Elie Wiesel's 'Night And See It Through'

Although there are many different stories about the holocaust, Elie Wiesel's story is very vivid and full of the jarring reality of his experiences. He doesn’t hold back any of the cruelness and torment he was forced to endure as an adolescent. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate the deprivation of his former self during his traumatic experiences during his time in the Nazi work camp.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author reflects on his own experience of being separated from his family and eventually his own religion. This separation was not by any means voluntary, they were forced apart during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jew when the invasion of Hungary occurred and the Germans ripped members of his religion away from their home in Sighet. A once peaceful community where Wiesel learned to love the Kabbalah was now home to only dust and lost memories. Most members of that Jewish community were never to return, hell greeted them with open arms as they walked through the now rusty gates of Auschwitz. In order to survive unimaginable circumstances that were enforced in these camps, a boy had to hang on to his humanity. But by no means did humanity stay with the boy, being subjected to the horror of concentration camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel saw first-hand how members of other communities attempt to silence opposing voices. All of the pain that Wiesel saw inspired him to keep watch and tell stories for people who wouldn’t live on to tell them for their own families. Stories are what keeps a person alive and through Eliezer’s words that he puts down many are able to get a sense of closure in knowing what occurred at these camps. One story occurred on the first train ride away from home, a lady named Madame Schächter was beaten up for crying out against imminent death, unseen by others.

The more of the world a person sees, the more he/she realizes that it is not as perfect as he/she thinks it is. When one matures, he/she gains knowledge and experiences that affect how he/she act and think. Their perspective of the world changes either positively or negatively. Night, an autobiographical memoir written by Elie Wiesel, tells of the horrors he faced as a child during the Holocaust. The more the readers read about his experiences, the more they see how his perspectives change throughout the novel. Emily Dickinson's poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” explains how one must conquer his/her fear in order to see more of the world. The way we perceive things change as we gain more knowledge and experience of the world we live in.

It was in Auschwitz during 1944, at the time of arrival about midnight when the smell of burning flesh saturated the air. There was an unimaginable nightmare of a truck unloading small children and babies thrown into the flames. However, this is only one event in this entire tragedy of events to be remembered in order to understand how deeply literal and symbolic the book entitled Night by Elie Wiesel is. The novel brings light to the reader about what the Jews faced while in the fire, hell and night; nonetheless, the author portrays each and every day during this year as a night in hell of conflagration. "Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." (Wiesel 20). When Wiesel arrived at the camp he counted the longest dreadful ten steps of his life; he realized that his nightmare has just become unimaginable.

The biggest symbol used in the novel is night it's even used as the title to hint towards the story’s darkness. Wiesel uses the word night to show death, darkness, and a world without God. Throughout the book there were many “last nights”; for example, the last night in Sighet, the last night with his father, and even the last night of innocence. The worst suffering in the book happens at night, the train ride to the concentration camp was his last night of freedom before they got there, the first selection was at 9 o’clock, when winter came Eliezer said it was unbearable, and they left the camp on the death march during the night. Eliezer said when they left on the death march “At six o’clock the bell rang. The death knell. The funeral. The procession was

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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.

The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a story about Elie and his journey through the tough times of the holocaust. This book is a sad true story about how Elie and millions of others were treated during the hard times of World War II. Elie’s story shows us how scary and difficult it was for him and many others during this time. We can look at this book and notice how the night affected people in the camps. We see can how the dark, mysterious, and fearful night brought people together,and also how it brought a feeling of safety to some. By looking at this one story, we can observe that darkness had taken over the earth, and there was no longer any light in the day, only darkness in the night.

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania. He grew up with three sisters and had a strong interest in religious studies. In 1944, Nazis forced Jews who resided in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to relocate to labor and death camps in Poland. When Elie was at the age of 15, he and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz. Elie lived in camps with inhuman conditions and was almost starved to death. He was eventually freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Out of all of his family members only him and two of his sisters survived. Elie then moved on to become many great things like a writer which won him a Nobel-Prize. He wrote many books including the one i am reading “Night”. Elie also taught Judaic studies at the City University

In the beginning showing how Elie’s start came to be with his hopes and his dreams. With a father who did not even pay attention to him. He had question about what he was learning why did he cry when he prayed or why did his father put others before his family. Elie was strong but he had questions that he or his father could not find the answer to. He had teachers and friends who would shape him and then he would have the experience to shake him to the core. The way he writes down and tells his experiences. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, repetition, and irony to show and give us the story on how he survived.

The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, tells the gripping and frank tale of a Jewish boy and his life enduring the Auschwitz concentration camps in 1945. Throughout the novel, Wiesel does not shy away from the horrifying reality that was the holocaust, but instead highlights them and brings them to the surface. However, Wiesel aims for a higher purpose than simply relaying the gruesome details of the holocaust. Wiesel aims to make an impact, to have each and every reader take away something from this book, to ensure that something like the Holocaust never happens again.

In the Novel “Night” written by Elie Wiesel symbolism is used in an abundance of way.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel of post-Holocaust literature. It is a story about a Jewish man and his family and of the unspeakable horrors that they endured during World War II. Night is a retelling of a terrible story, a story that leads to Wiesel and his family entering Auschwitz, the most notorious death camp to this day, and the aftermath of liberation from the camps. Night is an incredibly well written novel. It twines together the power of fear and the loss of faith. It touches on how humanity changes in the face of power and oppression. This novel is able to not only testify, but discuss the atrocities of events that are not easily spoken about. Wiesel manages to take many difficult subjects like murder, religion, and false hope and

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem See it through by Edgar Guest the two authors use imagery is different because Night’s imagery is dark and sad and see it through is telling you no matter what don’t give up. An example of this difference in Night “They were the first faces of hell and and death”. The gloomy vibe. An example of this in the poem see it through is”You may fail,but fail still fighting;Don’t give up what’er you do”. The imagery helps the reader understand the theme of never giving up.

“NIght” which is written by Elie Wiesel,holds a lot of meaning even behind it’s name.The novel talks about the author’s personal experience in a concentration camp.The novel is titled “NIght” because of it’s literal and figurative meaning to the author.