Analysis Of Eliezer Wiesel's Night

Holocaust survivor, Romanian-American author Eliezer Wiesel, is devoted to writing mainly about humankinds damaging conduct against one another. In his renowned novel, Night, written ten years after his release; he recapitulates the dreadful occurrences he endured as a repressed Jew captive. The book provides insight on the mind of an actual victim of the Holocaust, a witness of history. Wiesel paints a picture of the horrific events through precise language for causing emotion, and vivid forms. Other than this being a text on how the protagonist survived, it’s about which parts of him do survive in the trans course.

The memoir takes place in 1941, narrated by a young Eliezer. Whom lives in Sighet, Transylvania in an orthodox Jewish home. He was pursuing a recent interest in the Kabbalistic works when the Germans began to deport his entire community, depriving him from all he

Eliezer and his father grew in denial about the deaths of their loved ones. As his father becomes weak he relies more on him. “…If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself” (p.106).Starvation was evident, but attempting to get more rations could have gotten you killed “Fear was greater than hunger… Poor hero committing suicide for a ration or two of soup… in our minds he was already dead” (p.59) or forced you to commit dreadful things. During chapter 7, a son kills his father over a loaf of bread and then he is killed as well, for the same bread.

At the beginning, Eliezer’s faith in God was unconditional. Through the narrative he discusses the struggle of grasping onto his religion, which he couldn’t resort to in between all the dismay.

Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? …Because in His great might, He had created factories of death?