Internal Conflict In Night By Elie Wiesel

As with all human beings, there are happy memories and bad memories. Some have no effect, and others can change someone’s life completely. Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, writes about Elie’s external conflict of the horrors of the Holocaust’s violent concentration camps. Elie resolves this conflict by having all the hope of the world in him and enduring the evident deaths of his family members; however, Elie’s trek also illustrates his character as both enduring and dependent. Elie’s decision to staying hopeful and stay enduring also reveals the universal theme of, “The toughest and darkest of times and experience can test your hope”

In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author reflects on his own experience of being separated from his family and eventually his own religion. This separation was not by any means voluntary, they were forced apart during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jew when the invasion of Hungary occurred and the Germans ripped members of his religion away from their home in Sighet. A once peaceful community where Wiesel learned to love the Kabbalah was now home to only dust and lost memories. Most members of that Jewish community were never to return, hell greeted them with open arms as they walked through the now rusty gates of Auschwitz. In order to survive unimaginable circumstances that were enforced in these camps, a boy had to hang on to his humanity. But by no means did humanity stay with the boy, being subjected to the horror of concentration camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel saw first-hand how members of other communities attempt to silence opposing voices. All of the pain that Wiesel saw inspired him to keep watch and tell stories for people who wouldn’t live on to tell them for their own families. Stories are what keeps a person alive and through Eliezer’s words that he puts down many are able to get a sense of closure in knowing what occurred at these camps. One story occurred on the first train ride away from home, a lady named Madame Schächter was beaten up for crying out against imminent death, unseen by others.

TE 2- The guards hanged a little boy in front of other prisoners. They had to watch as this boy that did nothing wrong was hanged along with two other prisoners. When someone asked “Where is God?” Elie replied “Where is he? This is where - hanging from this gallows.” (64)

Elie remained in Auschwitz until April 5th, when the wheel of history was turned. America finally thought the lives of Jews was just as important as the ones living in their nation; but life did not get easy for Elie, "But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt strong. I was the accuser, God the accused." Elie was placed in a hospital, very ill with death knocking on his door waiting for his arrival. "One day, I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me." Coming so far and then expecting death is a thought no one should ever have cross their mind. Even when free, the battle was still being fought. Those memories are forever in his mind. The corpse standing in front of him will haunt Elie throughout life. With freedom came confinement of all thoughts, sights of deaths and smells of burning flesh through those five years in a living hell for all

What would it do to a person to go to a concentration camp, see the horrible things, and come out alive? This book, Night, is about Eliezer Wiesel, who is both the main character and the author. Elie’s book is a memorial about his experience in Hitler’s concentration camps, what he went through, and how he survived. This paper is going to be about Eliezer’s horrific experience and the ways that it changed him.

The Holocaust was a horrible event, one most people hate to think of much less speak of. This event however is the base of young Elie Wiesel’s life and story. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is all about his personal journey and place in the telling of the Holocaust. In the book he is sent to Auschwitz as a lamb is sent to the slaughter. He reiterates his transformation during this time, a transformation where he diverts from his Jewish roots and loses his faith in a merciful and Almighty God.

Lost hope, brutal disciplinary actions, and mistrust among starving men, Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, sets in 1944-45 in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. An optimistic, 15 year old German, perseveres the harsh living conditions as a Jewish boy and is forced to abide commands of SS officers in concentration camps. Witnessing Chlomo Wiesel nearing death first hand made Elie realize “... there was no more reason to live.”(93). His father, his only blood, was a symbol of motivation to continue Elie’s desire to live. Without Chlomo, Elie would have approached death sooner. He could not abhor the thought of his father bereft of life, as he “slapped him as hard as I could”(94) till he was conscious. Elie grasps to the hope of being

Survivors of the holocaust will always be affected by the gruesome actions that were done to them. They will often express their feelings through writing, art, and many other ways informing people of the horrible events they went through. As a holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel shares his story in his memoir Night. It takes the readers through his time in the comcenration camps and the brutal reality of what was being done to him and others. Throughout the memoir his writing reflects the experiences that were done to him through his change in diction, syntax, tone, and physical and emotional changes during chapters 1-5 and 6-9.

Alone and scared, no light to follow. Wondering in the dark not knowing where you're going. Upset and afraid because the one you did look toward for help is no longer there. It feels as though he has gone away. The silence is loud and the light is no more.

Throughout Hitler’s reign during the Holocaust, the victims’ faith in God started to disappear. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a dramatic account of Elie’s experience in the Holocaust. He is forced to choose between faith, death, self-interest, or interest in others. Elie Wiesel was thirteen when the Hungarian police started to capture people and put them into the hands of the Nazis. Elie was transported to Auschwitz with his whole family, but was forced to separate from his mother and sister.

When an SS officer hits Elie’s father over the head because he’d begged for water, Elie is again paralyzed by the fear and the realization that the head of the block was correct. He can’t do anything for his father and must save himself. Elie’s only response was to say “ gazing at him for over an hour, engraving into myself the picture of his blood stained face, his shattered scole.” Elie can do nothing, and when he wakes the next morning his father is gone, replaced by another prisoner. He reports that he couldn’t even weep over his own father’s

Often times in literature, and unfortunately in life, cruelty is the motivating fuel to the flame of change. Throughout the memoir Night the reader sees author Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy suffering through the Holocaust, struggle to maintain the faith that has been forefront in his life for as long as he can remember. At the beginning of the novel, Elie’s pious background and devout religious practices are at the center his lifestyle. However, as the Germans begin to rip away everything he has ever known and cared about, he begins to question the God into which he has put so much time, effort, and trust. In the face of the infinite cruelty of the Nazis, at the center of the genocide of his people, Elie constantly expresses his newfound doubts. On the other hand, one cannot help but notice that, whether out of desperation or habit, when faced with the most sadistic

Throughout the entire book, we see Elie’s internal conflict with his faith. At the beginning of the book, Elie’s faith is undoubted, but as he encounters the hardships his Holocaust experience offered he questions the presence of God, and thinks that God is dead because if God were alive he wouldn’t be letting this happen. This is seen in the quote, “Where He is? This is where- hanging here from the gallows. Another internal conflict Elie faces is his father.

Because in His great night, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?” (Wiesel, pg 67) Elie believed he was witnessing God’s true colors in not helping the Jews. This was just the beginning of Elie’s rebellion against the God he thrived to praise and worship earlier in his life. The silence of God influences Elie’s decision to second guess his devotion to his religion and question God.

In Night by Elie Wiesel and in “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley emphasize external conflicts from the world, the desires to live, and to overcome pain from others. Similarly, in the book Night, Wiesel says, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live,” (Wiesel 22). This quote overviews external conflict from the pain and suffering of the world. Also, the quote is being afflicted by the external conflicts of the world has the desire to live and the need to move on from its desire to live. Particularly, from the book a quote relates to a stanza in the poem “Invictus” which is, “In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance,