Cause And Effect Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

“Night’ shows that even in the most brutalising conditions, people still behave humanely. To what extent do you agree?”

Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.

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.

Each day,6,000 innocent lives were taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau,one of the many concentration camps in Europe. During the “Final solution” two out of every three European Jews were killed. This genocide lasted from 30 January,1933 to 8 May,1945. Elie Wiesel,a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust,shares his personal traumatic,faith breaking and experiences with inhuman treatment in his memoir, Night.

Humans are born with freedom and rights. Every human being should be treated fair and equal. They should have their rights and their rights should be protected.In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Jews were treated cruel and their rights were taken away as a human. They were treated like animals. The Jew’s rights were violated by the Nazi’s. Article two states that “everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion.” , which has been violated,in the story it states , “We no longer had the right to frequent restaurants… to travel by rail, to attend synagogue, to be on the streets after six.”(11). Humans should not be limited to be free. In article five it states that “No

Fear, fear is what Daniel experienced every second of the Holocaust, fear that he would be killed or tortured. During the Holocaust millions of Jews were killed. They were forced to go to concentration camps where most of them were forced to work. Once they were unable to work they were sent off to the gas chambers. Adolf Hitler was able to convince the Germans that the source of all of their problems was Jews. Adolf Hitler was a motivational speaker people believed him. Causing millions of German to harm Jews. By the time the war was over thousands of people continued to die. Not having the hope to keep living, or that there was anyone in the world that would accept them. Many would still live in fear and never recover from what they have been through. The experiences that have the greatest impact on daniel are when Aunt leah and a young boy are murdered in cold blood, causing him to fear the Nazis.

“Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” - Elie Wiesel. Imagine walking amongst skeletons who you once knew but cannot recognize anymore and seeing people burn as if they were a waste of space, a disappointment. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, wrote his best selling book, ‘Night’, to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself with this monstrous deeds. The holocaust changed Wiesel in a lot of ways, good and bad, but the holocaust did not break him for Wiesel kept some of the most valuable traits like thankful and curious.

Dr. Josef Mengele- Mengele is a SS officer at the camp and he has the responsibility of choosing those who are unqualified to work. He is mean and dark- hearted.

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.” -Norman Cousins

The protagonist in the book Night is the main character Eliezer. Eliezer is the only character that survives the concentration camps. The antagonists in this book are the Germans and the S.S. officers. The Germans and S.S officers are the ones who are going

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” -Norman Cousins

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

The infamous Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once said, “Being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil; that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen.” Wiesel was part of the millions of Jews and protesters who Nazis shipped off to numerous concentration camps during the Holocaust. The apprehended and inaccurately claimed convicts had to go through many terrors to survive. Wiesel was one of the few Jews who survived the time Hitler ruled. I agree with Wiesel’s significant quote for many various reasons. To begin, I agree with Wiesel’s statement because victims that could have helped others during the Holocaust ignored that there were evil actions occurring around them during the time Hitler ruled. The victims also ignored

Sixty percent of the jewish population in the entire north western hemisphere were killed during the final solution. Night is the story of a fifteen year old, jewish boy who is taken from his home and sent to the infamous nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. He loses everything including most of his family and all that he has left is his father. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the main character and author, Elie, is affected in many ways by the events of the book such as a change in his feelings towards his father, his loss of faith, as well as being mentally scarred with images and feelings he will never forget.

During the Holocaust, the survivors experienced torturous events that led them to lose their beliefs and identity. In the story Night, Elie Wiesel saw children burning in the crematorium and he commented that “Never shall I forget the flames that consumed my faith”(34). His experience of