During the holocaust many children and teens suffered from the loss of their innocence. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel explained the loss of his innocence through experiences during the holocaust such as the harsh new laws and the death of his family and friends. The death of a family member and harsh punishment cause the loss of innocence. In concentration camps, the Jewish people were given harsh laws that contributed to the loss of their innocence. Before the Jewish people were stuffed into concentration camps, they were moved throughout the night to different holding places. The Hungarian police yelled at the Jewish citizens,“‘Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!’ the Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began …show more content…
After Eliezer had seen someone he known had died, he realized, “The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded – and devoured – by a black flame”(Weisel 37) The child weisel is referring to is the innocence. The loss of innocence is referred to as being eaten up by flames because it slowly is going away due to the death of the people surrounding him. When something gets swallowed by a fire it takes a while to start and then rapidly starts to deteriorate. Eliezer had just witnessed his father being beaten and realized, “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 that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me. All I could think was: I shall never forgive them for this (Weisel 39). The way Weisel refers to his skin as criminals flesh proving that he has lost his innocence. The definition of innocence is lack of guilt. Eliezer wanted to hurt the criminal for beating his father because he had no guilt. After he had been beaten a few times Weisel shows Eliezer not sticking up for him because he knows if he does he would also get punished. Eppler stated in her psychology study that, “...because the child is not capable of isolating intense hurt and feelings of anger. Grief is not isolated; rather it affects transactions and circumstances in every environment” (Eppler 189). The loss of innocence due to the death of a family member is revealed as a coping method. Eppler showed how children will have so much grief that they think the cause of death is their fault. The children will then lose their innocence due to
In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, he recalls Elie and his father are brought to Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. And they experience starvation, abuse, and dehumanization. Wiesel reveals how disillusionment causes Elie Wiesel to change throughout the horrific experience of the Holocaust. In the beginning of the book Elie was very religious until in the middle of the book when he saw the boy getting hanged on a gallow which made him wonder where was God which made him hopeless. And at the end of the book Americans raid the camps and free the enslaved prisoners.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a horrific caption of the holocaust from the eyes of one who suffered through it. It accounts the dehumanization that 15 year-old Eliezer and his father were put through. The three forces that most impacted the loss of humanity in the Jews were loss of faith, loss of empathy, and the feeling of death in those who were captive. These three factors broke people down until they were nothing but a shell of their former selves. To summarize, these three tactics were the bread and butter of the holocaust.
In Night by Elie Weisel, his father fails to give an account of what he heard at the council meeting so therefore nobody knows what’s going on. Secondly, the sighet residents aren’t listening to Moishe the Beadle who has already experienced a concentration camp. All the Jews are relying on Elie’s Father to give them information because they think what Moishe said was false.Once everyone steps of the train, they find out that what Moishe said wasn’t false. It’s ironic that people believed Elie’s father instead of Moishe the Beadle because Elie’s father was a respected leader of the community and Moishe was not a prominent figure in the town of sighet.
“The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death ofmy family, as I had come to truly believe …” (CNN). Children are taken away from theirfamilies which later on are killed. Elie was taken away from his mother and sisters. His fathereventually died. Loss of innocence is shown when a child is taken away from their family.
When someone is face to face with atrocious acts and cruel treatments, any regular human being could transform into the meanest of brutes. The people who were tortured, abused, neglected, and or stripped of their very own dignity leading to self-preservation by any possible means necessary, even if it meant forgetting those who they love just to survive on their own terms. Because of this, there are people who also become desensitized towards brutality and inhumanity that occurs around them. In the Holocaust novel, “Night,” the young Elie Wiesel has succumb to a scarring fate; he has witnessed a countless amount of people being tortured, neglected, abused, and even killed, but he showed little emotion, he experienced many fleeting thoughts that raced through his head about how life for him would be a lot easier without his father dragging him down and he was relieved and felt freedom when
In Night, the act of witnessing the Holocaust becomes a burden for Elie, forcing him to lose innocence and putting him in dehumanizing situations as such a young boy. Wiesel vividly portrays the loss of innocence as he
In the beginning of The Book Night Eliezer had a passionate belief in Judaism. But he started losing his faith and his innocence the first day the Nazis came to his town called Sighet. The Nazis gathered the whole town and brutally forced them into their cattle cars and took them to their first camp. In the camp he was separated from his mother and his sisters. "Yet that was the moment I left my mother In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think about was not to lose him. Not to remain alone" (Wiesel 29-30) When he came to it he realized that his father was the only one left so he grabbed his father because he didn't want to lose his only hope.
Losing innocence can make one’s life worse. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is sent to concentration camps during WWII. While Elie is there, he is experiencing new things that changes his life forever. He witnesses events that cause him to lose his innocence. Elie loses his innocence when he watches over his dad, witnesses his fellow Jews get killed, and dehumanization.
Shockingly in our general public there a time in one individual life where a tragic happens unexpectedly results in the loss of innocence and an increase in knowledge. Therefore, this relief in one’s life is unavoidable, however can be drawn out with isolation from reality. Some people experience this ablution happens sooner in life then anticipated. The survivor from the holocaust in death camps, lose their guiltlessness as soon as they step foot through the gates into imprisonment. In the Night written by Elie Wiesel, he described himself as a child, innocent teenager, whose innocence was torn apart from him as the result of the horror during the holocaust by the Nazis.
Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.
In the beginning of night we meet a 12 year old jewish boy named Elie. Elie lives in the town of Sighet he also lives with his parents and two older sisters, I actually find that quite ironic because I have two older sisters. He also has a cabbala teacher named moshe the beadle who is often described as awkward. Moshe is deported by the hungarians because he was a jew. After several months in captivity Moshe returns telling stories of how at the Polish border the jews were handed over to the Nazis and were forced to dig their own graves and were killed. But no one in the town believes his stories of mass killings. I can actually accept the fact that they did not believe him because what they were doing to the jews was inconceivable. Later once
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, “Night”, readers see a dramatic change from the young, sensitive and spiritual individual to a, boy with the mindset of an adult that is spiritually dead and is unemotional. Elie shows this in his memoir by rewriting what he saw, thought, or what he heard while in concentration camps, this occurs, in the three sections of the memoir.
Sometime in life, it is unavoidable that one will lose one’s innocence in their life. Such as how cruel the world is. The novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie loses his own innocence in the Holocaust. Jew’s were brought to the concentration camp. Since Elie is a Jew, he was forced to come. When working, Elie sees how poorly the Germans treat the Jews. Since the death of his father, Elie loses his hope in life. Elie is impacted by the loss of innocence in three ways by losing his faith in his future, loses faith in God, and when he has no passion and sympathy by the deaths around him.
All babies on Earth are born innocent as they have not yet been exposed to impure, sinful, or immoral events in life; they are likely to lose their innocence during some time in their life, and once innocence is lost it can not be regained. Elie Wiesel lost his innocence when he was fifteen years old during the Holocaust. He describes his journey in his memoir, Night. Although Elie survives the Holocaust, he never truly escapes it as his memories stay with him forever; his most vivid memories are to come from the events where Elie lost his innocence. Throughout the memoir, Elie mentions experiences that caused him to have a loss of innocence within his faith, dignity, and family loyalty.