Stalins Forced Famine

By: Michaela Griffin

Stalins Forced Famine

Famine occurred 1932-1933 but events began to occur in 1929 About 7,000,000 deaths Set in motion by Joseph Stalin The soviets were beginning to lose their control on Ukraine. Ukrainian farmers were forced to give up their crops to The Soviets (Russia).

Famine Image
This photo was taken during the famine It is significant because it shows children suffering from this. It helps reveal to the world the pain that these people went through to try to survive

Organic Imagery
The sad, pain-filled faces create the organic image of pain and suffering. This picture makes people aware of the horror that occurred.

Organic Imagery in Night

One quote that shows organic imagery is, We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession (Wiesel 33). This creates fear because they are the next to die and it this could be their last moments alive.

How the Two Compare

Both connect to death and the pain that occurs before death. Imply that tragedy is soon going to happen Night foreshadows the death of the prisoners The image foreshadows the death of the children in the image

Motif in the Image

A motif in the image is skinny bodies covered with dirt. This creates a desperate tone.

Motif in Night
A motif in Night is prisoners being beaten and nobody doing anything to help. The author states, My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked (Wiesel 39). This also occurs when the young boy beats his father to get bread in the train car and ends up killing him. This motif also creates a desperate tone.

How the Two Compare

Both create a negative tone that reveals the desperate situation in the photo/book. They both also create a theme of, hard times often occur and when they do conditions differ from how they normally are. The hard times are shown in the skinny children and the people being beaten and the different conditions are shown in the dirt and people not helping the beaten.

Works Cited
The History Place. N.p., 2000. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. <http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm>. Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. N.p., 2001. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. <http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp? linkpath=pages%5CF%5CA%5CFamine6Genocideof1932hD73.htm>. Wiesel, Elie. Night. Translated ed. N.p.: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.