Pathos In Night

He also talks about losing faith is a recurring theme throughout the book, and Wiesel suggests that it was a common experience among many Jews who went through the Holocaust. By showing what events they had to go through and how that impacted

Along his journey, he writes unforgettable details that leave one stunned. In Night, Wiesel’s purpose is to prevent others from forgetting the Holocaust by provoking traumatic emotions through the details of the experiences that both he and his neighbors endured. Elie’s accounts of seeing children struggle to survive in the camp

One way Wiesel persuades his audience is using his own life experiences, and trauma to further express his intelligence on the Holocaust

Imagine a world where it is uncertain if dying is easier than being alive. A world where death, starvation, and abuse are commonalities. Welcome to the world of Holocaust victims. Horrible experiences surrounding the topics of the earlier described are recounted firsthand by a survivor himself, Elie Wiesel, in his memoir, Night. The tragedies and trauma faced by Elie during this time in his life are unimaginable to most people.

Wiesel and his family were forced to abandon their home and were eventually sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The horrors of the concentration camp are described in graphic detail as Wiesel recounts the beatings, starvation, and disease that he and

The novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel gives a firsthand account of the events of the Holocaust from one of its victims. The novel goes through some of Wiesel's experiences, and by association the trauma he faces. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Wiesel asserts that cruelty and inhumane treatment may result in a shift in one's individualism, spirituality and ethics. Ultimately the author's purpose is to suggest that trauma within an individual or group can cause them to lose their innocence much quicker than without.

When all hope is lost and it seems as if nothing mattered anymore, society is left with nothing but their family, faith and the unknown future. As the Jews of the Holocaust experienced the horrid acts of humanity, many were stripped of their true identity and fought for survival, abandoning their connection with family and faith. One of the Jews, Elie Wiesel, survived the horrors to retell his testimony of how the concentration camps wiped him of his faith, leaving only his father and a bitter, yet life-changing journey. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s novel, Wiesel has an unbreakable bond with his faith but has a distant connection to his father, yet after experiencing the horrors of Auschwitz, his faith deteriorates while he grows closer to his

In Auschwitz where thousands of Jews were slaughtered daily is the witness to the emptiness that remains when man abandons all morality. It is a sight of apocalyptic proportions: grotesque block chimneys point their sad fingers to the heavens, while all that remains of the majority of the wooden barracks are their ruined foundations. The agony of the past is still snagged on the hurtful barbed wires, and a dreadful gloom stagnates over the camp, its spores infiltrating the hearts of people in the 21st century. The misery is irresistible. Wiesel writes with a power aimed at never letting people forget all that had happened in the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, uses his culture as a way to educate the world on what it was like to be a young boy forced from his home, family, and friends, to be tortured for years, to watch his community burned into ashes, just for the rest of the world to remain indifferent to the horrors that the Jewish people were facing at the hands of the Nazis. In his autobiography “Night”, Wiesel tells the story of his life-changing experience as a child at Auschwitz. He describes how he will never forget how he felt as well as the things he experienced. Wiesel states, “The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me.

The dehumanization, suffering, and loss of faith that the Jewish community experienced are the main themes of Wiesel's narrative. He attempts to make a lasting impression by stirring outrage and empathy in the reader through his graphic descriptions of the death camps. Elie encourages readers to confront the darker elements of human nature while raising awareness of the value of providing historical truth. He makes an effort to change the reader's perception of the Holocaust and to make sure that the atrocities committed during this period are never forgotten in order to prevent them from happening again. Like “Purple Hibiscus” Elie Wiesel uses his experiences as a teenager where they are more vulnerable to change, where he encounters his life while being in a concentration camp.

When facing hardships, most change their individuality to mitigate the effects of the new environment. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, one can see transformation in response to the cruelties Mr. Wiesel faces during the Holocaust. The physical and emotional torment he faces paints a painful picture of the world. The author uses juxtaposition to demonstrate how the suffering Jews endure, pushing them away from their faith. The use of symbolism shows the morphing of Mr. Wiesel’s identity due to his confrontation with dehumanization and torment based on his beliefs.

When Wiesel makes it clear that he has suffered personal loss, he is evoking an emotional response from his audience. By stating that he senses their presence “The presence of my parents, that of my little sister.” the audience empathizes with him and the horror of the Holocaust is made more clear for them. They cannot only understand his feelings; they can connect to them which strengthens their understanding of the need to act whenever they witness inhumanity.

Elie Wiesel, an American Jewish holocaust survivor, that was also a political activist, writer, and professional speaks a heartfelt speech to get across his message about the people who died in the Holocaust by using rhetorical techniques By using logos, Wiesel reiterates what it looked like to be a child and live through the holocaust that affected everyone around him. As a child, he was not able to thoroughly understand what it was like being a child when the Nazis made all Jewish citizens go to ghettos, using sealed cattle cars, which paints a logical picture. “A young Jewish boy discovers the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish.”

The Holocaust makes us sad for what happened to him and all of those victimized. Wiesel writes his own story of the horror of human to human conflict and the smallness of what makes horror horror. He give context to the tragedy. As we truly fear what is behind the darkness and night, we see the horror in the Holocaust comes not from the name, but the context filling the word itself. That is horror, and that is what we must fight to dissolve to make the future

The term Holocaust is now used to describe the mass genocide by the German Nazi regime during World War II. Millions of Jews and members of other persecuted groups deemed unacceptable by Hitler were tortured and murdered in the most gruesome of ways. Elie Wiesel was among the few survivors to have gone through Auschwitz, the primary death camp used by Nazi soldiers. His personal account of the Holocaust encompasses the death of his family, his loss of innocence, and his first-hand experience viewing the evil of man. Through the use of strategic diction and syntax, figurative language and imagery, Elie Wiesel makes the unimaginable horrors incredibly vivid and clear to his readers.