The Work of WWII That Evokes A More Powerful Reaction

Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel describing his experience as a victim of the Holocaust. When Wiesel decided to write about his experiences, he was challenged with adequately expressing the terror beyond words. What resulted was a powerful and heavy story that changed how people around the world think about the Holocaust. The numerous motifs throughout the story, like soup and fire, are one of the reasons why this story is so impactful. In fact, motifs are a pivotal aspect of the story, and without them the story would not be as impactful.

It’s impossible to imagine what it’s like to be abused and murdered to such measures during the Holocaust. In the story Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction to show what brutal effects the Holocaust had on him and his fellow prisoners, his tone is quite somber, honest, and stern to stress his figurative language, to rather affect their feelings to give a sense of what the prisoners of the Nazi’s camp were feeling. In Night, Elie Wiesel compared himself to just an object, he writes, "The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky.

The Holocaust changed the lives of many. Those that survived have many terrifying stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too shocking to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust. "Night", his powerful and moving story, touches the hearts of many and teaches his readers a great lesson. He teaches that in a short span of time, the ways of the world can change for the worst. He wants to make sure that if the world didn't learn anything from hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust, maybe they'll be able to learn something from Elie's own personal experience. Usually, a person can internalize a situation better

“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

Language has the ability to impact the mood and tone of a piece in literature. In Night, Wiesel uses imagery, symbolism, diction and foreshadowing to illustrate dehumanization. The deeper true horror of the Holocaust is not what they Nazi’s did, but the behavior they legitimized as human beings being dehumanized by one another through silence and apathy.

Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.

Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, silence is a reoccurring theme that represents many aspects of Wiesel’s struggle during the most coldblooded massacre in the history of the world. Although silence may seem unimportant, Wiesel’s remarks about this theme symbolizes far more. He believes it is silence that allows the Nazis to takeover and begin the slaughtering. Wiesel emphasizes that silence is the only appropriate response to the Holocaust because the events that took place at Auschwitz have caused language and words to seemingly have lost their meaning; the words people use to describe what happened cannot even compare to the reality of the event. Language no longer has any power to express the truth of what happened to the Jewish people during this inhumane mass execution. Wiesel uses silence to intensify dramatic effect, to suggest the indescribable, and to symbolize the loss of faith.

The face of true evil is highlighted in the personal accounts of Elie Wiesel in the memoir Night which details the crimes of the Nazis in concentration camps and the mistreatment and murder of over 6 million innocent civilians. His haunting writing allows people to grasp the most horrifying experience a person or an entire race can endure. According to Elie Wiesel, he writes to transmit the messages and give voices to the millions of dead. So they can show not only how the reader should feel but also how they felt. All the emotions of those who were lost and the personal emotions of the author are transmitted through Elie Wiesel's writing to allow the reader to feel the frustration and sadness of all those six million people.

In the book Night author Elie Wiesel enlightens us into his world and vision he once lived before in a time in which was known as some of Americas worst times. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night gives off very good imagery in which we see in his writing by the precise wording he uses. His emotion in which he gives are a mixed in between frustration, confusion, hope, and etc. An example in which he gives “Jews, listen to me,” she cried. “I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!” (Wiesel). By this quote shows very well imagery as well as to show emotions such as destruction, death, and damage.

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, it shows the things that Elie went through in the concentration camp. Elie uses dark imagery to show how physically miserable it was for them. Also, we are able to see his perspective on how they were treated to the point all they felt was pain, and mostly what he went through mentally and physically. In Night, the most crucial external conflict revolves around the Nazi party which is shown through the perspective of Elie Wiesel and his use of dark imagery. The way it impacted the life of Elie because the Nazi party caused him more personal problems like questioning if his father is worth being with, his relationship with God, if he should still live, and in the end the way he saw himself was different.

Elie Wiesel used a variety of rhetorical strategies in his novel Night to convey a his horrendous story of the holocaust, through a lense that forcibly effects the reader, by not only putting you in the mindset of one of the victims, but by hitting on a variety of themes that are close to readers across the globe, to create a story that will be impactful on anyone who reads it. For example in the passages we read in class, the second excerpt did a phenomenal job of illustrating the heart wrenching story the Wiesel had to face first hand. Wiesel starts by referring to the march/run as a machine, repeating, how he had to focus on running, describing the group as automatons, saying that they were running without thought, mindless machines. This

Through the story of Night, Elie Wiesel presents a chilling style of writing that describes the horrors of the Holocaust witnessed by a teenager. First, Wiesel utilizes imagery to add dimension to his story. For example, he writes, “A small red flame... A shot... Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it” (Wiesel 86). In this passage, Wiesel insights the reader on the emotional suffering of the scene by materializing the idea of death. Wiesel objectifies death to give readers an understanding of the emotions of the book. Through his imagery, readers can develop a deeper understanding of the story. In addition, Wiesel presents the story sparsely to describe the most terrifying experiences one could

In his Holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel uses many techniques to help his readers understand the horror of his experiences in Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp located in Poland. Wiesel uses many literary devices throughout the memoir, but his use of motifs is particularly strong. Wiesel uses the motif of silence to help his readers understand that the presence of god and all the other countries were gone and that no one was there to speak up in their defense. Throughout the novel Night the Jews are all victimized and there’s no one there to help them during their time of need.