Changes In The Night Trilogy By Elie Wiesel

At the beginning of night, Eliezer describes himself, who believes strongly. How have his experience at Auschwitz and other camps affected his faith? It has changed a lot and I will be talking about it in these three paragraphs.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

Elie experienced many changes, as a person while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small naive child that new very little

At the point where Chlomo dies, Elie has split emotions. The real part of Elie wants to mourn for Chlomo, yet the cruelty he endures gives him an emotionless personality. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep” (106). The last moments of Chlomo’s

There are many vices that are taken up exclusively by Humans. Other animals don’t think about wiping out entire races or species just for kicks, most species don’t have the urge to attempt genocide or even turning on their own kin, but humans do. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor whose ghastly year at the Auschwitz death camp was shared with the world by way of his book, “Night.”

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times scaled. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw

“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

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

When Shlomo is getting beaten by the German soldiers he obviously can't do anything to fight back because they would all beat him to death or maybe a even larger consequence. After he was done getting beaten and was talking to Elie, “No, my son. We cannot do this” (Wiesel 55). This shows that he wasn't able to step up and show leadership to his son Elie and at least tell him it's okay and the will find a way out he just told Elie that he couldn't do anything. Another example of Shlomo not being resilient is when they are finally having the option to see where they want to go not where someone else wants them to go. When Elie goes to his father for advice, “Yes, I think so”(Wiesel 82). Something this small means a lot because it makes it seem like he isn't very comfortable with his choice. I also think that if he wasn't confident with his choice of something this small he could not recover from it and blame it on someone else. These two characters in the book stick together to try and find a way out and they come to conclusions or agreements on many things to find a way out of the camp. They are also very different Elie is more resilient and able to recover from major setbacks that happen in front of him where as to Shlomo isn't able to recover as well as he does.

The Holocaust was an extremely difficult time for anyone that went into a concentration camp, and family can become one of the most important aspects of life when staying in one. Elie Wiesel delineates the events he experiences during his time with his father in the multiple concentration camps he travels to. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel portrays the recurring theme importance of family throughout certain characters in the story. Through the characters: Shlomo, Stein, and Elie, Wiesel shows the importance of family as a repetitive theme. Shlomo, Elie’s father, demonstrates the importance of family by supporting Elie through, possibly, one of the hardest times of Elie’s life.

In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there is also an example of indifference. This example is given from the perspective of a Jew who was kept prisoner by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jewish boy of about 15 who lived in Transylvania. He accounts all of the abhorrent experiences in the camps that he has been kept in, including all of the war planes flying overhead. These planes belonged to the countries that were supposed to be against the imprisonment of the Jews, these were the countries who could have done something to save them, to end their suffering. However, these countries didn’t do anything to free them, instead they had “other business elsewhere” according to the novel. In reality, these countries were being indifferent,

Shlomo Wiesel is the father to Elie, Beatrice, Hilda and Tzipora Wiesel, as well as the husband to Sarah Feig. At the beginning of the memoir, he is described as a “cultured man, rather unsentimental” and he “rarely displayed his feelings, not even with his family (Wiesel 4).” In the Jewish community of Sighet, Romania, Shlomo was well respected and admired by his peers who would often times seek his help regarding “public and even private matters (Wiesel 4).” When he and his son, Elie arrive in Birkenau, it is learned that he is 50 years old, however he is told by a fellow inmate to tell the SS officers he is only 40 years old. Upon entering the camp he is instantly changed and begins to weep alongside everybody, “his body shaking,” as he

The Jewish Holocaust was a traumatic event that took place from the early 1930s to the mid 1940s. During the Holocaust, the Germans believed that they had racial authority among other civilians. Under the rule of Adolf Hitler, the NAZIs targeted Jews and other groups due to their perceived "racial inferiority". For instance, they persecuted Jews, Gypsies, Elderly, Mentally Disabled, and Homosexuals (etc.) because they believed that they did not portray the behavior of the so-called “social norms”. They were sent to concentration camps and killing camps, to be starved or even beaten to death. This was the cause of death of approximately 6,000,000 Jews. The actions that the Germans took against these innocent people were inhuman. The book,

An important nonfiction book that I think everyone should read is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1960 by Hill and Wang. It has 116 pages and it is told by a man who survived the Holocaust. This was a very important moment in history that everyone needs knowledge on.