'Hope In Elie Wiesel's Night'

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

Every man, woman, or child has his or her breaking point, no matter how hard they try to hold it back. In Night by Elie Wiesel the main theme of the entire book is the human living condition. The quality of human life is overwhelming because humans have the potential to make amazing discoveries that help all humans. Elie Wiesel endures some of the most cruel living conditions known to mankind. This essay explains the themes of chapter one, chapter four, chapter eight in Night by Elie Wiesel.

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -President Snow in The Hunger Games. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a true story about the holocaust. In the story the main character, Elie, experiences terrible things. He is so hopeful that things are going to get better (after all how could they get any worse) and he is so fearful that his last bit of hope will be taken away and he will give up on life. Elie experiences the worst things that we can imagine. How could anyone have hope in such darkness? What could anyone fear when they have lost everything?

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie flips on and off with having hope and hopelessness. It was hard to have hope in this horrid time, but however even the smallest and some of the most dangerous things gave Elie hope.

I have begun reading Night by Elie Wiesel. This novel is about the events that Elie Wiesel endured as a teenager and harrowing truths about the holocaust. The first chapter was quickly paced and straightforward. A major part of Eli’s day was studying. A man Elie meets named Moishe the Beadle begins to cause him to question his faith and why he prays. The man is definitely different and this later causes the community to miss a warning sign of their impending doom. Moishe the Beadle is a foreign jew and is taken away months earlier than the other jews. He witnesses and miraculously survives a mass murder of foreign jews by faking dead. After returning to Sighet he attempt to warn the residents of what happened but no one believed him. This is important because at this time there were still visas available but since no one could fathom the idea of an attack on a whole population that included millions no one listened. Eli thinks, “Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means?” (8) I liked this explanation in the book because most holocaust books brush over the reason of not leaving when they sensed conflict besides fear and this seemed much more logical in the fact that it does appear to be unbelievable.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the main message is that many people are losing faith in each other and everything. Once someone lose their faith, they lose their faith in God and they start to just give up on what their main focus was. People can start losing their faith once they see things that should be seen. It starts to scare them and their faith is lost. Elie started to slowly lose his faith once he was separated with his mother because he was brought to a place where inhumane things were happening. Once people start to lose their faith, they start doing things that leads to the loss of humanity.

Have you ever had to make an instant decision that would significantly impact your life?

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.

The section of Night where Elie is sitting in the hospital and his neighbor says he trusts Hitler more than anyone else paints a dark and angry picture of human nature. The neighbor says, “‘ I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.’” (pg. 81) This is dark because Hitler was on a mission to wipe out all Jews, and yet a Jew has more faith in him than anyone else. It shows how the Jews believe no one could save them from the Nazis, not even the Allies. It can also show that the neighbor feels like no one else is trying to free the Jews. The Allies promises the Jews that they are coming to free them, but the neighbor says no one keeps their promises to the Jews, besides

Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel provides us with anxiety as Elie and his father go through multiple hardships. Although it may seem like hope, the author discreetly shares despair with the book. Throughout the book they somehow still survive. For example they always pass the selection test even when it seems like they won’t. As it states on page 76 “Were there still miracles on this earth? He was alive. He had passed the second selection.” When it seemed like he was going to lose his father, the author shares hope as the father passes the selection. Families have been separated, Jews are deprived of food and water, are treated like they are lesser humans, killed without regard. They both survive for four years, however when they are

Introduction When I first began reading Eliezer Wiesel’s book Night I could not help but think about how someone that had suffered so much is able to write a book about what they lived through in the holocaust death camps as a teenager. When you think “teenager” you think rebellious, snotty and maybe even immature, you would never, in a thousand years, think about a teenager having to arrive with their family to the place where they will never see each other again because they are separated and sent to gas chambers. After watching the video Oprah and Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz, I’m still in disbelief about the fact that having undergone through so much pain and misery, to say the least, Elierzer says that he “had anger but never hate” for his

Many people turn to God when there is something good is going on with their lives and it is customary to give thanks to God for that specific good thing that they are living through, but why do people turn their backs on him when the tables turn. A good example is the Holocaust against the jews, it is said that they are the people of God, yet many turned their backs on him when their entire race was under extreme genocide.

In 1933, the German fascist party started exporting European Jews from their homes to concentrations camps to ethnically cleanse (in the eyes of Hitler) Europe. Elie Wiesel, a boy at the time, writes of his struggle to survive during the time he spent in German concentration camps. Elie Wiesel embodies the true essences of fear, optimism, and loyalty through his autobiography Night.

in the works of elie wiesel the night elie was a devortor to jewish faith and was sent to series of concentration camps were his faith was tested throughtout the novel. elie and other jews were confronting far evil depths of mankind. where elie saw the death of his family and his own soul. where he questioned the almight exitences. his faith was damged through the event that happen in the camp elie faith in god was bruised due to the abuse he was subject

There exist only two types of people in a time of war and crisis, those who survive and those who die. Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night shows how Elie, himself, faces difficult problems and struggles to survive World War II. Wilfred Owen’s poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est”, tells a story about a young soldier thinking of himself before others during World War I. The poem “Mary Hamilton” shows how a mother killed her child so she would not get into trouble. Sir John Harrington writes about a sad truth in the poem “On Treason”; the poem reflects humanity’s selfish tendencies during tough times. When people face difficult times they often care about only one person, themselves; the need to survive clouds people’s moral and judgment.