Night Prompts
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“Night” as symbol prompt…
Elie Wiesel is a Jew among millions dead, a survivor of the now
infamous Holocaust. As one of the few, he felt deeply the necessity of
exposing the horrors of the truths of the massacre to enlighten the
world on its existence. Through his book Night, many unknowing souls
have been reached and touched forever. In the novel, Wiesel’s
recurring use of the symbol “night,” the very title of the book,
illustrates to the reader the unfathomable dark horror of the Holocaust
and its haunting effect on Wiesel.
Conclusion…
Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel frequently uses the concept of
“night” to convey the practically indescribable terror and confusion
millions of Jews faced during the atrocity that was the Holocaust. This
single man, out of the vast numbers murdered, made it his mission to
make the horrors known. Though he will pass as many have before
him, his words will live on. The story – the lesson – will continue.
How Wiesel uses figurative language to contribute to the meaning of
the work…
Elie Wiesel did not intend to be an author and write books to
entertain. Yet Night is a beautifully written novel that remembers the
story of Elie and the Jewish people during Hitler’s extermination of the
Jews during WWII’s Holocaust. As Wiesel powerfully describes his own
personal experience traveling through the concentration camps and
struggling to survive, he uses vivid and inspiring figurative language to
describe the strength and humanity behind the survivors of the
Holocaust who were reduced to mere numbers and statistics.
Conclusion…
In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel used captivating figurative
language to describe the strength and humanity in the people who
suffered along side him in the Holocaust. He used beautiful writing to
describe the souls of the people who endured each torture with him.
Night is a memorial to those lost souls. We can only imagine how hard
it was for Wiesel to break his silence and finally put pen to paper and
record all his painful memories, but his selfless choice to write down
his past terrors and give voice to his experiences honors the dead and
gives warning that submissive hate and prejudice must never
overcome humanity. Wiesel’s testimony is one more step in ensuring
the world will never face such atrocities again.
Wiesel’s struggle with his faith…
In 1960, a personal memoir was published that would forever be
known as one of the most brutally compelling and emotionally gripping
accounts of the Holocaust ever written: Night. The author, Elie Wiesel,
tells stories of starvation, inhumanity, and Nazi brutality as he
experienced it as a Jew during WWII. With his descriptions, we feel as
if we are right beside him through his crushing journey as he reveals
to us the physical and emotional strain of merely surviving Hitler’s
“Final Solution” in exterminating Wiesel’s entire race. Entering the
concentration camps as a young boy of fourteen, Wiesel was a boy
raised with a strong Jewish faith, and believed his faith was
unshakable, unpenetrable. Thus, one of the most difficult parts of his
experience was his internal struggle with his belief and faith in a
benevolent God during all of the horrible situations he was forced to
live through as he fought to hang on to any shred of faith at all.
Conclusion…
In Elie Wiesel’s account of his experiences during the Holocaust
as a Jew, he asks the questions no one wants to ask about God
because he doesn’t understand God’s apparent indifference toward the
Jewish nation during their time of great need. After all the traumatic
acts of cruelty he experienced and was forced to witness, it is a
wonder to the reader that he eventually did manage to hold onto his
faith. The Nazi party in Germany managed to start a World War,
throw their entire country into economic chaos, and exterminate six
million Jews, but the facts and statistics cannot deliver the same effect
as a personal, first-hand account of the discrimination and hate
towards the Jewish race during Hitler’s reign. The memoir, Night, is an
honest, raw memory of one man that survived the horrific actions of the
Nazis toward his people and lived to share his external, and more
importantly, his internal, struggles with the world.