Examples Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Nazi army dehumanized the Jewish people by depriving them of love. Elie, along with most of the other people in the camps, aren’t really accepted socially by anyone. They weren’t accepted as a person, and no one even knew them by their names; furthermore, they were known by the number they had tattooed on their arms. On page 42, Elie says “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” By having their names taken away, the Jewish people had their social acceptance stripped from them. Also, their families were taken away from them, and they had to do whatever they could to stay with them. As Elie said on page 30, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” By separating the Jews from their families, they lost the love from them. By depriving the jews of social acceptance and their families, they hardly felt any

In the book Night, Elie witnessed a woman who receives, “several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal” (Wiesel 26). Most Jews were relieved because they didn’t have to hear her screaming anymore. No one around her wanted to comfort her because she was worrying them and they were starting to lose hope because she could have been telling the truth. Two main themes that are caused because of inhumanity are the Jews losing hope and them letting survival take over.

Notably, when Elie was younger he always faced the fact that he father believed that he was not old enough to make certain choices and do certain things. Elie’s father made him believe that he wouldn’t understand making him doubt himself. During this time at the Concentration Camp he was beat even in the text he states, “ I tried to protect myself from the blows,”(41). The author has been through a lot through these past couple of days and weeks. He states that the first human words he heard were, “Don’t lose hope,”(41). Those words brought his dignity back up close to his previous personal

In the beginning of The Book Night Eliezer had a passionate belief in Judaism. But he started losing his faith and his innocence the first day the Nazis came to his town called Sighet. The Nazis gathered the whole town and brutally forced them into their cattle cars and took them to their first camp. In the camp he was separated from his mother and his sisters. "Yet that was the moment I left my mother In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think about was not to lose him. Not to remain alone" (Wiesel 29-30) When he came to it he realized that his father was the only one left so he grabbed his father because he didn't want to lose his only hope.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel on his experiences in the Holocaust. Throughout the novel, there was a constant underlying theme, of the dehumanization of the Jews. The Nazis wanted to strip the Jews of their identity and their humanity, and they widely succeeded. The Nazis took away all the Jews’ possessions, cut their hair off, made them all wear identical clothes, treated them like wild animals, and reduced them into numbers instead of humans. Living in this kind of environment and being treated in this manner could turn any stable person insane. It could turn any compassionate and empathetic person, into an uncaring and cold person. The effects of the Nazis treatment of the Jews were that the Jewish prisoners became emotionally

It starts during childhood. To the child's ear, bedtimes and limits on videogames seem monotonous and dragged on. Differently, boundaries for obscene material are all too normal for children, which protects their exclusive innocence. However, what makes the absolute transition to adulthood? Is it turning eighteen and celebrating by taking the car out, or is it something drastically different and perhaps earlier?

Shockingly in our general public there a time in one individual life where a tragic happens unexpectedly results in the loss of innocence and an increase in knowledge. Therefore, this relief in one’s life is unavoidable, however can be drawn out with isolation from reality. Some people experience this ablution happens sooner in life then anticipated. The survivor from the holocaust in death camps, lose their guiltlessness as soon as they step foot through the gates into imprisonment. In the Night written by Elie Wiesel, he described himself as a child, innocent teenager, whose innocence was torn apart from him as the result of the horror during the holocaust by the Nazis.

Therefore Elie shows how the prisoners of the Holocaust went through all different shapes and kinds of cruelty. They were forced to do things that did not want to do and go places they did not want to go because there was a threat of survival. The men and women who were imprisoned in the camp got barely enough food to survive and sometimes when days without any food or water. The cruelty shown by the SS men and women shaped how people thought and acted around

During the holocaust many children and teens suffered from the loss of their innocence. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel explained the loss of his innocence through experiences during the holocaust such as the harsh new laws and the death of his family and friends. The death of a family member and harsh punishment cause the loss of innocence.

Before being deported to the concentration camp, he had many desirable character traits. For instance, “Please, sir… I’d like to be near my father.” (Wiesel, 50). This shows that Elie is caring because he wants to monitor his father and protect him from harm. He maintains this deep care and concern for his father throughout the book. Additionally,“I moved closer and had a glimpse of Idek and a young Polish girl.” (Wiesel, 56) shows that he is also curious because he goes to the noises he is hearing instead of away from them. Although this incident occurred during his time at Auschwitz, it is still one of Elie’s good traits because it allows him to be more observant and aware of what is happening around him. Finally, “And most important, don’t be afraid!” That was a piece of advice we would have loved to be able to follow” (Wiesel, `

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

In the book, our narrator, Elie, is constantly going through changes, and almost all of them are due to his time spent in Auschwitz. Prior to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie was a very different boy, he had a more optimistic outlook on life. During the first few pages of the book, Elie tells us a bit about how he viewed the world before deportation, “ I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” ( 3). Elie was, as he says himself, deeply observant and devoted most of his time to his faith. He spent almost all of his time studying and worshiping. At this point, Elie’s faith is the center of his life. Elie is also shown to do a few other things and has a few more early character traits aside from being dedicated to what he believes in. Elie also sees the best of people, a few pages later he says, “The news is terrible,’ he said at last. And then one word: ‘transports’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely… ‘Where will they take us?” (Wiesel 14). This is one of the only time we hear about Elie being worried or scared because of the Germans before Auschwitz, and still, despite the warnings that were given and the rumors circulating, Elie doesn’t think that the Germans are actually going to do all of those terrible things. Around this time in the book, Wiesel starts to become more emotionally weighted, but none of what has happened takes full effect until much later. There are multiple instances in the book where Elie is given reason to distrust or even hate the Germans, he talks about how the Gestapo treated him and his family on page 19 “‘Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!’ the Hungarian police were screaming.”. Yet he then goes on to say, on that very same page, that “Still our first

Before he was taken to the concentration camp, Elie beared more positive characteristics. “I began to laugh. I was happy.” (Wiesel 72). Although this happened later in the book, Elie is more humorous and sensible in the beginning of the book, before his experience at Auschwitz. Elie was content, he enjoyed time spent with his friends and knew what was appropriate. Even when finding an officer and that girl, he couldn’t help but laugh at such a pathetic sight. He was happy and described his home life as comfortable. To conclude my reasoning, Elie was a happier person in the beginning of a gruesome book, he had a future before him that he was excited about, he had hope. “They were alive when they were thrown into the flame.” (Weisel xiv). Elie wasn’t gullible, nor was he easily persuaded. When he first received that information, he did not believe this and thought the teller was mad. For example, he refused to believe it and ignored the facts. Because of that, his invulnerability made some of the most

As you can see this is a story of much intolerance and hatred put against the jewish people. Elie starts this story as an innocent child who remains hopefull in the unkowns of the situation that he is put in. Later on we see him slowly lose both his family and his hope in the story. This makes the story a very accurate representation of the times of when Nazi germany was at its height from how the Jewish people felt during their imprisonment to how the officers would treat

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