Wartime Memoir: A Literary Analysis

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

Literature encapsulates the human experience, reflecting facets of our culture, traditions, and beliefs. Literature functions as a tool to develop and explore empathetic links with other individuals and can provide insight into experiences removed from our own reality. Peter Fischl’s poem ‘Little Polish Boy’ is one such text in which we can attain a unique understanding of the horrors catalysed by war. An expression of Fischl’s own Holocaust experience, this poem is set in WWII, and addressed as a letter to an innocent child of the war from a photograph Fischl found years after the war ended. We can also learn of the loss and grief children face in times of war through the picture book ‘a Soldier, a Dog and a Boy’ by Libby Hathorn. The story follows a young boy orphaned by the Battle of Somme and he’s only left to survive with his dog before an Australian soldier comes to his rescue. These texts allow us to reach a better understanding of the different effects conflict has on children.

Throughout human history, there has been many horrible and tragic moments involving famine, death and war. In that long line of history, there is however one moment that can’t be challenged to none other and that is World War 2: The rise of Nazi power and the slaughtering of many Jews. Many Jewish people suffered during those times and not many survived. Few of the people who did survive however, managed to write about their experiences and morals they had during World War 2, sharing their ideas to the world. A survivor and author of one of these books, Elie Wiesel, inscribed many of his morals and ideas in his writing using many literary terms such as tone, mood, characterization, diction, and even dialogue to portray them as themes in his

The author believes that the war had a positive outcome but it was unnecessarily disturbing. The accomplishments made during the war has indeed undermined the failures, with misconstrued views. People today think this war was “The best war ever.” Adams creates a realistic picture of the war by describing the major aspects as well as topics that have little coverage to the masses. This includes; the development of teen culture, treatment of homosexuals who took part in the armed forces, minority combat during the war, the physical and mental scars, and economic reorganization of war production.

Many outsiders strive but fail to truly comprehend the haunting incident of World War II’s Holocaust. None but survivors and witnesses succeed to sense and live the timeless pain of the event which repossesses the core of human psyche. Elie Wiesel and Corrie Ten Boom are two of these survivors who, through their personal accounts, allow the reader to glimpse empathy within the soul and the heart. Elie Wiesel (1928- ), a journalist and Professor of Humanities at Boston University, is an author of 21 books. The first of his collection, entitled Night, is a terrifying account of Wiesel’s boyhood experience as a WWII Jewish prisoner of Hitler’s dominant and secretive Nazi party.

Elie Wiesel’s short memoir Night recounts his experience surviving the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the third chapter of the book, he focuses on describing what it was like to arrive at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the process the men had to go through to transform from men into prisoners. In addition to lying about his age and occupation, Wiesel lost his hair, his clothing, his mother and sisters, his name, and most importantly, his faith. Elie Wiesel's use of imagery and diction in Night makes readers understand the true atrocities of the Holocaust.

Under the rule of the Nazis, and in the battle between life and death, the caring, courageous, and thoughtful Elie Wiesel recounts his life events in the memoir Night. As a Jewish boy growing up in Sighet, Transylvania during World War II, Wiesel experiences firsthand the cruelty of mankind. The author depicts the unpleasant living conditions contributing to the starvation of the prisoners in the concentration camps and the violence in the struggle to survive. Throughout Wiesel’s writing, there are a variety of literary techniques to describe the horrors he has experienced. Elie Wiesel utilizes figurative language to describe the men and their actions, and he writes a flash-forward to complement the greater ideas about humanity and savagery

Such a heinous event that has marked the world and the Jewish religion, Eliezer Wiesel as a young man recalls the story of the horrid occurrences that he went through in the concentration camps. He has been able to express throughout the book changes in himself, changes in his faith, and changes in his decisions as he went through the course

Your memoir, Night, drastically changed my view on the world; more specifically, I now sympathize more with individuals who are experiencing a struggle of any kind. This is a result of the brutal details that forced you to create a vivid image of the situation at hand. Before reading Night, I never truly took the time to imagine what it would be like to be in these tragic situations. Therefore, I would like to thank you for bringing this inhumane flaw I possessed to light. The first account of me realizing this flaw, occurred because of the Nazis’ brutality.

Berkin’s style included creating short stories about different women based on documents she had researched. This writing device was beneficial to the reader because it allowed them to be informed on the topic of women during war while still keeping their interest through stories. It was also a fairly quick read, and Berkin’s tone throughout was mainly upbeat, keeping the reader interested. However, at times the author’s prolonged entrance into a new point made it tiresome for the reader to follow. Berkin is very elaborate in her details; this is helpful for deeper understanding, but it can easily overwhelm the reader with lengthy explanations at times. The majority of Berkin’s book was easy to understand, but sometimes too many details were

In 1945, the world had taken on a whole new meaning; the genocide of six million Jew, by the German Nazi’s during the Second World War. The anti -Semitic leader of the Nazi group, Adolf Hitler, believed that the Jewish people were and inferior race, a threat to the German racial purity and community. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, ‘Night’, it shows the brutality of what happened in the Holocaust, when Elie and his father were sent to the concentration camp, Auschwitz, located in Oswiecim, Poland. This memoir shows many lessons that can be used in today's generation, such as, it is easy to forget and forgive than to get revenge, every person has to fend for themselves, and that survival comes with a cost.

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” Words stated by a ruthless ruler named Adolf Hitler. It's the1930s and it's the start of a new era. The era of the Nazi Party. An era of the persecution of Jews and Communists. Not only did this totalitarian group discriminate against minorities, it promoted pride and Anti-Semitism that expressed disapproval of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Liesel's mother and father, both communists, were characters that experienced such a vehement amount hatred during this regime of this auspicious party. Communism, the Holocaust, and the ruling of the Nazi Party were all factors that lead to the abandonment of Liesel's parents and her beloved friends.

As the World War 2 inevitably invades Devon, the students are left forever changed by its unforgiving wrath. John Knowles seamlessly demonstrates how easily wars manipulate innocent lives. As WW2 becomes more apparent in the United States, Finny, Leper and Gene are victims of its direct and indirect effects that lead to major changes in their lives.

As long as there has been war, those involved have managed to get their story out. This can be a method of coping with choices made or a way to deal with atrocities that have been witnessed. It can also be a means of telling the story of war for those that may have a keen interest in it. Regardless of the reason, a few themes have been a reoccurrence throughout. In ‘A Long Way Gone,’ ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ and ‘Novel without a Name,’ three narrators take the readers through their memories of war and destruction ending in survival and revelation. The common revelation of these stories is one of regret. Each of these books begins with the main character as an innocent, patriotic soldier or civilian and ends in either the loss of innocence and regret of choices only to be compensated with as a dire warning to those that may read it. These books are in fact antiwar stories meant not to detest patriotism or pride for one’s country or way of life, but to detest the conditions that lead to one being so simpleminded to kill another for it. The firebombing of Dresden, the mass execution of innocent civilians in Sierra Leone and a generation of people lost to the gruesome and outlandish way of life of communism and Marxism should be enough to convince anyone. These stories serve as another perspective for the not-so-easily convinced.

His first book in English is a wartime youth memoir titled The Five Sisters: A Young Norman in the Second World War (Melrose Books, 2014). The memoir narrates Havel’s idyllic youth in the Norman countryside, his upbringing under his maternal grandmother and his aunts (his mother’s