How Does Elie Create Tension In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book of Elie he writes about his experience during the Holocaust as a Jew. How the horrible images still haunt him. Can you imagine seeing people, including your loved ones, being tortured and humiliated just because they found it entertaining and thought was right? Well in Elie's story he tells us about all the forms they were treated like crap.

Elie wanted to lose his life due to exhaustion and losing his belief in being able to survive

When it comes to retaining one’s humanity in the face of suffering a person has the choice to preserve it or not. To elaborate, in the novel, Night, there where instances were the loss of humanity was evident. Such as, when Elie witness the prisoners “instincts of self-preservation, of self-dense, [and] of…[desert them]”(Wiesel 36). And others were the loss of humanity wasn’t evident. Specifically, when Elie gets help from a French woman who states,” Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day…the day will come but not now” (53). All in all, these instances were what made up the whole story. As they accumulated, the question of whether a person had the ability to retain their humanity or not became apparent and, rather, hard to

In conclusion, the interview with Elie Wiesel portrays an abundant amount of themes: the consequences of human judgment, loss of faith of God, and father-son relationships. The collage showcases the themes, father-son relationships, and loss of human freedom. Completing this ISU assignment taught me a variety lessons, that would help me in the future. I really enjoyed working on this ISU assignment on Night, by Elie

Another theme that elie shows in the book is in a terrible or even horrible situation you always need your humanity at side. Elie meets a french girl when he was at one of his terrible times she showed that the humanity was still in her no matter what happened. “I dragged myself to my corner. I ached all over. I felt a cool hand wiping my blood-stained forehead. It was the French girl. She gave me her mournful smile and slipped a bit of bread into my hand. She looked into my eyes. I felt that she wanted to say something but was choked by fear. For a long moment she stayed like that, then her face cleared and she said to me in almost perfect german: ‘Bite your lip, little brother. . . . Don't cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on. The day will come, but not now. . . . Wait. grit your teeth and wait. . . .’ ” (Wiesel #51). The significance of this quote is how she had the humanity to help someone and make them feel better after all of it. She put him first before anyone. Her kindness and her words showed that she still had her humanity to be there for him. She even put her life on the line for him. She never spoke so they thought she was french but as said “...In almost perfect German...” she spoke kind words that even if a kapo heard her she would have died. For they would have punished her. Later in the book elie would have been punished or even killed for what he had done to be with his father. “The SS officers were doing the selection: the weak, to the left; those who walked well, to the right. My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back: "Come back!" I inched my way through the crowd. Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right—among them my father and I. Still, there were gunshots and some dead. The importance of

As demonstrated in the text, “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip… Only the first really hurt… I was over… I had not realized it, but I had fainted… He (father) would be suffering more than I” (page 57 and 58). Elie was so calm about being whipped and beaten. He had clearly lost all hope for a pleasant ending. Elie didn’t care about being whipped, yet he cared about his father’s pain. He knew his father would be in pain to see his son beaten, but he claimed that his father suffered more than himself. It shows that he wasn’t in as much pain as his father, who hadn’t even been beaten. Elie didn’t care that he was being beaten. His father cared more than him. An example of Elie giving up on humanity occurs when he says, “He reached the first cauldron… Jealousy devoured us… Poor hero committing suicide for a ration or two or more of soup… In our minds, he was already dead… We jumped at the sound of a shot… Falling to the ground, his face stained by the soup...” (page 59 and 60). The man that snuck soup in the cauldron was a lost cause, and Elie knew it. He knew that there was no way he would survive even if he had gotten in. The greedy people would’ve lunged at him and eaten his extra food. Nobody felt sorry for the guy when he was shot. They weren’t even concerned. Death was a normal thing to them. The Jews lacked the emotion of sympathy. As stated in the text, “Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to… dying men” (page 95). This shows that Elie was still affected by what happened even after the holocaust. His comrade, Juliek, playing the violin surrounded by death affected Elie. Juliek played the song just before his death. The song was a reminder of that day. It brought memories of the holocaust back. It reminded Elie of the hard times and all of

Elie’s faith in his Lord and his instinctive love for humanity are put to their final tests as the novel approaches its climax and conclusion. After witnessing the malicious, brutal hanging of an innocent child, Elie comes to the

Night, by Elie Wiesel, showed the devastation of Eliezer’s childhood and illustrated the loss of innocence through the evil of others. Elie Wiesel expressed to us that one’s own faith and beliefs can be challenged through torture and ongoing suffering. The novel, Night, allowed the reader to witness the change in Eliezer from one of an innocent child who strongly adhered to his faith in God into a person who questioned not only his faith and God but of himself as well. The cruelty is shown to him while in the concentration camp forced him to wonder if there was a God and if so why would he put him and the others through such torture. Through his suffering, Eliezer’s beliefs dramatically and negatively changed his faith in God and compelled him to experience a transformative relationship with his father.

First of all, Elie had to go through dehumanization this is one of the ways Elie has shown that he can get through many obstacles in his life. Elie was sent to a concentration camp once they

In the book Elie is very resilient showing that he can recover quickly from what he is seeing throughout the camps and what he is witnessing on a day

He is caught by Idek and is told to lay on his stomach for twentyfive lashes. This threatens Elie’s humanity because after feeling so much pain, he might wish for it all to be over. Fearing death, or just fear is an emotion that makes you human. Pain is also one, and after reading this part of the book you know that Elie passes out. “They brought me a crate. Lie down on it! Lie on your belly! I obeyed. I no longer felt anything exempt the lashes of the whip.”, and, “It was over. I had not realized it because I fainted”. These quotes show that he went through a great amount of pain, so much that he got knocked out. This is taking away his humanity by teaching him to not feel emotion and that having emotions will not help him survive. I think feeling this gigantic amount of pain made him physically stronger because since he made it through the lashes, he could endure other painful

In the year Elie goes through the Holocaust, he endures through things no one could ever imagine. Elie struggles with both internal and external conflicts in his daily life. The first internal conflict we see in Night is Elie parting ways with his mom and sisters. He deals with the struggle of being away from them by clinging to his father more than ever. The first external conflict Elie faces is working in the concentration camp. After a hard day of work Elie refuses to eat and deals with the struggle of fatigue. The next External conflict we see is Elie vs. man. Elie gets on Idek’s bad side one day and receives violent blows, but he has to deal with the pain without having the urge to fight back. Elie struggles with his own feelings when

This book interested me because it is a great example of what so many people went through in concentration camps throughout Europe in World War II. So many books have been written about personal accounts of war hardships suffered by the Jews but so few capture the true problems faced by prisoners. The impossible decision between survival and family was a difficult one faced by many during this time. Elie had an unfaltering will to live when his father was alive with him but once his father died the reason for living disappeared. But he once was faced with the decision of helping to keep his father alive or let him die and have an extra ration of food. How can one be stuck with a decision like this and not choose survival? Only true unselfishness can cause you to help someone

Elie is a new person, changed by nightmarish, heinous events that happened to him. He knows that he would never be the same again.

Night by Elie Wiesel tells a very powerful story about the severe oppression that Jewish people faced during the time of World War II. We received a first -hand account of the emotions, thoughts and struggles of these people as they experienced days, weeks, months, and years of torture. Jewish people were mistreated by people who believed had authority over them, people who believed they were not worthy of being treated like humans. Throughout the novel, we encounter situations that testify to the statement that “might is not right”, a belief that you can take any action necessary because you are considered to be the most powerful.