In what way are the poems "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night?
Refer to direct passages, words, or phrases from the poems AND the book that allowed you to make your connection.
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The poems "The Witnesses" and "Sympathy" are related to Night because they both talk about struggles. In "The Witnesses" it talks about the slaves that were taken by the Spanish people. It talks about how they were treated and how they were beaten and mal nourished. And in the other poem, "Sympathy" it talks about a bird. It talks about how the bird is trapped and how it would rather be outside with the beautiful weather and the peaceful world. But instead it is trapped in its cage, beating its wings until it bleeds. These relate to “Night” because they both talk about how things are mistreated. Like the bird being trapped, or the slaves being beaten and sold. And in night it’s about the Holocaust and in the Holocaust many people were beaten and even killed.
The poem “Sympathy” is about a bird in a cage. This relates to what is going on in Night because Night is about the holocaust. In the holocaust the Jews are put in concentration camps, which are surrounded by fences. Them being in fences is like the bird being in a cage. The Jews are being mistreated in the camps and are getting all cut up, just like the bird in the cage the bird gets all cut in the cage from trying to escape. “The Witnesses” is like Night because it is about slavery. In Night the Jews are kind of like slaves because they were put to work in the camps. In both cases if they weren’t doing work they would be killed. Also if they got sick or were just too weak to do the work they would be killed. Both of these poems can relate to Night in many ways. These are just the biggest and most obvious ones I saw. Night is related to slavery and being stuck or trapped in one place.
In the two poem's that we read in class and at home, there is a great connection to Ellie in his novel. First, in "The Witnesses," it tells of the men and women that were forced to leave their homes. Ellie had to also leave his home and friends without a choice. Also, in the poem about the caged bird, it told a story of how a bird was trapped inside its cage when it wanted to be freed and live outside where it was nice and beautiful. For Ellie, he must of felt like a caged bird when he was forced to leave the home and be in a wagon that was "hermetically sealed." Also, in that same poem about the caged bird, the bird was beating it's bloody wing on the bars, hoping to be able to get out. All the eighty men on Ellie's wagon must of felt the same way, which is to find any possible way to escape the prison that they were trapped inside of. Finally, in the "Witnesses" poem, there were bodies that were practically skeletons and had their flesh rotting. Bodies were even dumped into the abyss of the ocean, showing tat there was no care for the men. This is like what happened to Ellie because the eighty men were forced into one small wagon. Also, according to Moshe the Beadle, they were forced to dig up their own graves. This is how the poems that were read in class were like the problems that Ellie had to face in his novel.
The poem Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and The Witness by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to the story Night. Sympathy is a metaphor about a caged bird. It’s about how a bird caged up would feel and it explains the place a bird would want to be, the pain the bird would feel when trying to escape or be set free and how it longs to be out in the world. The author says he knows how the caged bird feels so he is comparing his life or a situation to a caged bird’s life. The poem is like Night because in the book he is taken away from where he belongs in his home and locked on a train where he can’t escape just like the bird in Sympathy. The authors of both stories talk about their lives and how they might feel trapped in a way.
The Witnesses is a poem about the dead slaves from off the slave ships. The poem talks about the people being hurt and killed. It also talks about the evil done by the people who did the horrible things. In the book Night he talks a lot about how the people are treated so badly and how the bad people don’t even treat the Jews like human beings. In both poems and the book Night they both speak to the reader about how unfair the lives are and the regret for a caged bird, the slaves and the Jewish people.
The poems "Sympathy" and "The Witnesses" both connect to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night. One way they relate is because the authors of the poems and the book describe their experiences they have had with horrible events that happened. For example, Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poem, "Sympathy" was about the author relating himself to a caged bird because he felt trapped during slavery. Also, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Witnesses" he describes the scene that was happening during the times of slavery. He expressed his sympathy through his poem. In addition, Elie Wiesel's book, Night is a memoir of his experience during the Holocaust. These examples show how the poems and the book all relate to each other.
The poems "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connect to Elie Wiesel's book “Night” in many ways. First, all three sources are about how people were and are miss treated. In one of the poems, “Sympathy” the author uses a bird in cage, referring to how people are caged for doing nothing wrong. Also, in “The Witness”, it talks about how slaves were all chained together and then thrown to the bottom of the ocean and beaten. Both these relate to the book “Night” because it is about the Holocaust, where the Jewish people were blamed for everything and treated badly, even though they had done nothing wrong. It is called anti-Semitism, the hatred of Jews. Second, the two poems and the book are all about the same period of time in history. The two poems also connect because they are written well, rhyme and have good literature, just like the book because there is a lot of poetry. They give you a good picture and understanding of what is happening. This is how the poems we read, "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connect to the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel.
