A Class Blog for the non-fiction story Night, by Elie Wiesel
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Literary Terms and Theory
Locate and cite examples in your book and discuss the various techniques we have discussed this year. Symbolism and foreshadowing are often most interesting to find.
“Fire! Fire!” Chapter – 2 During the night journey, Madame Schachter has a vision about flames and fire. The Jews on the train had thought that Madame Schachter had gone crazy until they arrived at Birkenau -Auschwitz. At first when they arrived at the Birkenau they saw nothing but darkness but just momentarily they noticed flames and smelled the burning flesh. Madame Schachter was foreshadowing what the Jews will see as soon as they arrive at the concentration camp and symbolizing fire in terms of Nazi’s Brutal Power and death of all Jews at the concentration camp. Fire appears throughout the Night. The Nazis are burning babies, throwing babies, hitting people etc. The Jews taken to the concentration camp meet their death in hands of Nazi’s. Fire is the destructor. At the end, all the Jews are burned in the fire alive. The fire is reminding the prisoners of their closeness to death.
BOMBS AWAY-chapter 4 In chapter four, on a Sunday when the electrical block was working around 10:00 am. an air raid siren went off. Then the bombs were dropped on Buna. This was a symbol I think because Elie Wiesel wrote that " every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us the new confidence in life." This quote shows the symbol of hope that many of the captured Jews lacked during their imprisonment. Also hope gave many of the prisoners being held at the concentration camps strength to carry on. When the Americans bombed the concentration camp, the author felt himself gain more hope whenever a bomb was dropped and exploded.
"I SAW NEW FACES"-chapter 1 In chapter one on page ten the mother gets a "premonition of evil" she goes on to explain that that afternoon she had seen so gestapo men in the ghetto,and this is the first officer that the have seen since they have arrived there.This quote is a symbol because soon everybody that lives in the ghetto's life will change forever whether they will be taken to Birkenau -Auschwitz or will be taken out into a field and ordered to dig their own graves or simply shot.Whether they live or die they will not be the same ever again.
In chapter one the mother shares her scared and uneasy feeling about what was going to happen to the family. This example is an example of foreshadowing the pain and suffering the family will probably face on their journey to their "new home". An example of a symbol I found in the first three chapters is night. When the Jewish people are traveling on their journey the author describes how at night everyone is silent and still, to me this shows how the Jews lived under a constant fear and uneasiness of what was going to happen to them. That is One example of foreshadowing and also one example of a symbol in the first three chapters of Night, By Elie Wiesel.
In chapter 1 a symbol is the Jew star. Elie said, "There was a new decree: every Jew must wear the yellow star." (9, Wiesel) This is a very simple symbol but it is a symbol used all around the world. It is a symbol for all Jews showing that they are Jewish. In the book every Jew had to wear the yellow star so the Germans wouldnt mistake anyone else as a Jew and kill them by accident. The sirens were also symbols of hope. They were symbols of hope because when the sirens would go off there was hope that the americans would end the war with the bombing and hope that they would get to live another day.
In chapter four, page 47 to 48, a young boy, whom was loved by everyone in the camp, was hung for suspicions of helping in a sabotage of the electric power station. He was hung along with other suspected accomplices, but he did not die as quick as the other two victims in the gallows, who were adults. He was hanging noose with his life still in him, but fading, when a man behind Eliezer asked, “’Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: ‘Where is he? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows…’”. This symbolizes that even though many prisoners die every day, God is still playing a part in the strong hearts of the prisoners, only because God didn’t let go of the young boy’s life as easily as the other men who were hung. God dictates the life and death of people, and to hold onto the boy’s life a little longer showed that He wanted this kind boy to survive, but greater authorities then the prisoners have power over each prisoner’s life span.
