In this passage, Elie Wiesel creates a cruel and disturbing tone through the use of word choice and imagery. The choices Elie made when crafting this passage perfectly depicts the scene in a terrifying manner. He uses this work choice most significantly in the beginning of the passage to describe how drastically the men in the train had been transformed. By using words such as “hurling… trampling… tearing… mauling… animal hate,” and adding phrases like “beasts of prey unleashed”, and “sharpening their teeth and nails” (Wiesel 101), the author is effectively able to completely dehumanize these people, showing the extent of their motivation to obtain what they desire. Furthermore, Elie adds that “a crowd of workmen and curious passersby had formed all along the train. They had undoubtedly never seen a train wit this kind of …show more content…
When “a piece fell into [his] wagon, [he] decided not to move” (Wiesel 101), setting up a point of view in which Elie was able to spectate upon a specific moment of “an old man dragging himself on all fours.” Looking closer, “he was holding [bread] to his heart… a shadow had lain down beside him, and threw itself over him… the old man way crying: ‘Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… you’re killing your father… I have bread… for you too…“ (Wiesel 101-102). The imagery in this scene shows the extent at which these people are willing to go for the smallest amount of sustenance. Wiesel makes the scene even more dramatically traumatizing when he informs the reader that “Two men had been watching him [the son], and jumped him… When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies- the father and the son” (Wiesel 102). I can be argued that this is the most powerful yet disheartening scene in the entire narrative, as the imagery in this passage truly leaves the reader stunned in disbelief and
One of the most significant lines in Elie Wiesel's book Night is found on page 16 when he says, 'Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.' This line is incredibly powerful as it serves as a motif throughout the entire book, providing an overarching metaphor for Elie's journey. The phrase 'seven times cursed and seven times sealed' is a reference to the seven days of creation from the book of Genesis, and the repetition of the word 'night' implies a feeling of timelessness, as if Elie's suffering will never end. The language Wiesel uses in this quote is incredibly effective in conveying the despair and hopelessness that he felt upon arriving
Do you remember learning about the holocaust? The holocaust was a historical event and lasted twelve years. It was a horrible time in the world. Elie Wiesel in the memoir “Night” explains why the holocaust should never happen again. Wiesel uses pathos, Metaphors, and lastly repetition to support his explanation.
Elie Wiesel's harsh diction in the memoir "Night" shows how Wiesel beared witness to history. In multiple parts of the text, Wiesel uses more harsh words showing the fury in the Nazi's words and actions. In one situation, the Jewish community was shipped to the concentration camps. Receiving their assignment and rough punishments. Along with that, if the Jewish people weren't going fast enough to the German's liking they would have their human rights violated.
This continues the theme of dehumanization, which plays a key role in this novel and adds emphasis on the mentality of Elie, for he feels so weak he compares himself to a machine. This also helps the reader visualize the pack of running people. Furthermore, Wiesel also describes
On the other hand, Elie saw God’s provisions in a simpler way, one example being the French girl who showed him kindness at the camp:”I dragged myself to my corner. I was aching all over. I felt a cool hand wiping the blood from my forehead. It was the French girl. She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread” (Wiesel, 2006, p.53).
The cruelty and hardships Elie experiences brings forth a distrust in humanity. During Elie’s first exposure to the anti-Semitic movement, “all he [feels is] pity”(Wiesel 7). Eli’s reaction exemplifies his progressive severance of relationships to prolong his illusions of hope. Within the “hermetically sealed cattle car”, Elie encounters the “shattered” Mrs. Schachter (24). The insane woman highlights the Jews disgust towards the somewhat inevitable insanity they face.
On the last train traveled the teenager Elie, who saw his world break apart in one night because this was the last time he would see his mother and his sister, remaining with his father as their only companion. I can imagine the absolute scare of a poor 15 years old boy coming from a village at that time to immerse himself in that shock. We know that with that age one is always fragile, imagine what a village teenager would be then. Wiesel looked years later for the words to explain the transformation he felt and this is reflected in his work by expressing: “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed… Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.”
Long Hours of Darkness “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live” (32). Never shall we forget the atrocious events that happened to upwards of six million Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide run by Adolf Hitler to exterminate nearly a whole population of Jews and very few prisoners lived to tell their treacherous stories.
Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.
In this memoir, Elie Wiesel uses imagery in order to develop the presence of animal-like behavior on people when they are being dehumanized. At this point of the story, Elie and the other prisoners are in a wagon traveling to a different concentration camp, and they are trying to survive in inhuman conditions. To begin, Wiesel describes, “We were given bread… We threw ourselves on it… Someone had the idea of quenching his thirst by eating snow.”
It becomes clear that Elie Wiesel`s commentary on human nature is that, during extreme circumstances, people are selfish and would achieve anything for their own survival. Furthermore, In Wiesel’s novel people strived to survive this injustice. For example, the Holocaust caused countless amount of
The passage shows how Elie was forced to mature and grow up by showing how he knew to control himself. This also emphasizes how Elie was only a teenager, by showing at what age Elie witnessed the inhumane things happening on the train. Clearly Elie's time at the camp has matured Elie enough to know what to do to survive. In the passage it talks about how bread was thrown in the wagon, and how the prisoners raced to get it..
In pages eight-five to one hundred-three, several events happened. There was another selection. This time, Eliezer and his father were split up, Eliezer in the healthy line, and Father in the not healthy line. Luckily, Eliezer case enough comotion to get Father to his line. After this, all of the healthy people were put into cattle cars with no roof.
Towards the end of the novel, Wiesel 's use of figurative comparisons displays how behavior became more inhumane and conditions worsened as circumstances became increasingly dire. An example of this is when the Germans throw bread around for the victims to scramble and eat and relates the men 's behavior to, "Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes;…" (Wiesel 105). Wiesel implies that the victims have been so deprived of nutrition that they have no regard for human etiquette. This shift in nature from acting tactfully to behaving like wild animals signifies that the victims have lost their sense of humanity. Additionally, Wiesel conveys how circumstances were challenging when his father fell ill and had, "become like a child, weak, timid, vulnerable" (Wiesel 110).
The entire world was so ignorant to such a massacre of horrific events that were right under their noses, so Elie Wiesel persuades and expresses his viewpoint of neutrality to an audience. Wiesel uses the ignorance of the countries during World War II to express the effects of their involvement on the civilians, “And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent when and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Weisel). To persuade the audience, Elie uses facts to make the people become sentimental toward the victims of the Holocaust. Also, when Weisel shares his opinion with the audience, he gains people onto his side because of his authority and good reputation.