The fear that corrupts people Have you ever faced your fears? Do you know how desperate one can be when facing their biggest fear? In Night, the memoir, Elie Wiesel, displays how fear corrupts people more than power does, how desperate you can be, leading you to your most primitive instincts, and how different you can begin to act. Fear can have a potent impact on people and their actions. It is contrary to their morals, values and principles, leading them to hurt others or even themselves. Fear corrupts people, eats them away, and turns them into the most degrading version of themselves. Fear is something powerful, so much so that it can act against you, making you commit things that you would never have thought of before, leading you to survive. In chapter 4 …show more content…
either out of weakness or out of fear, he remained there, undoubtedly to muster his strength (pg.59). This refers to the part where they had two calderos of soup close to their hands but nobody dares to eat it because they were too afraid of the consequence. In this quote, Elie shows us how the other prisoners, corrupted by fear, decide to survive and not try to get the calderos or get them but risk certain death. He also shows how mortals act merely on the instinct of survival in chapter eight. In chapter eight, when Elies father is sick and he is talking with the Blockalteste, let me give you some good advice: stop giving portion of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore.He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself (pgs.110-111). These quotes reflect the intense fear that drove the prisoners to focus on immediate survival. It showed us how the fear that the prisoners had of the Nazis was so great that their minds were transferred to survival mode to be able to face the difficulties of the Holocaust. Fear changes people by corrupting them, making them act or do things against their will. Things like stopping protecting those you
Could you imagine a cold breeze that just cuts you up left and right? Or perhaps long days of starvation, with the sight of grass pleasing your stomach. For Elie Wiesel this was no imagination, nor a dream, this was in fact reality. Such a horrifying experience in his life he felt he had to share in a book called Night. Gertrude Samuels, who wrote the review, "When Evil Closed In," tries to help you depict on what devastating situations Elie was put through.
As a son watches his mother take her last breath on her deathbed, an overwhelming grief sets in. Although knowing that his mom smokes and drinks, he never told her to quit or ease up because he thought his mother can never die. In this case, the offset of this denial is his mom’s early death but, the denial by the Jews during 1942, caused a far more superior calamity, six million deaths! Alas, just like the boy who lost his mother, the Jews have signs and warnings to escape the invasion and Elie Wiesel does a superb job of incorporating that in his book, Night. These overlooked chances, or motifs, are Moshe not getting the respect for his word, uncomprehending the news that is given to the Jews, and the misjudgment of how evil a man Hitler is.
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.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie faces danger and overcomes challenges throughout his whole experience in Auschwitz. Human beings dominated by fear respond with fight or flight. Fight is attacking or facing while flight is running away or escaping a fear. Before Elie even reaches Auschwitz, he is overcome with fear. While Elie is on a train unknowingly going to Auschwitz, a lady screams and acts excessively dangerously. Hallucinating, she envisions a fire and warns everyone else of terrifying things to come. A group of men are frightened by her outburst, and quickly decide to beat her until she could not make another noise. She makes everyone more afraid than they already are, causing them to break down and panic: “It
Upon analysis of Night, Elie Wiesel’s use of characterization and conflict in the memoir helps to illustrate how oppression and dehumanization can affect one’s identity by describing the actions of the Nazis and
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.
Every man, woman, and child has his or her breaking point, no matter how hard they try to hold it back. In Night by Elie Wiesel the main theme of the entire book is the human living condition. The quality of human life is overwhelming because humans have the potential to make amazing discoveries that help all humans. Elie Wiesel endures some of the most cruel living conditions known to mankind. This essay describes the themes of faith, survival, and conformity in Night by Elie Wiesel.
“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.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a very sad book. The struggle that Eliezer endured is similar to one that we all face. Eliezer’s was during the holocaust. Ours can be during any period of life. If we set our priorities in our hearts, nothing can change them except ourselves. Night is a prime example of this inner struggle and the backwards progress that is possible with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It teaches that the mind truly is “over all.” As Frankl wrote, “Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate,” no matter what the circumstance.
He was not moving.’’, ‘’Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live; any reason to fight.’’ As a result of the concentration camp, Elie and his father moved closer. This fact caused the plot to move forward because, without each other, they wouldn’t continue to fight each day. Finally, this shows in my last piece of evidence that Elie wouldn’t keep fighting if it wasn’t for his
Elie has some internal struggles with faith, morality, and survival. While Elie and other prisoners were on the train cars on the way to concentration camps, people were throwing bread into the train cars and watching as the Jews fought for the bread in a life-or-death situation. The Jews were not being treated with respect, and the Germans were laughing like it was a game. As we know through the book, Elie kept trying to turn to God and asked himself how God could let this happen to him. He wondered when he would be free and live like an average child again.
Religious faith can be the greatest grounding factor in traumatic events. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader is a viewer of the abuse of the Holocaust and how that causes Mr. Wiesel to lose his childhood, become depressed, and lose his sense of self. This analysis will reveal exactly why that cause and effect is. First, Elie begins to lose his inner child and mature into a man as he loses his spirituality.
The Dangers of Fear Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said, “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.” Inhumanity is mankind’s worst attribute. Every so often, ordinary humans are driven to the point where they have no choice but to think of themselves. One of the most famous examples used today is the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night demonstrates how fear is a debilitating force that causes people to lose sight of who they once were.
Weisel reveals how forgetting the lives lost during the Holocaust would kill the victims a second time. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel describes all of his horrific experiences during his time at the concentration camps, and he recalls the tragic incidents that happened to others. As Elie reflects on all of the people who died, he writes, “To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them again.” Elie states this because he knows how dangerous forgetting the Holocaust could be, he knows that to forget the millions of people who died would be a disservice to their remembrance after all of the horrendous events they had to endure. Not only is this idea of remembrance expressed in Night, it