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?
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"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connect to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, because they’re all about those who suffered. “Sympathy” and “The Witnesses” dealt with slavery and the pain they felt. Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote “…a pain still throbs in the old, old scars and they pulse again with a keener sting…”. To me this meant that the slaves remember what they went through and are constantly reminded of their past. Henry Wadsworth also wrote “these are the woes of Slaves; they glare from the abyss; they cry, from unknown graves, ‘we are the witnesses’”. This referred to the slaves watching each other go through their suffering. In Night, the whole story is based on Elie Wiesel’s memories from his heart-wrenching journey through the Holocaust, just like how in “Sympathy” Paul wrote about his memories. He talks about the things he saw, and just like in the poem “The Witnesses”, the pain he saw others embrace.
Sympathy was a poem about slavery and even after the slaves were "freed" they were sill slaves in a sense. The holocaust has a resemblance in which the Jews were kept like slaves, bad food and living conditions, hard work, and locked away not to see the rest of the outside world. The had to listen to what they were told and, although they weren't traded for money, they were sent to other camps were there was few people and more work to be done. Most slaves died on the trip to were they were going because of disease or little food and water. This is similar in that the Jews on the train ride died of diseases and lack of food.
The Witnesses is like the Holocaust because of the many people that were killed in incinerators or gas chambers. The Witnesses in the poem are the slaves that were traded or killed ruthlessly either on the boat or after they were sold. The Witnesses in the book "Night" are the Jews and others who were killed without reason. The Witnesses themselves, as referred to in the poem, were the many bodies that were left as evidence or proof that this happened and can't be silenced. Like Elie Wiesel, both book and poem are about the sense that these events happened and can't be silenced. And the bodies of the dead are in fact, "The Witnesses."
The poems, “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow do connect to Eli Wiesel’s memoir of “Night.” They can relate because they both involve imprisonment. The poems “Sympathy” and "The Witnesses" both describe how African slaves were being treated. Both poems relate to “Night” because both the Jews and African slaves are trapped. Even though the Jews aren’t “shackled” they are still in the same predicament. They are both being cramped into a small space like luggage and are being treated inhumanly. While the story “Night” describes how Jews were treated during the holocaust. From the poem “Sympathy” the first paragraph describes the scenery outside while the “bird” is trapped. This is the same in Night when the Jews were packed in the cattle wagon, “the lucky ones who happened to be near a window could see the blossoming countryside roll by (21).” “I know why the caged bird sings,” from “Sympathy” could relate because it could describe madam schachter screaming about her hallucinating about fire. Lastly the line “When his wing is bruised and bosom sore,” from “Sympathy” could describe how madam schachter is getting beaten and gagged because of her screaming. In conclusion it is clear that what the African slaves can relate to Jews during the holocaust because they were being treated unfairly and inhumanly.
The poems, “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow do connect to Eli Wiesel’s memoir of “Night.” They can relate because they both involve imprisonment. The poems “Sympathy” and "The Witnesses" both describe how African slaves were being treated. Both poems relate to “Night” because both the Jews and African slaves are trapped. Even though the Jews aren’t “shackled” they are still in the same predicament. They are both being cramped into a small space like luggage and are being treated inhumanly. While the story “Night” describes how Jews were treated during the holocaust. From the poem “Sympathy” the first paragraph describes the scenery outside while the “bird” is trapped. This is the same in Night when the Jews were packed in the cattle wagon, “the lucky ones who happened to be near a window could see the blossoming countryside roll by (21).” “I know why the caged bird sings,” from “Sympathy” could relate because it could describe madam schachter screaming about her hallucinating about fire. Lastly the line “When his wing is bruised and bosom sore,” from “Sympathy” could describe how madam schachter is getting beaten and gagged because of her screaming. In conclusion it is clear that what the African slaves can relate to Jews during the holocaust because they were being treated unfairly and inhumanly.
The poems “Sympathy” and “The witnesses” are similar to Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. Some ways they are similar is how both poems the witnesses and sympathy talk about real life disasters. Sympathy talks about a caged bird referring to slaves in the 1800's. In the book night Elie tells us about how they were riding in wagons all squished together. They were forced to look out the wagon but they were not able to go anywhere just like a caged bird.The poem, The Witnesses talks about slaves being thrown off ships and dying. In Night Elie talks about how jews from killed and thrown in fires just like the slaves were thrown overboard. That is how the two poems and the book, Night are similar.
