Camp Widjiwagan

In any sort of post-nuclear situation, it is a life or death circumstance for any survivors of the disaster. This is what Montag and his group of fellow knowledge preservationists from Fahrenheit 451 and the group of people in “The Portable Phonograph” have to go through. There are similarities and differences between these two stories, such as the world that the characters are living in, the priorities of the survivors, and types of endings that they have. In Fahrenheit 451, the post-nuclear…

“The old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures. There they prayed” (70). He refers to a couple old veterans as “hunted-down creatures” because in the end, that’s how they all felt. They weren’t treated as humans in the camps. They were labeled by numbers and letters and stripped of everything, even their identity. Everything they owned or had any value was stolen. Eli’s father talks about this some, “As far as I’m concerned, this whole…

the U.S. military fighting in World War II. He is also a prisoner of war. These “POW camps” the men were held in are smothering holes of despair and defeat for the prisoners who get locked in its clutches. “Iron must be beaten while it’s hot; soldiers must be beaten while they’re fresh (Unbroken p.194).” In chapter eighteen of Unbroken, Louie and Phil are practically fighting for their lives in the Japanese POW camp they were taken to. The prisoners are subjected to heavy abuse from their…

the distance” (76). Due to his extensive use of strong diction, Wiesel provides the reader with a more in depth understanding of his experiences. By referring to the Jewish men, women and children that were held prisoners in multiple concentration camps as “vagabonds,” Wiesel implies how overworked and miserable these individuals were. While stating that these Jews were shoved into “sealed cars, without air or water,” Wiesel gives insight into how poor of living conditions the individuals were…

"Remember that one day of your idleness kills 12,000 souls". This quote from Rudolf Vrba himself was lived out in his actions to help save Jews in concentration camps. His moral courage was displayed in his distribution of the Vrba- Wetzler report, a document forged to relieve the Jews located in concentration camps of their suffering. Rudolf Vrba’s efforts to help people in suffering shows that helping those in need, despite the consequences and the doubts of others, is significant to the…

its eternity. A major asset to the Nazis awful massacre of the non-Aryan race was Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz is a 40 square kilometer area sanctioned off as a “development zone” strictly for the use of the camp. Auschwitz consisted of three camps and more than 40 sub-camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II which was often referred to as Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Auschwitz…

Two different groups of people kept in prison like camps for years, and lived on opposite ends of the world. The people in these camps led. The life within the camps was challenging for both to live in. The people of the Japanese and Jewish internment camps were both held against their will, but they had very different experiences within their camps. The life within the camp was an adjustment for both groups of people. In the book Night they talk about the only food they ate being small rations…

especially Jewish religious. After his first day in the concentration camp, he had changed deeply because of the flames and his life. At the first day in the concentration camp, he saw the ditches with flames, babies and adults are sending to there. It’s like a death camp and prison to him. He even want to suicide instead of staying in the camp. His soul seemed to be apart and engulfed by what he saw and experienced in the concentration camp. He became questioning of God. He was hopeless and…

but the connection has faded- everything has faded. Faith in God is important in Night because the novel is about the annihilation of the Jews for their religion. The novel shows the transformation Elie goes through as he goes through a concentration camp, named Auschwitz. Elie’s faith has changed drastically throughout the beginning, middle, and the end of the novel, Night. In the beginning of the novel, Elie was very faithful to God. He studied the Kabbalah and visited the Synagogue almost…

others can a have a lasting effect, in my opinion is very true. In the book Night there are quite a few examples of a lasting effect on Elie. In the book when Elie arrives to the camp Birkenau he catches a glimpse of babies being thrown into the crematorium by the SS officers to be burned while they were moving through the camp. This had some influence on Elie because he could not believe the SS officers had no remorse for the actions they were doing, he thought it was impossible for someone to…