Motifs In Elie Wiesel's Night

Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night is an account of the brutality of the Holocaust faced by Elie at the age of fourteen to fifteen and the horrors he endures. Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right. During the novel, he endures loss of faith as his experience within the Holocaust becomes more difficult. The elements wrong with human nature are represented by the novel, particularly the cruelty and the ignorance. The autobiography, however, only represents little that is right, such as the memory kept in order for the events never to happen again.

Elie Wiesel, the author and the character in the memoir Night, fights to live through the Holocaust with his father. Wiesel, a 13 year old boy from Transylvania, his father, his mother and three sisters struggle to live through the Holocaust. Together the father and son battle against starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, and the multiple of brutal beatings given by the Nazis, while the mother and three sisters are separated from them. Finally after a hard year and a half Wiesel’s father dies of dysentery in Buchenwald, another concentration camp outside of Auschwitz, just shortly before Wiesel and his father could be liberated from the camp by the Russians. Hitler, a man corrupted by power, lead the Axis against the Allies. While doing so

Night by Elie Wiesel develops many themes such as: emotional death, the struggle to maintain faith, and self-preservation versus family commitment. Night is a story of a young Jewish boy, Elie, sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War. Elie is the narrator of the story. Throughout the story, Elie experiences many experiences that will haunt him eternally. Wiesel writes about Elie’s horrendous experiences, feelings, and thoughts at Auschwitz. The themes emotional death, the struggle to maintain faith, and self-preservation versus family commitment are prevalent in Elie’s story of perseverance and triumph despite hard circumstances.

In the novel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor suggests that when humans are faced with protecting their own mortality, they abandon their morals and values. This can be seen in both the Jewish and German people. The German’s are inhumanely cruel to protect their own jobs and safely by obeying government commands. The Jewish captives lost their morals as they fight to survive the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel encountered many obstacles that made many of his ideals changed drastically for Wiesel which was his loss in humanity throughout the book he explains the many ways he does not see people as people anymore. He also explains how all of his natural human rights were no more during the time in the Holocaust. He had to find a sense of self because he could have easily fallen apart. He could not have done anything different, he knew it was going to end poorly. Silence is a very important and prominent theme in this book as silence represents many key symbols such as. God’s silence: Eliezar questions God’s faith many times throughout this book and wonders how he could just sit there and be silent while people are mass murdering people.

The first activity that I chose to do, was to interview a character in the memoir, Night. The second activity that I choose, was to create a collage that represents the mode and the themes of this memoir. Many themes were portrayed throughout this memoir. The two activities I chose, relate to a variety of themes: the consequences of human judgement, loss of faith in God, father-son relationships, and loss of human freedom.

There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.

After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.

“The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy but also a human tragedy,” (Wiesenthal). The Holocaust was all-around a dark patch in history. It was something that although it took a toll on lots of people throughout the world, and the Holocaust had the biggest impact for those being Jewish and living in Europe. There have been many films, movies, and books depicting life during the Holocaust. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, who was a victim of the Holocaust growing up as a Jewish boy and has as a result gone to numerous concentration camps. In Night, he describes a time period of his life which revolved around the Holocaust. Where his family, identity, and innocence were lost in a very cruel way. Elie Wiesel through his use of tone

Before Elie and his father’s nightmare began they were very distant from each other. Elie’s father “ rarely displayed his feelings , not even within his family ...” (4). He was emotionless towards everyone. He never communicated

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, tells the story of a young boy surviving through the Holocaust. The story conveys the effects of this barbaric event on the boy emotionally, physically, and mentally. This crude, genocidal imperial impacted millions of people. This story focuses mainly on Elie Wiesel's perspective on the Holocaust; considering his many years of labor, servitude, and transportation through multiple concentration camps. At such a young age, he was put through torturous anguish. Throughout this story, he explains the effect of the Holocaust on him as a boy along with how he handled it.

Firstly, the words of characters are essential in displaying this theme through the quotes of two characters, a young French woman, and also Elie himself. The first compassionate quote occurs after Elie is maliciously assaulted by Idek, a Kapo who has episodic outbursts of fury. After the onslaught subsides, the French woman acknowledges a distraught Elie, and attempts to console Elie by saying, “Bite your lips, little brother... Don 't cry” (Wiesel, 53). In this statement, the French woman utilizes empathy for Elie to overcome her fear of speaking to Elie, visibly shown through the quote “I knew she wanted to talk to me but that she was paralyzed with fear” (Wiesel, 53), through compassion, consequently enabling her to feel an urge to ease Elie 's suffering and calms Elie

The Holocaust was a horrible period of punishment and a misery to the people who lived through this period of time. Up to 6 million jews were estimated of being killed during this period of time. This has affected and impacted many people’s lives and in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, he will forever reminisce his experience in a Nazi concentration camp during the holocaust. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.

In the autobiography Night written by Elie Wiesel, the teen boy was forced to travel to several different Nazi concentration camp where he witnessed horrific experiences that he now has kept as memories and had to fight for his survival. Events of the holocaust caused the author to suffer with the significant memories for the rest of his life time. Specific events tramitized Wiesel.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family are Jewish and in turn get sent to Birkenau. They were sent to Birkenau because Adolf Hitler had come to power just before World War II. Elie gets separated from his mother and sister who had been sent to the crematory. Elie had been fortunate enough that his father was sent to the same side as him. Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father son bond, as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver. The motif is night as a symbol of death. This is shown through his experience at the concentration camp and times on the train.

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.