One way the poem, " The Sympathy " connects to the Night is because there's emotion going on. Many people feel sad for the people who had to go through what the Jewish did, just like Paul Laurence is for the caged bird. This poem also connects to the Night is that the birds are caged and locked up just like many of the jewish were. They were forced to be in rooms that were very tiny and they feel like caged animals. One way the poem is connected to the Witnesses is that basically all of the poem had happened. It is familiar because they buried the dead people at the bottom of the ocean. The poem also connects to the story because it is giving good imagery of slaves getting beat up which happened a lot in the Night. So overall, The Sympathy is connected to the Night because botth of the poems involve something being caged or trapped, and The Witnesses is connected al well because it is showing us a good image of what happened in the Night. For example, when they buried people at the botton of the ocean and them being chained up and beaten up. These two poems are very familiar to Ellie Wiesel's memoir, " The Night ".
The poems, "Sympathy" and the "Witnesses" and the book, "NIGHT" all refer to some form of captivity and loss of freedom. All three authors paint a picture of loneliness and despair. In the poem "Sympathy" the words "I know what the caged bird feels", are very similar to the railroads cars with the bars on the windows that Elie is placed in while being deported to Auschwitz. In the poem "The Witnesses" the words "Lie skeletons in chains, with shackled feet and hands" creates the same picture as Madame Schachter being forced to sit down with her hands tied up and a gag in her mouth. The words that Elie Wiesel used on page 17 "Oh God, Lord of the Universe, take pity upon us Thy great mercy..." are very similar to Longfellow's words, "They cry from yawning waves, they cry from unknown graves" and Dunbar's words, "I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his hearts deep core". These words allow the reader to understand the misery they were experiencing. I feel all three authors in some way wrote about the same thing, being captive.
The poems “Sympathy” by Laurence Dunbar and “The Witnesses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connected Elie Wiesel’s Night. One example of this is how in “Sympathy” the bird is caged, going insane, much like Madame Shachter goes crazy, and thinking that she is seeing a fire. Everyone feels sorry for her. In a way, she is beating herself like the bird beats his wings on the bars. All the people in the cattle car insist that she is stopped of her constant screams. They are forced to beat her for her to stop. Also, there is a connection to the book in “The Witnesses”. In both of the pieces of writing, they talk about people being enslaved, losing their rights as well. In the book, the Jews cannot leave their houses, cannot go to the synagogue, and they cannot have any items of value. They had practically lost all of their rights. In the poem, it says, “All evil thoughts and deeds… choke life’s groaning tide” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. All of the pieces of writing are significant, they express people’s views on the worlds that they had lived in. All of them are connected in some way.
“Sympathy” and “The Witnesses” connects to “Night” in a few ways. One way is in both poems and the book the characters get hurt or die. In “Sympathy” the bird hurts its wings, in “The Witness” the slaves drown, and in “Night” the people die by going to the crematory. Also in the poems rights are taken away, like in “Sympathy” how there were Jim Crow Laws, in “The Witnesses” there were slaves, and in “Night” how the Jews had their rights taken away. Finally they all have to do with wanting to be free. In “Sympathy” the bird beats it wings on the bars to try to free itself of the cage which is pertaining to Jim Crow Laws, in “The Witnesses” the slaves want to be free of the enslavers to have a free life, and it connects to “Night” because the Jews are trapped in the train cars then in the concentration camps. Those are some ways how “Sympathy” and “The Witnesses” connect to “Night”.
The two poems “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “The Witnesses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were connected to “Night”, by Elie Wiesel for a few reasons. But, there is mainly one reason. This was that the poems were all about death. “Night” is about the same thing too. When the useless people were thrown off the boat in “The Witnesses,” it was like the old people and the kids going to the crematory at the concentration camps like Auschwitz. Also, the people who lived at the concentration camps like Elie, felt what Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote about in “Sympathy.” They felt what the caged bird felt, trapped inside the death camps while spring was outside.
First, I think that "Sympathy" by Paul Dunbar, and "The Witnesses" by Henry Longfellow, is connected to "Night" by Ellie Wiesel. This is so because firstly, from just reading Sympathy, we think of something being caged/trapped, and how the author can feel his/her/it's pain.Similar in Night, by Ellie Wiesel where he is also "trapped" in the concentration camp, and the whole world seemed to know what the Jewish people at that time felt in those cruelties by the Germans. "And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars..." is a quote in Sympathy, this quote means the hurt that the Germans have done to the Jews and what the Jews felt, even though this was not in the book Night, their is still some connections between them.In "The Witnesses", the author ended up writing about the conditions in the ship which carried the Africans from their homeland to other countries as slaves. The life like description was terrifying and disturbing to my ears. "These are the bones of Slaves; They gleam from the abyss;" this quote stated and mean that the dead slaves are gleaming from the abyss, making us shivering and knowing that the seeing the dead bodies of the innocent people. This deeply relates to "Night" because of the fact that many innocent Jews also die during their stay in the concentration camps.
They are connected because they both tell about something sad. For example Eli Wiesel's book Night is telling his sad story abut how he was in the holocaust and how terrible it was. In the poem the witnesses Paul Lawrence Dunbar is also talking about something sad. He is talking about how he is a slave witnessing other slaves being treated terribly along with himself.
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