How does the connotation of night
(nighttime) help to develop the symbolism of night (the absence of God)? Use our class discussion and examples from
the text to explain this question in more detail.
The connotation of night helps to develop the symbolism of the absence of God by showing how Elie's faith develops. The main way this is alluded to is by the time changing from day to night every time that an event changes Elie's thoughts on God. For example, when Elie sees the people being burnt, it is beginning to be nighttime, but at the beginning of the novel, it is always daytime when Elie tells us about the events happening.
I agree with what you said about how when the time changes Elie contemplates about God. I also think that he thinks about that because something evil or inhumane happens during the day, only for him to think that life is hopeless during the night.
The connotation of Night also develops by showing how Elie still keeps a bit of his belief in God. Whenever Elie tells us if its daytime or nighttime, it is almost always nighttime. It is never complete darkness in the place where he is. It also is shown in how he continues to talk about and honor God at times when he even says he does not want to.
I agree with what you said about how Elie's faith changes from day to night. In the daytime the events that occur show Elie's faith dissapating and are of him angrily blaming God for what happened to the Jews. .And even though he no longer believes in God he still writes extensively about the faith of the other Jews. While some events in the nightime show absolutely no prescence of God at all.
The connotation of night helps symbolise why people are scared of the dark or fear it. When you think of night you really don't many goods things. The connotation Night give of is fear , suspicion, drppesion, and loneliness. When what night really means is a time of day. But during the time of Hitler I guess you can say it was never day time.
I liked how you said that during the time when Hilter reigned it was always dark. I interpreted that as saying that there was no light, at least for some groups of people, during that time. However, what examples can you give to back up that those connotations support that the symbol of 'night' represents the absence of God.
I like that you personified night by comparing it to Hitler. It really shows that night had a negative connotation because there was no good aspects of Hitler.
The word 'night has many connotations. The connotations that I mostly relate to the text are darkness, fear, endings, and evil. When 'night' or darkness fell that would signify something evil had just occurred. That left Elie and the other prisoners question why had God and humanity let such a thing happen. Elie described his first night at the camp as never ending because of the shocking and fearful events that took place before him. He said, "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God.". Those events made his night never ending and led to Elie begin to loose hope and faith. On the last day of the Jewish year, the Jew were prepared for that to be the last night of their lives. Their lack of hope and thoughts of the end were probably there because they had no faith because they thought that God left them.
I agree with most of your response, but I disagree that one of the connotations of night in this novel is endings. I believe it is endlessness rather than endings.
The connotation of "Night" in the book is darkness. The word "Night" was the fear and the loneliness of the Jews. The "Night" represented the Nazis Evil and darkness. The Nazis consumed the Jews with their hate, evil, and darkness. The Jews started losing faith because no one came to help them and a lot of were getting killed. The Jews were losing everything and no one came to help. What happened in the camps was burnt into the Jews memory forever and it would only go away if they died.
The connotation of “Night” in the book is loneliness and darkness. The word “Night” represented the Nazis evil and horrible acts. The Jews started questioning God when they saw nothing was stopping the Nazi’s. The Jews were alone at “Night” with no hope of someone saving them.
Using the discussion in class, the connotation of Night, in my opinion, is hopelessness. I chose hopelessness because it encapsulates all of the other connotations including ending, death, alone, etc. the connootatipn develops the symbolism because the absence of God started with hopelessness. Hopelessness led to the loss of faith in Judaism which led to the Jews realizing the absence of God.
I like that you came up with your own and backed it up with the things we talked about in class. I like that you came up for hopelessness and i agree with you.
I like that your connotation of the word night was hopelessness, because that really does describe what people were feeling in the book when the night occurred. Also i agree that it all did start with hopelessness.
The connotation of night helps develop the symbolism of Night because the word "night" gives the reader the feeling of coldness, being surrounded by darkness and simply being afraid of the uncertainty that lies in the darkness of the night. Elie felt those same feelings as he goes through one of the most traumatic experiences in human history.
I liked your connotation of night but explaing more about the feelings that Elie goes through and the events that he experiences during the night might be a good idea.
The connotation of night helps symbolize night by showing how Elie's faith is developed throughout the story. In the beginning, Elie has a very strong hold of God. Then, later on throughout the the story, you seem kinda lose his hold on God. He felt like God had abandoned him and did not want nothing to do with him anymore just like Moshe the Beadle.
I like your statement of how Night helps symbolize how Elie's faith is developed throughout the story. I agree with how Elie kinda lost his hold on God which was shown throughout the story in multiple occasions.
The connotation of night in this instance is fear, death, endings and evil. This helps symbolizes night by showing the absence in God,it started with the fear that he was obtaining throughout the text, like the first nights in Auschwitz, he was beginning to doubt the presence of God, because he was allowing all of these deaths and endings occur. Eventually more and more people started to doubt and lose faith because they felt the absence of their God, as if he left them when this experience was beginning.