I think that the poems The Witnesses and Sympathy are related in a way because in the poems they use a form of knowing how a certain person feels like or went through a situation they been through. For example in sympathy Paul Dunbar uses phrases like I know what the caged bird feels, I know why the cage bird beats his wings and I know why the caged bird sings. These phrases are used in the book knight. I also saw the imagery used in both sympathy and the book “night”. for example in “night” every two or so yards or so an SS man held his tommy gun trained on us. Hand and hand we followed the crowd .An SS noncommissioned officer came to meet us, a truncheon in his hand. He gave the order: ‘men to the left! Women to the right!” Eight word spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion.” night” This quote can relate to the witnesses because it tells how the Spanish put them at the bottom of the ocean for nothing and with out any emotion. This is how the poems The Witnesses and Sympathy are related to the book” night”
“Sympathy” and “The Witnesses” connect to Night in many ways. For example, “Sympathy” discusses how slaves felt when chained up and wanted to escape. This connects to Night because the Jews taken to Auschwitz feel like they cannot escape even though they want to. In “The Witnesses” the slaves are on a ship and are all packed together just like how in Night the Jews are all packed into one little cart that should not carry eighty people but does. “The Witnesses” also talks about how the slaves cried out in hope of finding freedom which connects to the Jews crying out on the cattle wagon wishing they were free. Both the book and the two poems connect to the clip we watched in English class. This clip illustrates what it was like to be below deck on a slave ship. This connects to “The Witnesses” because the slaves are locked up on a ship starving just how the African Americans were on the ship. In Night the Jews feel trapped and slaved while being run from station to station to get their hair shaved off and uniforms. The slaves from both poems are trapped and hoping to get out but they and the Jews from Night know they will never be free. IN summary, Night connects to “sympathy” and “the witnesses.”
The poems "Sympathy" and "The Witnesses" connect to Elie Wiesel's book, Night , because they are both about genocide. The poems are about racial genocide and the book is about religious genocide. Also in both of the sources the situations have been going on for a while. In the poem "Sympathy" it says,” And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars and they pulse again with a keener sting..." this passage proves that this genocide has been going on for a while because it says "In the old, old scars" stating that this has been troublesome for a long time. another example of how these two periods in history are connected is they were both horrifically graphic in the book Night it describes how Elie is seeing the babies and children being burned in the crematory and in the poem "The Witnesses" it describes how the Africans are treated,” within earth's wide domains are markets for men’s lives their necks are galled with chains their wrists are cramped with gyves." these are a few reasons the book Night and the poems,” Sympathy" and "The Witnesses" are connected.
The poem “Sympathy” and “The Witness” are connected to the book Night for many reasons. “The Witness” talks about people getting treated horribly, by getting chained up and thrown into the ocean to drown from a boat “They gleam from the abyss”, and “Their necks are galled with chains.” This related to Night because the Jews were stacked into a train car that was heading to a concentration camp. “The doors were closed. We were caught in a trap, right up to our necks. The doors were nailed up; the back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed (22). This shows that on the train and on the boat that the leaders were showing great traits of dehumanization, treating the Jews like nothing. The poem Sympathy also connects to the book Night. He is comparing a bird trapped in a cage to slavery and the pain of no freedom. He is also comparing the bird to his parents once being slaves. This connects to Night because Eli’s dad was in the Holocaust with Eli and was at the same camp as well. Eli knows that he might not get out. “He wants to run into a barbed wire fence to cure the pain and suffering. Eli’s suffering is compared to the bird trapped and will not escape. This is how the two poems “The Witness” and “Sympathy” are connected to the book Night.
The poems “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “The Witnesses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connected to Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night” because they were all locked up in some way. In the poem “Sympathy”, the bird is locked up in this cage, it is wounded and desperate to get out. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, it states that he was captured by men, and so many of the people that are captured are helpless and many are killed, neither the bird nor the Jews can do anything to get out of there situations. In the poem “The Witnesses”, men are captured and turned in by their own men. They went on a tragic journey to camps in America. Many of the sick and young were thrown off board of the ships. In “Night”, Jews are killing other Jews and the ones that are taken go days without water on a train. When they arrive, the weak are killed, and the healthy are put in a big room.
