Elie Wiesel Night Themes

Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night is an account of the brutality of the Holocaust faced by Elie at the age of fourteen to fifteen and the horrors he endures. Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right. During the novel, he endures loss of faith as his experience within the Holocaust becomes more difficult. The elements wrong with human nature are represented by the novel, particularly the cruelty and the ignorance. The autobiography, however, only represents little that is right, such as the memory kept in order for the events never to happen again.

Often, the theme of a novel extends into a deeper significance than what is first apparent on the surface. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of night and darkness is prevalent throughout the story and is used as a primary tool to convey symbolism, foreshadowing, and the hopeless defeat felt by prisoners of Holocaust concentration camps. Religion, the various occurring crucial nights, and the many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism clearly demonstrate how the reoccurring theme of night permeates throughout the novel.

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.

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.

    Wiesel began his story off with having to leave his own home. All Jews in Sighet were forced to board cattle cars which would travel to one of many concentration camps. When Wiesel and his family arrived in Birkenau, they knew they were in danger. Weisel described the smell in the air, the smoke rising from chimneys, and the flames in the distance. The Jews were ordered off the cars and were told to separate women and men.  He wrote, “Yet that was the moment I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine, we were alone” (Wiesel 29). This quote helps establish the purpose of the novel. The purpose of “Night” is to make the readers understand how horrible the holocaust really was.  This single quote gives a small idea of what the Jews went through, such as being separated from loved ones. The imagery included in this quote helps the reader picture what truly happened in the concentration camps and what Wiesel went through

At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel writes about his experience inside the concentration camps of Germany during World War Two. He realizes how his humanity changes after he is free. Elie ponders about if he can be re-humanized after he passes trials, when he looks at a mirror. Wiesel uses a gloomy tone to reveal the Nazis’ plan to dehumanize the Jews so that their suffering .

the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah and the Gemara. There are two versions of the Talmud: the Babylonian Talmud (which dates from the 5th century AD but includes earlier material) and the earlier Palestinian or Jerusalem Talmud.

Elie Wiesel’s book “ Night “ takes place during the crucial events of the Holocaust. Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto and later on taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. They were taken there for one reason and one reason only, they were jews. Elie witnessed murder and soulless acts at his stay in Auschwitz, death was in the air. Elie and his father only had each other. One theme that is seen throughout the novel is that times like this can bring two people together to build a better relationship.

Wiesel also seems angry at the thought of comparing God’s infinite greatness with the complete disintegration of the people in the concentration camps. Thinking about God’s power and strength seems impossible when the only people surrounding Wiesel who are in positions of power are the enemy. It seems almost morbidly amusing that the Jews are relying on this Savior who allows such horrible conditions to continue. If he is so wonderful, why does he not save them?

“Hunger—thirst—fear—transport—selection—fire—chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times, they meant something else.” (Wiesel 2006, p.XII). Night is a novel and an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel in 2006. In this book, Wiesel shares his four years of Horrifying experience at the concentration camps. The main purpose of writing this book is to show the audience how exactly the day-to-day life of the Jews were at the concentration camps. Two of the main points of this book are Relation and Faith. Wiesel has a good bond with his father that he doesn’t lose no matter what circumstances they both went under. Through out the entire book, Wiesel shows his faith in god to the audience. There were times where he doubts in god and almost loses faith in him and humanity but then he continues to have faith in him. The author Elie Wiesel is a Noble-prize winner and a teacher born on September 19, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. Wiesel wanted to study religion because of his religious background but unfortunately that could not happen because he was sent to the concentration camps at the age of twelve. I chose this book because it was something that I chose it in high school to write a paper on but I could not do it because it did not meet the requirements of the professors of my sophomore and junior year. The Author uses his Point of View, Symbolism and Foreshadowing in this Novel.

This book has to do with Disbelief because while Wiesel is at the concentration camps he can’t believe he’s there. He went from being at home one day to being at the concentration camps the other day. Before everything happened Wiesel states, “ But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen” (Wiesel 7). This is major because they started not to believe Moish The Beadle. They noticed that Moish The Beadle started to change and they didn’t know if they could trust him. Furthermore, Another reason why there has been Disbelief in this book is because Wiesel can’t believe he’s seeing people get hurt and dying. Wiesel has also been through disbelief because he doesn’t want to be at the concentration camps while all these people are dying. While at the camps he says, “ I pinched myself : was I still alive? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real” (Wiesel 32). Wiesel does not want to face the fact that he’s seeing all these bad things happening to innocent people. He can’t believe he’s at a place where there’s a lot of violence and cruelty. In conclusion, The reason why there has been so many disbelief in this book is because Wiesel does not want to believe everything that’s going on around him at the

The novel Night is inspired by the true events of the Holocaust and how it affected the life of many Jews especially of one lad’s Eliezer Wiesel. It depicts the change of events throughout the four years of World War II and the struggles and obstacles Eliezer Wiesel had to overcome during the specific time frame that left a tragic mark for the rest of his life. The journey was a scarring memoir during his time line and the changes of his personality during the Holocaust emerge throughout the perusal of his fight for survival. In chapter one Eliezer is introduced as an observant and religious young man.

In “Legacy of Night: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel,” Fine argues that “Wiesel writes from the perspective of a witness-story-teller who knows that that essence of his story—filled with unanswered political, philosophical, and theological questions is impossible to communicate” (1). Thus, when reading and analyzing Night, it is important for readers to keep in mind that throughout his memoir, Wiesel describes his experience, along with the experiences of his people during the Holocaust from a unique standpoint—his vocation (Fine 1). In fact, it is important for readers to understand that when reading the text “one cannot separate his life from his work; both possess moral beauty and a deep religious feeling” (Cedars 298). This is because