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.”

Through his first-person memoir Night, Elie Wiesel reveals that people experience changes in their attitude as they become products of their environments.

After ten years of silence, Elie Wiesel recounts his personal experiences of the Holocaust and retells the horrific details of the events he witnessed in his honest, eye-opening memoir Night. Taken at a young age, Elie Wiesel is transported to Auschwitz; at this concentration camp, Wiesel is separated from his mother and younger sister, whom he would never see again. During his years at the concentration camp, Wiesel and his father worked long exhausting hours every day. After a forty-two mile trip from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz in the snow and bitter cold, Elie Wiesel watches the slow death of his father by malnutrition and a harsh beating from the Nazis. Three months later American forces liberate the camp. One of the most important memoirs one can read and an inspiration, Night deserves to be read by everyone.

Remaining silent when you also acknowledge that there is a presence of evil or threat means that you have no interest or care in the victims of the evil. And doing nothing to either support the victims or prevent more complications is obviously backing out the opposition. Which is exactly why Elie Wiesel is so passionate about this problem of remaining physically and vocally silent in times of despair and wrong. This is shows in paragraph 2,"Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not." He states that he has no right to represent the many people who have died and suffered which included his own family and close ones. He mentions the "Kingdom of Night"

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” (Elie Wiesel) The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story of trying to survive in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Family is an important part of the story because it shows us that family can be what keeps some people alive, family becomes important when things get rough, and that once you lose your humanity family means nothing.

Circumstances change a person’s perspective. Those who seem to be caring can change under the radar. Those who change see it as the only way out of dire situations. It then becomes a game of survival of the fittest, or life and death. What may make humans change or become cruel can be political reasons, the theory of abstract, and personal issues. Politics can trap people in a cruel mindset of humanity.

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.

Imagine being placed in a position of power that gives you an advantage over your peers. What would you do? Would you use your power to help others, or to get what you want? In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel tells of men who use their power for both good and evil. Wiesel uses characterization, by describing each person’s traits through their actions, to express the theme that power can reveal a person’s true character.

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

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

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

The book Night tells the story of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, and his time in concentration camps. Throughout the story, Elie slowly transitions from a devout man of faith, into another godless wandering soul among this earth, phased by all of the thing that he saw in the god- forsaken concentration camps. Before leaving his sleepy town of Sighet, Elie was so wrapped up in his faith, that he was somewhat naïve, believing every about God that he has heard. Yet, when he and his father arrive at the concentration camp, Elie starts to question his faith, he wonders how God would allow these mass amounts of death to happen. ‘For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I bless His name? What had I to thank him for?’(33). Elie, like most humans, had started to change what he believed in when things did not go his way. As he began to see the flames of children and families burning, he went on to say, ‘Never shall I forget the flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget these moments which murdered my god and my soul and dreams turned to dust’ (22). This, was the final moment that Elie Wiesel had faith in God. For a moment, he was just a scared little boy, trying to find someone to grasp his hand and comfort him in a time of need.

The literary form of nonfiction prose, specifically the memoir, is most suited to thinking through the ethics of experimental research or medicine on human subjects. This form of literature relies on the personal experiences of the author, rather than factual information, to increase awareness about an emotional truth. Night by Elie Wiesel will be analyzed to support this relationship and "Respect for Autonomy" of Principles of Biomedical Ethics will give context for my argument. The former piece is written by a Holocaust survivor who documents his experience of living in concentration camps during the Nazi regime (Wiesel). The latter is a philosophical work that elaborates on one of the four principles of medical ethics, respect for

David Olere artwork, Unable to work, is dedicated to the death of many in the Holocaust. Unable to work is a painting that's unbearable to see or imagine, but throughout this outlook one can see the depth of the symbols and contrast, the meaning, and how it's relates to the book Night by Elie Wiesel.