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“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today everything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories...” (Wiesel 30). In Night, Elie Wiesel has shown that humanity change day by day after they walked into a living hell. Humanity makes human become a human, but inhumanity is something that has the opposite behavior with humanity. First, in the first day they came to the camp, the inhumane treatment had begun. There was a man who seem to be there for a long time, warning…

Night, a personal account of the Holocaust by Elie Wiesel was a profound book. Weisel, thirteen when the book began and was sixteen when the camp was liberated, had lived in both ghettos in Sighet. When he was deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz he almost sent entered the crematorium but he marched passed it and was lucky enough to live there for three weeks. Later in the novel he had transferred between many other camps. His last and final camp was liberated in 1945. Hitler did not…

It has been said that transformation is a process. A journey of discoveries that bring moments on mountaintops and moments in the deep valleys of despair. In his book Night, Eliezer Wiesel tells the story of the experiences he encountered during the Holocaust in the Concentration camps. He also goes on to tell the readers how much he had transformed/grown, mentally and physically. He lived through fear, starvation, weakness and harsh punishments. Eliezer's faith was one of the biggest changes…

Figurative language in the book Night helped the reader interpret the struggles of Elie Wiesel and his father as they endure the Holocaust. Figurative language in Night gave Elie Wiesel the language necessary to portray his struggles throughout the Holocaust. Without figurative language, Elie would not have been capable of adequately expressing his pain. The first example of figurative language in Night that struck me is a simile, “They passed me, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my…

To demonstrate, critic David Vanderwerken acknowledges that the most powerful of these inversions is the reversal of the relationship between father and son. According to Vanderwerken, the father will help the son make the transition from “dependence to independence” but in Night the “...roles are completely reversed; the son becomes the parent” (Vanderwerken 64). This transposal becomes extremely apparent upon Wiesel and his father’s arrival at Buchenwald. It is there that his father, already…

Books and movies can be created to give others knowledge of a certain element or even. The Book Thief and Night are both a book and a movie that were created to portray a story to inform readers about what it was like during World War II. Other books and movies continued to be made to give out this story to everyone. The Book Thief and Night give the reader or observer information that they may have never known or imagined about what it really was like during the war. The Book Thief and Night…

Why does the human race like to destroy each other? Just because you have different beliefs than the next person doesn’t give you the right to kill each other. It doesn’t give you the right to poison them with gas and cremate them. In the book “Night” written by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes through his traumatic events he experienced in the death camp, Auschwitz. Before Elie went to the death camp known as Auschwitz, he exhibited several positive character traits. One example…

In the novel Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist Elisha struggles throughout the night with the moral dilemma he faces over the task of killing English Captain John Dawson. In the beginning Elisha is determined, selfish and intelligent. His human potential is developing and he is trying to self-fabricate his morality. He grows as a knower and respects the innate dignity of others, but throughout the novel some of his decisions steer him away from his morality. After he meets Gad and joins The…

What The Night Left "The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future" (Wiesel XV). This quote taken from the preface of the new translation of the 2006 edition of Night is forceful and powerful and sums up the author's intention. Night is an autobiographical novel written by Elie Wiesel about his experience as a Jewish teenager in the concentration camps during the Second World War…

In Night, Elie Wiesel uses setting, tone, and metaphors in order to illustrate the horrors survivors of the Holocaust faced in order to survive at each concentration camp. Moreover, devices that Elie Wiesel uses intensify the insanity of the concentration camps and showcase horrors of the concentration camp with sharp clarity. Elie uses these literary devices to display the horrific conditions and cruelty found in the concentration camps that explain how Elie lost his faith in humanity. Elie…