I like your response and how you provided evidence of why Jews started losing faith in God. I like your statement at the end that summarizes what you've said.
I agree with you that they lost faith in God, but I believe they still know of the presence of God. You can tell this by how Elie continues to speak to God and accuse him of being absent, as well as how he continues to pray to him in times where he doesn't believe.
Night is a symbol that means consuming, neverending, and hopelessness.This helps symbolize the absence of God because the faith of Elie and the other Jews were less present during the night. The night kept consuming any hope and courage the Jews had in them. With each day that turned to night and the Jews kept experiencing such terrible evil things their faith became dwindled considerably ith each night that passed in the book.Then it becames so that the Jews along With Elie Wiesel could not longer distinguish day from night.They began not to care because they had no faith and therefore nothing to hold onto or keep them going.
I'm slightly confused on where they could not distinguish day from night but time I can remember. I like the way you state that they had nothing to keep them going, it's a crucial point that can be ignored quite often.
The connotation of Night can be seen as how Elie believes God is absent during the time in the camp. The longer Elie is at Buna the more he questions why God lets the murdering go on. Soon he claims that he believes that there is a God but Elie no longer has faith in God and does not pray or take part in the rituals. The more Elie experiences in his time at the camp the farther he distances himself from God. When reading about some of the worst experiences, such as when the angletic Pipel is executed, you read a claim, that I believe to be Elie subtly claiming that his God was murdered while at the same time saying God may be watching but he is not acting to stop it.
I like that you included the fact that Elie did believe that there was a God but no longer had faith in that God or takes part in the rituals/prayers but maybe you should cite where you got this from in the story so we can refer back to it.
the connotation of night is darkness, evil, an absences of some thing. Elie believes that with this darkness and evil, there is a absence of god, for if gad was real, how did this great evil happen.
The connotation of night helps to develop the symbolism of the absence of God by showing how Elie's faith develops. The main way this is alluded to is by the time changing from day to night every time that an event changes Elie's thoughts on God. For example, when Elie sees the people being burnt, it is beginning to be nighttime, but at the beginning of the novel, it is always daytime when Elie tells us about the events happening.
ReplyDeleteSo Sydney, from our discussion on this topic today, please go back and add to your comment. Thank you.
DeleteI agree with what you said about how when the time changes Elie contemplates about God. I also think that he thinks about that because something evil or inhumane happens during the day, only for him to think that life is hopeless during the night.
DeleteThe connotation of Night also develops by showing how Elie still keeps a bit of his belief in God. Whenever Elie tells us if its daytime or nighttime, it is almost always nighttime. It is never complete darkness in the place where he is. It also is shown in how he continues to talk about and honor God at times when he even says he does not want to.
DeleteI agree with what you said about how Elie's faith changes from day to night. In the daytime the events that occur show Elie's faith dissapating and are of him angrily blaming God for what happened to the Jews. .And even though he no longer believes in God he still writes extensively about the faith of the other Jews. While some events in the nightime show absolutely no prescence of God at all.
DeleteThe connotation of night helps symbolise why people are scared of the dark or fear it. When you think of night you really don't many goods things. The connotation Night give of is fear , suspicion, drppesion, and loneliness. When what night really means is a time of day. But during the time of Hitler I guess you can say it was never day time.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you said that during the time when Hilter reigned it was always dark. I interpreted that as saying that there was no light, at least for some groups of people, during that time. However, what examples can you give to back up that those connotations support that the symbol of 'night' represents the absence of God.
DeleteI like that you personified night by comparing it to Hitler. It really shows that night had a negative connotation because there was no good aspects of Hitler.
DeleteThe word 'night has many connotations. The connotations that I mostly relate to the text are darkness, fear, endings, and evil. When 'night' or darkness fell that would signify something evil had just occurred. That left Elie and the other prisoners question why had God and humanity let such a thing happen. Elie described his first night at the camp as never ending because of the shocking and fearful events that took place before him. He said, "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God.". Those events made his night never ending and led to Elie begin to loose hope and faith. On the last day of the Jewish year, the Jew were prepared for that to be the last night of their lives. Their lack of hope and thoughts of the end were probably there because they had no faith because they thought that God left them.
ReplyDeleteI like your response, but most of the Jews still believed in god, and believed that this was just a "test" by him.
DeleteI agree with most of your response, but I disagree that one of the connotations of night in this novel is endings. I believe it is endlessness rather than endings.
