Alteration In Elie Wiesel's Night

In the beginning of the story Elie Wiesel and his father were not that close. He says his father worked a lot. This is how Wiesel describes him “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings not even with his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than of his own kin”(Wiesel 4). He describes him as a man that worked and didn’t really express his feelings to anyone. Him and his father weren’t that close. Throughout all the events that happen to them in the book he then realizes family is the only thing he has now and he doesn’t want to lose him. Later on, they’re sent to camp and Elie Wiesel and his father are together and that is when they become closer. When they were at these concentration camps he says, “ I tightend my grip on my father’s hand. The old ,familiar fear not to lose him”(Wiesel 104). Before they weren’t that close, later on when they went to these camps they were faced with inhumanity. That got them closer. Now, he feared to lose his father. In the end, this demonstrates that when they faced these cruel things they learned to be closer to each other because they don’t want anything to happen to one

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.

Wiesel is commenting on the fact that everyone was living with false hopes and not really paying attention to the problem. The Germans had put the Jews in the ghetto, but they didn't interfere with anything going on inside until it was decided that the people were to be sent away. With the Germans temporarily out of the picture, the Jews would be the likely ruling force. But their need for hope kept them from realizing that they were captive. Instead, they convinced themselves that the ghetto was a safe, secure place. They were living in a fantasy land.

In the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel explains his experience during the holocaust when Hitler wanted to kill all Jews and get rid of all disabled people. Wiesel struggles in the beginning of the book when Wiesel cares about keeping his father alive and staying together, despite the end of the book when he changed to then only caring about survival where if he had to choose who would stay alive him or his father he would choose himself and it wouldnt even hurt him. Due to all the dehumanization that Wiesel experience made him change the way he views the world because he only cares about himself he became selfish. The amount of dehumanization that victims experienced changed the way they view the world because as they get more dehumanization they worry less about their values.

Wiesel says, “At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: Warning! Danger of death. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?” (40). His experiences trigger his mind to think this way. So far, he has been threatened to either work or be burned to death, his father has been hit with such strength by a Gypsy inmate that he has to crawl back to his spot, and they were forced to march all the way to Auschwitz through barbed wire and other obstacles. But, even though his experiences reflect this way of thinking, he still has not lost hope or faith in this scenario. The use of irony in this setting portrays the idea that the belief of hope is obvious among the group, and especially obvious to Elie. Still, this type of language induces images of violence and brutality brought on by the Nazis onto innocent people pleading

A rhetorical device is defined as, “a technique that an author uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective, using sentences designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.” The speech, “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel, given on April 12, 1999, contains many rhetorical devices. The speaker, Elie Wiesel, born in 1928 in Romania, is a Holocaust survivor and a Nobel Laureate who met suffering and torture firsthand when he was taken to Aushwitz concentration camp as a teenager. Throughout the speech, Wiesel recalls his enslavement and hunger at Aushwitz to emphasize the purpose that the audience

Throughout the book Wiesel’s he loses his innocence do to violins and traumatising actions by the Nazis . At first he is a good kid who practices his religion a lot and, towards the middle of the book he completely changes he loses his innocence because violence. Because of violence has been so traumatising to him as only a 15 year old , in his mind is nothing but an everyday thing because he goes through it almost everyday for example Wiesel States “I did not move.What happened to me?My father had been struck Before my very eyes And I had not Flickered and eyelid” This shows how for a 15 year old boy he has gone through many terrible things end changes All the violence that you was put through is just very normal to everyone now no one really

After the death of his mother and his sister, Tzipora, early on in the book, he started to think that mankind no longer cared. If they did then things like that would have not happened on the daily to so many innocent civilians. The world just silently stood by whilst millions of people were being burned to death. For example, Wiesel though that no one was going to come for him he left the hospital to only realize later that those who stayed,”...were… liberated by the Russians,”(82). Wiesel lack of faith in mankind ultimately lead to his own suffering.

As the book goes on it is clearly shown that Elie Wiesel is significantly changed in the way he thinks of his father. Being in the

Elie Wiesel’s mesmerizing book, Night, is a retelling of his own teenage experience of the Jewish holocaust. As Wiesel recounts these chilling events, a thread of darkness runs throughout the story. A central question of doubt versus hope arises as the young boy questions his faith, the goodness of people, and the justice of God. Wiesel uses many literary devices to take the reader on an emotional journey. His use of personification and metaphor make this book nothing short of gripping causing the reader to experience brief hopes so quickly destroyed by the unthinkable.

“The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our souls… We were no more than frozen bodies” (Wiesel 88). The memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel showcases the horrific events that occurred during the holocausts taking place 1938-1945, through his personal experience as a young boy. Wiesel’s memoir describes the oppression, which is prolonged cruel or unjust treatment, dehumanization, which is depriving a person of what makes them themselves, and indifference, which is lack of caring, that causes the oppressed to go through a self-revision or identity change and as a result come out of it an almost completely different person. Wiesel’s memoir depicts the torture that he went through, the heartbreak and death that

The reader can clearly identify the struggle wiesel has gone through when he states, “Never shall I forget that Nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.” What the author means By Nocturnal silence is that even the nature is calm and unaware of the things happening to the Jewish people. Wiesel also blames his position on the way nature has failed to warn everybody of the god awful experience they would soon undergo. As Elie and his father stay in the concentration camp God is not giving the Jews hope for everything to get better and go back to the way it was before Hitler came up with the Final Solution. While walking to the gates of Auschwitz one man cried, “Let the world learn of the existence of Auschwitz.

In the book “Night” you see Elie Weisle’s relationship with his father change throughout the book. He goes from barely having a relationship with his father, to becoming close to him due to the hardships and struggles of the holocaust. But the change of closeness in the relationship isn’t really due to the fact that they care about each other’s survival; it’s more of them caring about their own survival, and depending on each other for their own survival. You can see that with some of the events in the book. In the beginning of the book you see some foreshadowing of his father’s death. His father comments on the fact that they have to wear the yellow star and says “the yellow star? So what? It is not lethal.” and to that Elie replies “poor father, of what then did you die?” you can tell that he feels some pity for his dead father, rather than

During the text on page 54, it is clear that the camp has changed him into an accusatory person that, like many others in the Jewish community, has turned against others. The text on page 69 demonstrates the fact that God’s absence during this traumatic time has caused Wiesel to turn his back on him and as he does so, he begins to feel lost inside because God was once his whole life. What Elie says on page 69 also indicates that sometimes it is hard to let go of components in our lives that are very familiar, later forcing us to go back to them. These both support the visible

In the beginning of the novel Night, Wiesel did not quite grasp what was going on, when he first heard of the troops coming to his neighborhood he never imagined what the outcome of their visit would be. Wiesel was like most children of his age, very naive and looked at the world with a sense of wonder and merriment. However when the dreadful day came and him and his family were taken from their home, he left his bed, his house, and his innocence. At first Wiesel thought the armed guards were trying to protect them from the war, but as he spent more time in the camps and socialized with the other Jews he then saw what was truly going on.(30). It was as if his whole world came crashing down and he did not know how to handle it. He had