Night Final Paper Many times in the novel Elie Wiesel questions as to why his life was significant enough to where he lived and so many others had died in his place. With millions of Jews placed in camps, how did Elie manage to survive even from the deepest depths of hell and how could one ever recover from such tragedy? Although not many individuals are able to experience firsthand at camps, Elie was able to portray his involvement and grasp the reader through appalling incidences. He continuously struggles throughout the book and asks why he even had written it. Expressed through powerful words and emotional experiences, Elie may have written Night to commemorate the lost lives due to the horrors of the world and to never repeat history. Wiesel wanted to share his firsthand account of the Holocaust not only for himself, but for his family and friends that were not able to survive. Elie wrote this novel in memory of his father, Shlomo, who called out Elie’s name in the last few minutes of his life. Elie wrote this novel in memory of his mom and younger sister, who he had never …show more content…
seen again after the separation. Elie wrote this novel in memory of Juliek, who pierced Wiesel’s soul with Beethoven’s piece. Finally he wrote this novel for himself, the shell of his old self that was lost in the path towards Jewish liberation. “From the deepest of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (115) Elie’s innocence was ripped away from him and the evil’s of the world had forever marked his skin and soul. He was never again the same young Eliezer as told from the beginning of the novel. Not only had the book been written in memory of a loved one, but also to stop the repeat of history. Those who had survived and refused to speak of such horrible events to the world had ashamed those who had died. In order to hinder the repetition of the past, tormented survivors hold a responsibility to testify for both the dead and living. “Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.” (XIII) For such obscenity in the violation of the purest lives, keeping silent is the same as forgetting the torment of the Nazis and the millions of deaths. Although not many are able to see it, another important message shown through the book is the gradual change of human as their niche is altered.
It has once been said that “If you treat people like animals, then don’t be surprised when they start acting like one.” Even the most proper and humane individual can change within a matter of days or months. The severe treatment and malnutrition inmates had gone through created monsters who would kill even their own family members for their survival or even for a piece of bread. “The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour it.” (101) The Nazis’ behavior toward Jews had demolished their morals and self-righteousness. It was every man for himself in camps and Wiesel wanted readers to feel the emotional and traumatic conflicts he had to go through and
witness. Night may have been written in memory of loved ones and to prevent the recurrence of the Holocaust. Although, from my perspective, Elie Wiesel carries guilt of being one of the survivors, he atones to this by composing this novel. He wants readers to see the lasting effects of this horror and how it will be forever embedded into memory because forgetting is the same as being accomplices. The Holocaust had changed people and not many are able to come back from that. Wiesel implores the strong to help the weak and to not turn a blind eye on them that is why any injustice in the world should be brought to attention. Eliezer wants us to realize that we no longer live for ourselves, but for others as well.
Did you know you could kill 6,000,000, and capture about 1 million people in one lifetime? In “Night” Elie Wiesel talks about the life of one of those 7 million people, going into detail about the living conditions, and also talking about the experiences in the book that happened to him. The book explains how it felt to be in a concentration camp, and how it changed a person so much you couldn’t tell the difference between the dead and the living. Elie Wiesel is the author and he was only around 15 when this story happened, so this is his story and how the events in the story changed him. So in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, “Elie,” is affected by the events in the book such as losing faith, becoming immune to death, and emotionally changing throughout the course of the book.
Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.
Six million Jews died during World War II by the Nazi army under Hitler who wanted to exterminate all Jews. In Night, Elie Wiesel, the author, recalls his horrifying journey through Auschwitz in the concentration camp. This memoir is based off of Elie’s first-hand experience in the camp as a fifteen year old boy from Sighet survives and lives to tell his story. The theme of this memoir is man's inhumanity to man. The cruel events that occurred to Elie and others during the Holocaust turned families and others against each other as they struggled to survive Hitler's and the Nazi Army’s inhumane treatment.
Night by Elie Wiesel was a memoir on one of the worst things to happen in human history, the Holocaust. A terrible time where the Nazi German empire started to take control of eastern Europe during WWII. This book tells of the terrible things that happened to the many Jewish people of that time. This time could easily change grown men, and just as easily a boy of 13. Elie’s relationship with God and his father have been changed forever thanks to the many atrocities committed at that time.
Night is an autobiography by a man named Eliezer Wiesel. The autobiography is a quite disturbing record of Elie’s childhood in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald during world war two. While Night is Elie Wiesel’s testimony about his experiences in the Holocaust, Wiesel is not, precisely speaking, the story’s protagonist. Night is narrated by a boy named Eliezer who represents Elie, but details set apart the character Eliezer from the real life Elie. For instance, Eliezer wounds his foot in the concentration camps, while Elie actually wounded his knee. Wiesel fictionalizes seemingly unimportant details because he wants to distinguish his narrator from himself. It is almost impossibly painful for a survivor to write about his Holocaust experience, and the mechanism of a narrator allows Wiesel to distance himself somewhat from the experience, to look in from the outside.
Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize men and cause them to revert to basic instincts. Wiesel and his peers devolve from civilized human beings to savage animals during the course of Night.
“Even in darkness, it is possible to create light”(Wiesel). In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, the author, as a young boy who profoundly believed in his religion, experiences the life of a prisoner in the Holocaust. He struggles to stay with his father while trying to survive. Through his experience, he witnesses the changes in his people as they fight each other for themselves. He himself also notices the change within himself. In Night, it is discovered that atrocities and cruel treatment can make decent people into brutes. Elie himself also shows signs of becoming a brute for his survival, but escapes this fate, which is shown through his interactions with his father.
In his book Night Mr. Elie Wiesel shares his experiences about the camps and how cruel all of the Jews were treated in that period. In fact, he describes how he was beaten and neglected by the SS officers in countless occasions. There are very few instances where decent humans are tossed into certain conditions where they are treated unfairly, and cruel. Mr. Wiesel was a victim of the situation many times while he was in the camps. Yet he did not act out, becoming a brute himself, while others were constantly being transformed into brutes themselves. Mr. Wiesel was beaten so dreadfully horrible, however, for his safety, he decided to not do anything about it. There were many more positions where Mr. Wiesel was abused, malnourished, and easily could have abandoned his father but did not.
The ground is frozen, parents sob over their children, stomachs growl, stiff bodies huddle together to stay slightly warm. This was a recurrent scene during World War II. Night is a literary memoir of Elie Wiesel’s tenure in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel created a character reminiscent of himself with Eliezer. Eliezer experienced cruelty, stress, fear, and inhumanity at a very young age, fifteen. Through this, he struggled to maintain his Jewish faith, survive with his father, and endure the hardships placed on his body and mind.
Damaged from the horrific events he experiences, Elie witnesses his identity permanently transforming him from a child to a darker side of himself. Living as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the fifteen year old boy confronts the worst of humanity as he struggles through starvation and mental and physical abuse. Observing the suffering of human beings, Elie Wiesel stated in his autobiography Night, “Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (32). Violence Elie observed in the concentration camp was so gruesome that he convinced himself that it must be a nightmare. His perspective of humanity quickly began to change as everything he experienced in Auschwitz showed him how terribly people can treat one another. Over ...
Life has many struggles, and we face them every day. Eliezer Wiesel’s book, Night, is a memoir that shows the struggles he has faced in the Holocaust. Wiesel shows many changes throughout, physically and mentally. In the book, Wiesel is taken from his home and put through various of concentration camps. He was a strong believer in his religion before the camps, and after, he has become different. Traumatic experience form people into a different mental and physical state.
Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor and he has been through many obstacles, especially when he watched his own people being slaughtered in front of his own eyes. Throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he makes the reader sympathize and mourn towards the Jews by using good mood and tone.
Elie’s loss of innocence and childhood lifestyle is very pronounced within the book, Night. This book, written by the main character, Elie Wiesel, tells the readers about the experiences of Mr. Wiesel during the Holocaust. The book starts off by describing Elie’s life in his hometown, Sighet, with his family and friends. As fascism takes over Hungary, Elie and his family are sent north, to Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie stays with his father and speaks of his life during this time. Later, after many stories of the horrors and dehumanizing acts of the camp, Elie and his father make the treacherous march towards Gliewitz. Then they are hauled to Buchenwald by way of cattle cars in extremely deplorable conditions, even by Holocaust standards. The book ends as Elie’s father is now dead and the American army has liberated them. As Elie is recovering in the hospital he gazes at himself in a mirror, he subtly notes he much he has changed. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie loses his innocence and demeanour because he was traumatized by what he saw in the camps, his loss of faith in a God who stood idly by while his people suffered, and becoming selfish as he is forced to become selfish in the death camps to survive.
When people are placed in difficult, desolate situations, they often change in a substantial way. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist, Elie, is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he undergoes many devastating experiences. Due to these traumatic events, Elie changes drastically, losing his passion in God, becoming disconnected with his father, and maturing when it matters most.
...e has to deal with the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God at the very young age of fifteen. He retells the horrors of the concentration camp, of starvation, beatings, torture, illness, and hard labor. He comes to question how God could let this happen and to redefine the existence of God in the concentration camp. This book is also filled with acts of kindness and compassion amid the degradation and violence. It seems that for every act of violence that is committed, Elie counteracts with some act of compassion. Night is a reflection on goodness and evil, on responsibility to family and community, on the struggle to forge identity and to maintain faith. It shows one boy's transformation from spiritual idealism to spiritual death via his journey through the Nazi's failed attempt to conquer and erase a people and their faith.