Night, the Holocaust memoir written by Elie Wiesel, portrays the “choiceless choices” name by the prisoners as they attempted to hold onto their humanity in the face of dehumanization. Elie Wiesel, who is on the verge of his Jewish faith, is present while the holiday Yom Kippur is celebrated in the camp Buna; he is fickle as to whether he should fast or eat the food he is given, as it is a principle of Yom Kippur to fast. Due to extremely cold weather, Wiesel’s foot freezes and he must be sent to the hospital; Russians marauders are about to raid the camp where Elie is held captive and Wiesel has to decide whether to stay at the camp in the hospital block or go with the rest of the prisoners to another camp. During the last few week of Wiesel’s …show more content…
fathers’ life, he grows very sick and does not want to continue fighting; Wiesel has thoughts racing through his ming telling him to leave his father yet he knows it is the wrong thing to do. Despite Wiesel is thrown so many “choiceless choices” that affect the outcome of the rest of his life; if he does not choose his choice wisely, bad events can happen. Wiesel, a once astute student changed through the experience of the Holocaust, encounters a “choiceless choice” when the holiday of Yom Kippur is celebrated among the prisoners of Buna; should he fast and stay an adherent of his religion or eat the fodder they receive in order to survive.
Already seeming to relinquish God, Wiesel does not wish to fast because God had done nothing to help him. While Wiesel is unsure of his decision to fast or not to fast, his father insists he eats the food he is given in order to stay alive. On the other hand, many Jews take up the task of fasting to show God that although they are inside an “Enclosed hell” (Wiesel 66), they can still praise and worship his name. Wiesel’s decision to skip fasting for this holiday may have made the difference of life and death; possibly if Wiesel had fasted, he may not have survived to the cold winters that were in front of …show more content…
him. Amid the coldest of the winter days, numbness in Wiesel’s foot fortifies so he decides to go to the hospital to treat it; concurrent to Wiesel’s time in the hospital, Russians plan to invade Buna and Wiesel has to decide if he should stay at the hospital or run away with the rest of the camp.
Either alternative can result in good, but either can result in bad; he him and his father are unsure of what will happen wither either choice. If Wiesel were to have known the outcome of staying at the hospital bock, he would have done so; The Russians freed the prisoners left in the hospital. After “What shall we do” (Wiesel 78) is repeated numerous times, Wiesel decides to go tie the rest of the group and evacuate the camp; his foot was still recovering from surgery yet he still decides to walk. Wiesel and his father set out for the march with minimal food and water; Wiesel’s father started to become slower and slower leaving Wiesel with a very difficult
decision. As the perennial days kept coming and going, Wiesel’s father grows very sick; Wiesel does not want to risk his life to stay behind to help his father but he also loves him. Wiesel has witnessed a son who abandons his father, Rabbi Eliahou, while on the death march just for the sake of his life;Wiesel does not want to do the same to his father. When Wiesel awoke after a short night of sleep, he halfheartedly looks for his father, secretly praying not to find him so he can live on without him. Wiesel hears the words of his father sitting on the floor and his father simply asks for “a drop of coffee” (Wiesel 101); Wiesel took up his request which could have affect their relationship for the rest of his fathers’ short life. Although all the choices Wiesel made may have not been right decision, he was still able to live through the awful genocide; he must have done enough right. Night, the Holocaust memoir written by Elie Wiesel, portrays the “choiceless choices” name by the prisoners as they attempted to hold onto their humanity in the face of dehumanization. Wiesel has a choiceless when choosing to fast or not to fast. He has a choiceless choice when he had to decide either to stay in the hospital of evacuate with the rest of the camp. Wiesel has a choices choice to determine whether he should leave his hopeless father or save his energy to try and survive himself. The “choiceless choices” present during the Holocaust make a large impact on the future of the prisoner and the life they may live if they battle through the dehumanization.
An estimated 11 million people died in the Holocaust. 6 million were Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout his book he describes the tremendous obstacles he overcame, not only himself, but with his father as well. The starvation and cruel treatment did not help while he was there. Elie makes many choices that works to his advantage. Choice plays a greater factor in surviving Auschwitz.
