Imagine witnessing infants getting tossed in the air and getting used as targets for the soldiers to shoot at. Imagine being constantly beaten and ordered around every day. Many jews experienced this and lived with the conditions. The holocaust was a deliberate killing of the Jews. Elie Wiesel was one of those people witnessing the infants getting tossed in the air and being constantly beaten down by German soldiers. He witnessed hundreds of people dying if it was from getting shot, burned, the gas chamber, etc. Elie explains his experience in many different forms, for example, he wrote a book called “Night” sharing his point of view.
First of all, Elie Wiesel wants us to know that when someone is indifferent to the suffering of another. The
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point Elie Wiesel is getting at is that when someone is indifferent to the suffering of another, he/she is just as guilty as the person causing the suffering. When we stand there and not do anything we become accomplices to a crime against other human beings. Us humans being indifferent to others suffering are basically saying, “Your suffering is not even worth my consideration.” Wiesel does a really good job by connecting his point of view to his childhood experience and the harsh times in the Nazi camps. Wiesel informs us, “To be indifferent to suffering is to lose one’s humanity.”The speech was designed to influence his listeners into action by warning them about the dangers indifference can have on society as it pertains to human atrocities and suffering. It helped the audience understand the need for every individual to exercise their moral conscience in the face of injustice. He constantly tries to persuade the audience by trying to raise awareness against indifference by stating, “ the hungry children, the homeless refugees-not to respond to their plight, not to relive their solitude by offering them a spark of hope, is to exile them from human memory.” Elie Wiesel's purpose for telling his story was to talk about his time in the Holocaust and to show us that he didn’t give up faith during this imprisonment.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech , Wiesel explains that,”Yes, I have faith. Faith in God and even in his creation. Without it no action would be possible. And action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger at all” (120). Wiesel meant no matter how tough things were he did not lose his faith. He did not give up after or during all the terrible consequences. In chapter 8 he said, “But i had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being. In the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!”.In the beginning Wiesel had to deal with all the terrible acts right away, he had to leave his home, had to give up everything he had basically. Wiesel only was left with his father. After he has gone on with living with these tough conditions he finally realized he couldn't control what happens and he couldn’t change anything. He came to a reasonable answer that this didn’t end well for him. Wiesel could still describe the horrible acts that were happening in the camps even 15 years after the war had already
ended. Next, Wiesel wants to tell about his experience and what happened to the Jews in the camps. He has witnessed numerous brutal things and at such a young age. Wiesel states, “There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attentions victims of hunger, of racism and political persecution.” The jews were treated so poorly, some even cried out loud. Hunger, racism and political persecution drove many crazy, Wiesel witnessed people absolutely give up hope in life due to the conditions. In the previous paragraph It talked about him not losing faith, when all of this was happening was the hardest time to keep faith and he still did. Elie Wiesel was able to survive in the concentration camp and talk about what actually really occurred in the camps. All of of cruel activities that went on continuously from the infant killings to the burning of the Jews will always be with Wiesel. Wiesel doesn’t want to see that type of genocide to happen again in the world or people being indifferent to another human being. The reason for all the speeches and books he wrote was for people to always remember what happened in the concentration camps and to make sure it doesn’t occur again in mankind history. Go out inform people about how terrible genocide is to make sure it does not occur again!
Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.
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.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
So as the morning Sun rose. The light beamed on Christopher's face. The warmth of the sun welcomed him to a new day and woke up in a small house in Los Angeles. Christopher is a tall, male, that loves technology and video games. He stretched and went to the restroom it was 9 o'clock and he was thankful it was spring break and didn’t have to go to school. Christopher made his way to the kitchen trying not wake up his parents and made himself breakfast. He served himself cereal Honey Bunches of Oats to be exact with almond milk. Then he took a shower and watched some YouTube videos before doing his homework.
