Wieel Wiesel Reflection

First off, a passage that really catches the reader’s eye by the use of imagery is when the Jews first arrive at the camp Auschwitz. The Jews are

(Wiesel, 86) Wiesel personifies death by using diction to show the temptation that Elie faced as he saw death providing a way of ending the pain. Furthermore, Elie’s desire to die shows the horrific experience he endured. The Nazis have taken everything away from him and have broken him down so much that death sounds like a better option to Elie. Ultimately, the author uses the personification of death to make the readers realize that the Holocaust tore its victims apart mentally as well as physically to the point that even a young, teenager didn’t want to live to see the future ahead of him. The entire passage is also a striking parallel to the beginning of the novel, when all he wanted was to survive but after

The appeal to emotion is the strongest by far. It seems almost impossible for a reader not to cry at the words of Wiesel. Elie paints a portrait of life in the camp, which included hours of back-breaking labor, fear of hangings, and an overall theme throughout the book: starvation. His vivid description of a child being hanged, how he was still alive, “struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes”, truly captures the ghastly occurrences of the death camp. His own discussion of how he had lost faith in a God, and how other sons were leaving or even beating their fathers with no care enlightens the reader to the true despair that surrounded the people that inhabited these camps. Also, his description of himself in a mirror as “a corpse” that “gazed back at me” installs in the reader the overwhelming sense of how this event so completely ravaged the human soul.

Elie Wiesel uses imagery to describe just how bad indifference has caused things to be. In the sixth paragraph, Wiesel uses imagery to describe the Holocaust, which was caused by indifference, and how the Holocaust affected the Jews in Auschwitz. He uses imagery by using strong diction to describe Auschwitz, saying, “…behind the black gates…most tragic of all…wrapped in torn blankets…unaware of who or where they were…they were dead and did not know it.” This use of imagery gives the reader a sense of how strongly indifference has affected the world. Wiesel uses imagery again near the end of the speech when he talks about the destruction and terror that the Jews faced sixty years prior to the speech being given by saying, “…after the Kristallnacht…hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put into concentration camps.” He uses words like “destroyed” and “burned” to describe how badly the Jews were treated because of indifference, but also because of how strongly they affect the audience. These words might bring up the destruction that they may have seen in their own lives and how much sadness it has caused them, helping the audience reflect their personal experiences

The deaths of men,women, and children being killed for their beliefs. The the grief is shown as his emotions pour out like a water fountain. “No one… No one may speak for the dead” (Wiesel 2). The thoughts of the Holocaust and sadness that it brought to families. The Emotions of survivors well they were forced to work conset hours without no food or food.

Something interesting that I found in this book is that they were forced to run 42 miles, and the guards were instructed to shoot the ones who fell behind. Many men were lost in this run because of their lack of strength and endurance. To the Jews, the run was like an endless road, which could also symbolize their lives because the torturing they were going through seem never ending such as the road they were on. Many of them considered stopping running because at the time, death symbolized freedom because they knew it was the only way to escape the pain. This imagery gives the reader a strong image of what Wiesel was trying to get the reader to feel. This event changed my perspective history, as it raised my respect for families of the lost because I can barely

Thesis Statement: The hardships that Elie Wiesel faced in the concentration camps lead him to lose faith, until after when realizing it was crucial to keep faith in God despite the horrendous events of the Holocaust.

The quote in the middle of the book is when the Jews are walking to a new location from the concentration camp. The Jews are exhausted and weak, because they are being forced to run the whole way or else they will be shot. Elie Wiesel sees many people die but he does not give up because he still has his father. Here is the quote from the book when they are marching “ ‘Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!’ We no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them” (Wiesel 85). The quote shows how the Nazis tried to take the Jews humanity away by causing them pain. It also describes how

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions. ”(goodreads 404). The book Night was published in 1960, written by Elie Wiesel. The book Night was first printed in Yiddish in 1955, in Buenos Aires. The book is about a man named Elie Wiesel who was a holocaust survivor in world war 2.

Prompt: Analyze how Wiesel's character changed throughout the novel, especially in regard to the Jewish religion and towards God as a result of his experiences during the Holocaust. How does Wiesel’s transformation reveal the author’s intended theme about the Holocaust?

Being forced to forget your own faith in order to survive is one of the spiritual hardships Wiesel goes through being in the concentration camps. During

ok, the author explains how horrifying his holocaust experience was. The first chapter contains information about his family and his neighborhood. He also adds information about his religion. During this part, the readers can really see how dedicated he was to his religion. He loved going to the synagogue and spending time with his family. Then, everything takes a turn. An army man comes to their house one evening and tells Wiesel’s father to inform the neighborhood that they need to be packed up and out of their houses by morning. The whole neighborhood stayed up all night just packing their main essentials. After packing, the journey began. The army man came in the morning and brought others with him. They led Wiesel’s family and the rest of the neighborhood to an area where they would be picked up. They waited days for a transporter. Transporter took them to these building called bunkers, whcih they would stay at for a few days. After a few days had passed, the army men came and lined them up outside. He

Wiesel's use of tone throughout the novel gives the reader a good perspective on the Holocaust. The tone throughout the novel changes. Wiesel wants the readers to be able to picture what it was like to be in the Holocaust. His tone, as you might expect about Nazi concentration camps, is serious and mournful. One example of his excellent

This story does not just tell what happens during the Holocaust with describing actual events but by teaching life lessons to value human lives. The detail of events helps the reader feel what the times were like almost as if we were there. Eliel Wiesel comes out of the tragic Holocaust being a better person: he learns the importance of human strength and being hopeful can make a tremendous

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.