DeleteThe connotation of "Night" in the book is darkness. The word "Night" was the fear and the loneliness of the Jews. The "Night" represented the Nazis Evil and darkness. The Nazis consumed the Jews with their hate, evil, and darkness. The Jews started losing faith because no one came to help them and a lot of were getting killed. The Jews were losing everything and no one came to help. What happened in the camps was burnt into the Jews memory forever and it would only go away if they died.
ReplyDeleteI like your how explained the symbolism of "Night". I think you need to explain the faith part a little more.
DeleteThe connotation of “Night” in the book is loneliness and darkness. The word “Night” represented the Nazis evil and horrible acts. The Jews started questioning God when they saw nothing was stopping the Nazi’s. The Jews were alone at “Night” with no hope of someone saving them.
ReplyDeleteI like your statement but I think you should elaborate a little bit more.
DeleteI like your connotation of night, but couldn't night represent more than just the evil and horrible acts from the Nazis?
DeleteUsing the discussion in class, the connotation of Night, in my opinion, is hopelessness. I chose hopelessness because it encapsulates all of the other connotations including ending, death, alone, etc. the connootatipn develops the symbolism because the absence of God started with hopelessness. Hopelessness led to the loss of faith in Judaism which led to the Jews realizing the absence of God.
ReplyDeleteI like that you came up with your own and backed it up with the things we talked about in class. I like that you came up for hopelessness and i agree with you.
DeleteI like that your connotation of the word night was hopelessness, because that really does describe what people were feeling in the book when the night occurred. Also i agree that it all did start with hopelessness.
DeleteThe connotation of night helps develop the symbolism of Night because the word "night" gives the reader the feeling of coldness, being surrounded by darkness and simply being afraid of the uncertainty that lies in the darkness of the night. Elie felt those same feelings as he goes through one of the most traumatic experiences in human history.
ReplyDeleteI like your response but I think you should add more details to support your answer.
DeleteI liked your connotation of night but explaing more about the feelings that Elie goes through and the events that he experiences during the night might be a good idea.
DeleteI like your response, but how dose this relate to god
DeleteThe connotation of night helps symbolize night by showing how Elie's faith is developed throughout the story. In the beginning, Elie has a very strong hold of God. Then, later on throughout the the story, you seem kinda lose his hold on God. He felt like God had abandoned him and did not want nothing to do with him anymore just like Moshe the Beadle.
ReplyDeleteI like your statement of how Night helps symbolize how Elie's faith is developed throughout the story. I agree with how Elie kinda lost his hold on God which was shown throughout the story in multiple occasions.
DeleteThe connotation of night in this instance is fear, death, endings and evil. This helps symbolizes night by showing the absence in God,it started with the fear that he was obtaining throughout the text, like the first nights in Auschwitz, he was beginning to doubt the presence of God, because he was allowing all of these deaths and endings occur. Eventually more and more people started to doubt and lose faith because they felt the absence of their God, as if he left them when this experience was beginning.
ReplyDeleteI like your response and how you provided evidence of why Jews started losing faith in God. I like your statement at the end that summarizes what you've said.
DeleteI love that you included that other prisoners also lost faith just as Elie did. The ending statement was a great way to summarize your paragraph!
DeleteI agree with you that they lost faith in God, but I believe they still know of the presence of God. You can tell this by how Elie continues to speak to God and accuse him of being absent, as well as how he continues to pray to him in times where he doesn't believe.
DeleteNight is a symbol that means consuming, neverending, and hopelessness.This helps symbolize the absence of God because the faith of Elie and the other Jews were less present during the night. The night kept consuming any hope and courage the Jews had in them. With each day that turned to night and the Jews kept experiencing such terrible evil things their faith became dwindled considerably ith each night that passed in the book.Then it becames so that the Jews along With Elie Wiesel could not longer distinguish day from night.They began not to care because they had no faith and therefore nothing to hold onto or keep them going.
ReplyDeleteI'm slightly confused on where they could not distinguish day from night but time I can remember. I like the way you state that they had nothing to keep them going, it's a crucial point that can be ignored quite often.
DeleteThe connotation of Night can be seen as how Elie believes God is absent during the time in the camp. The longer Elie is at Buna the more he questions why God lets the murdering go on. Soon he claims that he believes that there is a God but Elie no longer has faith in God and does not pray or take part in the rituals. The more Elie experiences in his time at the camp the farther he distances himself from God. When reading about some of the worst experiences, such as when the angletic Pipel is executed, you read a claim, that I believe to be Elie subtly claiming that his God was murdered while at the same time saying God may be watching but he is not acting to stop it.
ReplyDeleteI like that you included the fact that Elie did believe that there was a God but no longer had faith in that God or takes part in the rituals/prayers but maybe you should cite where you got this from in the story so we can refer back to it.
Deletethe connotation of night is darkness, evil, an absences of some thing. Elie believes that with this darkness and evil, there is a absence of god, for if gad was real, how did this great evil happen.
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