Choose one of the motifs you are tracing with your annotations, and elaborate upon its significance in Section 4. How does this motif change, develop, or continue to hold symbolic significance in Section 4? Write one paragraph regarding this motif's significance in this section.
The motif father/son relationship is shown when they ask Elie if he want to work with a good Kommando and Elie says yes as long as his father comes along with him. Elie says"...I want to stay with my father." The significance of this motif in this sentence is that even though they are offering Elie a chance to have a good life even if he's still working he does not leave his father behind. Elie puts the condition of going with a good Kommando if they allow his father too. If they would not let his father come along with Elie, Elie would have stayed with his father. Elie by putting the condition that his father goes with him shows how much he loves him.
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Lady Panfilo
11/11/2013 07:07:33 am
The motif humans acting like/being treated like animals is shown many times in section 4. One example is when Elie was getting beat. He explains that Idek treated him like a wild beast. He was beating him everywhere until Elie was covered with blood. In this short paragraph Elie describes it like if he still remembered the pain. He describes the way they were treated like animals. This people that hearted them didn't realized that the Jewish are people too and that they could feel things too. This sections of the book really showed the way Jewish people were treated.
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Tania Celestino
11/11/2013 11:02:03 am
One of the motifs that were shown in section four was the father/son relationships.One example is when Elie gave marching lessons to his father to prevent Franek from beating his father. "I decided to give my father lessons in marching… "(pg 55). Elie can not stand his father getting hurt and helped his father to protect him from Franek. After a few weeks Elie decided to give Franek his golden crown to keep his father from suffering.
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Bryan Amaro
11/11/2013 11:12:59 am
The motif in Section Four of Night that is significant is the Father/Son relationship. In this section, Elie always wanted to stay with his father, no matter what he does or where he goes. “Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father.” (page 48) Elie was lucky that the leader decided for Elie’s father to work with his son. And another time, he asked someone to stay with his father again. “Please sir… I’d like to be near my father.” (page 50) It just goes to show that Elie really loves his father. He never wanted to be separated from him, since he has been separated from his mother and sisters, so he does not want another family member to leave him.
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Victor Esteban
11/11/2013 02:20:22 pm
One motif I chose was on how people start to disbelieve on god, when they were in the concentration camps. We can see this numerous times in the book. Especially when something bad is happing and they start disbelieving and ask themselves were god is when they need him. However not everything is bad, when something good happens the people starts thanking god and It seems like they start to believe in him again.
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Yerlin Lopez
11/11/2013 02:42:14 pm
The motif I'm following is father/son relationship where Ellie shows how much he cares and loves his father “Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father.” (page 48).Ellie does not mind what he is put to do but he must remain with his father that is the only thing that he asks for.As in section 4 this motif changes by a boy mistreating his own father "I once saw one of them beat,a boy of thirteen,beat his father for not making his bed properly."(pg 63) The relationship between Ellie and his father differentiates to the relationship between this boy and his father,where the boy exploits his own father and shows no compassion for him.
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Yesenia Ramirez
11/11/2013 11:44:16 pm
The motif revealed in section four was treated like animal act like an animal. Eli conveyed that the kapos would choose the men he liked . The kapo did that in a way resembling the people who choose cattle or merchandise. In the novel the kapos said , " You... You ..You ". (Wiesel, 49) The Jews would follow the kapos like dependent "sheep". They could not escape or else they suffered a consequence. In addition, Idek best Eli like a wild beast. Eli describes how he was being crushed . When you think of crushed don't you think " cacaroach " . We'll to him it was a game but Eli felt aching pain. Later on throughout the story , Eli still remembers the incident and how the were treated like animals. They are Jewish people . They are not Jewish animals. They should be treated like people not pests. Jewish have feelings too , Eli demonstrates how they treated them like animals .
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Jason Zepeda
11/11/2013 11:54:42 pm
The motif I've seen the most of in this chapter is treating man like animal. Throughout the chapter, you get to see what the SS officers did to the Jews. As if killing people in front of you wasn't enough, forced to look into their dead faces is worse. The worse part, though, is how the young change. Seeing stuff like this at that age ought to have a bigger impact then if you were older. Ellie describes how sons treat their fathers, as if the roles were switched and they were the abusive parent. That part got to me the most, since usually a father is one you give respect to, right?
