Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

     Eli has a definite change emotionally. He thinks about the things he would never consider if he was not in Auschwitz. For example, on page 102, Elie says, “I gave him what was left of my soup, But it was with a heavy heart. I felt that I was giving it up to him against my will.” In the beginning, it was as if Elie would do anything for his father. After all, his father was older and it was Elie’s turn to look after him. After a while, his father seems like almost a burden to him. Elie felt obligated to give him the rest of his food, but if given the choice, he probably would not have given it up easily.

Often, the theme of a novel extends into a deeper significance than what is first apparent on the surface. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of night and darkness is prevalent throughout the story and is used as a primary tool to convey symbolism, foreshadowing, and the hopeless defeat felt by prisoners of Holocaust concentration camps. Religion, the various occurring crucial nights, and the many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism clearly demonstrate how the reoccurring theme of night permeates throughout the novel.

Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a real life story of the hardships faced by a 15 year old Jew during World War 2. Elie Wiesel’s account of the genocide he faced embodies human natures at its weakest. Night illustrates the selfishness and indecencies that human beings are capable of when faced with the prospect of death. The Jews and prisoners were often self-centred, only able to think about themselves, and the Nazis also often degraded the people of the concentration camps.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.

Elie Wiesel's Night, argues that in times of distress, keeping family close is incredibly important. At this point in the story, Elie and his father have been put through concentration camps, labor camps, many rides in cramped cable cars, and countless hours of torture. They are incredibly weak and hungry which impairs his father’s judgment. He became weak and childish, “Don’t yell, my son… Have pity on your old father… Let me rest here… a little…. I beg of you, I’m so tired… no more strength…”

In the memoir Night, written by Elie Weisel, you take a journey through the 1940s, and learn what it was like to live during the Holocaust. Night records the life of Elie Wiesel during his teen years, and the oppression he and his family went through because of their Jewish descent.

"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” ~Samuel Butler

In the autobiographical account Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the Jews experienced many conflicts and discrimination issues during the Holocaust. There were many many warnings but the Jews decided not to listen. The Germans were led by a man named, Adolf Hitler who wanted power over any and everybody they encountered.

At the arrival of the concentration camp was when Elie's life changed forever. His father was the only one he had left after the separation of his family. Right away Elie explains "My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone"(page 30).

Night by Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust narrative that discusses life-changing experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. Different experiences change multiple aspects of one’s identity. Through the course of this narrative, his faith changes drastically. Wiesel’s drastic faith change is evident through his loss of belief in God, loss of confidence in himself, and apathetic attitude about survival.

Elie is young and belongs to a family that is Jewish. They are part of a Jewish community where the father is highly respected within the Jewish community and they receive a lot of respect from others. As the story progresses, Elie and his family along with the Jewish community end up being transported harshly to a concentration camp where they are abused and treated more inhumanly than imaginable. Each family is torn apart and men and women go their separate ways, children are taken away from parents, and crematoriums become a normal thing. In the beginning of the book, Elie talks about how him and his father are not extremely close, but as the story continues, Elie and his father learn to rely on each other.

Some take life for granted, while others suffer. The novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, contains heart-wrenching as well as traumatic themes. The novel unfolds through the eyes of a Jewish boy named Eliezer, who incurs the true satanic nature of the Nazis. As the Nazis continue to commit inhumane acts of discrimination, three powerful themes arise: religion, night, and memory.

In 1944, in a village in Romania, a twelve-year-old named Elie Wiesel spends much of his effort and emotion on Jewish mysticism and the Talmud. Elie’s instructor, whose name is Moishe the Beadle, returns from an almost fatal experience and warns that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the peacefulness of their lives. Disregarding Moishe’s statement, even when anti-Semitic measures force the Sighet Jews into supervised ghettos, Elie's family remains patient and compliant. In the spring of that year, the Nazi aggressors began shipping trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex. Elie's family is part of the final convoy. In a cattle car, eighty villagers can barely move around and have to live and try not to die on little to no food or water. One of the deportees, Madame Schächter, becomes mentally insane and has surreal visions of flames and furnaces.

Before he was deported to a concentration camp, Elie exhibited some distinct character traits, such as, being very interested in his jewish religion, hopeful in any situation, and distant with his father. At the start of the book, Elie, the author, explained his life and his jewish belief, “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah” (Wiesel 3-4).The protagonist, Elie, lived in a community full of jewish people like him, of course it would be normal for him to peak an interest in his religion. He was a religious kid, under a religious roof, and his beliefs gave him answers to his questions on all aspects of life. He read the Tanakh and