Brief Summary Of Eliezer Wiesel's 'Night'

Setting (time and place): Early 1940s, during World War Two, Holocaust era. starting in Sighet, Transylvania, and moving throughout concentration camps in Europe.

The entire novel Night itself is actually an allusion or a symbol. Night refers to the darkness or the loss of religion throughout the novel. This is from Eliezer, himself, losing his religion throughout the novel and letting the darkness of suffering from the Nazi’s overcome his faith. Eliezer has no remorse for others anymore in the novel and this includes his father. In the novel, the prisoners from the camp are forced to run from the red army that have slowly been gaining on the Nazi’s. Eliezer and his father have to run for miles upon end in the snow without any shoes, food, or rest the entire time. This is when Eliezer realizes that if he leaves his father behind when he becomes to slow that he will survive even if his father doesn’t.

Never" (Wiesel 32). This quote unites the emotional, mental, psychological, and spiritual damaged suffered by Eliezer from his experiences with inhumanity of the Nazis. Lastly, the march from Buna to Buchenwald occurs at night; this is significant because it indicates the fate awaiting the prisoners (Fine 54). The many important nights that take place throughout the novel are clear indicators of the significance that the theme of darkness and night possesses all through the story.

One of the main themes throughout the book is the title of the book “Night”. There are references from Eliezer about night during the book, which are full of symbolism. The word “night” is used repeatedly, and Eliezer recounts every dusk, night and dawn through the entire book. For instance, Night could be a metaphor for the Holocaust—submerge the family and thousands of Jewish families in the darkness and misery of the concentration camps.

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

The author of the book Night is Elie Wiesel and the main character is Eliezer. The title Night points out to the darkness of mind, life and soul experienced by everyone who had suffered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The theme of Night is Eliezer’s difficulty to maintain his faith in God. In the book Night, Eliezer’s faith fades away by seeing the horrible conditions of his surroundings, the painful deaths of many innocent people and by persecution.

Night, written by Elie Wiesel, tells the terrifying experience in the concentration camps that many Jews were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout most of the novel, Elie Wiesel tells about how many prisoners, including himself, lost faith in God. During the Holocaust many groups of people, especially Jews, were taken to concentrations camps and treated in the most inhumane way. Many were taken away from their homes, and lost everything that was once their own. In order to survive, many Jews encountered such brutal difficulties. They were worked to death, starved to death, killed, and all because they were Jews. Upon being taken away, many were unaware with what was happening outside their own homes.

The first of the 2 novels is Night, in this novel; it is often shown through-out the book that in times of need, people are willing to turn on one another. By seeing how Eliezer’s views about his father changed in the novel, it is proven that Eliezer began to focus more on surviving and desires than some of the important things like family thus proving that the evil change that Eliezer went was in fact nothing more than him falling back onto his more primitive beliefs of focusing on living by instinct and desire. The first of the two quotes to prove that is here: “He slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours. I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed so much?”(Wiesel 39) This quote is from Eliezer’s first moments in Auschwitz. And from this quote, we know that it also marks the beginning of Eliezer’s steadily decreasing lack of sympathy for others for he had already began his descent to using his primitive instincts. This quote though, is extremely enlightening when compared to the thesis. This would be because this quote illustrates the fact that Eliezer

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led Israel forty years.

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the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah and the Gemara. There are two versions of the Talmud: the Babylonian Talmud (which dates from the 5th century AD but includes earlier material) and the earlier Palestinian or Jerusalem Talmud.

Night is a ‘record’ of Elie Wiesel’s (who is both the author and the main character) memories from the holocaust. He is taken from his home in Sighet, and goes through several concentration camps. Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald are where each concentration is. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer is seen praying very often and he has a very strong faith in god. As the book goes on, he loses faith and by the end of the book he believes there is no god.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is an eye opening memoir of his experiences being in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel went from a man who loved his family and had great faith to a man who lost all hope in everything. His memoir sheds light on what it was like to be a teenage boy during this time. Throughout his memoir readers get to see his transition as well as the circumstances he was undergoing. Elie Wiesel named his protagonist Eliezer, who is the only boy out of 4 children.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the novel takes place in Europe where the Holocaust was happening. Eliezer is the main character who narrates his life with his father during the Holocaust. It starts that Eliezer and his family was living a normal life in Sighet, Hungary. However, in the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupied his country and forced all the Jews to wear yellow stars. His people and his family were herded by the police into cattle cars to Auschwitz. On their way to Auschwitz, they were stopped at Birkenau and began their first selection. His mother and his sisters didn’t pass the selection. Therefore, he and his father would never see them again. Eliezer, his father, and other Jews were relocated from camp to camp. They were beaten

In Elie Wiesel’s novel, “Night,” the main character, a Jewish teenager, Eliezer, experiences how it feels like in the concentration camps. He lived in Sighet, Transylvania learning how to enter eternity and strengthen his relationship with God, when his teacher, a brother Moishe the Beadle, gets deported. Throughout his journey, Eliezer struggles to regain faith in God, even when struggles happen to loved ones.