In the second chapter, Elie is on a wagon with eighty other people. A women by the name of Madame Schachter starts to scream, "Fire! I can see a fire!" There was no fire anywhere to be seen. Everyone on the wagon thought that she had lost her mind. Someone put a damp cloth on her head to help her calm down. Her ten year old son was trying to hold her hands and help her but she just kept claiming to see fire. After a while, some young men forced her to sit down and tied her up. They also put a gag in her mouth to stop screaming. After a few hours, she broke free and yet again was screaming about the fire she was seeing, and some people on the wagon started beating her to make her stop screaming. But when they stopped moving she told everyone to look at the flames. When everyone looked out of the window, they saw the flames. Elie smelled a foul odor in the air. Though they did not realize it, Madame Schachter foreshadowed the burning of the Jews and the fact that they were either go to die or have to work in concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel has many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism in Night. One example in chapter 2 is when Madame Schachter yells, "Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!" (Wiesel 19). This quote foreshadows that they will all die in a fire. The fire in this quote also symbolizes death and the end of their lives. Another example of foreshadowing in the book is when Mosh the beadle returns to the village. "No I wanted to come back, and to warn you" (Wiesel 6). When Mosh the Beadle returns he tells everyone about what happened to him and the grave peril that they are in. This event also foreshadows the death and pain that much of the village will experience. Night is also a symbol for living another day and the hope of freedom in the future. Night also represents the Jews faith in God or their lack of faith. When it is dark and they were done with work they discussed religion and prayed. It is also at this time when Elie decides not to pray and to stray from his religion.
On The train Elie sees a woman sceaming. The woan screaming is Madame Schächter and she is screaming about how she can see fire. wich is foreshadowing because the nazis' killed people by burning them. Flames is symbol becasue it means the end meaning death. Night is symbol of hope becasue its another day still alive.Each day they are forced to work in the camps and if they do not comply they will disapear. Each day they thank there god for letting them live another day, but might start to question there own belifs becasue they are loosing hope every day.They prayed for the hope of survival from the crulty they have suffered.
One of the many examples of foreshadowing in the book happened in chapter two. Elie is on one of the cattle wagons destine for Birkenau reception center for Auschwitz. The Hungarian police made the Jews get in eighty people to a single wagon. On the trip, a woman named Madame Schachter, who was around fifty years old, sat in a corner with her son who was ten years old. Her two eldest sons and her husband had gone on the first transport on accident. In the beginning of the trip she was moaning and asking herself why they had gotten separated. Then, as the trip went on, she got more upset with every passing minute, and soon was crying hysterically. One night on the trip, while mostly everyone was asleep, she woke up the entire wagon by screaming "Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!" Everyone near a window was looking out but could see no fire. This went on for some time before some men had to tie her down because she would not stop talking and screaming. Then when they arrived at Birkenau, Madame Schachter, who had untied herself, screamed “Fire!” and pointed out the window. People saw that there really was a fire and also a funny smelling odor. Burning flesh. This is an example of foreshadowing because all along, Madame Schachter had somehow known there was a fire and the killing of Jews.
One of the examples of foreshadowing in the book was in chapter 2. Elie is on the packed train on his way to Auschwitz, and he hears Madame Schachter screaming "fire!" but there was no fire. When they got to Birkenau she screamed again and there actually was a fire, it was Jewish people being burned. The fire was a symbol of death and the end. The first time she screamed it was night, which symbolizes hope. Hope is shown because there was no actual fire anywhere in sight.
In the first few chapters of Night by Elie Wiesel, there are examples of foreshadowing used, especially in chapter two. Elie and his family were put in a train along with 80 other jews on their way to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. After a few days on the train, a women named Madame Schachter, who was with her 10 year old son, stood up and walked over to the window pointing and screaming Fire! Fire! Look at it! Fire! They had thought she had gone crazy after the seperation of her two sons, and after that night, she said the same thing every day. There was no fire but Madame had foreshadowed the concentration camp and the fire/smoke was the buring of jews. Every day she yelled fire, the train was getting closer and closer to the concentration camp. Fire is a symbol of death, sooner or later every jew will die by the fire and they thought death everytime they saw fire.
In chapter 2 there is an example of for shadowing when Elie and his father along with 80 other jews were on board a train on their way to Auschwitz. One of the jews, Madame Schächter started to scream "FIRE! FIRE!". She claimed she saw flames when there was no flames in sight. Everyone believes that this woman is crazy. but they soon realize that she was predicting the future. In the next couple of chapters they arrive at a crematory, realizing that this woman may not be so crazy after all.
