The Motif Eyes In Elie Wiesel's Dawn

The sadness surrounds you, you are a living corpse, you Night death in the face everyday. The father/son relationship Night by Elie Wiesel is represented by many literary devices, such as imagery, flashback and foreshadowing. Imagery is represented by the terrible things that Elie and his father see. Flashback is represented by showing how Elie was before the camp and its tremendous effect on him. Foreshadowing is represented by hinting towards the death of his father. Imagery, flashback and foreshadowing are used to represent the father son relationship in Night by Elie Wiesel.

In the novel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor suggests that when humans are faced with protecting their own mortality, they abandon their morals and values. This can be seen in both the Jewish and German people. The German’s are inhumanely cruel to protect their own jobs and safely by obeying government commands. The Jewish captives lost their morals as they fight to survive the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel encountered many obstacles that made many of his ideals changed drastically for Wiesel which was his loss in humanity throughout the book he explains the many ways he does not see people as people anymore. He also explains how all of his natural human rights were no more during the time in the Holocaust. He had to find a sense of self because he could have easily fallen apart. He could not have done anything different, he knew it was going to end poorly. Silence is a very important and prominent theme in this book as silence represents many key symbols such as. God’s silence: Eliezar questions God’s faith many times throughout this book and wonders how he could just sit there and be silent while people are mass murdering people.

The Holocaust was the mass murder of Jews under the control of Hitler during the period 1941-1945. More than 6 million Jews, as well as members of other groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps the biggest camp was Auschwitz. They got tea for their morning meal, for lunch prisoners would be given a litre of soup that was watered down. If they were lucky, they might find a piece of a potato peel. One of the survivors of the holocaust stated “Your bowl was your life, without your bowl you didn’t eat.” (Kitty - Return to Auschwitz, YTV 1979) Hunger caused the Jew inmates to do things they normally wouldn't do.

In the novel “Night”, author, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to share his experiences as a jew during the holocaust. Wiesel’s use of imagery helps demonstrate the tone and purpose of the entire novel. Elie Wiesel’s journey starts off  subtle but in the end leaves the reader heartbroken.    Throughout the story, Wiesel describes his tragic memories during the nazi concentration camps, which establishes a dark and somber tone. His descriptions and use of imagery creates the tone and purpose of “Night”.

The project I did for Night shows the perspective from a window in Elie’s hometown, Sighet, during the war. In the first division of the window, you can see a Nazi car riding through the streets. This comes from page 9, when Elie says, “In less than three days, German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets.” The main focus of the second division is the yellow star, which all jews were forced to wear. The author writes that his father thought that “it was not all bleak,” on page 11. Since his father was an important figure to Sighet, many people believed him, and were not discouraged. In the third division you can see the appearance of a ghetto (one of the two in Sighet). While confining them “like a wall,” (page 11) the fence did

As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.

The Holocaust was a huge genocide against the Jews that occurred during World War II under the radical Nazi regime. Many survivors have shared their stories and opinions about that time in their life. Rhetoric is an effective literary device that can be used for arguments and is effective for literature in general. Both Judy Weissenburg Cohen, author of the poem, Fifty Years Later: Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust to Young People, and Elie Wiesel, author of the novel, Night, use effective rhetoric.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

In Night, Elie Wiesel presents the harsh, cruel world that surrounds humanity and which is often times not thought to be evil. Night makes us realize nighttime is no longer a time of peace but is filled with fear and nightmares that can not be removed. Every Night in Auschwitz and Birkenau, death lingered in the air as well as memories of family and friends. Taken away in a small compact cattle car during Passover, the Wiesels and other Jews had no idea what awaited. No one realized they were headed towards their death. Elie like others lost most of his family and dreams except for his father and his faith in God. Though the Holocaust brought so much agony, it also brought some realization of what really mattered in life and what people need to hold on to. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction, symbolism, and imagery to show the challenges faced between God and his follower.

These eyes, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, represent many things to the characters in this novel. He represents, hope, despair, and God, all while staring

To begin, Wiesel uses the motif of eyes to portray different characters sanity or state of mind. One of Elie’s most infamous friends, Moche the Beadle, was a big believer in faith, making him an overall positive person. Elie

As the endless night looms overhead, Elie Wiesel along with the other Jewish prisoners must make mind-boggling decisions between life and death, survival and family, and safety and loyalty. Even in a state of utter dolor, the most difficult decisions must be made in order to survive this horrific and disgusting scheme. While Elie has been slaving away by hauling large slabs of stone onto train cars, he feels his foot begin to swell, and the pain become unbearable. A Jewish Doctor operates on his foot and demands he stay in the infirmary until his foot Ina's healed. Elie begins to enjoy his stay in the infirmary; the better quality food, the shelter and no work. But, to his misfortune, the camps are being evacuated before he can be relieved.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through the his “night” of the Holocaust, how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel pulls you along on his dramatic journey through his endless night. Night, by Elie Wiesel forces you to open our eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove to his readers that man does have the capability to create such a harsh reality.

Whether we realize it or not, it is common that we as humans develop delusions in everyday life to create a happier state of mind for ourselves. This idea is presented in both Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night and the song “2 + 2 = 5” by Radiohead. In the novel, young Elie writes of his experiences around others throughout the Holocaust. In the song, the narrator describes how he endures his life of lies and self-deception distressfully. In both pieces of literature, it is taught that deception is a powerfully dangerous force when one is not aware of what’s going on in the world around them.

For a novel to be considered good it needs to have interesting themes to entice the reader to continue through to the end of the story. The novel night has many interesting themes. The main themes it holds are Elie’s struggle to keep his faith, the inhumane acts against man and silence. These three things are what make the novel night an interesting novel.