Verbal And Situational Irony In Elsie Wiesel's Night

“The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever.” That is the case for Eliezer and his father. In the concentration camps, family turns against each other. Eliezer still cherish the fact that his father is still there by his side but his father sometimes acts as a burden for him. In this point of time, Elie seems to be focusing on only himself, and he uses everything to protect himself even if it’s manipulative. I liked how the author informed the readers that life in the concentration camps is extremely overwhelming that family turns against each other. For example, it stated that Eliezer is angry at not Kapo but his

In his fleeting thoughts of abandoning his father to deal with the beating alone, Eliezer is beginning to betray the bonds of family; he is losing the original compassion and willingness to sacrifice his own well-being to help others that he entered the camp with. Although a suggestion of worry and compassion remains in Eliezer's tone, these senses are inadequate for Eliezer to forgo his own safety and well-being. In this, Eliezer has become selfish. He has begun to lose his altruism. However, even in the face of the ever-present self-interest seen in other prisoners of the camp, Eliezer fails to lose this important side of himself completely.

Eliezer and his father were separated from his mother and younger sister when they arrived at Birkenau. Eliezer’s view began to change and he started to see his father as someone who he admired and did not want to lose. The horrors of the camps made them value their relationship. Their goal was then to remain alive and to remain together. As his father’s health began to worsen, Eliezer did everything to try to keep him alive.

Eliezer and Schlomo's father-son relationship is the reason Elie had hope throughout the Holocaust. After the selection at the arrival of Auschwitz., Elie and his father had to walk towards the fire pits, where babies, children, and adults are being thrown in. Elie and his father thought that this was their fate as well. Such a traumatizing event brings forth a critical quote spoken from Schlomo, "You should have gone with your mother". This in context, references to the selection, as Schlomo did not want to see his son die. Another idea used to portray this extreme idea of mental torture was a thought from Eliezer, where he wants to throw himself into the electric fence to escape the brutal death of burning in the pits. This started

They were hopeful that they would be put to work and not just sent to the crematorium right away. When the Jews arrived at the concentration camp they were divided into two lines, one was for the jews that would be put to work and the other line was for the ones that would be sent to the crematorium right away. At Auschwitz, Eliezer’s mom and sister got put into a different line than him and his father. His mother and sister were sent to the crematorium, Eliezer and his dad were put into the line that would make them work. When they were on the train there was a crazy lady that was telling them about the fires that she foresaw.

Everything went from good to bad when his family was transported to Auschwitz, where his mother and Tzipora were killed. Eliezer even thought of committing suicide here, but soon

Inhumanity can be defined as, the quality or state of being cruel or barbados. The Holocaust is an example of large scale prejudice and discrimination towards one ethnicity of people. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the sheer scale of absolute disrespect and disregard for human life is narrated by Eliezer, who encounters endless hellish behavior against him and his family. At the age of twelve, Eliezer is separated from his mother and three sisters at the onset of a concentration camp.

Eliezer is disgusted with the horrific selfishness he sees around him, especially when it involves the rupture of familial bonds. On three occasions, he mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers: in his brief discussion of the pipel who abused his father; his terrible conclusion about the motives of Rabbi Eliahou’s son; and his narration of the fight for food that he witnesses on the train to Buchenwald, in which a son beats his father to death. All of these moments of cruelty are provoked by the conditions the prisoners are forced to endure. In order to save themselves, these sons sacrifice their fathers. Therefore Eliezer was changed in result of the event in the

Eliezer and his family were forced out of their ghetto onto the streets and were forced to walk many miles to Auschwitz. The family gets split up except for Eliezer and his father. In the attempt to survive in the concentration camps, he tells the gruesome stories of the torture they had to go through. Dehumanization occurs in Night, in three instances that helped Hitler control Jews.

Although the two of them have been looking out for each other their whole time in Auschwitz, Eliezer was still the dependent. “Don’t let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep in snow.” By Eliezer’s father telling him this, it shows that even when his own life is own the line, he is looking out for his own son’s interest. Then Eliezer says to his father later on in the night, “Come, Father. It’s better there. You’ll be able to lie down. We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me. We won’t let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other.” This simple statement transfers the role of depender to Eliezer, showing he is now taking charge of making sure him and his father stay together and

Eliezer's father was put in the line to the furnace. In an act of desperation, his only thought to not be separated from his father, "I ran after him." (71). This caused such confusion that the lines were mixed, and Eliezer and his father are able to go to the line of life. Several other prisoners were shot and killed by Nazi soldiers in the process.

emotionally scarred while at the concentration camps. Eliezer had to experience death, pain, and cruelty. Eliezer had to be emotionally and physically strong for his father. When he was reunited with two of his sisters he had to be strong, and take the lead since his father had died. In the end Eliezer lost his faith in God. He could not understand why God let all those horrible things

Eliezer gets through the holocaust with his a partial amount of his humanity intact. Although Eliezer faced a great deal of traumatizing hardships during the holocaust, he still managed to look out for his kin until he simply could no more. From the beginning, he looked out for his father making sure he kept up with the harsh, demanding labor and strict regulations of the nazis. He did absolutely everything in his power to keep his father hopeful and living, but as times began to get unbearable he began to stray away from his original intentions deep in his soul. As Eliezer and his father finally arrived at a new concentration camp after an exhausting journey, Eliezer found himself reluctant at heart to help his father as much as he once did

In the novel Eliezer and his dad had a distant relationship, but as they were forced into the death camps their relationship grew. At the beginning of the book his father wasn’t concerned much of Elie. In the next paragraph i’ll talk about the distant relationship they had. The camps they were forced into caused them to grow fonder of each other. His father already lost his wife and daughter, he couldn’t lose Elie as well. His wife and daughter were picked during the first selection and sent to the crematories.

Situational irony occurs when there is a situation which appears to have an assumed conclusion, but then something ironic happens and the end result is different than what was expected. Harrison, the unique son of George and Hazel, is a tall, strong man who is attempting to overthrow the government. He manages to break out of jail and takes control of the television station, declaring himself the Emperor. Just as it appears that he is going to succeed in his takeover, the Handicapper General came into the studio. ”She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.” This is not the expected outcome and creates irony in this situation.