Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

There are many vices that are taken up exclusively by Humans. Other animals don’t think about wiping out entire races or species just for kicks, most species don’t have the urge to attempt genocide or even turning on their own kin, but humans do. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor whose ghastly year at the Auschwitz death camp was shared with the world by way of his book, “Night.”

In “Night,” the setting creates a cruel and depressing mood which helps the reader feel what it was like to live during the Holocaust. For example in chapter one he uses descriptive words that make it seem like the Nazis think that the Jewish people didn’t deserve a life. Once the Jewish get to the concentration camps the writing said “They were forced to dig huge trenches then they shot the prisoners” (Wiesel 6). That quote is saying that they were forced to dig their own grave when they arrived at the concentration camps, and then got shot and placed in the grave that they had just dug. In the writing i get the feeling that the Nazis thought the Jews were evil people because of the way they named the street that they lived on. In the text

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Wiesel alludes to the book of Leviticus when he says that his life was “seven times cursed” and to the book of Revelation when he states that he was “seven times sealed.” Wiesel alludes to Leviticus, which describes how God will punish the people who go against his will. He alludes to the book of Leviticus in order to illustrate the atrocities that he had encountered during his days at the concentration camps. The horrid sights that Wiesel saw during his first night at the concentration camp caused him to lose his faith in God. According to Wiesel, due to his abandonment of faith in God, he was harshly punished. The punishments were as severe as the punishments that God threatened to enforce in Leviticus. Later, Wiesel alludes to the text of

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).

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.

In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, gives you an overview of how the Jews were treated in the Holocaust. Many rights of the Jews were violated during the Holocaust. For example, when the Jews were first taken to the concentration camps, they were stripped of their clothes and anything of value. Another example, is that when they were put on the train, they were all fighting each other for the food and stealing from each other. Finally another example, was they were all crammed into small areas with a lot of people and even bodies of dead people and had very small amounts of food and water, pretty much only enough to keep them alive.

The atrocity expressed throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, gives us a clear understanding into the levels of inhumane management which occurred in the times of World War II from the Germans. During the Holocaust, Hitler’s main objective was to make the Jews feel defective; he was ahead of the game. The Jews were tortured everyday for no reason at all other than for the SS officers’ own laughs. Wiesel exercises imagery, dialogue, and plot events to voice his own experience with the trauma of inhumanity.

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.

In the Novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, his emotion that was coming of the novel was sadness, simply because he was questioning God, he was reconsidering his relationship with him and he explains so in his novel. Elie stated “Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “For God's sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows...”

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself Never” (34). In the book, Night, Elie Wiesel talks about his horrible experience as a young Jewish boy during the holocaust in which he witnessed some of the eleven million deaths that took place as a result of Hitler's pursuit of power. At the age of twelve, Elie and his family were transported and moved through many concentration camps in which he witnessed the absolute worst forms of torture, abuse, and inhumane treatment.

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