Elie Wiesel's Night

In life all will encounter countless obstacles, good and bad, and all must learn how to live through it. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, he was experiencing depressing times and he a Jewish philosopher, had turned away from God. Elie Wiesel's temptation, caused from his grievous situation should not have allowed him to forget who God was. If Elie Wiesel had remembered Psalm 34:17 and Proverbs 3:5-6 he would have acknowledged God in all his hardships.

"Never shall I forget that night the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed," -Elie Wiesel, Night. This quote is one of the quotes from Elie Wiesel's book Night that refers to the title of the book. The title of the book is called Night for reasons such as the fact that the first night was what changed his life, it symbolizes the darkness that encased all of their souls, and it also symbolizes how dark and evil the world was. The title Night has a stronger meaning than what it seems.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.

The Holocaust changed Elie Wiesel in more ways than one. Before the Holocaust Elie was a very religious person. Wiesel and Moshe the Beadle would talk for hours about the secrets of Jewish mysticism. However, as time past and more Jews were killed Wiesel started to doubt God. Wiesel said on his first night in camp after he saw the people being burned in fire pits, "Never

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

“I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty” (Wiesal, 19). This shows that although his faith has not completely “rebelled” against him, upon leaving his home to the concentration camp there are a few religious aspects, including the synagogue that Ellie would go to, gone. Along with that, his home and some of his morality may be gone. Though the state and situation Elie is in right now has not entirely hurt his belief in his religion, later on it is clear.

One of the first impactful quotes is when Wiesel writes about his first night in Auschwitz, stating “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes,” (34). He’s speaking about how everything changed when he arrived at the camp. Where he was once carefree, he now had a burden. Where he once had faith, he now had a God who didn’t care whether Wiesel and his people lived or died. He’s not only speaking for every person, every man and woman and child who went through the concentration camps. Everyone went through an enormous

Night is a recollection of Elie Wiesel’s time spent during the holocaust. It is a gripping tale of survival and death. While it is a small book, it has a huge message. During the time in which the book takes place, the Jewish people were srtripped of their humanity. Elie and his fellow inmates at Auschwitz endure dehumanization throughout starvation and on the train to Buchenwald.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

“Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births” (8).

As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.

When looking at the holocaust, it is widely known the devastation and pain that was caused by the Nazis; however when inspecting the holocaust on a deeper level, it is evident that the Jews were exposed to unimaginable treatment and experimentation often overlooked in history discussions. When looking at “Night”, Elie Wiesel was helped by the doctors in the camp when his foot was severely infected; although this is not the experience he had, many Jews were mistreated and even killed by the doctors. Many Nazi doctors that were assigned to Jewish patients were later found to have exposed the patients to horrific medical experiments and unnecessary treatments that commonly led to their death.

In the beginning of the book Elie has strong faith. On page 4, he is talking to Moishe the Beadle about why he cries when he prays, and Eliezer can’t come up with a reason. His answer to Moishe was “why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” in this quote Eliezer show that he believes that praying is as important as living and breathing. Another quote on page 8, Elie says that “Germany would be defeated. I was only a matter of time, … It was a year like many others.” This shows that he believes that Germany wouldn’t be able to get to him and his family and god would protect them.

Elie Wiesel is a young, teenage, Jewish boy involuntarily placed in Nazi concentration camps. The concentration camps tested Elie’s sincerity of his faith. All of the inhumane events, destruction, and absent childhood, forced a method of non-belief on Elie and his fellow beings. In Elie Wiesel's Night, faith is seen as a controversial topic, and challenged throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Another book I read that taught me about life and facts about how Jews were treated during the holocaust was Night by Eliezer Wiesel. Night was about Eliezer who liked to be called Elsie and his memory as a teenager going through stages of his life where he thought he was going to die and how he overcame those obstacles. Before reading I had to get in a mindset that this book will be different from others and probably more graphic. While reading this book I imagined myself back in the 1940s and imagine what was going on, like being on the train and smelling the different things there. It was also hard imagining myself getting separated from his family and hearing them screaming trying to get to me. Throughout the whole story it was hard to