Torsten Wiesel

In Under A Cruel Star, Heda Margolius Kovaly recounts her life through the Holocaust up to the invasion of Prague by the Russians where she discovers the horrors of human nature and the two emotions, fear and hope, that influence how people react when put in situations like Heda’s. Many lessons can be taken from her book which explain why humanity was like it was and still is and how to change. “Now I had to cope with a worse enemy, human fear and indifference” (Page 28). If one thing I was…

Comparatively, from reading “Night” by Ellie Wiesel and listening to Kitty Hart-Moxon’s speech from the UK Commemoration Event they both have rhetorical elements in each of them. They both was trying to tell you that things are always not the way you want it to go, but you can still make it through the situation. Night took place in 1941-1945, during war world II. Kitty Hart town Bielsko in 1939 was close to the German and Czechoslovakian frontiers. In both stories they share their most personal…

In the text, Night, the poem, First They Came For The Communist, and the allegory, Terrible Things, there is a common theme between all three of them which is, “Just because a situation isn’t happening to you, doesn’t mean it won’t happen to you at all.” Throughout these three sources, this theme has been shown to be the one thing that they are trying to tell us. This can be called the shared theme because in all three of the sources, there have been bystanders who had to watch as others were…

In the texts, Night by Elie Wiesel and “No Man is an Island” by John Donne, portray a similar theme, collective identity. This idea revolves around the concept of a united front and an optimistic voice. Similarly, the authors both illustrate that every man belongs to a community exponentially larger than an individual. The collective voice in Elie Wiesel’s Night is the theme expressed in John Donne’s poem. The passages both involve a voice that is larger than one person. In Elie Wiesel’s…

Visual Learning and Literature Throughout history, literature has always been a gateway for people to expand their knowledge and their imaginations. However, some pieces of literature are hard to understand, no matter how high your reading comprehension, there are important pieces that may be missing from their understanding. Meaning, one could only just be scratching the surface of a piece of literature. Therefore, one cannot simply read something, one has to immerse themselves in the…

people being brutally murdered is certainly a surprise. Eliezer Wiesel and Guido both suffered through the Holocaust, where they both were deprived of their freedom. Guido is a positive character in the film, Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni. His son Joshua didn’t have much of a luicid Eliezer Wiesel is an actual survivor of the horrific event and author of the Nobel Peace Prize winning novel Night. From my perspective, Wiesel chose to retell his account of the event plain-spoken.…

such as Night by Elie Wiesel, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry have chronicled the horrors of the Holocaust and touched both hearts and minds along the way. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is just one of the numerous novels written to express the savagery of the Holocaust. This book is just one of over 30 books Wiesel has written throughout his life, but it is arguably his most famous. (Elie Wiesel Bio) Night tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel as he…

high school English class and opened an assigned reading book. This book titled, Night, was written by one Elie Wiesel in the 60s, fifteen years after he was freed from Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp. This girl hated reading books she was told to read, she felt they were a damper on her free spirit. This book though, and what it taught her changed her life for the better. Elie Wiesel, a man of many titles spoke on April 12th, 1999 at the White House to an audience including President Bill…

Night The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, is a book that will shock many. The story of Elie is so moving, and it almost feels like you are there experiencing what he had to experience while being in a concentration camp. Elie was born in a small town called Sighet. Elie meets this guy who’s name is Moshe, and he eventually becomes a teacher. Elie and Moshe talked quite frequently about religious ideas and one day specifically they talked about prayer. Elie asked Moshe why exactly did he pray. His…

The Dehumanization of the Jews Essay The genocide of the Jews during World War II is probably the most well-known terror in world history. Many question how this could have happened, how could millions of people be exterminated so thoroughly without resistance? What begin as a simmering hatred of a people group progressed in a systematic execution of the Jews not only physically, but it took every ounce of their human rights until they had nothing left; they were ground into the dirt. With the…