A Personal Response To Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

The imagery of fire in Edwidge Danticat 's short story “A Wall of Fire Rising” possesses a very powerful meaning and also continually changes throughout the entirety of the story. Fire was a very sacred thing to have, especially during the time this story has taken place.

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

Night is a recollection of Elie Wiesel’s time spent during the holocaust. It is a gripping tale of survival and death. While it is a small book, it has a huge message. During the time in which the book takes place, the Jewish people were srtripped of their humanity. Elie and his fellow inmates at Auschwitz endure dehumanization throughout starvation and on the train to Buchenwald.

Reading Elie Wiesel’s Night, has moved me deeply; for the first time in my life to read such horror, pain, and numbness my mind could not digest everything. To think that our own men killed, abused, and tortured their own people is heart wrenching. On page 33, a sentence stuck out to me most that I believe summarizes the whole message of the book. A fifteen year old boy, living day by day, confesses to his father, “I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames." Just reading these words, I could imagine this helpless young boy quickly losing faith. He had no desire to live, no motivation to continue, and absolutely no faith in God. A boy that age or anyone should have to think about an easier

When looking at the holocaust, it is widely known the devastation and pain that was caused by the Nazis; however when inspecting the holocaust on a deeper level, it is evident that the Jews were exposed to unimaginable treatment and experimentation often overlooked in history discussions. When looking at “Night”, Elie Wiesel was helped by the doctors in the camp when his foot was severely infected; although this is not the experience he had, many Jews were mistreated and even killed by the doctors. Many Nazi doctors that were assigned to Jewish patients were later found to have exposed the patients to horrific medical experiments and unnecessary treatments that commonly led to their death.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

When I first started reading Night, I immediately knew that I was going to thoroughly enjoy this book. I have always been very interested in history. I am especially interested in learning about the Holocaust. In this book, Eliezer is the narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night is written on Wiesel's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. Night tells the story of Eliezer’s physical journey as well as his psychological journey as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. I can honestly say I was astonished with the horrors that took place during the Holocaust. My jaw dropped many times while reading this story. My

When the Jews were marching to the burners, many of them began to recite the prayer of the dead, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (33). This is important because this is when Elie question his faith with God, and he loses his spiritual innocence and begins to experience trials that God placed in front of him.

The autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel first takes place in Sighet, Transylvania (1944) and continues in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Buna. The main characters of the book are Elie, his father and Moishe. The purpose of the autobiography is to bring light to what’s been in the shade. The autobiography highlights the horrors of the Holocaust with its descriptive wording, leaving anyone who reads this filled with a variety of emotions.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, gives a backstory to what happened to his family and all the Jews that were taken to the concentration camp during Hitler’s reign in Germany; Wiesel’s story begins in 1944 when they were deported to the concentration camps to Auschwitz. As Wiesel’s story develops throughout the book we see a young Eliezer go from child to maturing in to a young man and taking care of his father when he becomes gravely ill.

Night by Elie Wiesel, is a autobiography. A teenage boy living in a small town in Europe during World War II. It’s an account of the brutality, inhumanity of what he suffered from one thing, which was he was Jewish. In May 1944, the Germans deported a 15 year old and his family in Poland. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister died at Auschwitz, during that time he and his father later were transferred to another camp, Buchenwald, located in Germany. Wiesel’s father perished at Buchenwald just months before it was liberated by U.S troops in April 1945.

In the book all the lights we cannot see, the prevailing mystery is whether or not the sea of Flames is cursed. “The curse was this: the keeper of the stone would live forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes would fall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain.”

Great waves toss and turn with great force. Rushing as they collide with the earth soaking the soft sand. The ocean seemed to be howling as every wave grew as tall as a mountain. Slowly, the water creeps forward, then lazily seeping back in the vast ocean, only to do the same over and over again. The deep sea is a mysterious place where sea creatures lurk beneath the waves. Blue, sparkling water is everywhere you look with no end. The humming waves seem to whisper as if telling me the most confidential secret. You can never really hear them clearly until you dive in deeper and deeper.

The everliving fire centered in itself beyond all worlds lies at the heart of all worlds from it flow all movement, all life, all knowledge. It is the Eternal: “that which never sets”, that which at the end of each world-age destroys the old and kindles the new. It may be truthfully called by other names such as Zeus, justice, wisdom, logos. It is both willing and unwilling to be so called. Willing in that such names reflect qualities in its nature: unwilling in that in essence it lies beyond all such qualities. This divine fire forges into existence the structured cosmos.

The poem, “Apostrophe to the Ocean” written by George Gordon Byron expresses his love for the ocean and nature through numerous different writing styles and techniques. The poem is dedicated to the mighty ocean, and the main subject of this poem is about humans versus nature. Byron’s view of humans versus nature is revealed through his belief that the power of nature is inseparable and that it is greater than any human or civilization. Bryon depicts his love for the ocean through, literary techniques, his thoughts about industrialization and romantic writing styles.