Analysis Of The Novel ' Night '

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope” (I Am Number Four Caruso). In life, when we give up hope, we give up everything. Our dreams are forever lost and the fight within us to live on is gone. Giving up hope is giving up on life. Even in the darkest moments of life there is always hope and that hope will keep you living. In the book Night, people either gave up hope of everything or held on to what little hope they had and lived to tell their story. A man named Meir Kratz lost hope and had no will to survive, and thus surrendered his life. Another person in the book, Akiba Drumer, lost all hope in life and eventually gave in to death. Eliezer

One day, Moishe was observing Eliezer pray, and proceeded to ask him “Why do you cry when you pray?”(4). Elie just replied with “I don’t know”, Moishe then asked him why he prayed. This sparked a million thoughts through Ellie's head, “Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”. All he could say is “I don’t know”. This was the first time Elie really got his faith questioned by someone, it was so taboo to him he didn’t know how to react. Faith engulfs Elie’s life, he prays and studies his religion. Moishe is Elie's mentor, showing him and teaching him the Kabbalah revelations, Elie really expected Moishe to help him reach eternity. One day Hungarian police forced all foreign Jews out of their homes and into cattle cars, Moishe was a foreign Jew. Days passed, and one day Elie was in the synagogue and saw Moishe sitting there, he had escaped. Moishe told Elie his horrific experiences of witnessing Jew dig mass trenches only to be their graves. For days he had gone to every Jewish household to warn them about what was coming, no one wanted to believe him, it was

Night is a powerful work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps. In the beginning of Night, Elie, a young boy of twelve, is a deeply devout Jew. He studies the Talmud with zeal, visits the synagogue frequently, and when he prays he weeps without knowing why. Wanting to study the Kabbalah, he finds a teacher in Moishe the Beadle, a poor jack-of-all-trades at a house of prayer; together they read and dissect pages of the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, searching for divinity and eternity, questions and answers. Then, one day, Moishe is expelled from Sighet because he is a foreign Jew. He manages to come back to Sighet, but he is changed: “The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or the Kabbalah” (Wiesel 7). He only spoke of what he saw when he was taken away: The Gestapo, taking over the train that held Moishe and the deportees, then, after having them dig their own graves in a forest, systematically shooting every Jew. Moishe manages to survive because they had left him for dead after shooting him in the leg. Because of this harrowing experience, Moishe loses his fervor for the Jewish faith, no longer singing of divine suffering or of Shekinah the Exile and teaching Elie about the Kabbalah. Similarly, this loss

From being a normal kid, to almost being burned alive, Elie Wiesel’s Night is a story about a boy’s time in a concentration camp. Elie is faced with many scarring challenges, and some have changed him. These events were In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character Elie, is affected by the harrowing events in the book because he was mentally, spiritually, and physically harmed during his time at Auschwitz To start, Elie was changed mentally in the book. There were many events that caused Elie’s mental state to deteriorate, including the event where Elie was deported in the cattle car. He describes on page 24 that his world from then on as “being in a hermetically sealed cattle car.’’

The novel “Night” is based on the atrocities of German cruelty towards the Jewish race, through Elie Wiesel’s perspective. Living in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie and Moishe the Beadle studied the talmud and kabbalah together. They also prayed in the synagogue. Elie was very observant and intrigued by Jewish mysticism. After a while, Moishe and all the other foreign Jews were deported by the Hungarian police and hermetically crammed into cattle cars.

In Night, the author originally establishes Moishe the Beadle as the paternal influence in Eliezer’s life; however, Eliezer’s father becomes the father figure after the transports begin. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer’s father is described as “a cultured man, rather unsentimental.” Whereas Moishe is described as “Physically, he was as awkward as a clown. His waiflike shyness made people smile. As for me, I liked his wide, dreamy eyes, gazing off into the distance.” These descriptions show that Eliezer prefers to spend time with Moishe rather than with his father. The premise that a child would rather spend time with someone who is “poor and lived in utter penury” than a respected man in society shows that Eliezer viewed Moishe more as a father than as an acquaintance. Additionally, when Eliezer asks his father whether he could study the Kabbalah and further his understanding

Eliezer’s inability to believe in a kind, fair God is a prevailing conflict in Night. At the opening of the book, his faith seems steadfast, but it is irreparably shaken by the Holocaust. Moishe the Beadle is briefly mentioned in the beginning as a means of foreshadowing. Moishe is the first person of many in the book to lose faith in God. Elie leaves behind some of his religious quests upon leaving his childhood home: “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God… Yet I felt little

Elie Wiesel narrates, “… I was alone — terribly alone in a world without God and without man.” (Wiesel, 65) Elie, a young Jewish boy, who grew up in the Jewish faith says these few words in the midst of captivity. Back in Elie’s hometown these few words could arouse angry responses, but presently many would agree with these few words. Along with Elie, many members of the Jewish faith can agree as all their faith is being evaporated. How and why is Elie experiencing a loss in faith? The answer is simple. During the novel Night, Elie Wiesel reveals a change in his faith as he experiences a loss in faith throughout the beginning, middle and end of the novel.

Throughout literature it can sometimes be seen that the most memorable characters are not always the characters who are around the longest. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night” the character of Moishe the Beadle has an extremely profound impact on the main character Elizer in a very short period of time. Moishe is introduced in the very first line of the book which would lead one to believe that he would be a main component of the story but, his role is over by page ten. The character of Moishe the Beadle not only has an impact on Elizer, but on the reader as well, through his understanding of the human spirit. Moishe’s insight into the realm of spirituality and human nature is fully demonstrated in the few pages he appears in the book as he expresses his feelings on the nature of the kabbalah, discusses with Elizer the truth about god, and in the end try’s to use his insight to open the eyes of the people of Sighet to what is coming.

“Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever,” as said in Night by Elie Wiesel. Night is a novel based on the atrocities that were committed against the Jewish people during World War II. This novel educates readers based on Elie’s personal experiences, and are used to transmit the memory of one of history’s darkest chapters. Throughout the novel, Elie displays the constant theme of familial love. The use of familial love throughout the book allows for readers to better understand what Elie and his family went

Almost every human being has went through a period of time in their life when their faith in god was nonexistent due to experience with hardship. The novel, Night, was written by Elie Wiesel to depict his ghastly experiences at a concentration camp during the holocaust. He goes through a number of changes when it came to his faith in God. Elie’s beliefs change from being deeply devoted to God to questioning his devotion to completely repudiating him. Throughout the memoir, there are very clear examples of Elie’s struggle with faith and religion.

In the beginning of Night, by Elie Wiesel, it is shown that the main character, Elie, is a very religious child. He studies Kabbalah, the mystical Jewish interpretation of the bible, and prays every day. As the story continues on through the concentration camps and Elie’s character and behavior drastically changes. While he’s developing he starts to lose his faith in God, himself, and the others around him. This and other evidence, reveals that the most important aspect of human nature is faith.

Joshua Graham once said, “I survive because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” The honored novel, Night by: Elie Wiesel is a fantastically well composed novel conveying the horrors and, survivors of the famous Holocaust. This novel tells of the experience of Elie and his father’s journey through the period of time known as, the holocaust. All Jews were thrown out of their homes and brought to the concentration camps starting in 1933. Elie went through all three of the “ worst” concentration camps, while struggling with some of rough aspects of camp. Eliezer was torn from his mother and siblings at the beginning, then he had to go the industrious work from the labor camps. In the end Elie’s father did not survive the concentration camps so Eliezer ended up alone. These tragic events tore Elie from his former religious kind self, and made him a rough, almost non existent shell of his former self.

Elie Wiesel’s, Night, depicts the life of a faithful Jew, Elie, who wants to learn more about his religion. Elie asks a local beggar, Moishe The Beadle to teach him about the Kabbalah. The Kabbalah is a Jewish teaching which helps with one's understanding of Judaism. Elie goes against his father’s wishes on learning the Kabbalah as he is too young. One can see through his devotion in learning the Kabbalah that Elie is really invested through his faith . Elie is quick to discover the Jewish religion won’t be able to help him in the Nazi concentration camps. Elie’s view on God and the Jewish faith changes throughout the monstrosities in the Nazi death camps. Elie is a young teenager and feels like he should learn the Kabbalah at such a young age and gets a devoted teacher in Moishe the Beadle.

The novel Night is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel of his life in a concentration camp. During World War II, anti-Semitism spread in Europe and people like Hitler and his Nazi army started targeting all sorts of Jews, believing them to be “lesser beings”. The Nazis forced the Jews from their homes and into ghettos to isolate them and then deported them to concentration camps. In these Nazi concentration camps, beatings and hangings were common as the SS officers tried to make an example out of the misbehaving prisoners.