In chapter two, page 19, there is a huge example of foreshadowing. In this scene many Jews are on a train going to a concentration camp. One of the passengers, a young woman, starts screaming, "Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! Its a furnace!" This is an example of foreshadowing because this was way before the train and all of it's passengers had gotten near the concentration camp, and seen the furnaces that were killing people. The woman that was screaming this was thought to be insane when she really was just sensing what was going to happen in the very near future. Once the train had reached the concentration camp, and all of it's passengers had seen the furnaces killing many people, they believed that the woman who had been screaming in the middle of the night, was not insane, but a prophet.
In chapter one, when Moshe the Beadle tells everyone of what the Germans did to him, it is a foreshadowding of what is going to happen to Elie and his family in a similar way. Moshe descirbes how the Germans used babies as target practice. He also described how the Germans made the older ones dig holes, and when they were finished, the Germans made them stand in front of the hole, and then proceded to shot them into the holes they had just dug. Similar things happen when Elie is at the camp except they happen in different ways and many more people are killed.
In the first chapters of Night, by Elie Wiesel there are several examples of foreshadowing. One of these examples is found in Chapter 2 on page 19 when Madame Schacter yells, "Fire Fire!" in the middle of the night. Madame Schacter yells this while aboard a train with other Jews. All of the passengers who heard her yell these words assumed she was crazy because there was no fire visible anywhere. When the train arrived at Birkenou Auschwitz the Jews saw only darkness at firts, but then notice bright flames in the distance and could smell burning flesh. After seeing and smelling this all the passengers realized that Madame Schacter was not insane because she was thought of as a prophet. The burning of flesh and the fires symbolize the brutal power the Nazi soldiers had over the Jews and other religions. Madame Schacter symbolizes hope because she is thought of as a prophet and because she shared what she pictured for the future; but no one aboard the train believed her.
“When at last a gray glimmer of light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk upon shoulders, crouched, piled on top of the other, like a field of dust-covered tombstones in the first light of dawn." This gives the reader a vivid picture in their mind of what he has seen. This simile is explaining how horrid the scene is, because of all the death and bodies laying everywhere. This shows the reality of his whole experience in the concentration camp, and how much he had to deal with death.
“Fire! Fire!” Chapter – 2
ReplyDeleteDuring the night journey, Madame Schachter has a vision about flames and fire. The Jews on the train had thought that Madame Schachter had gone crazy until they arrived at Birkenau -Auschwitz. At first when they arrived at the Birkenau they saw nothing but darkness but just momentarily they noticed flames and smelled the burning flesh. Madame Schachter was foreshadowing what the Jews will see as soon as they arrive at the concentration camp and symbolizing fire in terms of Nazi’s Brutal Power and death of all Jews at the concentration camp. Fire appears throughout the Night. The Nazis are burning babies, throwing babies, hitting people etc. The Jews taken to the concentration camp meet their death in hands of Nazi’s. Fire is the destructor. At the end, all the Jews are burned in the fire alive. The fire is reminding the prisoners of their closeness to death.
BOMBS AWAY-chapter 4
ReplyDeleteIn chapter four, on a Sunday when the electrical block was working around 10:00 am. an air raid siren went off. Then the bombs were dropped on Buna. This was a symbol I think because Elie Wiesel wrote that " every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us the new confidence in life." This quote shows the symbol of hope that many of the captured Jews lacked during their imprisonment. Also hope gave many of the prisoners being held at the concentration camps strength to carry on. When the Americans bombed the concentration camp, the author felt himself gain more hope whenever a bomb was dropped and exploded.
"I SAW NEW FACES"-chapter 1
ReplyDeleteIn chapter one on page ten the mother gets a "premonition of evil" she goes on to explain that that afternoon she had seen so gestapo men in the ghetto,and this is the first officer that the have seen since they have arrived there.This quote is a symbol because soon everybody that lives in the ghetto's life will change forever whether they will be taken to Birkenau -Auschwitz or will be taken out into a field and ordered to dig their own graves or simply shot.Whether they live or die they will not be the same ever again.
In chapter one the mother shares her scared and uneasy feeling about what was going to happen to the family. This example is an example of foreshadowing the pain and suffering the family will probably face on their journey to their "new home". An example of a symbol I found in the first three chapters is night. When the Jewish people are traveling on their journey the author describes how at night everyone is silent and still, to me this shows how the Jews lived under a constant fear and uneasiness of what was going to happen to them. That is One example of foreshadowing and also one example of a symbol in the first three chapters of Night, By Elie Wiesel.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 1 a symbol is the Jew star. Elie said, "There was a new decree: every Jew must wear the yellow star." (9, Wiesel) This is a very simple symbol but it is a symbol used all around the world. It is a symbol for all Jews showing that they are Jewish. In the book every Jew had to wear the yellow star so the Germans wouldnt mistake anyone else as a Jew and kill them by accident. The sirens were also symbols of hope. They were symbols of hope because when the sirens would go off there was hope that the americans would end the war with the bombing and hope that they would get to live another day.
ReplyDeleteJaneczek/#2
ReplyDeleteIn chapter four, page 47 to 48, a young boy, whom was loved by everyone in the camp, was hung for suspicions of helping in a sabotage of the electric power station. He was hung along with other suspected accomplices, but he did not die as quick as the other two victims in the gallows, who were adults. He was hanging noose with his life still in him, but fading, when a man behind Eliezer asked, “’Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: ‘Where is he? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows…’”. This symbolizes that even though many prisoners die every day, God is still playing a part in the strong hearts of the prisoners, only because God didn’t let go of the young boy’s life as easily as the other men who were hung. God dictates the life and death of people, and to hold onto the boy’s life a little longer showed that He wanted this kind boy to survive, but greater authorities then the prisoners have power over each prisoner’s life span.
In the second chapter, Elie is on a wagon with eighty other people. A women by the name of Madame Schachter starts to scream, "Fire! I can see a fire!" There was no fire anywhere to be seen. Everyone on the wagon thought that she had lost her mind. Someone put a damp cloth on her head to help her calm down. Her ten year old son was trying to hold her hands and help her but she just kept claiming to see fire. After a while, some young men forced her to sit down and tied her up. They also put a gag in her mouth to stop screaming. After a few hours, she broke free and yet again was screaming about the fire she was seeing, and some people on the wagon started beating her to make her stop screaming. But when they stopped moving she told everyone to look at the flames. When everyone looked out of the window, they saw the flames. Elie smelled a foul odor in the air. Though they did not realize it, Madame Schachter foreshadowed the burning of the Jews and the fact that they were either go to die or have to work in concentration camps.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel has many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism in Night. One example in chapter 2 is when Madame Schachter yells, "Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!" (Wiesel 19). This quote foreshadows that they will all die in a fire. The fire in this quote also symbolizes death and the end of their lives. Another example of foreshadowing in the book is when Mosh the beadle returns to the village. "No I wanted to come back, and to warn you" (Wiesel 6). When Mosh the Beadle returns he tells everyone about what happened to him and the grave peril that they are in. This event also foreshadows the death and pain that much of the village will experience. Night is also a symbol for living another day and the hope of freedom in the future. Night also represents the Jews faith in God or their lack of faith. When it is dark and they were done with work they discussed religion and prayed. It is also at this time when Elie decides not to pray and to stray from his religion.
ReplyDeleteOn The train Elie sees a woman sceaming. The woan screaming is Madame Schächter and she is screaming about how she can see fire. wich is foreshadowing because the nazis' killed people by burning them. Flames is symbol becasue it means the end meaning death. Night is symbol of hope becasue its another day still alive.Each day they are forced to work in the camps and if they do not comply they will disapear. Each day they thank there god for letting them live another day, but might start to question there own belifs becasue they are loosing hope every day.They prayed for the hope of survival from the crulty they have suffered.
ReplyDeleteOne of the many examples of foreshadowing in the book happened in chapter two. Elie is on one of the cattle wagons destine for Birkenau reception center for Auschwitz. The Hungarian police made the Jews get in eighty people to a single wagon. On the trip, a woman named Madame Schachter, who was around fifty years old, sat in a corner with her son who was ten years old. Her two eldest sons and her husband had gone on the first transport on accident. In the beginning of the trip she was moaning and asking herself why they had gotten separated. Then, as the trip went on, she got more upset with every passing minute, and soon was crying hysterically. One night on the trip, while mostly everyone was asleep, she woke up the entire wagon by screaming "Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!" Everyone near a window was looking out but could see no fire. This went on for some time before some men had to tie her down because she would not stop talking and screaming. Then when they arrived at Birkenau, Madame Schachter, who had untied herself, screamed “Fire!” and pointed out the window. People saw that there really was a fire and also a funny smelling odor. Burning flesh. This is an example of foreshadowing because all along, Madame Schachter had somehow known there was a fire and the killing of Jews.