The memoir, Night, demonstrates that there is good in having hope in the sense that it can make an ideal of surviving into more of a reality, therefore it is easier to prevail.There are many points throughout the text where the author, Elie Wiesel alludes to this. At one point Elie is describing the experience close to the start of the time in the concentration camp: “Our moral was much improved. A good night’s sleep had done its work. Friends met, exchanged a few sentences. We spoke of everything without ever mentioning those who had disappeared. The prevailing opinion was that the war was about to end.” (pg. 42) In this particular part of the memoir, the community around Elie is holding the ideal of the war coming to an end before it gravely
Most people have never experienced anything near as awful as what Wiesel experienced. He was one of the only people who found a way to hold onto their faith. Many made excuses not to perform rituals and eventually lost all faith. Wiesel was weakened, but remained faithful. Akiba Drumer, a friend of Wiesel, tried to convince himself that it was a test by God. However, Akiba also lost faith. “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel 34) This quote was from a small portion of Wiesel’s “Never Shall I Forget Poem.” It showed how Elie lost faith in God when he saw what the Nazis were doing to families and children. This quote shows how the religious part of Elie was “murdered.” Elie seemed to become foreign and isolated from his people. He seemed to be just going through the motions during his time in the camps. “In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.” (Mauriac XXI) This quote shows how Wiesel felt like he was a stranger to the religion, community, and faith. Elie Wiesel couldn’t understand why God would hurt people, and most of all why he was spared. “And question of questions: Where was God in all this? It seemed as impossible to conceive of Auschwitz with God as to conceive of Auschwitz without God.” (Hope, Despair and Memory) This shows how Wiesel couldn’t grasp the reasoning behind God. He wanted
The significance of night throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel shows a poignant view into the daily life of Jews throughout the concentration camps. Eliezer describes each day as if there was not any sunshine to give them hope of a new day. He used the night to symbolize the darkness and eeriness that were brought upon every Jew who continued to survive each day in the concentration camps. However, night was used as an escape from the torture Eliezer and his father had to endure from the Kapos who controlled their barracks. Nevertheless, night plays a developmental role of Elie throughout he novel.
It is only then that he realizes that what he had seen before was simply obscured. “My eyes had opened and I was alone,..” (Wiesel 68) Wiesel had said, his faith lost in the midst of burning flesh and beaten Jews. He feels “like an observer, a stranger” (Wiesel 68) to the other Jews that continue to believe in God. When Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in which Jews fasted, had come Wiesel did not participate.
The Holocaust was a test of faith for all the Jews that were involved. There were several instances in the book Night when Elie’s faith was hindered. Not only was his faith in God tested, but also his faith in himself and his fellow man. Although the trials of the Holocaust were detrimental to Elie’s faith at the time, a number of the Jews’ strengthened by the test. Whenever the Holocaust began, Elie was very young and wasn’t sure what to believe or understand everything yet, causing him to go back and forth on how he felt and what he believed. The people around him were a tremendous impact on what he was thinking and believing. The state that people came out of the Holocaust heavily depended on who they were when they went in and what they
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden. Elie Wiesel shows that the relationship with his father was the strength that kept the young boy alive, but was also the major weakness.
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 truth is, he took a vow of silence about what had happened in the concentration camps. Actually, he had not spoken about it for ten years (Elie Wiesel Biography). Maybe not talking made it easier to not think about the horror. People tend to not talk about what they want to forget. Then, for those who believe in fate, Elie Wiesel was scheduled to interview Francois Mauriac. According to the forward written by Francois Mauriac in Night, their conversation went from work to personal. Mr. Mauriac was expressing how horrible it must have been for the Jews crammed in the cattle cars, and Elie Wiesel decided to break his silence and said, “I was one of them.” As a result of this conversation, Mr. Mauriac convinced Mr. Wiesel that his story was important and needed to be told, “he could put a face to the suffering of the Holocaust”. (The Life and Work of Wiesel). During a lecture upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize he reminded everyone that while they were prisoners, they were stripped of everything human. As a result, they lived in a complete void. They were constantly told to forget everything, forget where they came from, and to forget who they were. Mr. Wiesel described how the memory protects its wounds by trying to forget painful events. More importantly, Elie Wiesel stated that, “For us, forgetting was never an option.” Those that survived felt that they needed to document what they had witnessed.
Eliezer Wiesel loses his faith in god, family and humanity through the experiences he has from the Nazi concentration camp.
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.
...igher being, or achieving a lifetime goal. People can survive even in the most horrible of situations as long as they have hope and the will to keep fighting, but when that beacon begins to fade. They will welcome what ever ends their plight. The Holocaust is one of the greatest tragedies in human history. Elie Wiesel wrote this memoir in hopes that future generations don't forget the mistakes of the past, so that they may not repeat them in the future, even so there is still genocide happening today in places like Kosovo, Somalia, and Darfur, thousands of people losing their will to live because of the horrors they witness, if Elie Wiesel has taught us anything, it is that the human will is the weakest yet strongest of forces.