Elie Wiesel's Night

The first reason that the theme of Night is survival is shown by all of the many people that died during the Holocaust to the hands of the Nazis. The first example of this is found when the book states, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies!” (Wiesel 32). In this part of the story, Elie is walking through the camp and watches and babies and children are thrown into a fire and burned. The Germans are throwing these children into the flames and the children die. They babies had no chance to fight back. They were not given the opportunity to even try to survive, as their life was cut short right after it even began. Another example of survival found in the death of Holocaust victims can be found when the book says, “But the third rope was still moving: the child, not too light, was still breathing … And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes” (Wiesel 65). This boy in the story is being executed by hanging for supposedly helping another man commit a crime. However, he is so young and short that the noose does not work, so the boy struggles for a long time trying to fight against death. Instead of just giving up, he tries to battle against death.

In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the word night is repeatedly used as a metaphor symbolizing the conditions and emotions that the Jews struggle with during the Holocaust. Elie’s personal struggle with his experience evoke connotations of darkness that describe the inhumane treatment that Elie and the Jews are forced to endure throughout the memoir. In the beginning, Elie's town is invaded by German soldiers and soon, the Germans force all of the town's Jews to evacuate. After being thrown onto a freight train to Auschwitz, Elie experiences a whole new world filled with fear and hatred. Elie uses “night” to describe the struggles and hardships that he encounters throughout his experience. The literal meaning of the word night is simply the period of darkness everyday between sunset and sunrise. However, the metaphorical meaning of night, in this memoir, is far more sinister. As depicted in Night, the title metaphorically refers to the evil, hopelessness, and emotional coldness that the Jews are constantly forced to face throughout the Holocaust.

Many writers write books for different reasons. Some write to entertain others, entertain themselves, or to just inform people.The book Night is about how Elie and his family are taken from their home and to Auschwitz concentration then Buchenwald. Elie covers everything that was going on in camps during his time there and the cruelty commited by the nazi’s. From the preface of the book many different author’s purposes appear. The first purpose that he talks about is writing so that he does not go mad, another that appears is to leave behind a legacy of words, and lastly states the purpose could be to preserve history. He uses many rhetorical strategies to convey his purposes throughout the memoir. By using conflict, irony, and foreshadowing,

Elie Wiesel has fought the good fight for world peace since he was young. He has done this by writing his book Night. This is a book of his life and experiences in Auschwitz the Nazi concentration camp. Through the horrors he endured his faith which originally brought him to Auschwitz was shaken. Even from the day he was liberated to the day he died im sure that his faith was never the same.

Night by Elie Wiesel, is a autobiography. A teenage boy living in a small town in Europe during World War II. It’s an account of the brutality, inhumanity of what he suffered from one thing, which was he was Jewish. In May 1944, the Germans deported a 15 year old and his family in Poland. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister died at Auschwitz, during that time he and his father later were transferred to another camp, Buchenwald, located in Germany. Wiesel’s father perished at Buchenwald just months before it was liberated by U.S troops in April 1945.

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” The novel “Night” by Elie Weisel is about Elie and his suffering through a bad period in time. He suffered many losses and he suffered in concentration camps. During this time Elie was only fifteen years old and he was being worked to death in concentration camp. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, he was effected emotionally, and was going through a mental illness.

Elie in the book Night was put through challenges mentally, physically and through his faith in his god during the story. Elie shows us as a prisoner at the concentration camps that faith can tested at difficult times. “God has betrayed us, allowing us Jews to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned” (Wiesel 65). Elie shows the reader that faith was hard to understand at the concentration camps. Elie's faith changed because he was calling on his god wondering where he as. When people we getting burned alive, young boys were getting hanged and people were getting beaten constantly. Elie was challenged during the his time in the concentration camps in what he believed in. Elie shows that he had to go through hard times even with his family.

