Nazi concentration camps

This month I read the book The Compound by S.A Bodeen. This book was well written and fast paced, I like the suspense and the voice. I, however, thought that some of the plot points were a little predictable and at some points even drawn out. Overall I would rate this book an 8/10. In this book Eli and his family are forced into an underground bunker after a nuclear bomb leaves them shell-shocked and heartbroken. Eli just wants to get to the end of his 15-year stay in the compound. As life gets…

Night Literary Analysis What do you believe in? What deity and set of laws rule your life? Elie Wiesel shares in his book Night the story of his family and father as they endure life in the concentration camps. Elie and Mr. Wiesel spend little under a year traveling from one concentration camp to the next, encountering pain and suffering along the way. In this story Elie tells the truth of losing his faith slowly and steadily as he sees the true horror of human nature all the while using…

Bravery is often seen because bravery was needed to survive. If either of the main characters, Eliezer and Guido, were not brave they would not have survived the holocaust to the end. Sadly at the end of Life is Beautiful, Guido was murdered by a Nazi. His death displayed his bravery though because he was only murdered because he snuck his son, Giosue, out to try and get him to safety. Even in the beginning of the movie he showed bravery by going…

burning of his only son.” (21) Over one night Elie Wiesel’s entire world is turned upside down and changed immensely. Perhaps just as drastic though, was the change in the relationship between Elie and his father. As events in the Holocaust concentration camps ripped families apart a previously distant and unemotional relationship between a father and son was fortified in a way that one would never suspect possible. Just as Elie Wiesel and his father’s care for each other was strengthened, so…

his father have to try to keep each other awake to avoid freezing could be considered the climax. The falling action could be when they finally reach their last camp and his father devastatingly parishes. The resolution, even though it doesn’t solve emotional problems, is when the Hungarian army saves the remaining refugees from the camp.…

Wiesel In Night, Elie Wiesel used tone, imagery, and symbols to show the relationship between father and son growing closer together. How the author describes his father at the concentration camp is how the relationship grew. Elie and Mr. Wiesel don’t really have a close relationship, but when they get into the concentration camp, they start to care and protect each other so they can survive through the awful ordeal. Elie feels that his father cared more about others in the community than his…

In his memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel writes of his experience during the Holocaust, and how he questions God and begins to lose faith in god for allowing all these terrible things to happen to them. Elie is very religious and believes in his faith wholeheartedly in the beginning of the story. After Elie and his father arrive in Birkenau, Elie begins feeling questionable with his feelings on God after seeing how horrible the men were being treated. Eliezer thinks about commiting suicide by throwing…

Even people like Akiba Drumer who were strong in their faith before the Holocaust, lose all hope and give up. Akiba is one of the prisoners that is chosen in the selection and ever since then he saw no point in living anymore. He becomes tired of trying to survive and loses reasoning of God’s ways. He starts saying that he doesn’t understand where God is and how anyone can believe “in this God of Mercy?” (Wiesel 77). Witnessing the things Akiba saw causes him to notice that there is no justice…

In a passage from Night by Elie Wiesel, the author utilizes the effects of anaphoric, repetitive, language and parallelism along with precise details to create a mood of suspense. Throughout this passage, the audience gains knowledge of young Elie Wiesel’s thoughts. Suspense builds up as the Elie began to list out his thoughts starting with, “The last night at home.” This reflection leads to “the last night in the ghetto,” then, “the last night in the cattle car” and finally ends in, “the last…

revolting against the Nazis. They are willing to run schools, read books, and break many of the rules imposed by the villainous Nazis. Most of them are not afraid of death anymore. One man in particular, though, takes resisting the Nazis to an extreme level. In The Librarian of Auschwitz, Iturbe characterizes Rudi Rosenberg as a strong, defiant young man who uses his anger towards the Nazis and his horrific experience of Auschwitz to inform the Western world of what the Nazis really do…