Throughout the Memoir “Night” Elie Weisel depicts the harsh realities of the Jewish Holocaust, and what happened behind closed doors at Buna, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. There is a wide variety of different reasons, as too why the Memoir is so effective. Elie goes into graphic details of the horrendous life and situations he faced daily. He shed light on what was ignored and silenced for so many years. As everything begins to escalade you’ll start to feel the impact of the unbelievable struggles the Jewish Communities faced with the barest of means. Which is why the power of ones voice has a greater impact on a person opposed to regular statistics. Although you’ve heard stories about Auschwitz, truly won’t understand until you’ve read from Elie’s
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Although that quickly changes, the soldiers starve the prisoners. All they’re given is a small ration of soup and plain bread. Along with no shoes, and next to no clothing. They continued to work them to the point they were becoming to weak to even function properly, and they were still expected to show no weakness or they were too be killed. The dentist even went as far as extracting their gold teeth for his own benefit. Random beatings always seemed to happen, Elie says “one day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with more violent blows, until I was covered in blood (pg.53). The lack of sympathy the soldiers showed them as well as the way they treated each other was repulsive. Which is why it caused such a greater impact on us as the readers. Regardless of the good, they always seemed to struggle with the barest means, although a lot of them remained strong and …show more content…
I’ve given graphic details as too why it was effective as well as examples. Although they only had the barest of means, they remained as strong as they possibly could. Which is why it made such a huge impact on me as well the other readers. Statistics will only tell so much, where as Elie’s descriptions gave us full and explicit details. I hope too see others reading in the Holocaust, as we need to educate ourselves better. We need to know more of the events which go unspoken about and turned a blind eye
Although that quickly changes, the soldiers starve the prisoners. All they’re given is a small ration of soup and plain bread. Along with no shoes, and next to no clothing. They continued to work them to the point they were becoming to weak to even function properly, and they were still expected to show no weakness or they were too be killed. The dentist even went as far as extracting their gold teeth for his own benefit. Random beatings always seemed to happen, Elie says “one day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with more violent blows, until I was covered in blood (pg.53). The lack of sympathy the soldiers showed them as well as the way they treated each other was repulsive. Which is why it caused such a greater impact on us as the readers. Regardless of the good, they always seemed to struggle with the barest means, although a lot of them remained strong and …show more content…
I’ve given graphic details as too why it was effective as well as examples. Although they only had the barest of means, they remained as strong as they possibly could. Which is why it made such a huge impact on me as well the other readers. Statistics will only tell so much, where as Elie’s descriptions gave us full and explicit details. I hope too see others reading in the Holocaust, as we need to educate ourselves better. We need to know more of the events which go unspoken about and turned a blind eye