Interpersonal Relationships In The Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel remains a shocking and terrifying memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust, the murders of six million Jews and five million Gentiles. Elie, a victim of this dreadful event, was forced to separate from his family, and to miss the life he once had. Elie transformed into a unrecognizable, scarred person by the end of his journey. Elie’s traumatizing experiences in the concentration camps of Auschwitz affected him significantly; he changed both spiritually and in his relationship with his father.

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

When Elie was in Sighet he would say how his father cared more about the jewish community than his family. After they are forced into the concentration camp, left with nothing but each other; their relationship began to unfold. During the first night when Elie enters the concentration camp his mother and sisters are separated from him and his father. “The same thought buzzed all all the time in my head -not to be separated from my father.”(Wiesel 33) Eliezer grew up not relying on his father to ever be around, for him to start attaching himself to his father is a big step because Eliezer has never grown up depending on his father. In the beginning of the book the father is described as insensitive and it wasn’t until now that he starts showing that emotion. “ Come on, my boy.”(Wiesel 37) This is the first time that they show his father reciprocating the effort towards a relationship. Even by something as small as calling Elie ‘my boy’ it shows his father claiming him. There is still awkwardness within their relationship. “ We pretend for what if the other on should still be believing it.”(Weisel 43) They are still not close enough to open up to each other, neither of them talk about his mother or sisters in fear of hurting the other person. Their relationship has come a long way since the beginning. The both of them are changing considering their circumstances but a part of that change is

The holocaust is one of the world's most tragic events, approximately 6 million Jews died and the concentration camp Auschwitz is the world's largest human cemetery, yet it has no graves. In Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir Night, he writes about his dehumanizing journey in the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Firstly, Elie experiences the loss of love and belonging when he is separated from his mother, sisters, and eventually his father. Also, the lack of respect that the Nazis showed the prisoners which lead to the men, including Elie to feel a sense of worthlessness in the camp. Finally, the lack of basic necessities in the camp leads to the men physically experiencing dehumanization. As a result, all these factors contribute to the

In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

The Holocaust destroyed many relationships between family members. In this horrific time period, survival meant that one had to abandon their dearest family and friends. In Night, Elie Wiesel lived in this nightmare where the Holocaust tore up the bonds of everyone around him.. He watches separation and abandonment and experiences it as well.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

In the beginning of the book, before experiencing life threatening difficulties, Elie was much more determined to stay with his family (in order to survive). Eliezer thought that his father was what kept him going and gave him strength, he was certain that the right thing to do was to stay with his dad. In chapter 3 Wiesel states, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” (30). In these sentences, Elie explains that he and his father needed to stay together. This quote also shows what Elie’s emotions were; he was scared to suffer through the concentration camp alone. Elie also shows his need for family when he says, “Franek, the foreman, assigned me to a corner... ‘Please, sir ... I’d like to be near

Elie Wiesel’s book “ Night “ takes place during the crucial events of the Holocaust. Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto and later on taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. They were taken there for one reason and one reason only, they were jews. Elie witnessed murder and soulless acts at his stay in Auschwitz, death was in the air. Elie and his father only had each other. One theme that is seen throughout the novel is that times like this can bring two people together to build a better relationship.

In Sighet, Elie would study the Jewish religion day, and night. He and his father disagreed on whether Elie was of age to be studying so much content. “He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain”(Wiesel 4). Elie’s father didn’t believe that Elie could study despite all that he already knew. This represents their disconnected relationship because Elie’s father should be close enough with Elie to know his intellectual potential. Elie’s dad was respected throughout the community. His advice was constantly needed for every affair. Helping the community was his main priority, rather than his own family. “He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin”(Wiesel 4). As a father its respected to be quiet and serious, but isolating one’s own family is extreme. Elie and his father were never able to have a close father and son bond due to the fact that Elie’s dad focused on his reputation rather than his primary responsibility. Later on while in Auschwitz, Elie and his dad meet one their relatives. Elie’s dad barely recognizes his own family due to always being out and not attending his family. “He was always elsewhere, lost in thought. (Once, a cousin came to see us in Sighet. She had stayed at our house and eaten at our table for two weeks before my father noticed her presence for

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel illustrates sadistic memories of the Holocaust to convey the lost of innocence of fifteen year old Eliezer to the readers. At a young age, many people encounter traumatizing incidents that strip away their purity forever. For Eliezer, he will always remember the German's deliberate brutality against the Jews on the concentration camps. His innocence deteriorates as he witnesses several horrific moments that influenced his morals. Wiesel engages the reader with powerful unforgettable moments in order to acheive his purpose.

The memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel, was set in Poland in three different concentration camps during World War II. Hitler was the dictator that took power of Germany and he had an outrageous belief that Jews were the reason for all world problems. Therefore, he thought the only way to get rid of them was by exterminating them or using them as slaves in work camps. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is about his time in the extermination camps as a Jewish boy. In the camps he learns many different lessons that can be seen as themes through his writing.

In the literary memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel, he informs the readers about his journey of sufferings in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, he used his painful and awful hardships from the Holocaust and exposes that this is what takes place in World Wars. He used the point of view of Eliezer as narrator to relay the autobiographical events from his perspective and always speak in the first person. As Eliezer’s viewpoint is limited to his own experience, and so the tone of Night is intimate, subjective and hugely personal. Elie’s main objective is to describe to the readers the hideous and horrifying scenes and feelings he experienced through as a