Torsten Wiesel

What does it take to get a break from and to ultimately overcome the evil that surrounds us every day? Ever since the fall of man back in the dawn of time, there has always been evil in the world, it has haunted man and followed closely behind him everywhere he goes. This is made visible in “Beowulf” by (insert author here) through multiple scenes when Beowulf builds the courage to take on evil head on. Beowulf affirms that evil can endanger peaceful civilizations, there can be small respites…

Imagery in Night by Elie Wiesel The memoir Night narrates perhaps, the most infamous action human history: the Holocaust, in the eyes of a young boy. Now dead, Elie Wiesel describes his experiences on an attempt to exterminate members of Judaism. Night is based on the childhood experiences of Elie Wiesel during the Holocaust. Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania before the start of the second world war. Elie Wiesel was a very religious young boy in his Jewish community. In 1944 the…

The Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis and robbed of hope and faith in God. The novella “Night” by Elie Wiesel begins in Seguit and continues from Auschwitz to Buchenwald during which time, Eliezer and his father, along with millions of other Jews were enslaved, tortured, starved and killed over a period of nine years. The treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, broke their physical and mental stability and left them helpless. Hitler achieved his goal of making the Jews feel…

The relationships one partakes in promotes personal transformation in the way that it can open one’s mind to new experiences and feelings of empathy. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne transports the reader to World War II, an unsettling time in history where a blind eye was turned to the fact that one’s fate was depicted by their race. This novel follows the life of Bruno, a young, wide-eyed German boy, who is forced to move from his comfortable and rather luxurious home in Berlin to…

Fame can be a double edged sword as the author of The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski, learned. After moving to America after World War Two he used embellished and falsified stories of his time as a child on the Eastern Front to gain intrigue among those surrounding him. When the book The Painted Bird was published, this use of his story stirred controversy over the legitimacy and factualness of the story. The story did not come from nowhere and proved to be a combination of his own exaggerated…

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…

During the Holocaust, the SS Nazis dehumanized the Jews to the point of them feeling so belittled and like they were absolutely nothing. Eli Wiesel’s book Night gives many examples of this. Many Jews started referring to the others as “creatures”. Eli talks like this in his book: “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…

The incredible abuse experienced by the prisoners' of war while being held by their captors is unfathomable. Constant beatings among verbal and mental abuse, lack of adequate, basic needs such as food, water, and proper shelter, and on top of all of these extreme injustices they are forced to carry out back breaking work in such conditions. All of these cruel practices are demonstrated in the popular book, Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand . Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini, a famous Olympic…

would have never shown themselves. This philosophy is especially true in comparison to the life of Elie Wiesel, a beautifully written Holocaust survivor. Wiesel writes to all who haven't lived through the horror that is known as the Holocaust, in efforts of “transmitting the history of the disappearance” of those who were brutally and unrightfully killed. With a tone of gloom and mourning, Wiesel argues that if it wasn't for the disastrous circumstances of the Holocaust, he would have never…

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.” quoted Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Holocaust, which gives him a great amount of ethos in his quote. Another survivor of the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel, had the same thoughts. Eliezer, Elie as he is referred to, published a novel titled Night, which showed his struggles throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a Jewish boy who had wished to study Kabbalah prior to the Holocaust. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Kabbalah is…