Injustice In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Mass murdering, massacres, and human suffering are all something that we are familiar with; whether this familiarity is from a personal experience or something we learned from a book or movie. This concept is all living within us in the back of our heads, setting up camp for the long haul. The short story from Night by Elie Wiesel is about a family that gets taken to a concentration camp in the midst of a genocide. The family faces intolerance just because of their Jewish heritage and religion. This intolerance and genocide is relevant in today's world. No, nobody is trying to take over the world and kill half the human population while doing it. This intolerance and possible genocide is occurring because we are doing it to ourselves. The short story from Night by Elie Wiesel connects to the world issue of abrupt climate change through the noun “genocide”; like the Jews being mass murdered by the Nazis, the whole human species will be obliterated by mother nature if we don’t take crucial environmental steps and focus on science and technology.

Conformity and rebellion affect people in many different ways. Those who defy social norms are often unaccepted or even punished. Also, taking the risk to rebel triggers fright in individuals. Whether it is the fear of physical harm or social intolerance, it takes great strength to overcome this fear in order to resist injustice. In Night, many characters experience conformity and rebellion. Elie struggles with his doubts in God. On Yom Kippur, when he was supposed to fast, Elie explains, “And I nibbled my crust of bread. In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void” (66). By eating on Yom Kippur, Elie stages his personal revolt against his religion. As Elie witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust, he loses his faith in God. He describes,

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he was faced with inhumanity. In the story he tells us about it. “Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them?(Yes, we saw the flames) Over there, that’s where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don’t understand? Don’t you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!”(Wiesel 30). They were telling them that they were going to throw them in the fire so they could burn but they didn’t know that was going to happen. As the author describes his experience, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book

In the book “Night” many people’s human rights were compromised. “Night” is a fictional book authored by Elie Wiesel with a fictional character, Eliezer, based on him. THis young jewish boy and everyone in his city along with him are kidnapped from Sighet were they are forced through terrain, camps, and so much more to end up in one place. Death! The events of the Holocaust, definitely as we all know, broke our basic human rights. However, this brought up the question specifically, “What are our human rights? ” On December of 1948 the UDHR, or Universal Document of Human Rights was approved in the United Kingdom. This document answered many of our questions listing in quite detail, about 30 of our basic human rights. THree of these rights were: life, liberty, and personal security, freedom from slavery, and to have an

“You must strip of all your clothes,” the officer said. This quote is one example of the treatment that all the Jews received, and it consisted of no rights whatsoever. Night is a memoir, based on the events of the Holocaust that transgressed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a list of rights that should be guaranteed to all mankind, no matter the circumstances. The book Night is mainly about Jews who have to face the challenges of living in ghettos and concentration camps, while dealing with prejudiced treatment. A boy named Eliezer Wiesel lives in a Jewish community, and experiences the hardships of the Holocaust and its effects on his loved ones, throughout the memoir; he walks the reader through his perception of the

In Night by Elie Weisel, his father fails to give an account of what he heard at the council meeting so therefore nobody knows what’s going on. Secondly, the sighet residents aren’t listening to Moishe the Beadle who has already experienced a concentration camp. All the Jews are relying on Elie’s Father to give them information because they think what Moishe said was false.Once everyone steps of the train, they find out that what Moishe said wasn’t false. It’s ironic that people believed Elie’s father instead of Moishe the Beadle because Elie’s father was a respected leader of the community and Moishe was not a prominent figure in the town of sighet.

“Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births” (8).

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir where the theme of prejudice is present all throughout the story. For example, when Eliezer’s father and many others began to simultaneously chant/recite a Jewish prayer for those who have passed. Although, Eliezer is quite angry and unsure as to why they should be thanking “Him”. He himself, “The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe” had done nothing in his power to stop this monstrosity letting the world permit this without question. Also, towards the end of his story, Eliezer had conveyed the theme of prejudice by feeling relief instead of guilt or despair when his father was too sick for work and had been brought to be crematorium. Ultimately, there are many instances from during

“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes gazed at me and never left.” (Wiesel 115). Since the inmates were treated horribly for such a tremendous amount of time, it left images of the beatings they took, the never ending-work they had to do, and the killing of their friends in their head. Two main points proven in Night by Elie Wiesel is how he created stronger bonds with people and how he lost faith in someone he use to praise and pray to every day.

In the book Night written by Elie Wiesel was mainly about how a young boy had to suffer the traumatic experience of existence and fatality at Nazis concentration camps. In the book, Elie Wiesel was the character “Eliezer Wiesel”. Eliezer was a young boy at the age of fourteen who lived in Sighet, Transylvania. During the lead of World War II, Eliezer was an extremely earnest young boy who desired to examine and practice Jewish theology. He also occasionally spent a great deal of time and passion on the Talmud, the gathering of Jewish decrees and ways of life that included the Mishnah and the Gemara. Eliezer’s father, who was a protuberant head of the Jewish neighborhood, strongly believed that Weisel was not of the right age to try and go forward with the doings. Still, Eliezer begins examining and practicing the cabbala with an instructor by the name of Moshe the Beadle.

In the world both have faced many different types of adversity and plenty of different ways. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was facing adversity in every step he took. Every day was a new challenge to live. Every camp was just as worse as the last. Jews were forced to work in camps every day of their lives and live with little food and resources, yet through it all he still lived in the camps even when death and religion were on the line.

​ Terrible. Depressing. Horrific. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel many terrible things happened. This book was written about the horrific events that took place during the holocaust. In the beginning of the book a Jewish boy named Elie was separated from his family as they entered a concentration camp, Elie was kept with his father but his mother and sisters were taken away. Every Jewish person was dehumanized by being made to feel unworthy, loss of compassion, and having to be concerned with their survival. ​ Every Jewish person was dehumanized by being made to feel unworthy of their life in Night by Elie Wiesel. Our names are given to us so we can be individually called out. The SS took away the Jewish peoples names. This took away

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1 and 5 are began used as evidence and violated in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Article 2 has been violated in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, however article 5 also has been used as evidence and being violated in the text Darfur. The next few paragraphs will be telling you how these three books or texts have violated the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

Imagine that a group of people came up to somebody and started treating that person terribly. These group of people do not treat the person as a normal human being,but instead treats the person as a lower individual. While some may claim that oppressors dehumanize their victims for more dominance, but others claim that they dehumanize their victims for satisfaction. Despite the multiple reasons of why oppressors dehumanize their victims, is that dehumanizing people is still a horrible action. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, there are many scenes where the oppressors dehumanize their victims. There were dozen of moments where the oppressors had dehumanize their victims for many despicable reasons. By many horrible

Only 37 percent of Jews survived the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jews that survived, and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to his first camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” based on his journey in the holocaust. “Night” is about Elie and how he changed emotionally through beatings, starving, suffering, and much more in the concentration camps. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book which led to him losing his faith, him having no motivation whatsoever (with the exception of his father), and him giving up on humanity as a whole.