An Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, recounts the horrors he saw firsthand during his internment in Auschwitz. In his hindsight, Wiesel reflects on not only his own indifference, but the indifference of others who shared his fate. Along his journey, he comes across three different kinds of indifference: indifference towards oneself, indifference towards others, and indifference towards the world.

In the novel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor suggests that when humans are faced with protecting their own mortality, they abandon their morals and values. This can be seen in both the Jewish and German people. The German’s are inhumanely cruel to protect their own jobs and safely by obeying government commands. The Jewish captives lost their morals as they fight to survive the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel encountered many obstacles that made many of his ideals changed drastically for Wiesel which was his loss in humanity throughout the book he explains the many ways he does not see people as people anymore. He also explains how all of his natural human rights were no more during the time in the Holocaust. He had to find a sense of self because he could have easily fallen apart. He could not have done anything different, he knew it was going to end poorly. Silence is a very important and prominent theme in this book as silence represents many key symbols such as. God’s silence: Eliezar questions God’s faith many times throughout this book and wonders how he could just sit there and be silent while people are mass murdering people.

After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.

15 years old. Summer. You should be tanning in the bright summer sun or riding your newly bought bike around the path by the lake. Insted, your role has flipped and you are caring for your sick father who is dying, something someone at this age should never have to experience. The Holocaust based texts Night by Elie Wiesel and the film the Last Days produced by Steven Spielberg, are well thought out examples of the young struggling while turning their backs on their youth. All of these examples showcase the struggle teens and young children faced during their time in ghettos and camps. In dire circumstances, these texts argue that Holocaust children are forced to abandon their youth.

Each day,6,000 innocent lives were taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau,one of the many concentration camps in Europe. During the “Final solution” two out of every three European Jews were killed. This genocide lasted from 30 January,1933 to 8 May,1945. Elie Wiesel,a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust,shares his personal traumatic,faith breaking and experiences with inhuman treatment in his memoir, Night.

“Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births” (8).

Determination is an important foundation in human lives. Each time an individual or society faces great adversity, one tends to develop an aspect of their identity that showcases a strong link to the significance of determination in people’s lives. Determination is a trait that each individual possesses. However, the degree of this characteristic varies for each individual and depends on the person’s capabilities and willingness to attain a goal. In the Night, author Elie Wiesel provide the readers with an insight of how determination became the guidance for the Jewish people who suffered dreadful torture and endured a horrid lifestyle under the Nazi’s fascist and anti-semitic regime. Furthermore, due to

A dystopian society can be accurately described as an abject habitation in which people live dissatisfied lives under total control of the government. As terrible as dystopias are, there have been many instances of such societies in the past, and a copious amount of them are found in our current time. Although it may seem that mankind would learn from past experiences and be able to prevent the formation of dystopias, all failed endeavors at utopia, in turn, lead to dystopia. A prime example of this is found in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel. The story recounts the Holocaust, a mass genocide of Jews conducted by Adolf Hitler, who believed he could create a utopia by basically eradicating a religious group. This inhumane act created a dystopia which was extremely disparate from our modern day society. Yet, there are still apparent similarities that can be found in any community, which maintain order within. Elie’s dystopia and our present society share the large factors of government, media, and labor, but, the approach to each of these ideas is what sets our lives apart.

The full-blooded Germans also showed cruelty to the prisoners. This is shown when “nearly everywhere, pieces of bread were being dropped into the wagons” (106). “The audience stared at these skeletons of men fighting one another to the death for a mouthful.” (106). Instead of intervening in the fights, they encouraged them to fight by continuing to throw more bread in the cattle cars. This proves that the Germans think of the prisoners more as entertainment than people nand do not care about how bad they are hurt when fighting for the

Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, is a very vivid description of his time during the Holocaust. He paints a colorful picture of how his family and families like his were broken apart and murdered by Nazis. He recalls how he was placed in numerous concentration camps with no idea what his fate would be, which in turn changed him. In my opinion, Night is a chronological account of how Wiesel was slowly dehumanized and how he witnessed the dehumanization of the people around him.

Inhumanity among people is very common during this time of war. Elie and his family were deported to Auschwitz. They were brought in cattle cars with only a few buckets of water and a few loaves of bread to split between 80 people. Upon arrival Elie sated “In front of us flames. In the air that smell of burning flesh.” (Wiesel 21). When Elie and the other passengers exited the cattle cars an SS officer said “Men to left! Women to the right!” (22).

In the memoir Night, the author, Elie Wiesel, uses vividly descriptive diction to establish the theme that one should never let go of their goals. After Elie and his family were forced to leave their home, they were loaded into a box car. Elie recalls that, “After two days of traveling [on the train], [ they] began to be tortured by thirst.” (Wiesel 21). Elie Wiesel’s choice of the word torture, instantly brings to mind a picture of people going through unbearable suffering. His vivid descriptions easily bring to mind instant images of what the text is depicting. Through Elie’s ride in the box car, he never let go of his goal of survival. His vivid description of the box car show you what Elie had to withstand while never letting go of his

According to Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, the Holocaust was partly caused by the world staying silent. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the injustices committed by the Nazis is shown though Wiesel’s firsthand experience of the Holocaust in several concentration camps. This in addition to the documentary Bully, which shows how ignorance of everyday injustices may lead to dangerous consequences, implies that silence is not acceptable in these types of situations. Although it may be easier to remain unheard and stay silent, it is best to speak up for others who cannot do so themselves because of the threatening results of ignorance. Lack of interference with a problem will typically end in the situation becoming worse

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Jews ignored the evil that is shown to them during the holocaust because they were disillusioned at the fact that Germans were going to kill them. This also affected the Jews because the Jews faith was disappearing, part of their religion is to believe what you hear and not what you see. While, Nazi soldiers were evacuating the Jews out the their homes,and some Nazis doing roll call , telling Jews to stand in line,while they make sure that all the Jews were out the homes and standing in the streets with oppressive heat. Wiesel heard some Jews saying were that they were being sent out because they wanted their goods to steals or that they were being evacuated for their own good “ Who knows they must be

day before, one of which was merely a child so light in weight that he