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Anahi Ramon
11/12/2013 10:21:14 am
The motif that I have seen in chapter four is man treated like animals.b through this chapter we see how the SS officers would treat the Jews. They were forced to kill the Jews even though they were Nazi's themselves and when they were finish with there job they would kill them and hire others in order to not tell the story of what happened in that time. The worse part is seeing this as a children because you have a bigger impact than how you were in an older age. When you are a kid you remember what happened and never forget it. For example, Ellie describes what happens while he is in a concentration camp and having a abusive parent. Isn't the father suppose to give you good lessons in life and treating you with respect.
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Jennifer Chupin
11/12/2013 10:25:17 am
The motif I saw the most on section four was father/son relationship. There was one quote that stood out the most to me. It was on page 50. It says, "please, sir . . . I'd like to be near my father." It shows the great connection Elie and his father have grown since they had enter the camp. He can not stand being away from him any longer. Their relationship is like gum. They stick together through think and thin.
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Brian Vidal
11/12/2013 11:36:24 am
One of the motifs shown in Section 4 was the one that showed a father/son relationship. No matter what Elie was put through, he would always ask that his father would be there with him. An example of this can be when they ask Elie if he wanted to be put in a good Kommando. He answered by saying, "Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father." (48). Another example can be when Elie is working in a corner counting bolts, bulbs, and various small electrical parts. The first thing he tells the foreman is, "Please, sir... I'd like to be near my father." (50). I think the reason Elie wants to be around his father all the time, is because he is probably afraid that something bad might happen to him. That is why he always wants him by his side, no matter the type of situation he is in.
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Belen Robles
11/12/2013 12:23:01 pm
One of the motifs we are tracing for the book Night is prayer, faith in god, and losing faith in god. Section four continues to convey the message of losing his faith in god since he got to the concentration camps. This is shown when Eli witnesses the death of a young kid, or as Eli calls him the pipel, and he continues to lose his faith. "Behind me I heard the same man asking: "For god's sake, where is god?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where- hanging here from this gallows..."" His faith in god is really started to, be devoured by the concentration camps. As he saw the death of a young, innocent child, he saw the death of his god there, he had not done anything to stop the death nor to help anyone at all.
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Joshua Vissoni
11/12/2013 12:47:05 pm
One motif found in section four is father/son relationship. In page 48 Elie accepts to go to a good Kommando with the condition of having his father stay with him. This is a significant motif because in the presence of his father Elie feels better and more secure than he would alone. The father/son relationship is also changing between Elie and his father. In the beginning Elie described his father as an unsentimental man who rarely displayed his feelings. Now their relationship is changing and growing stronger due to the fear of their environment and the presence of each other. This motif is significant because it show how certain events can bring people closer together.
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Susana Gonzalez
11/12/2013 01:04:32 pm
One of the motifs that I have seen throughout section four of the novel "Night" is the one of the Jews being treated like animals. In section four we get the chance to see how the SS officers treat the Jews. The officers kill people right I front of them and make them look at the bodies in order to make them fear. As if this act was bad enough for the Jews to do. But the most dramatic part is how the young ones in the concentration camp totally change due to this action by the officers. Viewing these events are terrifying at a young age than viewing them when you are older. Ellie describes how the roles of the parents and children change in the camp as if now the children where the controlling parents now. This part was the one that truly shocked me out of all the others since the father is the one in the family that has to give the respect you deserve.
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Heidi Ramos
11/12/2013 01:17:06 pm
One of the motifs in section 4 from the book Night that I am going to follow is Prayer, faith in God, losing faith in god. Before in section 1, Eli was very religious, he would pray, he would even cry when he prayed. When moishe asked him why he cried when he prayed he answered, "I cried because... because something inside felt the need to cry" he was so in tune with God that he felt so much emotion praying for him. In section 4 is where his faith in God starts to change. He saw a young kid die, an innocent kid die and when Eli witnessed that he started doubting if god was even real because God didn't help, he didn't do anything and the kid died which made him stop in God.
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Alexander Trujillo
11/12/2013 01:40:12 pm
One of the motifs that I saw the most was father/son relationships. In section four, Elie always wanted to stay next to his father, ever since Elie and his family moved to concentration camps and his sisters and his mother got separated for him and his father. Since this happened Elie alway wanted to be next to his father no matter what. Just like Elie said,“Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father.” (pg. 48) Elie tried really hard to be with his father and it was a good decision to do so, because he would of been in a terrible situation if he wasn't with him. Elie also did the same thing to ask someone to stick next to his father. “Please sir… I’d like to be near my father.” (pg. 50) Elie did the right thing and even though he was with his father, he only did it since his mother and sisters were separated from them. Therefore it was a really hard time for Elie to be in the concentration camps with only his father.
