very important moment in history that everyone needs knowledge on.