Corruption Of Power In Night By Elie Wiesel

Imagine, people at your feet, doing everything you ask, raising you higher and better than everyone else. Does it feel good to live a life of luxury? Some would give up everything they have to achieve this fantasy, and the ones who finally have it never let it go. This is what it is like to have power and most abuse it. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, it follows a young boy named Elie, through a tragic event called the holocaust. Through so many traumatizing moments of fear and helplessness gives the ongoing theme of power, or the abuse of power. Power is something that an individual gains by asserting authority over others and can influence what they do or what happens. In this case many people that took part in the holocaust abused their power to accomplish extreme genocide. The abuse of power originated from Hitler, onto the people who ran the concentration camps, and to the people directly looking over the mistreated Jews.

Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. In other words, as one obtains more and more power, he or she tends to take advantage of this power, ultimately resulting in a morality change. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, shares his story about the Holocaust. Throughout the memoir, Wiesel talks about power and how those with more of it, tend to show greater immorality. The quote, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men," by John Dalberg-Acton means that a person’s morality decreases as their power increases.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel has become popular worldwide teaching people all ages about the Holocaust. Night tells about young Elie Wiesel’s life story as he lives as a Jew during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel tells how things changed for him and Jewish families all across Europe as they were sent to concentration camps where they were brutally treated. Elie Wiesel’s family was sent to Auschwitz concentration in 1944. In the concentration camps families would be split up including Elie Wiesel’s, he was split apart from his mother and sister and was forced to live with only his dad. At the concentration camps Jews were treated like animals many Jews died at these camps, others became insane. The Nazis treated the Jews like animals by taking away their humanity and causing them additional pain.

Night by Elie Wiesel depicts the author's experiences as a teenage Jewish boy during the Holocaust. After being removed from his home in Sighet, Transylvania, Eliezer and his family are relocated from ghetto to ghetto. They then are taken away to Birkenau and then separated. Eliezer only has his father as they face the horrors of surviving in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. From 1944-1945, they are forever changed by the inhumanity that surrounds them. Cruelty shown by not just the SS Officers, but by their fellow inmates as well. Eliezer, jaded by the brutalities around him, has lost his faith in God. However, Eliezer still persevered for his father, even when others around him lost the will to live. In one year, the Holocaust took away Eliezer’s innocence, faith, and his own father. (Although Night is a memoir of Elie Wiesel’s own experiences in a concentration camp, it is written from the point-of-view of a boy named Eliezer.)

Imagine a world where people are treated like dogs, what they are given to eat can barely be described as food, and they live in constant fear of their future. This is what Elie Wiesel and millions of other innocent people were faced with during the Holocaust. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he expressed to his readers the terrorizing events that occurred through his time as he moved from one concentration camp to the next. Wiesel detailed the struggle to maintain faith through various Jewish people such as Moishe the Beadle, Akiba Drumer, and himself.

The Holocaust appeared to be a time of darkness and it seemed like on Earth and in heaven, each doorway of humanity, empathy, and kindness had been closed down. Those who did not encounter the Holocaust cannot begin to comprehend what it was like, however, those who did cannot begin to express it. Torture, genocide, and cruel acts started to fill brains and souls. The Holocaust was an event where millions of people were being murdered during World War II. The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is based on Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps, in order to give readers an insight of someone who was a victim of the Holocaust. The young narrator, Elie Wiesel, faces countless struggles for survival among the horrors of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Eliezer, the passionately, devoted boy with a benevolent family, is taken from his home and sent to a concentration camp. Through their unstable and dangerous journey, Elie is detached from his mother and sisters but lingers on with his father, only to be relocated from camp to camp. Elie mentions the death of numerous family members, the death of his own identity and innocence, to an extent in which living or dying did not matter anymore. In Night, Wiesel reveals that the exposure to an unsympathetic, bitter world generates to the destruction of the three main themes throughout the memoir which are; religious faith, identity, and family.

“The bread, the soup—those were my entire life. I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time.” (Wiesel 52) In the autobiography ‘Night’ published in 1960 by Elie Wiesel, he shares his thoughts on his existence with us with the help of a soup bowl and an empty stomach. The Holocaust had stripped everything that ever was of Elie, and all he had left were the things that kept him surviving every day. Nazis jobs were to do just that, take everything away from the victims of the Holocaust. They were deindividualized, reduced to numbers. When people are given an air of authority, they will do anything to maintain the power because the power is what makes them thrive. They will push limits,

The Holocaust brought out savagery, brutality, and callousness towards the humble, innocent Jews. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays his life of living through the holocaust with his father, starving, working, and striving to live through the viciousness and death around them. Throughout Elie’s experience through the concentration camp, his story shows survival is what sustains us, survival of the fittest.

The autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel first takes place in Sighet, Transylvania (1944) and continues in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Buna. The main characters of the book are Elie, his father and Moishe. The purpose of the autobiography is to bring light to what’s been in the shade. The autobiography highlights the horrors of the Holocaust with its descriptive wording, leaving anyone who reads this filled with a variety of emotions.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that depicts his lasting experience with the Holocaust. The book is written in Eliezer’s perspective and recounts his remarkable story. The memoir exhibits three prominent themes: father and son relationship, loss of faith, and inurement.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel portraying the many horrific acts of the Holocaust in a first hand experience. Elie Wiesel himself was one of the few Jews that survived the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was just 15 years old at the time when the Holocaust began to unfold. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel brings to life the experiences he went through during the time of the Holocaust. In the book Night, the themes of Inhumanity, Loss of Faith, Guilt/ Inaction, and Family are portrayed by Elie Wiesel’s experiences.

Eliezer Wiesel (Elie) is a famous Jewish author who has written a total of fifty-seven books, one being Night where he talks about him and his family being taken away from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he keeps horrific memories of the death of his family and the death of his own innocence as a young boy. Although Night is a very informational read, it’s also heart-wrenching as well and can bring you into tears as you image yourself walking through this terrifying experience. To readers, it is obvious that Elie is no longer considered a boy witnessing what he has seen in the holocaust. World War II has taken the innocence from a Jewish child through his experience

Nobel Peace prize winner, Eliezer Wiesel, endures a horrific journey from 1944-1945 when he along with his family arrived to the gates of Auschwitz. During World War II, German leader Adolf Hitler executed an estimate of six million Jews, Gypsies, and those who were disabled, attempting to create what he considered the master race. From 1933-1945 Jews were enslaved in concentration camps, where they were forced to perform hard labor until they eventually died . People had their families split not knowing it was the last time they would ever be together, yet somehow in the tragedies of the Holocaust, Elie and his father managed to stay together never turning on one another. Throughout the novel Night, Elie and his father had a distant

I think this would be easier to write if it was just about the book 'Night by Elie Wiesel' but sadly it's not so easy, though I can compare how Night and the misuse of power are similar, like how the Jews were overpowered so wrongly and in such inhuman ways. ' In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God, throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. as more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self-preservation over family and friends. the flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey

Night by Elie Wiesel describes his time in the concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel’s time there was a very difficult part of his life. His father was the main reason he was able to make it through all that he witnessed and suffered during his time there. He witnessed many father son relationships throughout his time in the concentration camps while some were helpful others were very harmful.