Night Michael Greenberg By Elie Wiesel 1/11/13 1. “ The shadows beside me awoke as from a long sleep. They fled‚ silently‚ in all directions.” (Wiesel pg 12)- Personification. Wiesel uses this deep personification with a hint of symbolism to give the effect that shadows can wake up just as living organisms do. Yet a shadow is non-living and cannot truly wake up. At the time of Wiesel’s choice of personification‚ his whole family has just heard news that they are to leave their home in the
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only a teenager‚ Hitler order his troops to invade the small town that he once called his home. All houses were swept clean of their families and their character‚ and the families that once happily lived in them were sent into the cold town of Auschwitz where they would soon be separated‚ starved‚ beaten and (mostly) killed. After five years of enduring the worst possible circumstances that any human could stand‚ Elie was finally shown mercy and was freed. When giving his speech‚ Elie spoke about
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Title Have you ever been hopeful‚ even when it seemed your hope was hopeless? Hope is something all humans share whether it be for a better life or for a different path. All humans have something that resembles hope. It almost seems that humans love to tell others how hope has helped them survive troubling times. For centuries mankind has been drawn to literature about the underdog overcoming odds because we as a species enjoy seeing the little guys win. Three pieces of literature in particular
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Once all the Jews were confined within the ghetto‚ a wall was constructed to separate them from the rest of the city (The Pianist). Szpilman managed to find work as a musician to support his family. One day‚ the Szpilman’s get deported the death camps‚ but they are fooled about what is really coming their way (The Pianist). A friend of the Szpilman family was a part of the police force that was directing the Jews to the trains‚ grabbed Wladek from the group and told him to run‚ separating him from
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Accessed 1 October‚ 2012]. Book: Robert S. Wistrich‚ (1997). Who ’s Who in Nazi Germany. 1st ed. Routledge: Robert Wistrich. Article: Chris Brambery‚ (2008). How Hitler Took Power. Socialist Worker. 2086 (1)‚ pp.1 Website: Wikipedia (2012). Auschwitz Concentration Camp. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp. [Last Accessed 1 October‚ 2012]. Play: William Shakespeare‚ (1623). Macbeth. 1st ed. England
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nor Shmuel are aware of the hazard. These points show that ignorance is often blissful‚ but it can also be incredibly dangerous. Ignorance can be bliss‚ which is shown by Bruno when he talks to Shmuel about the camp‚ Auschwitz (which Bruno calls Out-With). Bruno imagines the camp as a nice‚ friendly farm in which the residents spend the day playing with their friends. This is evidenced when Bruno comments‚ “It’s so unfair. I don’t see why I have to be stuck over here where there’s no one to
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deserve such destiny? During the Second World War six millions Jews died‚ some were isolated and killed in the death camps and others suffered another painful death. The Nazis hated the Jews so much that they literally wanted to get rid of them forever‚ so they made these destruction camps where they killed the Jews. There were 6 huge death camps. When the Jews arrived in the camps they were split up into two groups‚ men I one group and women and children in another. The women and children were shot
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prisoners until his skill was proven and gave him a longer chance to survive. Because he was a Jew‚ he was sent to a detention camp along with the other English and American prisoners-of-war who were also “people not approved of by the new-born Fascist Republic” (Levi‚ 14). Later‚ he was boarded onto a train with many other prisoners‚ where they learned they were going to Auschwitz. The people appeared to just be “two groups of strange individuals… walk[ing] in squads‚ in rows of three…. It was all incomprehensible
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A concentration camp was a prison where the many Jews‚ gypsies‚ homosexuals‚ disabled‚ Poles and Jehovah ’s Witnesses were sent by the Nazi regime. It is estimated that the Nazi party created and controlled 15‚000 different camps which were found in several countries. These countries included Germany‚ France‚ Holland‚ Norway‚ Poland‚ Russia‚ Yugoslavia‚ Austria‚ Belgium‚ Czechoslovakia‚ Finland‚ Italy‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania and Estonia. Most of the camps were constructed near railways which was mainly
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the method of ‘Again and Again’ I realized that the phrase‚ “‘Fire‚ over there! The fire! Listen to me!’” (Wiesel 24) sequentially appeared in chapter two on pages 24 through 28. The phrase foreshadowed the revealing of the crematoriums on the camp Auschwitz. The phrase made me ponder whether or not the woman saying it was just mad or if at some time during the story she would be useful‚ but as it turned out she was actually truthful and no one believed her in time to escape and avoid the crematorium
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