ReplyDeleteOne of the examples of foreshadowing in the book was in chapter 2. Elie is on the packed train on his way to Auschwitz, and he hears Madame Schachter screaming "fire!" but there was no fire. When they got to Birkenau she screamed again and there actually was a fire, it was Jewish people being burned. The fire was a symbol of death and the end. The first time she screamed it was night, which symbolizes hope. Hope is shown because there was no actual fire anywhere in sight.
ReplyDeleteConnolly/#2
ReplyDeleteIn the first few chapters of Night by Elie Wiesel, there are examples of foreshadowing used, especially in chapter two. Elie and his family were put in a train along with 80 other jews on their way to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. After a few days on the train, a women named Madame Schachter, who was with her 10 year old son, stood up and walked over to the window pointing and screaming Fire! Fire! Look at it! Fire! They had thought she had gone crazy after the seperation of her two sons, and after that night, she said the same thing every day. There was no fire but Madame had foreshadowed the concentration camp and the fire/smoke was the buring of jews. Every day she yelled fire, the train was getting closer and closer to the concentration camp. Fire is a symbol of death, sooner or later every jew will die by the fire and they thought death everytime they saw fire.
In chapter 2 there is an example of for shadowing when Elie and his father along with 80 other jews were on board a train on their way to Auschwitz. One of the jews, Madame Schächter started to scream "FIRE! FIRE!". She claimed she saw flames when there was no flames in sight. Everyone believes that this woman is crazy. but they soon realize that she was predicting the future. In the next couple of chapters they arrive at a crematory, realizing that this woman may not be so crazy after all.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter two, page 19, there is a huge example of foreshadowing. In this scene many Jews are on a train going to a concentration camp. One of the passengers, a young woman, starts screaming, "Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! Its a furnace!" This is an example of foreshadowing because this was way before the train and all of it's passengers had gotten near the concentration camp, and seen the furnaces that were killing people. The woman that was screaming this was thought to be insane when she really was just sensing what was going to happen in the very near future. Once the train had reached the concentration camp, and all of it's passengers had seen the furnaces killing many people, they believed that the woman who had been screaming in the middle of the night, was not insane, but a prophet.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter one, when Moshe the Beadle tells everyone of what the Germans did to him, it is a foreshadowding of what is going to happen to Elie and his family in a similar way. Moshe descirbes how the Germans used babies as target practice. He also described how the Germans made the older ones dig holes, and when they were finished, the Germans made them stand in front of the hole, and then proceded to shot them into the holes they had just dug. Similar things happen when Elie is at the camp except they happen in different ways and many more people are killed.
ReplyDeleteIn the first chapters of Night, by Elie Wiesel there are several examples of foreshadowing. One of these examples is found in Chapter 2 on page 19 when Madame Schacter yells, "Fire Fire!" in the middle of the night. Madame Schacter yells this while aboard a train with other Jews. All of the passengers who heard her yell these words assumed she was crazy because there was no fire visible anywhere. When the train arrived at Birkenou Auschwitz the Jews saw only darkness at firts, but then notice bright flames in the distance and could smell burning flesh. After seeing and smelling this all the passengers realized that Madame Schacter was not insane because she was thought of as a prophet. The burning of flesh and the fires symbolize the brutal power the Nazi soldiers had over the Jews and other religions. Madame Schacter symbolizes hope because she is thought of as a prophet and because she shared what she pictured for the future; but no one aboard the train believed her.
ReplyDelete“When at last a gray glimmer of light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk upon shoulders, crouched, piled on top of the other, like a field of dust-covered tombstones in the first light of dawn." This gives the reader a vivid picture in their mind of what he has seen. This simile is explaining how horrid the scene is, because of all the death and bodies laying everywhere. This shows the reality of his whole experience in the concentration camp, and how much he had to deal with death.
ReplyDelete