“Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things,even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” is what a man that had his sister, mother and father murdered and survivor of the Holocaust wrote how the first day at a concentration camp effected him for the rest of his life. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night describing how he changed from a boy who was religious and caring to the exact opposite because of the ordeals he went through during the Holocaust. Before the nightmares that he endured he basicly an average innocent boy living during WWII. In the beginning of Night we learn that Elie Wiesel was very religious and cared for others. Wiesel grow up in a comfortable life in a Jewish family is Sighet, Transylvania during WWII. On page 4 the author writes “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.” In the quot he wants to learn the Kabbalah which shows he is very religious because Kabbalah is an ancient wisdom that reveals how the universe and life works to the …show more content…
It was the end of the war and he no longer has a family after he was relocated and wiesel is basically a walking corpse. “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed.” was written in page 91 which clearly states that he no longer believed in God. Now the last piece of evidence to prove that he doesn't care for others anymore would by when his father left the land of the living. On page 112 Wiesel writes how he felt about his passing ‘And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have something like: Free at
In the first section of Night, Elie Wiesel is a twelve year old boy who studies the Talmud and is a devoted Jew. "By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple"(3). During the first chapters of the book, Wiesel is faced
The unimaginable actions from German authorities in the concentration camps of the Holocaust were expected to be tolerated by weak prisoners like Wiesel or death was an alternate. These constant actions from the S.S. officers crushed the identification of who Wiesel really was. When Wiesel’s physical state left, so did his mental state. If a prisoner chose to have a mind of their own and did not follow the S.S. officer’s commands they were written brutally beaten or even in severe cases sentenced to their death. After Wiesel was liberated he looked at himself in the mirror and didn’t even recognize who he was anymore. No prisoner that was a part of the Holocaust could avoid inner and outer turmoil.
When Wiesel first met Moshe the Beadle, he would chant and sing. He was a poor man who made people feel comfortable around him. “...my fellow townspeople, though they would help the poor,were not particularly fond of them. Moshe the Beadle was the exception.”(Wiesel 1) He was deported to polish territory that had been taken over by a secret police group. He escaped back to Sighet after being wounded and taken for dead to tell everyone what happened there. “..... he went from one Jewish house to another,telling the story of Malka, the young girl who had taken three days to die, and of Tobias ….who had begged to be killed before his sons….”(Wiesel 4) Moshe the Beadle desperately tried to warn the Jewish people their fate but they chose to ignore and pity him. “Moshe had changed.There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or of the cabbala ….People refused not only to believe his stories, but even to listen to them.”(Wiesel 4) His exposure to the criminal acts of his oppressors changed his whole personality. All he cared about was protecting the other Jews from experiencing the same things he did.
If one looks closely at another’s eyes, they can see what that person has gone through, what they’re thinking, and what they’re feeling. Such is true with the memoir of Elie Wiesel, Night. In Night, the motif of eyes is prevalent throughout. Wiesel uses the motif of eyes to create a direct connection to people’s mind and souls, depicting how characters change due to catastrophes.
Obviously, he has given up on his father. Wiesel felt a sense of freedom once his father died. He identifies, “I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!” (Wiesel 106). No more having to care for two people; he can finally just worry about himself.
The word “night” can be defined literally as ten hours of a 24-hour day that is dark, or metaphorically connoted as a time of evil and sadness. In the memoir Night, composed by Elie Wiesel, readers learn about a negative correlation to the period of time when light no longer appears. Wiesel leaves “a legacy of words” (vii) to ensure the past will never occur again. He explains the story without emoting and describes the events experienced by hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Night is a metaphor which refers to the darkness in lives, minds, and souls, and symbolizes lost hope, isolation, and transformation.
The book Night is a true story by Elie Wiesel, he survived the Holocaust, and it was very hard for him to share his story to the world but it was a good thing that he did because it teaches the world something and not many Jews survived during the Holocaust. We do understand that during the Holocaust 6 million innocent Jews died and some people don’t even know about the holocaust as a matter of fact they don’t even know what it is. I think every person in this world should read the book “Night” because you learn a lot of things from it and it gives you an idea of how the world was a mess when Hitler wanted all Jews dead and how the world did nothing about it. How can somebody have the mentality and the audacity to think like Hitler, they didn’t even tried to stop and realize that what he was doing was very wrong.
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.
Throughout the speech, Wiesel utilizes a wide range of tones and uses strategic pauses so the audience experiences no difficulties in understanding the struggle he went through. In one of his more intense moments of the speech, he begins talking about how much worse being ignored was, versus being unjustly judged. Religion may be unjust, but it is not indifferent. People cannot live “Outside God” (Wiesel), they need Him even if He is far away.
I have made a mistake. And this mistake took away thirty years of my life away from you. I won’t be able to pack your lunch on your first day of school, and I won’t be able to see you walk across the podium to receive your diploma. Because of my mistake, your life will be more difficult, and I only hope to make it up with this story. You may hate me or miss me, but no matter what you are feeling, I hope that you will have this story to accompany and guide you when I am gone.
He held the belief that the forces fighting evil in the world can be victorious. In fact, his message, which based his personal experience of total humiliation and of utter contempt for the lack of humanity, witnessed in Hitler's death camps. The message is in the form of a profound testimony, repeated and deepened through his sensitive approach and diction of an experienced writer. Wiesel's commitment to writing his book embraced and included peoples of all races and focused beyond his Jewish counterparts. Elie Wiesel had more than one goal, which expounded the fact he wanted to share the suffering of his people to the international world stage. He thought it equally important to fight indifference and the attitude that "it's no concern of mine"(Wiesel, 2008). Elie Wiesel saw the struggle against indifference and saw that there is a dire need for peace. In his own words, "the opposite of love is not hate, but
This book is by a Jewish man name Elie Wiesel; he talks about the atrocities he witnessed as a boy committed by the Nazis during World War Two. The things that are mentioned in this book are the infamous Holocaust that claimed the lives of millions of Jews and other ethnic groups. He also finds himself deported to the infamous Auschwitz concentration/extermination camp. During his time at Auschwitz he encountered some infamous people such as Doctor Josef Mengele aka “The Angel of Death” known by his patients. He earned that nickname by performing deadly human experiments on the condemned Jews and other ethnic groups. The worst part is these horrifying events occurred when he was just twelve. The experiences he endured cause him to question his religion and slowly he loses faith in god.
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel went through and saw some horrible things in the holocaust. These things can change someone in multiple ways and they definitely changed Elie Wiesel. These events caused Elie Wiesel to change by making him lose his faith, desensitizing him to violence/evil, and after the holocaust, most things didn't matter to him anymore.
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.
If you endured mass genocide for years, would you ever want to vocalize what you saw? Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust and has recorded a book called Night of what he saw. Elie Wiesel uses numerous themes throughout Night to adequately expose the experiences that these Holocaust prisoners had to endure through.