Night Elie Wiesel's Purpose

The Holocaust is an unforgettable event to anyone who had to live through the horrors of a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is no exception. He was taken to a concentration camp in 1944 and lost his mother and father in the concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel was brave enough to step forward and share his experiences during the Holocaust, which he recorded in his book Night. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel uses irony, foreshadowing, and tone to describe the uncertainty of one’s future before going and while in a concentration camp.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

All the way through the book, character are showing us they never give up through quotes. One example of this occurs at Auschwitz. Elie’s father says “Mother is still a young woman. She must be in a labor camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She too must be in a camp...” (pg. 46). This shows us that he will not give up on the idea his family might be okay, and he will hold on to that hope. Afterwards in Buna when Elie’s father was deemed weak and was going to be executed, he said “‘it is not certain yet. There’s still a chance. Today, they will do another selection… a decisive one…” (pg. 74). He attempted to give Elie his spoon and knife, his inheritance, but Elie replied “I don’t want you to say such things. Keep the spoon and knife. You will need them as much as I. We’ll see each other tonight, after work.” (pg. 75). These two quotes exhibit how these two won’t give up the idea that they will survive. They won’t stop hoping that maybe everything will be okay. That’s the lesson these quotes prove. The lesson of hope and

People have survived many situations throughout the years. Some of the these situations have been life threatening and some have not been that bad. These situations have left people wrenched, mortified, and distressed. Elie Wiesel in Night is innocent, desperate, and numb. Overall, Wiesel is left broken. Night was written by Elie Wiesel and the book is about his personal experience about being a victim of the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel uses many prime literary elements and devices throughout his memoir “Night”. Such as diction, he throws metaphors in there, he also foreshadows in this book to prove that Elie and his father are fighting for their humanity even though everything in their life is trying to strip that of them. The book Night is a book by Elie Wiesel about him and his father’s involvement in different concentration camps during the Holocaust toward the end of WW2. In the beginning of Night, Elie uses significant diction to describe imagery.

Wiesel wrote his novel for more than simply wanting to share his story with his reader, he wrote “Night” because he felt, “I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel, 6), he believed he survived for a reason not simply by luck or chance. Although there are many controversy as to why he wrote his novel, in his interview with “The Paris Review” he address as to why, “I didn’t want to write those books. I wrote them against myself. But I realize that if we do not use words, the

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

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.

Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel and other Jews survived, but many others did not. One of the key components to the Jews’ survival was hope.

When Elie first arrives at Auschwitz he says, “ We mustn’t give up hope, even now as the sword hangs over our heads.” (Page 31) Elie had said this right after he had just arrived at Auschwitz. When Elie first arrived he saw smoke coming from a large chimney, veteran prisoners, and officers with guns. At this time Elie must have had hopelessness but then his hopelessness turned into hope. He realized that he must have hopefulness in order to survive. “God did not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, power, and self-discipline.” (2 Timothy 1.7) Elie had multiple reasons to have fear but he turned his fear into love, power, and self-discipline.

Every moment of time during the holocaust was a new challenge for Elie but if he had remembered “ You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(New International Version, Hebrew 10:36)” his fight for another day would have been easier. Elie writes in Night that he would struggle to survive and often contemplated if it was worth fighting for a new day, if he had remembered the verse he would have found it easier to continue as he would know God and a plan for him. When Elie was running in the snow on a hurt foot, and if he stopped would be killed, he felt like he could end it all right there, but with the help of this verse, he would remember God has a plan for him and he could continue.

Throughout history, many terrible things have happened that have put people in terrible conditions. During the Holocaust, millions of people died, and the few that survived were very lucky. Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, endured many horrible things in the Holocaust that shaped him as a person today. In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.