The Diary Of Anne Frank Diction

The book Night is a story of family, religion, violence, and hope. This book tells the story of Elie Wiesel’s journey through the holocaust. During the novel, Wiesel writes with the purpose of teaching us several lessons. This lesson is conveyed through Wiesel’s actions, other character’s actions, as well as quotations. The lesson Wiesel taught in Night is to persevere and never lose hope up no matter how hopeless the situation may seem.

The first instance when corrupt power is shown in the memoir Night, is when the Hungarian police helped the Nazis take control over the Jews using fear. The police were helping the Nazis put the Jews into concentration camps and as a peaceful, religious people, who believed that their god is testing them, did not revolt against the Nazis. As the police were taking the Jews from their homes and moving them into the Ghettos they would yell “Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good for nothings!” (19). Throughout the memoir Wiesel continued to help his father but at the same time his faith is depleting drastically with every horrible event that he saw. When the boy is hanged by the Nazis for being accused of stealing guns to resist against Nazi power Wiesel asked an important question, “For God’s sake, where is God?” (65). The question asked by Wiesel shows that the power that the Germans had has corrupted his way of religious thinking, and by doing so with every day that Wiesel spends in the camps and with every terrible thing the Nazis do he loses his faith in his God but never loses his

Night by Elie Wiesel is the terrifying testimony of Elie’s memories of the death of his family, innocence, and faith. In the novel, Elie Wiesel uses the grotesque images of men collapsing from the torture of the S.S. and their mocking and ironic comments to not only display the pain and unjust cruelty that the victims of the holocaust endured, but to convey the theme of strength through syntax in the use of first person plural and allusions. At the beginning of chapter six, the prisoners are forced to run through the cold, winter snow by the S.S., to travel to another camp. As they are running the S.S. yell at them, “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs…

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.

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.

Wiesel exemplified the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners in Night. He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. They lost their possessions,

On one night the Wiesel and the other jews have to leave the concentration camp to another one. Wiesel tells of the darkness of this night and that they were accompanied by “[h]undreds of SS [that] appeared out of the darkness”. The opened gates ahead of him leaded to a “darker night”(Wiesel 84) ahead of them. This unsettling image symbolizes the everlasting uncertainty they have to live in the concentration camps. Furthermore the image conveys heavily on language relating to darkness and night.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the author’s life story as a jew inside the concentration camps. He uses a lot of imagery and metaphor as well as other literary devices to show his feelings through each of his words so that we could feel what he felt and relate to it. Many of these sentences and imageries connects to one another and leave powerful messages for those who choose to seek for it.

In “The Diary of Anne Frank” there are many different objects and people that are symbolic to something abstract. One example of symbolism in Anne’s diary is when her and Peter have a discussion about the star of David. In the play and throughout World War II the star of David symbolizes a deep hatred. It represents a deep hatred because during the time of WWII with the Jews getting murdered and sent to concentration camps they were forced to wear garments with the star sewn onto them. Anne records, “You can’t throw…? Something they branded you with…? That they made you wear so they could spit on you” (Pg 709 P.22). This quote justifies that while wearing the star of David the Jews won’t receive respect and they will be treated with rude and

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a young jewish boy and his family are forced out of their home by German soldiers. First they are forced into a ghetto. Then the dreaded day comes when they are then forced into train cars and taken to a concentration camp. At the gate of the camp Elie and

When a person has the strength to survive, even though they are going through such a hard time, usually have something that helps them keep going. In the Novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, tells the story of how a young boy survived the Holocaust while many others perished. By examining the novel Night, we can see that hope is the key to survival, which is important because those who do not have hope often lose themselves along the way with nothing to look forward to.

It seems as if in spite of harsh situations, the capability of our greatness can be most exhibited in tough times. Wiesel constantly depicts the harsh and brutal conditions of the concentration camps. The dehumanization of the Jews seemed almost unreal after reading all of the brutal encounters of death. Night focuses on multiple themes: silence, inhumanity to others, and father/son bonding. Wiesel struggles with his faith throughout the story and believes that God is everywhere, and he cannot understand how God could let this happen, especially as Wiesel faces conflict everyday in the concentration camp.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, use of imagery and diction to show man vs man between the Jews and Germans. First, Wiesel, his father and many other Jews arrived at one of the many concentration camps, where they were met by a big building with flames

In 1933, the nazi took power in Germany, which cause depression to a lot of people. At the beginning, Nazi defy the Jews, Gypsies, and the disabled. In March 1933, the first concentration camp was built and later on more concentration and death camps were made. A family named the Franks went into hiding with the Van Daans in Amsterdam. In “Anne Frank” the characters face adversity and conflict like man vs self, man vs nature, and man vs man that makes the “Diary of Anne Frank” a wonderful story.

Throughout the events of Night, Wiesel uses word choice and diction to describe the effect of the Nazi’s vicious torture on the Jews. This is very clearly seen as Wiesel describes only his first couple of minutes at Auschwitz and Birkenau, “A truck drew close and unloaded its