Between The Lines Of Night By Elie Wiesel

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw. George Shaw’s famous quote describes that to achieve, you must change yourself. On May 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family were forced out from his home in Sighet, Romania to live in Auschwitz, Germany. He and his two older sisters survived the holocaust, Elie then wrote his experience in 1960. During the span of the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the novel demonstrates that traumatic events can change a person drastically. In the beginning, Elie lived with his family in Germany, his mother, his father, and his three siblings. The Germans forced the Jews to hand over their valuables, live in ghettos and finally moving them to concentration camps, including Elie’s family. He was disunited from his mother and three siblings, but managed to stay with his father. At first when he entered the camp he was pessimistic and discouraged when he saw the townspeople crying including his father. After, Elie then learned to take care of himself and his father during tragic events, he stuck to his ambitions and values which led him to go through many obstacles , despite the limitations, and be free of the camp of Auschwitz. As he set out Eliezer was an immature and carefree 15 year old who developed into a responsible young adult.

Robert Shapiro, an American civil litigator once said, “To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization,” The Holocaust, a genocide led by Adolf Hitler, killed six million jews, and dramatically affected the whole world. The memoir “Night,” written by Elie Wiesel describes the brutality Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, and how life changing it was. Although some may believe the memoir written by Elie Wiesel was titled “Night” because he was forced to leave his home during the night, Wiesel illustrates Jews losing hope, faith, and happiness through the symbol of Night, to prove that the memoir was titled “Night” to symbolize the darkness the holocaust created.

The books Night, by Elie Wiesel, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne are two intriguing books by themselves. However, when you put them together you gain an improved perspective about the Holocaust. You also get see how people were affected by it, how they reacted to it, and what their opinions were about it. These two books contain many similarities and differences, but they go so well together.

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

There are many important themes and overtones to the book Night, by Eliezer Wiesel. One of the major themes from the book includes the protagonist, and author of his memoire, Elie Wiesel’s ever changing relationship with God. An example of this is when Moche the Beadle asked Elie an important question that would change his life forever, as the basis of his passion and aptitude for studying the ancient texts and teachings of Judaism, “When Moche the Beadle asked Elie why he prayed, Elie couldn 't think of an answer that truly described his faith, and thought, "a strange question, why did I live, why did I breathe?" (Wiesel 14).

“I learned that the hard way” it is a statement that is often used in regular everyday conversation. Situations or struggles that individuals have to deal with teach them lessons about the world and may in turn impact who they are. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, Elie develops the idea that adversity in one's life can quite drastically change or shape a person's identity and mentally wear them down to the point where they are incapable of being who they truly are even after they already have developed their own ways of being. He continually develops this idea throughout the book when he talks about his relationship with God and his view of his family or more specifically his father. Additionally, he shows this with his father, Shlomo, who begins

It has been said, “the bigger the challenge, the more your sacrifices will impact you.” This statement not only applies to people who face a small challenge, but to people who have been chased by death. In Elie Wiesel’s telling of the Holocaust in Night, the events that he witnessed have significantly changed him. He was sent to a concentration camp as a young teenager, and had to overcome many traumatic situations including: being tortured by the nazis, and watching his father get beat up multiple times. He doesn’t realize how much he has changed till the end of his stay at the concentration camps, but he became more mature and determined.

Have you ever experienced adversity in losing everything you once believed in? In the book Night, Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who suffers through the hardships of religious discrimination in the concentration camps during the holocaust. The theme I plan to talk about is Eliezer's loss of faith throughout the war and his journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Religion is a stronghold for most people during times of struggle; the story begins with Eliezer believing God was the most important thing in his life, to struggling with the thought of God letting all the suffering happen in Germany.

For a young child one of the most difficult things to deal with is the separation from the things you they know and care about, such as their home, friends and family. This can be seen all over the world weather its a child moving away from home, or the loss of a family member many people struggle with change and separation. The key to getting through it is to believe that you have the strength to get through it. This strength or courage is what Elie Wiesel's character Eliezer uses in the book Night to help heal his wounds quickly so that he is able to survive. These wounds even though healed quickly at the time have left so major scars but his courage and strength made it so he could survival even the most horrible of times.

World War II was a very dark time in the world’s history as it was one of the largest destruction of mankind. Estimated at over 60 million deaths in total, over 6 million of those were Jewish. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the calamitous effects of the war are seen throughout the story. Given by the title, the night has significance as it is a reoccurring them throughout the novel. Many important events take place in the night and there is also a great fear of it. The night also has a deeper meaning as it signifies the darkness within human beings. In the novel, the night is the time of change for Eliezer and the night brings out the darkness of the people in the concentration camps.

The tragedy of the Holocaust is the murder of the six million Jews and five million Gentiles. The Holocaust traumatized and changed many people. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, is one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust. Elie’s relationship with both God and his father alters tremendously throughout the course of the Holocaust and the memoir, Night.

In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel you get brought into what it was like to be a Jew in the time of the Holocaust and what they had to go through. In the book even though you can see a lot about what was going on during and in the camps of the Holocaust you see that everyone is shocked mainly in the beginning that no one said anything and that no one was saying anything and that they were letting these women,men, girls, boys, babies even just die without a thought from their killer. Hitler and the Nazi they didn't care, they didn't like the Jews and they didn't want anymore of them around, sadly they got close to what they wanted by killing 6 million Jews in the course of just two years. With all the Jews coming in Elie was surprised that no

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.

“We sensed that we were gathered around the familial table for the past time” (p 22), this is one of the quotes in Night by Elie Wiesel that has brought people to tears. This book is a story about a father and son who went through the holocaust together. You are that takes you taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride by a voice from the past. It is by far one of the most memorable books that I have read in a long time. Not only does it make you feel like you’re in the story yourself, but it also causes you to think about your bond with your parents.

At the beginning, of my high school year I thought people show acceptance without prejudice but later, I learned that people are judgemental and opinionated of other people’s live. From when I was a kid, I was always thought everyone should be different and be who they are. The society isolates us if we are different from societal norms. For Example, The Stranger, showed consequences of not fitting to societal norms, as well as, The night because it reveals the intolerance towards the jews since they have a different faith. However, as I am maturing to become an adult, I have to understand that I have to behave in a certain role in order to fit in the society norm. The Night and The Stranger changed my perspective on people based on their personal experiences. The Stranger is about someone who feels like he doesn’t fit the moral code set by society, while The Night talks about the torture and hardship Elie Wiesel faced in a concentration camp. While reading the book, The Night, my perspective changed because of Wiesel's mindset of not giving up and his struggle of enduring the physical and mental attack. The character in the book never gave up on his faith in god, after torture and seeing his family pass away. I couldn’t believe how humans can have such a cruel mindset and make people suffer indescribable hardship. As a result of, unbelievable torture in a concentration camp, Wiesel said, “those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow,” indicating in order