'Night' by Elie Wiesel and 'Hangman' by Maurice Ogden compared and contrasted.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw. George Shaw’s famous quote describes that to achieve, you must change yourself. On May 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family were forced out from his home in Sighet, Romania to live in Auschwitz, Germany. He and his two older sisters survived the holocaust, Elie then wrote his experience in 1960. During the span of the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the novel demonstrates that traumatic events can change a person drastically. In the beginning, Elie lived with his family in Germany, his mother, his father, and his three siblings. The Germans forced the Jews to hand over their valuables, live in ghettos and finally moving them to concentration camps, including Elie’s family. He was disunited from his mother and three siblings, but managed to stay with his father. At first when he entered the camp he was pessimistic and discouraged when he saw the townspeople crying including his father. After, Elie then learned to take care of himself and his father during tragic events, he stuck to his ambitions and values which led him to go through many obstacles , despite the limitations, and be free of the camp of Auschwitz. As he set out Eliezer was an immature and carefree 15 year old who developed into a responsible young adult.

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

Wiesel appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos in Night. The reader’s logic is not so much directly appealed to, but indirectly

Night by Elie Wiesel is dark, and this book is the opposite of pleasant. The holocaust was an unimaginable time; he described it uniquely by asking rhetorical questions. The characters attitudes and personality change from the beginning to the end. The beginning of the story shows the happy “people” they are. As it moves on the characters change and become different in a bad way. The eye witness view creates a harsh reality for the reader. He uses detailed metaphors and euphemisms to create or dramatize each moment. Elie is a teenager struggling with religion as he feels the world is giving up. Elie and his father have a captivating relationship and it is depressing. The concentration camps they are brought to drag their family apart.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel is by far one of the most well written novels of the twentieth century. The novel showcases the life of a young Jewish boy whose family is taken from their home in Hungary to the infamous German concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. In the novel,one passage in particular stands out to the reader and remains in their mind for a long time after they have finished reading the novel. It is the passage in Chapter 2 from lines 11 to 25 that sticks in the reader’s mind after finishing reading the novel. The reason it is very successful in appealing to the reader’s mind is due to the critical usage of various literary devices that have an enormous impact on the meaning and the

Robert Shapiro, an American civil litigator once said, “To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization,” The Holocaust, a genocide led by Adolf Hitler, killed six million jews, and dramatically affected the whole world. The memoir “Night,” written by Elie Wiesel describes the brutality Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, and how life changing it was. Although some may believe the memoir written by Elie Wiesel was titled “Night” because he was forced to leave his home during the night, Wiesel illustrates Jews losing hope, faith, and happiness through the symbol of Night, to prove that the memoir was titled “Night” to symbolize the darkness the holocaust created.

Night starts out with the normal life of teenage Elie Wiesel, a Jew in Sighet, Hungary. He studies the Torah and the Kabbalah, two Jewish texts. Then the Nazis take over Hungary and enforce their anti-Semitic laws. The laws get more and more restrictive on the Jews. Eventually all the Jews in Sighet are forced into small and cramped ghettos. Soon after they were put in the ghettos they began to be put in cattle cars and shipped off on a long journey to a location unknown by Elie and his fellow Jews. After numerous days in the cattle cars the group of Jews arrive at Birkenau, the entrance to Auschwitz. They go through a selection and the men are separated from the women and Elie’s family is split up. Then they were shaved, and cleaned, and stripped of everything they own, even their humanity in the eyes of the Nazis. Elie is left with only his father and his determination to survive.

Night uses rhetorical devices comparatively to help convey the story to the reader. 'Listen to me , kid. In this place, it is every man for himself,

Elie Wiesel wrote a book called Night and Night is about his life experience during the holocaust and to explain his experience during the holocaust elie wiesel used literary elements like image clusters, pathos, tones, and metaphors for the readers to get into more detail and to feel a certain way about his experience.

At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.

In Sigmund Freud’s Reflection on War and Death, he writes, "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. However, we must accept it without complaint when they collide with reality" (Freud 4). As this neurologist articulates, human beings have a tendency to overlook a harsh reality to avoid confronting a hurtful truth. It is no coincidence, then, that the characters in works that deal with the Holocaust rely on lies to conceal certain aspects of the abomination. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the author, who is known as Eliezer in the memoir, recounts his experience as a Jewish boy under the strict authority of the Nazis. The Jews in the concentration camp fail to face the reality of the persecution; thus, they tell lies to themselves to remain optimistic and cope with the oppression. Fifty-four-years later, in 2008, Mark Herman directed the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In contrast to the novel, this film is portrayed from the perspective of a German commander named Ralf at the Auschwitz camp. He shields his family, namely his son, Bruno, from the Nazis’ maltreatment of the Jews by using deceits to maintain his heroic reputation. Though these works are seemingly unrelated due the different motives behind lies, they delineate the hindrance that lies have on one’s ability to make rational decisions and its interference with human relationships. Although Eliezer tells lies to create false optimism about the impending

Child abuse is very similar to the book Night by Elie Wiesel. There is one main topic that sticks out when reading child abuse articles and Night. Both topics have delt with a certain pain. Elie Wiezel and child abuse victims have suffered, starved, and are mainly frightened of their surroundings. Not only did they deal with emotional abuse, but also physical abuse. The Jewish children in Night have been abused by the leaders of the camp and were forced to do work or else get punished. When it comes to Child abuse, the children also get punished, whipped, and punched like Elie and his father did. Both topics dealt with verbal abuse too. Many Jews in Night have been threatened and constantly picked on by the concentration camp leaders for being

Holocaust survivor and author to the book “Night,” Elie Wiesel uses irony, metaphors and short syntax to show the readers the gloomy tone of how the Germans dehumanized the Jews and the torturing effect it had on them.

In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there are many examples of how indifference can affect individuals and society. The novel is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel’s experience throughout World War 2. At the beginning of the story indifference is seen negatively affecting the Jewish and Elie’s friend Moishe. Moishe is a foreign Jew who was evacuated from Sighet and taken into Polish territory controlled by the Gestapos. There Moishe sees many horrific sights happen to the Jews, including: Jewish being forced to dig their own graves, which they got shot in and young Jewish infants being used as target practice for machine guns. Somehow Moishe manages to escape the terrible situation and returns to Sighet with a wounded leg to warn the Jews. Though when he tries to share his horrific experience, he is ignored by the Jews. “He spoke of what he had seen. But people not only refuse to believe his tales, they refused to listen.” This indifference by the Jews caused Moishe to feel depressed as he thought no one cared for what he had to say. While it made the Jewish put themselves into the danger of concentration camps which they could’ve escaped, if only

Night by Elie Wiesel is a book that follows Wiesel and his father through many German concentration camp during the Holocaust. Like other resources about the Holocaust, it gives an inside look on what Jews and others went through and can be used as a research tool to learn about the Second World War.