Night by Elie Wiesel In this tiny novel, you will get to walk right into a gruesome nightmare. If only then, it was just a dream. You would witness and feel for yourself of what it is like to go through the unforgettable journey that young Eliezer Wiesel and his father had endured in the greatest concentration camp that shook the history of the entire world. With only one voice, Eliezer Wiesel’s, this novel has been told no better. Elie's voice will have you emotionally torn apart. The story has me questioning my own wonders of how humanity could be mistreated in such great depths and with no help offered. The effectiveness of this compacted novel is greater than those of a thousand paged. The story within this book is not entirely unfamiliar, …show more content…
Mr. Wiesel had intended this book to describe a period of time in his life that had been dark and sorrowful. This novel is based on a survivor of the greatest Holocaust in history, Eliezer Wiesel and his journey of being a Jew in 1944. The journey had started in Sighet, Transylvania, where Elie spent his childhood. During the Second World War, Germans came to Elie and his family’s home town. They brought with them unnecessary evil and despair to mankind. Shortly after young Elie and thousands of other Jews were forced from their habitats and torn from their rights of being human. They were sent to different concentration camps. Elie and his family were sent to Auschwitz, a concentration and extermination camp. It would be the last time Elie sees his mother and little sister, Tzipora. The first sights of Auschwitz were terrifying. There were big flames coming from the burning of bodies and the crematoriums. The Jews had no idea of what to expect. They were not told what was about to happen to them. During the concentration camp, there was endless death and torture. The Jews were starved and were treated worse than cattle. The prisoners began to question their faith in God, wondering why God himself would …show more content…
Why did so many people, young, old, sick, wealthy and even convicted felonies had to experience firsthand of the worst evil man could ever pursue to one another. What was the point? Surely there have been many explanations, but those did not answer mine. I understood why the prisoners questioned their faith in God, I probably would have to. On the contrary, not even prayers to God could stop such evil. It criticizes the acceptance of human rights. This story puts a strain on trusting others. The individuals in this novel had a redundant encounter. It maddens me to the core. The hardships of what they had to go through, just for survival gives me grief. The story overall makes me feel distressed from every angle of the
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 this report you will see the comparisons between the novel Dawn and the life of Elie Wiesel, its author. The comparisons are very visible once you learn about Elie Wiesel’s life. Elie Wiesel was born on September28,1928 in the town of Hungary. Wiesel went through a lot of hard times as a youngster. In 1944, Wiesel was deported by the nazis and taken to the concentration camps. His family was sent to the town of Auschwitz. The father, mother, and sister of Wiesel died in the concentration camps. His older sister and himself were the only to survive in his family. After surviving the concentration camps, Wiesel moved to Paris, where he studied literature at the Sorbonne from 1948-1951. Since 1949 he has worked as a foreign correspondant and journalist at various times for the French, Jewish, periodical, L’Arche, Tel-Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot, and the Jewish daily forward in New York City. Francois mauriac the Roman Catholic Nobelest and Nobel Laureate convinced Wiesel to speak about the Holocaust. Wiesel wrote an 800 page memoir which he later edited into a smaller version called "Night". In the mid 60’s Wiesel spoke out a lot about the Holocaust. Later on Wiesel emerged on as an important moral voice on Religious Issues and the Human Rights. Since 1988 Wiesel has been a professor at Boston University. Some of Wiesel’s greatest novels has been "Night", "Dawn", "The Accident", "The Town Beyond The Wall", "The Gates Of The Forest", "The Fifth Son"...
As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.
During the 1930’s, The Holocaust physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred the lives of all mankind. Elie Wiesel is one of the few who has been able to turn his tragic experience as a concentration camp survivor into a memoir. Although Wiesel’s story isn’t like many others, his use of diction influences the tone and meaning of the story; Wiesel’s attitude in the book is calm, shocking, and thoughtful; capturing attention and spreading awareness to readers all around the world.
Eliezer Wiesel loses his faith in god, family and humanity through the experiences he has from the Nazi concentration camp.
Elie Wiesel’s book “The Night” is an autobiography of the complete destruction of the Jews, in which he had experienced with his father. Elie Wiesel writes about his disturbing experiences and the how he and his fellow Jews were tortured by the Nazis. Wiesel describes the inequality, brutality, inhumanity and how they were treated worse than any human. The Jews were dehumanised and they were taken their identity from them, this happened when they first arrived at the first camp and they were given all the same clothes, haircuts and tattooing a number on them. The destruction of Eliezer’s town, his family and his faith in god were all taken away from him. This is portrayed throughout the book by using symbols, quotes, images which signify the horrors and devastating experiences the Jews and Eliezer experienced.
In Night Elie Wiesel begins at the concentration camp as a young teenage boy only fifteen years old where he has to view and endure the horrendous trauma of the war. Elie has to witness gruesome events unfold, as now that is where he was living and he has to confine to the rules. In a specific example, Elie witnesses as SS officers place “nooses around [the] necks” of a child and two other men. As they tip over the chairs and the horrific images of their “tongues hanging out … swollen and bluish” appear, as well as the lonesome child, “lingering between life and death” remains into his memory forever (Wiesel 64). After witnessing such horrendous acts, Elie’s innocence is completely lost. Not only that, but on many occasions Elie is treated with cruel punishment, such as violence for something he might have not done right. Idek once took his fury out on Elie and began to throw “violent blows” and “ [threw] him to the ground,” beginning to“crush” him, until he was “in blood” (Wiesel 53). These despicable actions and cruel punishment will have a toll on anyone if they continue to experience it everyday, which is exactly what happens to Wiesel and becomes a huge reminder on how he lost his innocence. These actions all led up to Wiesel changing as a character in his memoir and in real
The horrific events in Europe, from 1933 to 1945, produced a ruthless dictator who initiated nazism, the German form of Fascism, Hitler tried to create what he believed to be a “perfect race” in Germany. He was responsible for imprisoning and murdering those who did not fit his cookie cutter mold, which involved disabled people, homosexuals, and mainly the Jews. As a result, this dictator only deemed the people within the strict confines of the Aryan race. While Hitler was constructing this genocide, the average German citizens, who were not already in the SS (Schutzstaffel) or were military officials, knew that Jews were stripped of their rights and sent to camps. Because of this mentality created by Hitler, it gave the impression that
How can people overlook such a horrible event happening, and not do anything about it? This paper will follow a young man, Elie Wiesel, whose terrifying journey was carried on throughout the Holocaust. Wiesel uses imagery and vividly describes many of the horrific sights he saw at the camp when he was younger, to establish and describe the tones fear, shock, and gloom (darkness).
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.
William Frederick Halsey Jr., a navy seal of WWII, once said, “There are no great people in the world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the movie Life Is Beautiful, readers and viewers observe that when people are faced with great challenges, the belief in a higher power is shaken or proven in order to survive.
The choice to use this first person account establishes an intimate, descriptive, and almost relatable picture of life under Nazi rule. In addition to this first person point of view, Wiesel’s tone of writing shows great honesty. Rather than paint himself in an even more favorable light, he shares and describes moments that bring about feelings of guilt in himself. For example he doesn’t hide the fact that he didn’t defend his father from the SS officer that smashed his father’s head. He shares that “I left him alone in the clutches of death. Worse: I was angry with him for having been noisy, for having cried, for provoking the wrath of the SS”. The combination of Eliezer’s perspective and the honest tone shows readers almost firsthand how the situation influenced the behavior of himself and other prisoners at the
This is an odd little book, but a very important one nonetheless. The story it tells is something like an extended parablethe style is plain, the characters are nearly stick figures, the story itself is contrived. And yet ... and yet, the story is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking because the historical trend it describes is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking.
The brutality the Germans displayed in the 1930s through the 1940s was utterly horrifying. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the author’s harrowing experience is shared. The Holocaust is worldly known as being one of the largest genocides in history, but not many truly understand what it was like to live through and witness. A lot of people had their life taken away whether figuratively or literally and many discovered so much loss that they became unphased by it after a while. Many who encountered the cruelty and merciless of the Germans have passed but a few remain that live to tell their story to the world and try to explain the feelings that coursed through them during the genocide and even now. Wiesel, who lived in Auschwitz for
Elie Wiesel’s Night recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control, and the effect the Holocaust had, not just for the Jews, but to overall to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, still to this day, induces consternation, and the Nazis’ gruesome actions has scarred mankind eternally. The Jews, as Elie Wiesel describes in Night, had to overcome numerous difficulties: they are forced to abandon their homes, all their personal possessions, and eventually their humanity. The Jews were separated from their families, Such as Elie, who never saw his mother and sister Tzipora again. Elie's suffered in the concentration camp of Auschwitz for 4 years before finally being liberated, having his faith shaken and