Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

“Let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.” (Elie Wiesel, Night). In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, the author, writes about his own experiences at Nazi concentration camps. Throughout the book, Elie is transferred from camp to camp experiencing, as well as witnessing, many hardships and tragedies. Through the slaughter and captivity of the Jews, Elie interprets that it became tests to who could keep their sanity and integrity. Following this he always looks out for his father to the end and remains faithful to him,because he could not stand the sight of his father’s suffering over his own pain.

He is really put to the test when is father gets dysentery and thoughts of abandoning him rings through his mind. His innate sense of right and wrong takes over and steers him away from making the wrong decisions. Elie Wiesel does not become a brute because of learning from witnessing atrocities, his good nature, and his loyalty to his father. One of the immoral acts Elie has witnessed at a concentration camp was Rabbi Eliahou’s son leaving his own father behind when he started losing strength after being marched for miles. “He had seen him. And he continued to run in front, letting the distance between them grow greater” (Wiesel, 67). Elie’s analysis reveals he has learned how people have become barbarians themselves. The cruelty of abandoning a family member suggested the qualities of a brute which is emphasized through imagery since readers will envision “the distance between them grow greater”.Furthermore,

And you're killing yourself...I thought in the most secret region of my heart, but I dared not to admit it”(Wiesel 80). Exaggerating how the tiniest part of him, “in the most secret region of my heart”, illustrates the malicious part of him was nonexistent. It’s apparent that his good nature is reflected in his actions, since he could not come to terms in his thoughts and “admit it”. On the other hand, a brute would not hesitate to get rid of the responsibility of taking care of another individual, and in fact would not even bother to think of the decision using his “heart,” like Elie. After having these thoughts, Elie immediately regrets his actions. “Only a fraction of a second, but I felt guilty. I ran to find a little soup to give to my father.” (Wiesel, 80). The instantaneous regret of his actions was reflected with the hyperbole “only a fraction of a second.” His morals were so dynamic that they were shown through the exaggeration of the short amount of time it took for him to realize his thinking, as if it were a reflex. This further shows how Elie is not a brute, because even after having these thoughts he “felt guilty”. The guilt weighs heavily on him, and leads him “to find soup to give” to his father as an apology for thinking of such atrocities. His good nature was proven to be pure,