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Michael Ponce
11/12/2013 02:06:11 pm
One of the motifs in section four that were transparent to me was the one of father and son relationships, in page 48 of the novel "Night" Wiesel Is depicting how Eli wanted to work but with the condition of working with his father. "But one condition: I want to stay with my father. Here Wiesel is showing us how he is willing to work hard in commandos but he wants to be close to family.
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Leticia Diaz
11/12/2013 02:16:54 pm
Several mortifies are presented to us in section four if Night. One that is constantly represent throughout the whole section is the relationship between father and son. Eli and his father as put into many challenges and difficult situations were they have to see each other suffer but how one will handle the pain of the other in order to keep the other happy. For example we see that when Eli's golden crown tooth is going to be pulled out his mouth his father denies this ideas and decides to take the punishment in order for Eli to keep his golden tooth. Eli's father is brought a upon a brutal fate as he can not march in tempo. As Eli sees his dad suffering due the protection of his own possession tries to help his dad. He tries to train his dad, he provides him with lessons on how to march on tempo. The lessons did not work, even though it meant losing his most prize possession Eli gave up his golden crown to prevent the general from brutally beating his father. Eli an his father like father and son looked out for each trying to make each other be happy through this tough situation.
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Ashley Guerrero
11/12/2013 02:53:00 pm
In several parts of the book there are very eye catching mortifies. In section 4 there was one that truly caught my attention. “Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father.” (page 48). Even though Elie and his father are put into a very traumatic experience they still manage to care for one another. At the time Elie's father is all he had that kept him surviving through out the story.
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Jocelyne Ramirez
11/12/2013 03:35:05 pm
Elie Wiesel has shown with great and utter brutality the most horrifying instances that happened to him while in the concentration camps, in section four of NIght. There was one motif in specific that I came about, and that was how the officials treated the Jews or prisoners as if the were nothing. To the officials' eyes the prisoners in the camps were no longer human, and despite their being some compassion from some of the officials, it does not compare to the ones that with utter cruelty hit, whipped, beat, and exploited the Jews/prisoners, including Eliezer. The one thing that hurt the most is that Eliezer and many others started becoming and thinking like animals, to them only one thing mattered and that was survival. They were hungry, and that hunger drew them to think savagely, " A royal feast was going to waste... Hundreds of eyes were looking at them, shining with desire. Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking," (Wiesel, 59). The motif represented in this section show the truth in how far one must go to survive, even if that means thinking like an animal, and responding like one. Despite the fact that Eliezer, obeyed many of his commandos and never really spoke out in the name of justice, he did it only to survive, and in the end that is what humans do, they try to survive. But sometimes, one must think is it really worth it to obey the master, or fight back like the real animals we are?
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Angel Mis
11/12/2013 09:45:45 pm
Humans show many similarities to cattle, mostly in the sense that were heavily populated as well, we also can follow simple orders, and most importantly, they blindly follow orders if given to them. With all of this in mind, it seems like there should be no problem if they are treated as such, as seen in the book Night by Ellie Wiesel. The book chronicles the tale of a child going into a concentration camp during World War 2 and his struggle to survive, leading him to see people being treated as cattle, as they are rounded together in hordes, fed scarcely, and beaten at any opportunity. Seeing the similarities makes the reader believe that by some degree, humans are cattle, but their will to live is what defines them as humans. It is in section 4 that this is best shown as fights over food and beatings come more often and make more of an impact. Of course, human aren't cattle, but the section does ask the question, can they be made into cattle?
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Diane Leal
11/12/2013 10:30:12 pm
Throughout the book the father/son relationship has been conveyed; just as in section four. When the SS officer was going to beat Elie's dad, Elie felt guilty for not stopping it. As in section four Elie and his father did not want to get separated so Elie did what ever he could to remain my his fathers side. Breaking a bond between a father and son is hard. Elie is not going to let anyone separate him from his dad, as they did with his mother and sister.
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Jonathan Velasco
11/12/2013 11:12:47 pm
In Night, Elsie displays a loss in his faith for God. "For God's sake, where is God?" Earlier in the chapters, Elsie was really attached to him and all. But after these horrible things started happening around him, he started losing faith. So now, when he searches for him, he would also be searching for good things in his camp.
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Fatima Romero
11/13/2013 12:00:37 am
The motif that what shown was father and son relationship. It shows when the ss officer was going to beat eli's father. He did feel guilty for not stopping him. The only thing he did was stand there and do nothing.
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