The Holocaust was and is a terrible thing for all of us, but even more so for the people who lived through it in camps or in hiding and fear, especially Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel and others that lived to tell their tale. “But where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. “(Frank 230) This is an amazing quote from Anne Frank’s diary, this is awesome because those who held on and hoped for the best, hoped for the end, and hoped for freedom survived longer than those who gave up. “The only thing keeping me alive,” he kept saying, “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive.” This man was betting on the life of his family and he was given fake news that was literally the only thing left between him and death, when that man heard the real truth, he was never seen again. Elie Wiesel's great writing and use of metaphors and similes exemplify the pain he and the people he knew endured, the horror he witnessed, and the destruction of his faith.
Elie Wiesel and the people he knew and cared for witnessed and endured much pain, more pain than we can imagine. As Elie wrote in his book Night “We were withered trees in the heart of the desert. “(Wiesel 37) This struck out to me as part of his pain because it kind of was saying that he was already dead and there was no one that was there to save him from the death. He was in much pain during this, both physical …show more content…
He saw the woman from the train slowly go mad from the loss of her family, he knew what people were going through when they got selected, he “That night the soup tasted of corpses.” (Wiesel 65)
“All that was left was a shape that resembled me. “(Wiesel 37)
An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake, The victims of its shadow weep and writhe. (Picková 1)This is like the Nazis, spreading out and in their wake leaving terror in the hearts of Jews. And those already caught are in suffering and
Elie Wiesel and the people he knew and cared for witnessed and endured much pain, more pain than we can imagine. As Elie wrote in his book Night “We were withered trees in the heart of the desert. “(Wiesel 37) This struck out to me as part of his pain because it kind of was saying that he was already dead and there was no one that was there to save him from the death. He was in much pain during this, both physical …show more content…
He saw the woman from the train slowly go mad from the loss of her family, he knew what people were going through when they got selected, he “That night the soup tasted of corpses.” (Wiesel 65)
“All that was left was a shape that resembled me. “(Wiesel 37)
An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake, The victims of its shadow weep and writhe. (Picková 1)This is like the Nazis, spreading out and in their wake leaving terror in the hearts of Jews. And those already caught are in suffering and