Night Essay
During the Holocaust 11 million people were killed and 6 million of those victims were Jewish. The Holocaust was very tragic and Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi´s had ordered to kill millions of people because the Nazi´s blamed the victim 's for their economic struggles. This all occurred from 1933 to 1945 and in that time the axis (Nazi 's) had gone on a killing spree, but kept all the healthy victims to work for them. When the workers did not listen to what they were supposed to do, they were abused by the SS soldiers, which were Hitler 's followers. This happened throughout eastern Europe because after the Great Depression, Germans needed a new leader and Hitler took advantage of that. Soon after he started World War II …show more content…
Fischl then explained in the poem that he wished it was not the little boy. Fischl also explains how the world was blind to what the Nazi 's were doing to the victims of the holocaust. In the poem Fischl uses a lot of hyperbole. An example of this is when he says "...My mind has painted a painting of you / Ten million miles high is the painting.." (Fischl 20-21). This example shows how the author uses hyperbole because he says that he painted a picture of the little Polish boy in his mind and it was ten million miles high when in reality a painting cannot be that tall. This element contributes to the poem because it shows the readers that the author cared enough about the little Polish boy to wants to paint a picture that high. The exaggeration shows that Fischl cared a lot for the boy because he always wanted to show the little Polish boy off to the silent world. This poem is really good because he uses hyperbole and he puts a lot of emotion in the poem. An example of this is when he states " I 'll make this painting so bright / that it will blind the eyes of the world / who saw nothing" (Fischl 30-33). This quote shows that Fischl put a lot of emotion into the poem because he states that the world did not do anything during the holocaust and he wants to show the little Polish boy off to the world so the world …show more content…
The Noble prize acceptance speech states, "For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people" (Wiesel 119). This quote shows that Wiesel was a victim and had gone through the Holocaust and had been traumatized by the things he had gone through and had seen, along with the other Jews and people that were captured by the Nazi 's. Wiesel was apart of something very breath taking and traumatizing, but him being a victim had changed who he was and made him who he is. It may have been a bad experience, but it changed him for the better and made it to where when he sees something that has to do with violence he will act upon it. Within the poem "The Little Polish Boy With His Arms up" by Fischl, he states " I / am / sorry / it was you / and / not me" (Fischl 52- 58). This example shows that Fischl is more of a bystander rather than a victim because in the poem Fischl wished that what happened to the little boy had happened to him instead because it could have happened to Fischl. When Fischl was around 10 years old, he ran and hid with his mother and sister in a Catholic school when the Nazi 's came for them and he ended up safe along with his sister and mother but he knew about what was going on during
During the Holocaust 11 million people were killed and 6 million of those victims were Jewish. The Holocaust was very tragic and Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi´s had ordered to kill millions of people because the Nazi´s blamed the victim 's for their economic struggles. This all occurred from 1933 to 1945 and in that time the axis (Nazi 's) had gone on a killing spree, but kept all the healthy victims to work for them. When the workers did not listen to what they were supposed to do, they were abused by the SS soldiers, which were Hitler 's followers. This happened throughout eastern Europe because after the Great Depression, Germans needed a new leader and Hitler took advantage of that. Soon after he started World War II …show more content…
Fischl then explained in the poem that he wished it was not the little boy. Fischl also explains how the world was blind to what the Nazi 's were doing to the victims of the holocaust. In the poem Fischl uses a lot of hyperbole. An example of this is when he says "...My mind has painted a painting of you / Ten million miles high is the painting.." (Fischl 20-21). This example shows how the author uses hyperbole because he says that he painted a picture of the little Polish boy in his mind and it was ten million miles high when in reality a painting cannot be that tall. This element contributes to the poem because it shows the readers that the author cared enough about the little Polish boy to wants to paint a picture that high. The exaggeration shows that Fischl cared a lot for the boy because he always wanted to show the little Polish boy off to the silent world. This poem is really good because he uses hyperbole and he puts a lot of emotion in the poem. An example of this is when he states " I 'll make this painting so bright / that it will blind the eyes of the world / who saw nothing" (Fischl 30-33). This quote shows that Fischl put a lot of emotion into the poem because he states that the world did not do anything during the holocaust and he wants to show the little Polish boy off to the world so the world …show more content…
The Noble prize acceptance speech states, "For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people" (Wiesel 119). This quote shows that Wiesel was a victim and had gone through the Holocaust and had been traumatized by the things he had gone through and had seen, along with the other Jews and people that were captured by the Nazi 's. Wiesel was apart of something very breath taking and traumatizing, but him being a victim had changed who he was and made him who he is. It may have been a bad experience, but it changed him for the better and made it to where when he sees something that has to do with violence he will act upon it. Within the poem "The Little Polish Boy With His Arms up" by Fischl, he states " I / am / sorry / it was you / and / not me" (Fischl 52- 58). This example shows that Fischl is more of a bystander rather than a victim because in the poem Fischl wished that what happened to the little boy had happened to him instead because it could have happened to Fischl. When Fischl was around 10 years old, he ran and hid with his mother and sister in a Catholic school when the Nazi 's came for them and he ended up safe along with his sister and mother but he knew about what was going on during