The Poems “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “The Witnesses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, due to, imprisonment and dehumanization. In Night you read about the horrific events that happened during Hitler’s craze. Millions of innocent people being killed because they were supposedly to blame for World War Two. In the poems you read about people being hit, not fed, people living in unbearable conditions, people being AbUsEd. In the poem “The Witnesses” you get the feeling of hurt. Dehumanization means to make someone less human and that is exactly what the Nazi’s and the military officials did to Jewish people and other races. Elie Wiesel tells us about the concentration camp in chapter three of night, he tells us, [there were big graves in the ground that people were throwing bodies of children into, and then they lit it on fire. They were cremating the bodies of children they had killed.] The poems are related to Night because in each and every writing there are feelings of Imprisonment (to confine or as if in prison) and dehumanization (to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality) these are feelings none would want to endure.
The two poems “Sympathy” and “The Witnesses” are related to the book Night in many ways.One way they are the same is because night and the witnesses both have a lot to do with racism. There is racism in the book because it is about the holocaust and there was racism in the poem because it is about slaves and them on the slave ships during the middle passage. Also they are alike because they both show genocide. There is examples of this when the white people take the Africans as slaves on the ships and the Nazis kill the Jews in the holocaust. Also, The book Night was the same as Sympathy because they both show people being very sad and trapped. This is shown in Sympathy because it talks about the caged bird which represented the slaves and old, old scars. This is about slavery. The caged bird is the African slaves that had to work for free and get abused. In The book night they talk about the Jews in the train and how packed they were and treated like animals. Also they are the same because they talk about how good things were before the genocide started and how bad it got.
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“Sympathy,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and “The Witnesses,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Connect to Elie Wiesel’s book night by talking about how The Holocaust, slavery and how people were tortured and what it was like back then. For example, in “Sympathy,” Paul tells readers what the bird sees outside of the cage and doesn’t like being in the cage. Also in “The Witnesses,” Henry shows how the people that are not slaves see what people did to the slaves. In Night, Elie Wiesel is trying to explain to readers what it was like in the concentration camp and how it was horrible seeing the people in the fire pits and seeing everyone crying around him.
The poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dumbar and the poem “The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night because they have to do with the terrifying accounts of the Nazi death camps, unfair treatment, including terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold from. Many horrifying experiences came from this it turned many into witnessing the death of their own families. In the poem “Sympathy”, there are many examples of how the writer feels sympathy especially for the caged bird. Like In Stanza One, Line Seven “I Know what the caged bird feels”. This is because the writer knows what it’s like to feel caged. Another example that shows this is in Stanza Two Line 5 when the writer says “And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars”. This is showing that the pain is regular and beats rapidly and forcefully and that it lasted a long time causing many very old scars. In the poem “The Witnesses” there are many examples of the terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold. For example, In Stanza One Lines three and four, “Lie Skeletons in chains, With Shackled Feet and Hands”. This shows how the ship they were being sold from was unfair to the slaves and it caused many diseases and sicknesses. Another example of this is in Stanza Five Line three and four. ”Their necks are galled with chains, their wrists are cramped with gyves” .This shows yet again that they were being treated unjust and unfairly. Besides these poems, I can connect to the YouTube video we watched in class called Presentation Amistad Clip. This is yet another example of how they were being kept in areas with no sanitation. It also shows how the ship they were being sold from was discriminatory towards the slaves which caused lots of disease and sicknesses. So, The poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dumbar and the poem “The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night because they have to do with the terrifying accounts of the Nazi death camps, unfair treatment, including terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold from.
The poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dumbar and the poem “The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night because they have to do with the terrifying accounts of the Nazi death camps, unfair treatment, including terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold from. Many horrifying experiences came from this it turned many into witnessing the death of their own families. In the poem “Sympathy”, there are many examples of how the writer feels sympathy especially for the caged bird. Like In Stanza One, Line Seven “I Know what the caged bird feels”. This is because the writer knows what it’s like to feel caged. Another example that shows this is in Stanza Two Line 5 when the writer says “And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars”. This is showing that the pain is regular and beats rapidly and forcefully and that it lasted a long time causing many very old scars. In the poem “The Witnesses” there are many examples of the terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold. For example, In Stanza One Lines three and four, “Lie Skeletons in chains, With Shackled Feet and Hands”. This shows how the ship they were being sold from was unfair to the slaves and it caused many diseases and sicknesses. Another example of this is in Stanza Five Line three and four. ”Their necks are galled with chains, their wrists are cramped with gyves” .This shows yet again that they were being treated unjust and unfairly. Besides these poems, I can connect to the YouTube video we watched in class called Presentation Amistad Clip. This is yet another example of how they were being kept in areas with no sanitation. It also shows how the ship they were being sold from was discriminatory towards the slaves which caused lots of disease and sicknesses. So, The poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dumbar and the poem “The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night because they have to do with the terrifying accounts of the Nazi death camps, unfair treatment, including terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold from.
The poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dumbar and the poem “The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night because they have to do with the terrifying accounts of the Nazi death camps, unfair treatment, including terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold from. Many horrifying experiences came from this it turned many into witnessing the death of their own families. In the poem “Sympathy”, there are many examples of how the writer feels sympathy especially for the caged bird. Like In Stanza One, Line Seven “I Know what the caged bird feels”. This is because the writer knows what it’s like to feel caged. Another example that shows this is in Stanza Two Line 5 when the writer says “And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars”. This is showing that the pain is regular and beats rapidly and forcefully and that it lasted a long time causing many very old scars. In the poem “The Witnesses” there are many examples of the terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold. For example, In Stanza One Lines three and four, “Lie Skeletons in chains, With Shackled Feet and Hands”. This shows how the ship they were being sold from was unfair to the slaves and it caused many diseases and sicknesses. Another example of this is in Stanza Five Line three and four. ”Their necks are galled with chains, their wrists are cramped with gyves” .This shows yet again that they were being treated unjust and unfairly. Besides these poems, I can connect to the YouTube video we watched in class called Presentation Amistad Clip. This is yet another example of how they were being kept in areas with no sanitation. It also shows how the ship they were being sold from was discriminatory towards the slaves which caused lots of disease and sicknesses. So, The poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dumbar and the poem “The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are connected to Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night because they have to do with the terrifying accounts of the Nazi death camps, unfair treatment, including terrifying accounts of the ship in which they were being sold from.
I think that the poems “Sympathy” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and “The Witnesses” by Henry Wadsworth both can connect to Ellie Wiesel’s “Night”. I can see the connection because they are all centered on people who are imprisoned and the pain they feel. In “Night” Ellie Wiesel talks about his suffering in the holocaust. “The Witnesses” is about the slaves thrown overboard on the slave ships. “Sympathy” tells the story of a man who feels sympathetic to a bird in its cage. All these stories are more about the people who view tragic things then the victims. In Sympathy the man tells of his feelings and connections to the bird in it’s cage. In the Witnesses it is told as slaves who where thrown overboard feelings and how they would feel as witnesses to the horrible acts of slavery. It says “they cry from the yawning waves we are the witnesses!” In Night Ellie Wiesel talks mostly not about the horrible things he went through but the things he has witnessed.
The poems “The Witnesses”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and “Sympathy”, by Paul Laurence Dumbar, can be connected in many ways to the story Night, by Elie Wiesel. For instance, in the poem “the Witnesses” in the last stanza when it says “These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves,” reminds when in the book in a couple of different scenes. The “unknown graves” is like when in the begging of the book when Mosha the Beadle got taken away and the people had to dig there own graves, also when all of the people at the concentration camp don’t know when, where, or how they are going to die, which is like an unkown grave. In the poem “Sympathy” I can connect to the first line when it says “I know what the cage bird feels, alas!” to when all of the Jews from Auschwitz are crammed into the train car crammed together like caged birds. Also the line where it says “I know why the cage bird sings!” can connect to when they are all in the train car and Madame Schachter starts screaming I think can be related to the bird singing. Because I think Paul Laurence Dumbar is trying to say the bird isn’t singing he is yelling or crying. In conclusion, that is how I connect the poems “The Witnesses” and “Sympathy” to the story Night by Elie Wiesel.
The two poems“Sympathy,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and “The Witnesses,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow connect to Elie Wiesel's book night by talking about how The Holocaust, slavery and how people were tortured just because they were a certian race or color and what it was like back then. in the poem "Sympathy", it didcusses how the slaves felt wen they were chained up and they could not do anthing. in the poem"The Winesses", also discusses how the slaves were crying out for help but no one did anything about it cause they were a differnt color and they thought that this was ok. this alos relates to the book Night because when the people were sent to the concentration camps they would try and cry out for help but if they did then they might get shot and killed
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