Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, used two pivotal quotes throughout the passage to highlight the struggle he faced during his lifetime. Elie Wiesel’s biggest struggle was surviving in the concentration camps he was put into, transportation to these concentration camps, and other challenges the Germans threw at him. As a child, Wiesel endured intense physical and mental abuse. In these camps, the goal was to strip Jews, the mentally impaired, and others of their self worth and break them down physically and mentally. Another goal in these concentration camps was to murder individuals, because they are different from the German race. Therefore, a majority of inmates in every concentration camp did everything in their power to survive. However, a few gave up on hope. …show more content…
The author explained the mental challenges he faced as a child by stating, “we were incapable of thinking.
Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self- preservation, or self defense, of pride, had all deserted us..seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either” (Wiesel, 36). This quote resembles how difficult it was to keep any sort of self pride and worth during this time period as a Jew. The author described his senses as being numbed due to his incapability of feeling any sort of emotion. Wiesel also explained how he felt no hope by stating that he no longer clung to anything. Furthermore, after all of Wiesel’s self worth was taken away from him, he had no hope or desire of gaining any of it back. This specific quote defines the struggle that Elie Wiesel faced as a Jewish child in the
Holocaust. Additionally, the author illustrates the conflicts he faced by stating, “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (Wiesel, 34). God is supposed to protect you and guide you in life, not send you to a “murder camp.” Therefore, the author believed that that Hitler and the Nazis killed his God and his faith to God. The Germans striped away Jews’ self worth, which murdered the author’s soul. Also, as a young boy Wiesel gave up hope of liberation of these camps and of survival. This crushed this young boy’s dreams and spirit. Taking away an individual’s beliefs and dreams is a challenge that no one should have to face during their lifetime. Unfortunately, Wiesel had to struggle with this during his childhood. Surviving the Holocaust is an immense challenge to overcome. These concentration camps did not only test individuals’ physically but mentally as well. Elie Wiesel demonstrates his struggles during this time period through many quotes. However, two pivotal quotes played a key role in the struggle the author faced during his lifetime.
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 was facing his punishment because he walked in on Idek on a private moment. The only thoughts running through his mind were: " If only I could answer him, if only I could tell him that I could not move. But my mouth would not open." The text illustrates the pain taking over Elie's body as he was being whipped by Idek. This quote demonstrates his silence because he was unable to speak nor could he contradict his superior's motive. Elie Wiesel was stating that although your voice is always with you, sometimes it is inappropriate and not allowed.
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.
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.
However, the servant to a Dutchman was not like this at all. He was loved by all and, "He had the face of a sad angel." (Wiesel 42). However, when the power station that the child worked at blew up, he was tortured for information. But the child refused to speak and was sentenced to death by hanging.
Throughout the memoir, Wiesel demonstrates how oppression and dehumanization can affect one’s identity by describing the actions of the Nazis and how it changed the Jewish people’s outlook on life. Wiesel’s identity transformed dramatically throughout the narrative. “How old he had grown the night before! His body was completely twisted, shriveled up into itself. His eyes were petrified, his lips withered, decayed.
During 1939 to 1945 six million innocent people, primarily Jews were gathered like cattle and taken to various death camps. Germany created these camps in order to get rid of those they considered inferior. In the death camps prisoners were starved/worked to death, while others were killed by their captives or even by their own fellow prisoners. Elie Wiesel author of Night one of the many forced into these camps went on to survive and even win the Nobel Peace Prize and presenting one of his most powerful speeches. Night is a memoir, which clearly portrays with the power of imagery, ethos, and prisoner experiences during the camps how people will be drastically changed when they experience torture as a result of isolation. Wiesel in Night accurately describes how isolation is the reason atrocities happened to prisoners in the camp, While also
Inked on the pages of Elie Wiesel’s Night is the recounting of him, a young Jewish boy, living through the mass genocide that was the Holocaust. The words written so eloquently are full of raw emotions depict his journey from a simple Jewish boy to a man who was forced to see the horrors of the world. Within this time period, between beatings and deaths, Wiesel finds himself questioning his all loving and powerful God. If his God loved His people, then why would He allow such a terrible thing to happen? Perhaps Wiesel felt abandoned by his God, helpless against the will of the Nazis as they took everything from him.
“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 the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it talks about the holocaust and what it was like being in it. The Germans were trying to make the German race the supreme race. To do this they were going to kill off everyone that wasn’t a German. If you were Jewish or something other than German, you would have been sent to a concentration camp and segregated by men and women. If you weren’t strong enough you were sent to the crematory to be cremated. If you were strong enough you were sent to work at a labor camp. With all the warnings the Jewish people had numerous chances to run from the Germans, but most ignored the warnings.
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.
Some of the most fabled stories of our time come from individuals overcoming impossible odds and surviving horrific situations. This is prevalent throughout the Holocaust. People are fascinated with this event in history because the survivors had to overcome immense odds. One, of many, of the more famous stories about the Holocaust is Night by Elie Wiesel. Through this medium, Wiesel still manages to capture the horrors of the camps, despite the reader already knowing the story.
...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.
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.