Other examples of irony in night by Elie Wiesel?

Answer 1

1. "...we saw the barbed wire of another camp. An iron door with this inscription over it: 'Work is liberty!' Auschwitz"

2. "Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.

-Situational Irony: He wasn't expecting to get sick from eating all of the food he did, he was just hungry.

3. "Like the leader of the camp, he loved children."

-Dramatic: They were so nice to the kids because they were sexually abusing them.

4."I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promise, all his promises, to the Jewish people."

-Situational: Hitler is the one who started the killing of Jews; Lost faith in God for not being there for him.

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Some other examples:

"But as they [new shoes] were covered with a thick coat of mud, they had not been noticed. I thanked God... for having created mud in his infinite and wondrous universe."

Commentary: The mud that they had to live in (like animals) suddenly became an advantage to Elie. He could have warm and comfortable shoes because the dirty, filthy mud prevented the SS officer from noticing them and taking them away.

"Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz."

Commentary: The bitter irony is that Elie or anyone else could never, ever have forgotten Auschwitz and what was done there.

"Work or crematorium - the choice is yours."

Commentary: They are posed are real options, but in reality, the Jews never really had any power over their fate.

"The sun was shining... It was a beautiful day in May. The fragrances of spring were in the air."

Commentary: Elie tells of the wonderful day - as he marches towards another Nazi Death Camp.

Lastly, "Work makes you free." (Already mentioned but I added some additional commentary.)

Commentary: The slave laborer Jews were already free before they were imprisoned. Also, the word of the Death Camps eventually lead to death more often than not.

Answer 2

Another example of irony in "Night" is how the Jews are told they are being taken to work camps for better conditions and opportunities, when in reality they are being sent to concentration camps for extermination. This juxtaposition of expectation and reality creates a powerful sense of irony throughout the book. Additionally, the role reversal of captors and captives, where the oppressed become the oppressors, is another example of irony in the story.

Answer 3

The part when someone offer to get him something for his shoes in return, but he turn them down. Then later on his shoes get them taken away anyway, without anything in return. How ironic.

Answer 4

Aschwits motto work is liberty in reality freedom is dying

Answer 5

When Elie and his father could have stayed in the camp's "hospital" longer, but decided to leave. The camp was liberated very soon after.

Answer 6

Elie was faithful and hopeful, but got nothing in return. His family was separated, he cared for his dad and he slowly died, and it took forever to get out of the horrific camp.

Answer 7

"Like the leader of the camp, he loved children."

-The only reason they loved the children was because the children were involved in a sex trade. They were being sexually abused.

Answer 8

In reality the only way to "freedom"