The Boy In The Striped Pajamas And Night

Identity Achievement occurs when someone makes a personal decision or commitment after going through a crisis and exploring his or her option.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

The setting of this book is the concentration camp. The time that this book takes place is in 1943, around the time that World War ll was going on. In the beginning of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the family moves into a new home. The little boy Bruno is very upset that he has to leave his home and go live in a new one.

Elie Wiesel uses several types of figurative language in Night. In his novel, Elie’s use of symbolism is most important in helping the reader understand the horrors of his experience during the Holocaust.

Often, the theme of a novel extends into a deeper significance than what is first apparent on the surface. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of night and darkness is prevalent throughout the story and is used as a primary tool to convey symbolism, foreshadowing, and the hopeless defeat felt by prisoners of Holocaust concentration camps. Religion, the various occurring crucial nights, and the many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism clearly demonstrate how the reoccurring theme of night permeates throughout the novel.

The Book Night By Elie Wiesel demonstrates the evilness and insanity that is found in every human being, and is depicted through rhetorical devices to make the point more clear. At Elie’s arrival to Auschwitz ( a concentration camp) he watches people being burned, telling the reader that, “never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of children whose bodies were transformed into smoke under the silent sky. “ (pg 34) In this moment it is hard to believe that human beings are capable of doing such a thing, ruthlessly murdering thousands of people all at once, without blinking an eye.

And without these men’s stories these events would never have been available to the public or be understood how they are today. The book Night expresses what happens to a young boy as his family and innocent life is stripped right from underneath him. Ellie’s use of “taut style and emotional restraint make his experiences even more believable and frightening” (Winters 1). Wiesel’s need to survive created the true motivation for him to stay alive and write his memoire of his

In Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel, he uses imagery, simile, and connotation to demonstrate the effects of dehumanization and what affect it has on people.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father’s relationship before the concentration camps consists of little emotion shared between each other; their estranged relationship leaves no room for them to show affection towards each other. In Sighet before the Holocaust, Elie’s father engages more with the citizens of the town than with his own family. Later, when Elie and his father arrive in their first concentration camp in Birkenau, they grow closer very quickly, relying on each other to continue their fight to live with the little food and harsh treatments. When Elie and his father live their lives before the Holocaust in Sighet, his father spends most of his time tending to the needs of the community and less to the needs of his family; however, when the two of them arrive in Birkenau, their relationship rapidly changes as his father plays the role of a supportive parent and Elie the helpful son.

In the novel, Night, written and experienced by Elie Wiesel, rhetorical devices such as logos, ethos and pathos are used to expatiate the events in the story. Elie was just a child when the invasions commenced. This autobiographical novel consists of the story of Elie Wiesel and his family, primarily his father, as they fight through the treacherous nights. The rhetorical devices compare to the poem by Judy (Weissenberg) Cohen. Judy is also a survivor of the holocaust that speaks at the Holocaust Memorial in Toronto, Canada. This poem and the novel compare through their rhetorical strategies.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

In Night Elie shares the horrific experiences as he is taken from his home and goes to Auschwitz where he is brutalized by Nazis. Elie lost his youth and began to doubt his faith (“Entering the Night”). Elie was given an insufficient amount of food and water, forced to work for long amounts of time, and punished for crimes he did not commit (“Night”). All of Elie’s suffering in the concentration camps during the Holocaust was because of a man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler used his powerful position to try and get rid of the Jewish population. When people became unemployed and Hitler wanted to be reelected, he used the Jews as scapegoats and blamed problems on them. Then, he put people

In The Boy With The Striped Pajamas the whole story is following a boy named, Bruno. In the beginning of the story Bruno comes home to the house maid, Maria, packing all of his belongings "even the things he had hidden in the back and that were nobody else's business." Soon after he finds out that him, his family, and even the house servants were to move from Berlin to Out-With (Auschwitz, Germany) for his father's job. When having just arrived, Bruno dislikes it immediately, it's nothing like the five floor mansion with all the nooks and crannies to explore; the house has peeling paint, unfriendly soldiers rushing in and out of the house like they own it, and none of his friends, Karl, Daniel, or Martin. After living in the new house for a bit longer, Bruno and his sister, Gretel start schooling again, but are homeschooled this time.

Most people would agree that novels and movies would not be the same without descriptive writing and cinematic techniques. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas shows both of those techniques throughout the book and the movie. The novel by John Boyne writes about the Holocaust in the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. This boy named Bruno eventually finds a friendship his parents never knew he would discover, and throughout the author's characterization, you realize how different the young boys' lives are. The director of the movie, Mark Herman, captures the innocence of the boys in such a time of hatred. Throughout the book, John Boyne makes the story more descriptive with character description, imagery, and similes. Whereas, Mark Herman uses lighting with close ups, a point of view, and a tracking shot technique to add depth to the movie.