Elie Wiesel Reflection

Eventually they stayed alive because they were each other motivation to live. After discovering that the front line was closing on the camp, everyone is worried that they will be killed. When confronted by the news, Elie thought, “As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had suffered so much, endured so much together”(Wiesel 82). Even though Elie and his father were never that close, since the German occupation, they have started to support each other. Yet when confronted by his own mortality, he still sticks by his father's side. Not only is his father helping him, he is Elie’s motivation to continue fighting the urge to give up. If it hadn't been for his father, Elie would not have made it as far as he

It is hard for someone to imagine that a person he/she loves and praises would have the potential to betray him or her. Elie feels that way every single day when God betrays him in the novel Night, he then finds himself questioning his faith very often. Through this text, the Elie Wiesel begins to lose his faith as well as many other prisoners in the camp and he believes God is just watching him suffer and not helping him or anyone else. Elie was a strong believer of God, but Elie realizes God wouldn’t do this to the Jews and Elie felt is was best to stop believing in someone who isn’t helping him. He wonders if good things happen anymore. Therefore, Elie starts to lose his faith when God no longer loves him and doesn’t help him when he needs the most help.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about the Holocaust, that goes through step by step of the traumatic experiences of Elie Wiesel’s life. Holocaust is a word meaning to sacrifice by fire. It started when the Nazis came to power in january 1933. The Holocaust was a gruesome, brutal, and vicious state-sponsored oppression and killing of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Nazis, believed they were rationally superior and the Jews were inferior which cause the murder of millions of people. Since Wiesel’s experiences in the Holocaust were unimaginable, Elie lost his faith in God, himself, and humanity all together.

Did having Elie’s father alive affect him from surviving longer or did he just hold him back? Night is a book written by a man who at the time was just a teenager, he was a Jew and just because of that he was abused in many ways. His name is Elie Wiesel. Elie watched as so many Jews were beaten, killed, or being criticized in the concentration camps. Elie’s father helped Elie get through the contraction camps in so many ways. While reading this book I saw how they would help each other through the tough times.

Over six million Jews were killed in the brutal events of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the horrible event, has recalled his story in his memoir Night. Elie and his father are Jewish, meaning, they practice the religion of Judaism. Judaism is a monotheistic religion based off the teaching of the Torah. In Night, there is a shift in Elies religious beliefs throughout the memoir. The change in his beliefs had a lasting effect on Elie and his survival though the Holocaust. Throughout the many concentration camps Elie and his father lived in, many other prisoners faced the same dilemma of keeping their faith.

Just as the nightmare began, these few words tell the theme of family and stay true to the rest of the book “at all cost we must stick together” (Wiesel 27). Elie went to several camps starting at Buna, a sub camp of Auschwitz, and ending at Buchenwald where he was liberated. The day he arrived at camp, he never left his father. Although Elie feels internal conflict about supporting his father, he never acts on his negative thoughts and supports his father. He even lied about his age and said he was a farmer so he could be with his family. When his father was dying in the camp and couldn’t walk or do anything, Elie would take care of him day in and day out. He would give his father some of his scant rations and get water for him when he asked for it, even though Elie didn’t have enough for himself. Elie could have taken the easy way out and left his father when he started to get sick and get himself closer to safe grounds but, as the family theme of the story shows, he risked his life to support his father, his family. Elie clearly possessed loyalty. In addition to bravery and loyalty, Elie displayed leadership

Over the course of the novel Elie’s relationship with his father is distant then closer as they stay in the concentration camps and depend on each other. As his father becomes sick the roles are reversed. Under the harsh environment, humans

In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, published in 1958, Wiesel tells of his experience being a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp during World War 2. In the 1940s millions of Jewish people experienced the unthinkable, imprisonment, torture and mass extermination in Nazi concentration camps. While the Jews were fighting for their lives, many Germans citizens simply ignored the suffering millions were experiencing. Night depicts the struggle of humanity, when people are faced with desperate situations they must fight for survival, while others cowardly watch as bystanders.

Change is inevitable. Actions, feelings, personalities even, are shaped through experiences and events that take place in our lives. Elie Wiesel’s Night expressed the different circumstances in which Eliezer Wiesel was placed in that impacted his perception of everyone and everything, including his own God. His faith diminished with every daunting obstacle he was forced to face and is the main change seen in Elie during the course of the book.

Family stays with us through our hardships and never lets go. Even when our families aren’t strong we have to be strong for them. Elie survives these struggles, because his family is there. His father being with him through it all makes him keep going.

Every year, about fifty million people die. During the holocaust, over 16 million people were killed. That is almost half of the average amount of deaths that occur each year added to the total rate. The holocaust is responsible for the killing and damaging of many people such as Elie Wiesel. From a sheltered boy to a mentally scarred young-man, Elieser’s overall character drastically changed. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elieser, was transformed throughout the book by his experiences he had in the concentration camp located in Auschwitz.

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.

Throughout human history, most people have endured many types of tragic experiences that have changed their way of being. For example, the Holocaust involved the Jewish community and was considered one of the most tragic life changing experiences for many. Most notably, the murderous travesties the Jewish people were subject to. Additionally, it changed our views about how the world would view the future of human history. A Holocaust survivor by the name of Elie Wiesel was involved with the horror of the Holocaust. After surviving the traumatic incidents of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote a book called, “Night”. In his book he details his experiences in what took place in the concentration camps, as well as, many other daunting memories.

“Night”, written by Elie Wiesel is a novel where the author speaks on the events of his life, and the many different jewish concentration camps he was jailed in. Wiesel talks a lot about God, and he questions why he should even worship him because he believed that God was not helping him and his family through their misery. He also talked about the high number of deaths each day, and the all the hardships that the people in concentration camps went through, including himself. Furthermore, Wiesel talked about how me managed to get out of trouble and get food during the most hardest times. He talked about his struggles in the camp and also the struggles after he was freed. The horrifying events that occurred to Elie Wiesel always stayed

We are all aware of the physical and emotional changes brought about by adolescence. It is something we all experience, especially on a mental stage which may make us question everything. This is the exact time in his life that writer and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was put through the destruction of six million jews along with millions of other people in europe under the iron fist of Nazi germany. We can see him mature and adapt throughout his journey from the ghettos to concentration camps like Auschwitz, birkenau, buna, and buchenwald, but the book ends directly after he is liberated. This leaves us wondering, how has he changed after the holocaust? Did he still mature and how have his outlooks been refined on his past since he left buchenwald?