Analytical Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

As the story progressed, so did Elie as a character. For example, On page 54 Wiesel states, “What’s more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath? That was life in a concentration camp had made me…” Instead of pointing the finger at the Kapo, who is truly at fault, Elie lames his father for getting beat up. He knows that the anger should be flipped around, but can’t help but to feel this way because of what the camp has made of him. This is surprising because earlier in the book he had always showed a caring tone to his father. However, as life gets harder, his anger/resentment towards his dad grows. This trait is noticeable from the fact that Elie was constantly angry and blaming someone for something. This piece of evidence helps show that the concentration camp has turned Elie into an angry person. As times get ever worse Elie begins to questions why he would bless God

In the book, Elie’s actions toward others reflect greatly throughout the story. Elie shows compassion especially to his father throughout the entire story. His actions toward his father kept his father alive longer than if he would not have helped his father so much. “The sick were allowed to stay in the block. So I would be sick. I didn’t want to leave my father.” (Night 111)

Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences

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

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.

Furthermore, while still in Auschwitz and after he was liberated, Elie started to reveal the side of him that acclaimed many negative character traits. First of all, toward the end of the book, Elie was nonchalant and numb toward all the terrible things that happened at Auschwitz, “Very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematorium’s furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention” (Wiesel 104). After moving to a new camp, Elie was unphased by seeing the new crematoriums. Now that Elie and his father were transported to the new camp, they are unfazed by everything that they see. The things they witness would shock most people, but Elie and his father are used to it. This proves that Elie changed after experiencing Auschwitz, he went from being shocked every time he saw something new at the camp, to barely even noticing those things. In addition, Elie also becomes very disinterested and apathetic after he arrived to Auschwitz, “Suddenly the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight” (Wiesel 99). Based on the evidence he had, Elie believed his father was dead. Throughout the whole book, Elie has been staying with his father and keeping them

Before the concentration camps, Elie possessed a lot of important and good character traits. “After we were given permission to go back to our block and have our meal. I remember that evening, the soup tasted better than ever.” (Wiesel 63). A man who was convicted of stealing had just been hung in front of thousands of prisoners. Elie had always been thankful for everything he received, even during the concentration camp. He just became more grateful for the smallest things that most people would not think would have meaning. My next point from ‘Night’, “We were the master of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything- death,fatigue, our natural needs.” (Wiesel 87). Elie and the remaining prisoners are running to get to their new camp because the army comes to liberate them. This text evidence shows how Elie was intrigued and surprised. Elie was curious about his religion and surprised by many of the

Elie was a victim of dehumanization during the holocaust which caused him to feel no pain or sadness in these horrible times. Through the story, Elie has tried not to become dehumanized by the Nazis, but sadly he still does. At some points he wants to just get rid of his father, and gets angry at him for no reason. One day Ellie was working and his dad got in a kapos way. The man began to beat Elie's father but Ellie didn't care,he thought, “What is more, any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the kapo, but against my father”(Weisel 52). Elie thought that his father was smart enough to know not to get in the way of the kapo, sadly though Elie felt no grief for his poor father only anger. In another instance Elie was looking for his father hoping he was still alive, but he also didn't want to find him. He said, “Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of his dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about my self”(Weisel 101). Elie, like most of the other

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.

During the Holocaust Jews were often forced from concentration camp to concentration camp where they would only get a ration of bread and soup each day and were often whipped or even killed for doing something wrong or not being strong enough to work. They were also required, during the year of 1942, to wear badges so they can easily be recognized by the Nazis and other non-Jews. The Nazis treated Jews like animals causing them to lose faith in god.

In the quote “I was angry with him for not knowing how to avoid [it]. That is what concentration camp life made of me.” a rare characteristic of Elie is presented because he never gets mad at his dad in fact he refuses to let his dad die at many points in the memoir such as the part when they were being transported from one camp to another and starvation was claiming many lives in the cattle car and they were being thrown out of the car and when the men approached Elie’s father “And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly.”. As Elie stays at the camp his identity, his past life is rewritten, and his thoughts are filled with all the things that could go wrong within in the camp including the fact that he might be shot for no reason at any moment. These thoughts caused Elie’s patience to shorten and he had thought of things that made him curious as to what the source of such crazy thought was but he still accepted that they were

Elie realizes his father doesn’t have enough strength to live on his own. “Its too late to save your old father, I said to myself” (pg 105). He felt guilty because he couldn’t help his dad. He begins to rely on himself because he knows that only he could help himself in his time of need.

Death. Sad. Pain. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie recalls about the Holocaust

Night In the book Night, Elie Wiesel was forced into an concentration camp in 1944 by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. He was beaten, forced to work, starved, along with the other millions of people in the camps. They fought to live. They were living in horrible conditions, but he still some how managed to survive.

There are many instances that his father is being tortured and he was overcome with horror; his already strong hate for the Nazis was amplified by this. Remembering with sorrow, Elie recalls a specimen of his father being ill-treated," Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours. I stood petrified."(39) Elie is very dedicated to his father. At some select moments in his life, his father is the only reason he continues to breathe. He stays alive and fights for him; despite at some points it being much easier to surrender to the death that was slowly, but surely, taking siege within him. While analyzing the betrayal of son to father Weisel prays," Oh God, Master of The Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done."(91) After the abandonment of Rabbi Eliahu by his son, Eliezer, in distress, hopes that he will never to the same to his own father for the sake of survival. Alongside his father, Elie sees countless other Jews enduring persecution at its most