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In both Elie Wiesel’s, Night and the excerpt from Rudolf Vrba’s, I escaped from Auschwitz, a sense of desolation and callousness loomed throughout each biography. The figurative language and diction in each autobiography illustrate the camps to be horrific and dismal. Wiesel’s creates a powerful tone of despair through vividly harrowing imagery. When describing the conditions of the camp prison life, Wiesel uses exaggerated painful imagery to produce the atrocious experience, and create the hopeless

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, once wrote, “All creation bears witness to the Greatness of God!”, which parallels the concept of faith meaning a complete trust or strong belief in God. The memoir Night was written by Elie Wiesel. The main character is Eliezer, a Holocaust victim, who was a 15 year old Jewish boy living in Sighet, Transylvania. Eliezer studied the Torah and Kabbalah until his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, was deported and tried to warn the Jews about the Holocaust. The Jews were

Elie Wiesel uses extended metaphor in his memoir Night to show a time where there is suffering, death, and when terrible things happen. After Wiesel describes how Madame Schächter was calm during the day, Wiesel states, "As soon as night fell, she began to scream: "There's a fire over there!" She would point at a spot in space, always the same one." (Page 24) Wiesel uses the word night to show a time with suffering, death, and terrible things when he said that Madame Schächter got visions of fire

The autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel explores several ambiguous and dark themes throughout his recount of living through the Holocaust. One of the most complex is the idea that different elements of fear will force groups of people into survival mode, causing them to commit horrendous acts. When anyone is exposed to savagery to the point of survival, they too lose all humanity. Wiesel displays this in both the Germans and Jews, for neither maintain their sense of morality after remaining in the

Night & Life is Beautiful There are many similarities and differences between Elie’s experience in a concentration camp and what Joshua experienced. Throughout the book and movie you were able to take note of these comparisons and contrasts. For example, the age difference, their first impression of the camps and overall, there main thought of the camps in the end. Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he first arrived at a concentration camp. Joshua, though was five to six years old. They

Elie Wiesel uses metaphor, rhetorical question, and simile to demonstrate that dehumanization ultimately causes mental and physical changes to the victim. Wiesel’s use of metaphor demonstrates that dehumanization causes the victims to be treated like animals. For example; “listen to me you, son of a swine”(wiesel 58). Elie Wiesel uses this quotation to show how the Germans see the prisoners as less than human. The use of the word “swine” implies that Idek sees Elie as a pig. In conclusion the metaphor

Have you ever experienced something so life changing that you became indifferent to your personal responsibility to other? During the time of the holocaust many people changed drastically because what they were forced to experience. Through his exploration of indifference in Night, Wiesel shows us that, since we have a personal responsibility to others, we should consider the consequences our actions have on others, and that these actions should only be driven by compassion, empathy, and concern

The author used the simile “I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine” (85) to describe the time when he was running, with the SS officers behind him commanding him to quicken his pace. The simile shows how Wiesel feels inhuman, how he feels more like a machine than a person. No one thinks twice about machines, they are used until they’re broken, and then fix them up a little before they break again. They are used whenever the use pleases, however they please, as much as they please

During the Holocaust, over six million Jewish people were murdered at the hands of the Nazis, and even those who survived went through horrifying ordeals that they would never forget. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, cruelty has a major impact on the theme of man’s inhumanity to man by showing how the Nazis treat Jewish prisoners during this time in history, and how they act as though they are not even human beings. This cruelty not only shapes the lesson being taught, but is a substantial factor

Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, and Karen Hesse the author of Debts display many similarities throughout their work. Each author’s use of imagery and the tones they convey allow the reader to understand how each character gets over their conflicts with optimism. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the short story “The Breakaway,” by an unknown author the two author’s use of imagery is similar because they both show how the characters overcome their conflicts with hope. An example of this