We have all heard of the age old saying, “There are only two types of people that exist in a time or war and crisis, those who survive and those who die. ” Night is just an example of this that we see down on paper. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. It … Read more
“If an institution is to be an institution, it must to some extent break with the past, keep the memory of the past, while inaugurating something absolutely new” (Caputo 6). In this quote from Jacques Derrida’s 1994 conversation Deconstruction in a Nutshell, Derrida’s submits that the use of deconstruction within literature should facilitate fluidity between … Read more
The dehumanization of Eliezer by the Nazis in Night by Elie Wiesel In Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy, by the name of Eliezer, becomes a victim of the Nazi’s cruelty and abuse. Because of the abusive treatment Eliezer witnesses and endures at the hands of the Nazis during WWII, he is stripped of … Read more
Man’s Search for Meaning, written by Viktor Frankl, is a memoir about overcoming sufferings to have an optimistic perspective on life in the midst of pain and death. Frankl provides examples of his own experiences after surviving three years in a Nazi concentration camp where his parents, brother, wife, and children died. Using his logotherapy … Read more
Maturing is a natural process in a person’s life that happens in one form or another to everyone. Most people mature over time and take a few years to fully finish this process, ending only once they reach adulthood. For others however, the process of maturing is forced upon them somehow and they have no … Read more
“I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago… It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” -Elie Wiesel. Millions of heads were enforced in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel was one … Read more
Elie Wiesel states “For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. ” The holocaust was the discrimination against the Jews from separation from their families to persecution to murder. This event happened during World War 2 around 1933 to 1945, in western Asia. Hitler … Read more
The desire for power, fear, and self-preservation can cause people to change in ways one could not imagine. In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Gerda Weissman Klein’s All But My Life, the authors share their tragic experiences from their times in Nazi concentration camps. In Addition, Klein’s All But My Life shows her … Read more
A horrifying story of a family during a time of death and war must find a way to stay together and survive one of the most horrific events in history. The novel night follows a fifteen-year- old boy who travels with his family to Auschwitz. Elie’s mother and sisters are sent to a death chamber … Read more
