Moral Decisions In Elie Wiesel's Night

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

Making decisions in life can be so minor that it can affect almost nothing, whilst other decisions have the potential to change one's entire life. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the major decisions Elie made during his imprisonment in a concentration camp drastically alter his life's journey. Not only has his life been modified around the decisions he had made in the camp, but it also changes his views from what he has done or seen in the past. By making significant decisions around his father, his own beliefs, and for himself, Elie has seen many changes in his life, for better or for worse.

In a way being selfish is what got humans where they are today.The evolution of humans required competition,and aggressive selfishness. We were forced to be selfish and watch our own back, to always put ourselves first in bad situations. This reaction to put ourselves first is natural, it’s in our blood. However, is the very thing that made us so successful as a species the one thing that so easily tears us apart? As humans we have an incredible capacity to dehumanize others to protect our own self interest.

"Night" by Elie Wiesel is "A slim volume of terrifying power" (The New York Time), the novel is concerning the tragic events that occurred during the Holocaust. The first section of the memoir raises an internal conflict, regarding the Jews of Sighet being ignorant about the terrifying events that are occurring outside their small town. This conflict is created when Moishe the Beadle escaped from the Gestapo and returned to Sighet to warn the Jews of the crisis, which is happening right under their noses. This is shown in the following quote, "he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story" (7), despite warning his community of the dangers that are progressing towards them, the Jews of Sighet ignored him and did not believe Moishe. The ignorance of the Jews is shown when

“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).

In chapter 5 of the novel Night, it seems to have been the scariest part of the book so far. It has great detail and the author wrote it well. He described everything and made us seem like we were there living it with him.

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.

A friend or family is in danger and the police quickly rushes to save them, not even caring if they lose their life. That is a time when others life belongs to all those people that need them desperately. “My hand shifted on my father’s arm. I had one thought - not to lose him” (Wiesel 27). Elie did not want to lose his father and he chose to help him. When his

When looking at the holocaust, it is widely known the devastation and pain that was caused by the Nazis; however when inspecting the holocaust on a deeper level, it is evident that the Jews were exposed to unimaginable treatment and experimentation often overlooked in history discussions. When looking at “Night”, Elie Wiesel was helped by the doctors in the camp when his foot was severely infected; although this is not the experience he had, many Jews were mistreated and even killed by the doctors. Many Nazi doctors that were assigned to Jewish patients were later found to have exposed the patients to horrific medical experiments and unnecessary treatments that commonly led to their death.

In the novel, “Night,” by Elie Wiesal and the short interview with Franz Stangl, a commandant of death camps during the Holocaust, the theme of denial appears multiple times. In the piece written by Elie Wiesal, the people of Sighet looked beyond the truth of reality and ignored Moche the Beadle when he spoke the truth from his experiences. He told the community that he was deported and then brought into the woods. Once he arrived, the other deportees and him were told to dig graves; then the soldiers started slaughtering them void of emotion. Once he escaped, he ran to go tell the community. He told them his experience and how “babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets (Wiesal 16). After, he announced his

Human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author, Elie Wiesel in his memoir, Night, claims that choosing to be indifferent to the suffering of others only leads to more suffering, more discrimination, and more grief. He develops his claim by illustrating the issues of the 20th century in his speech while at the same time explaining the dangers of indifference. He also uses rhetorical questions adding this helps the audience interact with the speech making it more impactful. When he exemplifies ships of 1,000 Jews being sent back to Nazi Germany by America it appeals to the logic of Americans, and people around the world. Wiesel’s appeal to the audience during his speech makes his claim more effective. Wiesel’s purpose is to persuade the reader into taking a stand; and to not ignore the problems around you because they could possibly lead to millions of people losing their lives. He establishes an optimistic

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel (1958), a theme of Elie’s decisions becomes clear and has a pattern. The book’s story took place during the holocaust. This was an emotional and discouraging worldwide trauma. Jews were singled out and “not wanted” by Hitler. Hitler was a German natzi.

The freedom fighter Nelson Mandela once said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” After the memorable attacks in New York, London, and Madrid, the West became a unwelcoming and hostile place for Muslims, and the world started to be known as the “Islamic World” and “The West”. The Islamic world as in the picture is a place where men oppress women, a place vicious to technological advancements and a place where Muslim children are raised with the thought that the west is an unfavorable place for them. The “West” however

Since the beginning of literature itself, many stories have contained decisions that characters make which can completely go against what a society could be considered moral or immoral. For example, when Snow White ate the apple from the Evil Queen after the 7 dwarfs warned her about strangers or when Harry kept making Dumbledore drink the potion even though he it was hurting him because they had to get the Horcrux to defeat Voldemort. i, Robot is another story where many characters are seen making many difficult moral decisions. Some examples include when Powell risked his life to save Speedy and Donovan (Pgs.53-54) and when Dr. Calvin destroyed Herbie out of her own anger and spite. (pgs.133-135)