Stalin’s Forced Famine
By: Michaela Griffin
Stalin’s 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.