The Burundi Genocide and Night Comparison Luke Matchett
The Burundi Genocide and Night Comparison Luke Matchett English 9 -1 2/27/14
Selected Art ● Photographer: Anonymous ● Picture: No title (1972) ● Picture showing the mass deaths and effects on a young boy living the area ● The picture shows the effects the genocide had on the people.
Burundi Genocide ● Took place during 1972 in Burundi Africa. ● 100, 000 to 200, 000 Hutu people killed by the Tutsis. ● The genocide was an attempt to make sure no Hutu ever came to power in the government.
Untitled Picture ● Taken in 1972 ● Picture taken in order to show the mass death and emotional and psychological impacts on the targeted population. ● Could have been used to promote awareness of the genocide and anti-Tutsi emotions. ● Picture shows corpses around a young boy who is distraught.
Visual Imagery in Untitled Picture ● The image of dead bodies all piled up creates an eerie tone in the picture. ● The image of the boy with his head down in the middle of the bodies creates a sympathetic tone.
Organic Imagery in Night ● “Then, two ‘gravediggers’ grabbed him by the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour” (Wiesel 99). ● All of the dead characters are being thrown off of the train more like an item than people. ● This image is disturbing for the main character Elie and some of the other prisoners.
How the Two Compare ● Both bring sadness to the characters. (Eliezer and the boy). ● Both contain loss ● Both contain past troubles ● Both are showing the problems that have occurred and are occurring and the effects on the people who have gone through them.
Motif in Untitled Picture ● There is death and corpses throughout the picture. ● The death used throughout the picture is used to create an ominous tone and is used in association with sadness and struggle.
Motif in Night ● “I was hungry and thirsty” (Wiesel 95). ● The repetition of hunger is always associated with a struggle for the main character and other prisoners. ● Hunger always brings out a dark and ominous tone in the story.
How the Two Compare ● Both are intertwined with the struggles of the characters. ● Both are implying the negative emotions that the two main characters have because of their experiences in the genocide. ● Both symbolize the problems and struggles of the main character and their people. ● Both create an ominous and negative tone.
Works Cited “Genocide: Burundi. ” Wce. wwu. edu. Western Washington University, n. d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. <http: //www. wce. wwu. edu/Resources/NWCHE/genocide/Burundi. shtml>. “Unknown. ” Voiceseducation. com. N. p. , n. d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. <http: //voiceseducation. org/content/rwanda-poetrygenocide>. Wiesel, Elie. Night. Translated ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1986. Print.
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