Symbolism In The Book Night

Although there are many different stories about the holocaust, Elie Wiesel's story is very vivid and full of the jarring reality of his experiences. He doesn’t hold back any of the cruelness and torment he was forced to endure as an adolescent. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate the deprivation of his former self during his traumatic experiences during his time in the Nazi work camp.

The first and most prevalent example of symbolism in the book is the title itself. By calling the novel “Night” it is apparent to the reader that the Holocaust was a dark experience, full of terror and suffering. The entire novel is filled with “last nights”. Elie experiences the last night withEl his father, the last night in Buna, the last night in the ghetto, and several others throughout the book. The term “night” also references to a life without a God. Wiesel often says that God does not

The death march described in Chapter six in Night by Elie Wiesel is a striking and memorable moment. Throughout the march, the people are pushed to their limits and many do not make it. In order to create such a memorable scene, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to construct often inhuman descriptions of the people’s bodies and the surrounding events to create an intense and striking scene.

One of the main themes throughout the book is the title of the book “Night”. There are references from Eliezer about night during the book, which are full of symbolism. The word “night” is used repeatedly, and Eliezer recounts every dusk, night and dawn through the entire book. For instance, Night could be a metaphor for the Holocaust—submerge the family and thousands of Jewish families in the darkness and misery of the concentration camps.

“Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes” ( Wiesel 18).

Symbolism: the artistic and poetic use of a phrase, object, or relationship to express a deeper idea. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a retelling of Wiesel’s sacrifices and experiences as a young Jewish boy who had spent many years in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel uses an overwhelming amount of symbolism to express the deeper thoughts and feelings of the Jewish people as they did all they could to survive. Wiesel’s relationship with his father, Juliek’s violin, and the rations of food the Jews are provided with all symbolize the remnants of humanity that still remain in the Jews, who have been stripped of basically everything.

Imagery is used throughout the story of Night to help a reader better understand the writer’s life. The author, Elie Wiesel, experienced many traumatic events while in the concentration camps of Poland. Through the use of magery, the author is able to create a more realistic rendering of his life. When in the camps, a bell signified the hour that the prisoners were forced to go to bed. Wiesel hated following a strict regime of orders. He transmits his feelings to the reader through his imagery used in the memoir. The author writes, “The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. When I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell”

In Night the setting is symbolic. The author Elie Wiesel uses symbolism by the street name being synonymous to evil or the devil. Wiesel writes “The street we lived on, Serpent street, was in the first ghetto” (11). In the story of Adam and Eve, Eve is tempted by the devil who takes the form of a serpent. The Nazis naming a street in the ghetto where they put the Jews Serpent Street symbolizes that they view the Jewish people as evil or like the devil. Symbolism is also found when they are in the cattle car. The quote “The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car”(24). By saying that the world is a hermetically sealed cattle car it is symbolizing how their world is getting smaller and how they have no control over where they go or

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

In Night, there are multiple examples of symbolization. For example, “...every Jew had to wear a yellow star” so they could be identified by “pure blood Germans”(Wiesel 11). They were also given numbers, Wiesel said “I became A-7713. From then on, i had no other name” (Wiesel

From being a normal kid, to almost being burned alive, Elie Wiesel’s Night is a story about a boy’s time in a concentration camp. Elie is faced with many scarring challenges, and some have changed him. These events were In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character Elie, is affected by the harrowing events in the book because he was mentally, spiritually, and physically harmed during his time at Auschwitz To start, Elie was changed mentally in the book. There were many events that caused Elie’s mental state to deteriorate, including the event where Elie was deported in the cattle car. He describes on page 24 that his world from then on as “being in a hermetically sealed cattle car.’’

In the air, the smell of burning flash” (Wiesel 28). The flames symbolizes the death that is brought upon them. It foreshadows the Jews being thrown in the crematorium and burying to their own death. This also creates a feeling of suspension and fearfulness for words such as “burning

In the book night by Elie Wiesel one symbol that stood out to me the most is fire. Fire in the book is a symbol of the power the Nazis had over the jews. On the way to Auschwitz Mrs schacher alludes to the fact that there is going to be horrible fire and when they get there Elie see babies burning in a hole. These are all example as to why fire is used by the Nazis as a way to punish the innocent Jews. The fire for the crematorium is a symbol of the power the Nazis used to abuse and kill the Jews.

Night In the Novel “Night” by Elie wiesel and from the “ Universal Declaration of Human Rights” talks about the Jews in the camp and the things they can and cannot do. In “ Universal Declaration of Human Rights” articles 5 and 7. Article 5 “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Throughout Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen uses many symbols to convey the major theme of Man vs. Society. Sarny, the protagonist, shows peerless ambition by exchanging her lips of tobacco for lessons in “the letters”. The letters are symbolic of Sarny’s gradual growth in knowledge. The breeding Hut is one of the many symbols that is used to display the oppression felt by Sarny. Sarny’s penny represents her longing for freedom and her wish for a normal life.