Examples Of Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

Fire can also be seen as a symbol of Elie’s loss of his faith in his God and in the Jewish religion. In Judaism, tradition says that the evil and wicked will be condemned to Gehenna and suffer a fiery punishment. However, Elie’s experiences reverse what he was taught by his faith. The innocent were murdered in the crematorium by the evil. This shows how Elie’s faith was strongly questioned during the Holocaust due to the experiences and how his concept of religion was changed dramatically. “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.”

“For a second, he seemed to be looking at himself in the soup, looking for his ghostly reflection there. Then, for no apparent reason, he let out a terrible scream, a death rattle such as I had never heard before an, with open mouth, thrust his head toward the still steaming liquid.” (Page 59 & 60)

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

Elie first recalls Dr. Mengele’s “eight short, simple words” (Wiesel 27) when he enters the camps: “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 27) In this part of the book, Elie and his father are separated by his mother and sisters. This metaphorically kills Elie because he is very attached to his family as are they to him. A piece of Elie has been taken away from him forever. Later in his memoir, he mentions the cruel hanging of the Pipel. Previous hangings that day did not phase Elie, but when the young, angelic Pipel was hanged, Elie said his once flavorful soup “tasted of corpses.” A man near Elie was saying “Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows…”(Wiesel 62) This is a powerful quote that shows how Elie has also began to question his faith. This brings about the mindset of the death of God in Elie. Elie begins to show distrust and rebellion in his God. This is a sharp contrast to Elie’s former beliefs. When Elie’s father dies, Elie emotionally shuts his mind off. He says “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore.” He had finally given up. His father was his rock tied to the balloon, his reason to keep going. Without his father, Elie gave up and became zombified like the rest of the broken souls. Elie fully turned into the emotionless man that he was set to become as a result of surviving

Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.

In this chapter Elie names two things that are “his entire life.” What are those two things that Elie values most? How do these two things contrast to the things he valued before entering into the concentration camp?

Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz where they are separated from the rest of the family and first hear about atrocities such as the incinerators and gas showers. In the beginning Elie believes that everything is a rumor, a lie, that humankind cannot perform such crimes, but he soon is forced to witness the demise in front of his eyes. This is when his outlook on his faith starts to waver. While watching the smoke billow up from a crematory, Elie hears a man standing next to him begging him to pray, and for the first time in his life Wiesel turns away from God. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (31).

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.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, there is an underlying theme of anger. Anger not directed where it seems most appropriate- at the Nazis- but rather a deeper, inbred anger directed towards God. Having once been a role model of everything a “good Jew” should be, Wiesel slowly transforms into a faithless human being. He cannot comprehend why the God who is supposed to love and care for His people would refuse to protect them from the Germans. This anger grows as Wiesel does and is a constant theme throughout the book.

Elie’s way of proving a point on what he believes in, which is superb, he also sees the human life as someone precious which could never be replaced. Elie’s love for humans is proven through his words on the matters of “at that moment…” because he does not just limit himself to the Jewish people, but instead to any community or civilization that is being threatened. By the same token, Elie’s words show that he is a fair and just man who believes in the unalienable right of living. Elie is using his fame as a way to

Throughout the book, Elie slowly loses faith in God. When writing, Wiesel uses the idea of fire whenever he loses some of his faith. Near the middle of the book, Elie gets to Auschwitz, passes the first selection and experiences his first night in the camp. When describing his first night, Elie talks about all the things that he will never forget. In this, Elie says he will never be able to forget the “flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel 34). In this he is saying the flames, both literal and figurative, made him lose his faith in God. The flames are partially literal because flames are a product of humans being cremated, and the mass killings were part of why Elie lost his faith. The flames are also figurative, representing all of the horrors of the camp that made him lose his faith. In these ways, fire kills his faith in God. Later in the end of the middle of the book, Elie loses more faith in God. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, most of the prisoners were blessing God, but Elie was questioning why he should be worshipping God when he was allowing the horrors of the camps to continue. He reflects on the days where he pleaded for forgiveness for all of his sins, but on that day he feels as though God is the accused, begging for forgiveness, and he is the accuser. Elie says that thinking like this opened his eyes to a new world without God. He says he “was nothing but ashes now, but I felt

Here, he realizes that, if there were a God, he would never have allowed this to happen. I feel that this moment is what really created the Godless Elie. “If there was a God, how could he let this happen?” many would ask. It is not an easy answer, especially for the people who experienced the Holocaust. The death of this young child has a deeper meaning than just his complete loss of faith. It also symbolizes the death of Elie’s own childhood and innocence. A “normal” childhood like everyone else gets to experience was just taken from him by the

“Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel, Night 34). This is implying that from Elie’s first moments in a concentration camp, seeing the burning bodies of his flesh, and then realizing that no one is able to help, nor reach out to help any of this that has been happening, not even God, he begins to lose faith in god. He saw things no one should see. “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.”

“Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “Where is God now?” And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is he? Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows…”” (Chapter four, page 62). This is the most significant quote because Elie is expressing how he is losing faith in his God that he has lived for since he was a boy. He is revealing how he feels about God’s non-existent actions to try and help him, his family, and everyone else in those camps. This quote represents how much the camps have immensely changed his life for the worst and how he does not think that his situation could ever improve. He is no longer believing that God is on his side in this war. Elie took the death of the child as a sign that God was not helping anyone