A statement from the nonfiction novella Night –a personal account of Elie Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust—reads as follows: “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou. Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end up in the furnaces” (67). War is a concept that is greatly looked down upon in most major religions and cultures, yet it has become an inevitable adversity of human nature. Due to war’s inhumane circumstances and the mass destruction it creates, it has been a major cause for many followers of Christianity, Judaism, and other religions to turn from their faith. Followers of religion cannot comprehend how their loving god could allow them to suffer and many devout
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.
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.
He experiences numerous people being hanged, beaten, and tortured daily which changes the amount of faith and trust that he has in Humanity and God. He sees faithful and courageous people crumble in front of his own eyes before their lives are stolen. Towards the end of the book, Wiesel is in the hospital at the camp for surgery on his leg and the man in the bed next to him says something that is bitterly true, “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people,” (Wiesel 81). Wiesel doesn’t argue with this, which shows that he had lost his faith in humanity, and doesn’t know who to trust. Wiesel is also naive and vulnerable at the beginning of the book. He refuses to touch the food at the ghetto and strongly considers rebelling against the officers at the Concentration camps. At the same time, he is also a strong and fairly well-fed boy who does not grow tired easily. He is shocked that the world is letting these barbarities occur in modern times. Over time, he grows accustomed to the beatings and animal-like treatment that is routine at the camps. “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked….. Had I changed that much so fast?”
In Eliezer Wiesel’s novel “Night”, it depicts the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Both Eliezer and his father are taken from their home, where they would experience inhuman and harsh conditions in the camps. The harsh conditions cause Eliezer and his father’s relationship to change. During their time in the camps, Eliezer Wiesel and his father experience a reversal of their roles.
”(Wiesel 79) Chlomo -Wiesel’s father -changed emotionally and physically. He was put through incredible labor along with other prisoners and started to forget why it was important to survive. “‘I can’t go on. This is the end. When Wiesel first met Moshe the Beadle, he would chant and sing.
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
It is so strenuous to be faithful when you are a walking cadaver and all you can think of is God. You devote your whole life to Him and he does not even have the mercy set you free. At the concentration camp, many people were losing faith. Not just in God, but in themselves too. Elie Wiesel uses many literary devices, including tone, repetition and irony to express the theme, loss of faith. He uses tone by quoting men at the camp and how they are craving for God to set them free. He also uses repetition. He starts sentences with the same opening, so that it stays in the reader’s head. Finally, he uses irony to allude to loss of faith. Elie understands how ironic it is to praise someone so highly, only to realize they will not have mercy on you. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, repetition and irony illustrate the loss of faith the prisoners were going through.
Wiesel and his father were harshly testing their bond as a family during the progression of their stay. It is remarkable how such appalling conditions can bring people together in ways unimaginable. Before Wiesel came, he never did much regarding his father. While they were at the camp, Wiesel couldn’t stand being without his father. Wiesel is surprised to see how the camp changed his father.
...sel about ten years to write Night and he believes he has a moral obligation to, “ try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory” (viii). Wiesel is a mentally strong person because for most Holocaust survivors retelling is reliving. In Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, he seems to have come out of “night” and have faith in God, “ But I have faith. Faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and even in His creation” (120). At the end of the book, Wiesel gathers enough strength to look at himself through a mirror, ”From the depths of a mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes has never left me” (115). Although inside he is alive, from what he sees in the mirror, he is dead. It is our responsibility to stop an event of this magnitude from ever occurring again.
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.
Eliezer Wiesel loses his faith in god, family and humanity through the experiences he has from the Nazi concentration camp.
When considering the phrase that had been displayed above the countless concentration camps during World War II, the foremost interpretation of it has always been that working for the Nazis would keep them from killing you out right. In Wiesel’s Night this very interpretation is used to explain the tremendous amount of labor that the Jews did at the Nazis command and why they withstood countless hours of this hard labor. For this reason, when Jews were chosen during the selection for transfer to the crematory, they begged to be spared by insisting that they could still work. This very situation was expressed in chapter five when the prisoners who had been promised to be saved found out that they were, in reality, still going to be killed: “Save us! You promised...We want to go to the depot. We are strong enough to...