This is the beginning of Elie losing his mental state."Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Around us, everyone was weeping. Someone began to recite the Kaddish. I do not know if it has ever happened before, in the long history of the Jews, that people have ever recited the prayer for the dead for themselves .... Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp .... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent sky."(page 3, 3rd paragraph). Night has the darkest and saddest tone of any story I have ever

Elie in Night also showed the ability to adapt and overcome the situation that he was forced into. If Elie had not adapted and learned when he did then he would have been one of the many unfortunate people to perish during the Holocaust. After his father’s death Elie realized that if he spent the time grieving he would be with his father sooner than he thought “ I did not weep … I focused my mind on only eating and sleep”(116). This shows that Elie misses his father but he must keep fighting to

The theme of Night is to keep hope and faith through hard times. Over and over again Elie shows us that he can pull through these horrible things that he witnesses. However he pulls through with the help of hope and faith. Throughout the book many times he said the he wanted to die. However, he never killed himself because his father had faith that they would pull through. Faith is elusive, you may lose it for a time, but it is always there. Before the camps god was one of Elie’s most powerful character details. However, Elie lost faith many times in the book questioning how god could let concentration camps exist. Later in the book, Elie finds himself praying again. This shows that Elie found his faith again even if it was only for a brief

They would be right, but it goes a lot deeper than that. However, for the sake of the book Night the main focus was on the mass murder of the Jewish population. Thousands of Jews were angry at their God for him not saving them from the wrath of Hitler. Hitler saw Jews as inferior and infectious to society. The cruelty he showed allowed for Jews’ to waver in faith for their God. The first portrayal of this in the book would be Akiba Drumer. Although his actions were inhumane to himself, he lost faith in God and this ended up being very severe for him. He is picked for selection and sent to the creatomim. Before he leaves he asks the others so pray Kaddish for him once he passed one. The others forget to do this and this can also be seen as an act of cruelty- intentional or not. Next, after one of the final selections Elie runs to see his father. Before he gets to him he has a thought that he swore he would never consider. He thought of the possibility that his father was a burden to him and that if he did not find him he would have been relieved of the responsibility to take care of the man who had been taking care of him for fifteen years. Once again, this is not a physical act of inhumanity, but a mental. Elie is mentally at where the Rabbi’s son was. This also proves that even though they fight very hard, Elie and his father fall prey to the tragedies that occur in the concentration camps during World War

The victims of the Holocaust depended mostly on the mere hope that they would be freed. Many had the realization that freedom was only through their death, so they forfeited their lives and took the hopes out of many. Individuals are capable of both love and greatness, but to go along with that, they’re also capable of cruelty and evil. In “Night” evil conquered all and Elie’s main struggle for freedom was competing to escape from evil. Escaping evil was Elie’s only freedom. Even though Elie escaped, he still had the horrific memories. He said when he looked himself in the mirror, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me

The point of life is to essentially fill up one's predetermined goals and live a happy life but the Nazis made sure to ensure the opposite and waste key years and even lives due to their intolerance of the Jews. When Elie got sent to the camps, he described it as a long night. He has been shown many deaths right next to him, which is derailing to see as a human with such hope in the future. This affected Elie’s feelings by changing what he really believed in and his actions thereafter. Since Elie’s hopes has practically been vanished by the views he sees at the camp, his “light” closes, thus having a long, dark time at the camps. The description of night is long, dark, and scary at times which all are good descriptors of the concentration camps, thus making the concentration camp simply a long Night. In the historical memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel used the term night to be paired up with darkness to fully exhibit how it affected Elie physically, mentally, and religiously.

In the book Night, Elie’s character trait changes throughout the book. This is mainly caused by the things happening to him and other Jews. This changes changes him into a completely new person with new believes and views about the world. Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a person who believes in good and that God is fair to someone who is bitter, angry at his God, and only thinks about surviving. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to his central character trait and how it changed throughout the book. The change is apparent when he was angry at his God for not preventing the barbick actions of the Germans, when he talks about how men were stronger than God, and when his father died he couldn’t think of anything but how to survive.

At the beginning of Night, Elie describes himself as someone who believes profoundly. But his experiences at Auschwitz have changed this belief substantially. He has seen people killed, tortured, separated from their families, and thrown into crematoriums as if they were nothing.