Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Over 5 million people died between 1933 and 1945. Additionally, around half of these deaths happened in a concentration camp. This point in time is commonly referred to as the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s book "Night” that documents Elie Wiesel’s struggles in a ghetto and then being transported throughout Germany to these awful places that are made for death. However, in the novel “Night,” Elie Wiesel uses dialog, ellipses, and symbolism to show the bond he has with his father. (73)

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.

The Holocaust was a horrible event, one most people hate to think of much less speak of. This event however is the base of young Elie Wiesel’s life and story. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is all about his personal journey and place in the telling of the Holocaust. In the book he is sent to Auschwitz as a lamb is sent to the slaughter. He reiterates his transformation during this time, a transformation where he diverts from his Jewish roots and loses his faith in a merciful and Almighty God.

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts the moment when he was informed and then later thrown into the horrors of Hitler's wrath. When Moshie the Beadle came back he proclaimed “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” ( Wiesel 6). This shows inhumanity because the nazis are killing kids in front of their parents. They are able to kill without hesitation or remorse. As the author describes his experiences, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are the loss of faith and the loss of compassion.

In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel writes about his experience in a concentration camp and his fight for survival against Nazi Germany’s cruelty. Using many complex and abstract forms of symbolism, Elie opens his readers’ eyes to the harshness of the Holocaust. Amongst the many symbols Wiesel focusses on, the most important is dehumanization. Elie Wiesel uses dehumanization to remind the readers that if people today are not careful, they could easily become just as animalistic and cruel as those who suffered during the Holocaust.

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

Hate begins to grow, and in the case of the Holocaust, this incessant hatred led to the identification of all Jews, the deportation of millions of people from their homes, the concentration in the camps, and extermination of entire families and communities at once. For nearly a decade, Jews, prisoners-of-war, homosexuals, and the disabled were rounded up, sent off to camps, and systematically slaughtered in unimaginably inhumane ways. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, shares his experiences at Auschwitz in the book Night, which reveals the true extent of inhumanity in both the Nazis and the Jews. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Wiesel uses imagery of his experiences before and while being in the concentration camp in order to develop his theme of dehumanization of both the Jews and the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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

Elie Wiesel’s Night details the experience of a Jewish man whose life is taken control of by the Germans in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The past gives the individual the information about religions and its values. Initially, learning the history of Judaism Eliezer develops a devout attraction to the Almighty, but later on, his experience in the concentration camp contributes to his skepticism of God. When he sees the innocent Jews subject to torture he loses his faith in God. History represents the war between two kind of people: one who is in a position of power and the other who is defenseless. The Holocaust was a battleground for such people; it was the struggle to survive between the weak Jews and the strong Germans. Furthermore, the atrocities committed by the Germans during the 19th century make the present society aware of their savage soul. During the Holocaust, Jews were imprisoned and exploited by the Germans and were treated very

Put into ghettos, treated like animals, forced to wear the Star of David, the Jews went through years of torment and dehumanization. The Nazis made it their goal to “liquidate” all of the Jews with these inhumane practices. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author describes what he endured inside of the concentration camps. Elie portrays the pain and agony he watched, including his own father’s death. Throughout the novel, the Jews are constantly mistreated, abused, but most importantly dehumanized.

11 million lives were stolen. That many hearts were broken. Hundreds of books, magazines, and newspapers about the holocaust were sold. But Night by Elie Wiesel touched the hearts of millions. Each and every word written in his novel not only teaches people about the horrible experiences of those in the holocaust, but the book also explains how people act the way that they do. In his memoir, Wiesel exposes how people are either selfish or selfless, emotionally fragile and blame their faith in times of hardship.

Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences as a prisoner during the Holocaust. The guy who wrote “Night” named Eliezer. He grew up in Sighet. As Eliezer relates in Night, the SS forced Jews to break dietary laws, and deliberately shaved their heads and tattooed them in violation of Jewish Scripture and forced to stay in ghetto or concentration camp. Eliezer’s descriptions of his behavior toward his father seem to invalidate his guilty feelings. He depends on his father for support, and his love for his father allows him to endure. Eliezer’s father, Shlomo, is the only other constant presence in the work. However, whereas Eliezer develops throughout the work, experiencing horrible revelations and changes, Eliezer’s father remains a fairly static character, an older man who loves his son and depends upon him for support. He mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers.

Volte-face nature, a 180 in the sense of emotions, the experiences endured during the holocaust provoked the Weisel son and father duo to go through a volte-face natured way of life. Elie Wiesel, the son of Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig, was a young Jewish boy who had grown up in a relaxed Romanian town. He was brought into the Jewish religion by his parents, but his mother really instilled this way of life in him. Shlomo was an unemotional man on the outside, he often chose to not show his feelings outright, little did Elie know how emotional he could be. One of the most abiding parts of the holocaust to the duo was the death march. The march was a horrible occurrence that cost even more lives than had already been taken. Shlomo was quite

In Elie Wiesel's novel, Night, he depicts the horrors he faced as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In consequence, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written in response to the Holocaust, but Night exhibits the declaration’s painfully apparent necessity. Its necessity is notably evident as Articles 3, 5, and 25 are blatantly disregarded by the Nazi Party. One of the the most fundamental human rights, Article 3: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person," (UDHR) is clearly violated in Night.

Faith, misery and fear relate to the book Night by the fear that Elie feels about losing his dad at the arrival of the concentration camp. How Elie explains "we were alone"( page 29 Night). His father was the only one that remained close to him. After the separation of his family and during the time at the camp Elie began to lose faith towards God and on living. The main concern keeping Elie alive was his father, because he knew if he was to pass away his father will soon too as he was growing older.