Elie Wiesel Night Reflection

Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

Elie Wiesel, the author of the literary memoir Night, illustrates the impact of notable events on his destiny. Eliezer Wiesel grows up in Sighet, Transylvania. A devout Jew, his entire

Kids tend to rebel against their parents as they grow older. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. His mother and sisters were taken away from him as soon as he arrived at Auschwitz, only his father remained. Elie Wiesel witnessed many terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that kept him in line was his father. Elie Wiesel’s father kept him from possibly killing himself. When Elie Wiesel lives in the concentration camp with his fellow Jews, he begins to question the fairness of God, who he had followed his entire life. Elie Wiesel lost faith in God, particularly the faith that He would use His divine power to help him, and he began to rely on his father instead, which gave him more reason to live.

Night begins with the narrator, Elie, talking about Moishe the Beadle, who is described as the “jack-of-all-trades” in a shtibl (Weisel, 21). He then continues by talking about his family. He goes back to talk about his deep conversations with Moishe and their evenings spent together. One day, the foreign Jews of Sighet, where he lives, were expelled. This included Moishe. They were taken away in cattle cars by the Hungarian police. Months past and one day, Elie saw Moishe sitting on a bench near the synagogue. He tells Elie about what happened to him; how he and the other Jews were transported and forced to dig their own graves in the forest. Luckily, Moishe had managed to escape. He had come back to warn the Jews in Sighet of what to come.

Elie would have that feeling in the future, being that the liberation was coming soon, so he will be able to catch up with other people that would be liberated with him. Before liberation would happen, the resistance movement in the camp decided to act and fight the remaining SS in the camp. By the afternoon of that day, all of the SS had left or was dead. In the light of the resistance taking over the camp, “Around six that day, the first American tank was at the front gates of Buchenwalden” (Wiesel 115). Thankfully, no additional lives would be lost in order to liberate the prisoners. Three days after the liberation, Elie became ill with some form of poisoning. From there, Elie was transferred to a hospital going back and forth from life and death like his father in his last days. Elie ends the book in such a symbolic way that will make the reader remember that the Holocaust made such an immense impact that Elie will not forget how he looked in the mirror afterwards, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me never left me.” (Wiesel 115).

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

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

What would it do to a person to go to a concentration camp, see the horrible things, and come out alive? This book, Night, is about Eliezer Wiesel, who is both the main character and the author. Elie’s book is a memorial about his experience in Hitler’s concentration camps, what he went through, and how he survived. This paper is going to be about Eliezer’s horrific experience and the ways that it changed him.

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.

day before, one of which was merely a child so light in weight that he

As the reader walks in Elie’s shoes he/she can feel the same emotions and feelings he had. This eye opening book has been taught in schools for years and will most likely continue informing students about the true horrors of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel uses this book to show how the concentration camps changed their prisoners inside and out, in hopes that this horrible event will never repeat itself

In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beedle tried to warn the small town of Sighet, Transylvanian. Mosh, lived in Sighet; he was a poor man, although, many Jews in this small community were fond of him. He had a close relationship with Elie and often used to study Torah together. When praying, Moshe revealed that he prays to God for “the strength to ask Him real questions” (page 5). Sadly, one day a German proclamation was made: all foreign Jews would be expelled from Sighet. Moshe was forced to leave, and the community moved on without him. Later, Elie saw Moshe sitting outside the entrance to the synagogue. Moshe began to describe the true events after the deportations. The train was unloaded in the Polish territory and Jews were then loaded onto transport trucks, which took them to a large forest. The Jews forced to dig huge trenches. Once they were finished, the Germans started to kill all the Jewish prisoners! They used babies as targets! Luckily, Moshe was hit in the leg and left for dead. After telling his story, and living through it, he was no longer joyful as he once was. He went throughout the community, “exclaiming "Jews listen to me" (pg. 7)”. Moshe believes that he survived to warn everyone about there futures and the horrors he witnessed. However, no one believed him, and the community members moved on with there lives. In 1944, Elie is begging his father to pay attention to the warning and purchase immigration certificates. Although, his father

Night is a true story by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camp at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944-1945. Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now known as Romania. He grew up speaking in different kind of languages. He spoke Yiddish at home, Hungarian, Romanian and German in public.he also is one of the holocaust survivor. The holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews

Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions of others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. He does not understand God’s calmness during this tragedy. He demands answers but is met with silence. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust.