Night, A Dark, Silent Time Where All Faith Is Lost

Night is an auto biography by Elie Wiesel. This story is about his family and how they make it through the Holocaust. One of the themes in this story is the Jewish heritage and beliefs; and how when all that was occurring some may lose hope in God. While some people faith stayed strong.

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 Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie wrote about his journey through the Holocaust and how it impacted his faith. Before the Holocaust, Elie became very passionate about Judaism, but his learning was stopped abruptly because the Nazis had arrived. The Nazis took away his teacher, along with his neighbors. Soon, the Nazis came back for the remaining citizens and loaded them into a train. This was the beginning of the Holocaust, in which Elie would experience many horrific events. Throughout Night, Elie’s faith decreases because of the harsh conditions of concentration camps and the declining health of his father.

Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel. In this book Wiesel tells about his experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel was only twelve years old when the Holocaust first affected him. Early on Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister. Him and his father were then moved from camp to camp having to endure harsh conditions. Together they both saw terrible things that they will never forget. Many conflicts in The Holocaust changed both Wiesel and his father. The two factors that affected Wiesel the most was him having to indirectly face the entire Nazi society and his believe and trust in God.

About two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis. Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, is about a teenage boy who was taken with his family to Auschwitz and through many of the other concentration camps. Night walks you through all the horrible and tragic events that Elie and all the other people had to endure. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses several powerful, sad, and horrifying images to demonstrate some of the horrors that occurred during the holocaust.

Night is a brutally honest memoir of much of Elie Wiesel’s childhood. When Wiesel was young he was very devoted to his Religion, asking questions and reading scripture. When the trains were loaded Wiesel no longer had the words to express his disdain. After setting foot in Auschwitz Wiesel felt abandoned by god and no longer believed God was not righteous. Rightful decision he watched children burn, men get shot, women disappear to never return. Despite all this Wiesel never truly lost his religion explaining “I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”(45,Wiesel). As time passes faith was restored and like many Holocaust survivors Wiesel is still Jewish and was proud to tell the world about it to the day he died.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

In the third section of the memoir, just after Elie and his father comprehend that they have survived the first selection in Birkenau, Elie thinks to himself, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 34). When Elie says this, he is contemplating his first night in Auschwitz and the effects that night had on his entire life. Nevertheless, he begins to lose his faith, because of the traumatic experiences he had that

Night is just one of many memoirs by Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust. Wiesel feels compelled to bear witness to the suffering that he experienced and observed in the concentration camps. In Night he narrates the experience of the deaths of his family members, the death of his adolescence, and the death of his naïve belief in mans innate goodness.

In Night, Elie Wiesel presents the harsh, cruel world that surrounds humanity and which is often times not thought to be evil. Night makes us realize nighttime is no longer a time of peace but is filled with fear and nightmares that can not be removed. Every Night in Auschwitz and Birkenau, death lingered in the air as well as memories of family and friends. Taken away in a small compact cattle car during Passover, the Wiesels and other Jews had no idea what awaited. No one realized they were headed towards their death. Elie like others lost most of his family and dreams except for his father and his faith in God. Though the Holocaust brought so much agony, it also brought some realization of what really mattered in life and what people need to hold on to. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction, symbolism, and imagery to show the challenges faced between God and his follower.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a book about his personal life experiences with the Holocaust and the central theme of his book is his loss of religious faith. In the beginning of the book, Wiesel has strong devotion and love to God but it all changes as he experiences the Holocaust as a Jew. Throughout the book, we can see that Wiesel becomes extremely cynical about God and his religious beliefs. In the beginning of the book, Wiesel is shown to have strong loyalty with God.

During the Holocaust 6 million Jews were thrown into systematic camps designed to tear them apart. There were a handful of survivors and of these Jews, one of them is Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust and shares their experiences in their novel Night. A major topic that Elie Wiesel talks of in Night is his transformation of his belief in God. Elie before the Holocaust is praying on a regular basis and takes part in Kabbalah. However, as the Nazis advance and Elie is thrown into a concentration camps he loses faith. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel portrayed how Nazis performed acts of hatred towards the Jews that physically and spiritually ripped them apart causing Jews to question their God and eventually lose faith.

Based off real life events, Night by Elie Wiesel tells the tragic story of young Elie’s childhood. Elie was one of the After years of misery of living in an concentration camp, young elie finally sees a ray of hope when the americans come. At this time, being a jew was hard, they’ve been sent to concentration camps forced to leave home. While at the concentration camp Wiesel, Identity played an major part. Wiesel's identity changed completely during his experience, He lost faith in god, became indifferent to his survival. Before his family was moved, He was an very religious guy who prayed and cried every night. When police came and forced all the jews to move to the ghettos, his prayers were interrupted. But his identity changes only made

Night by Elie Wiesel is a non-fiction novella based on true events of the Holocaust. Wiesel reflects on how the ignorance of jews affected their time in the concentration camps. He also shines a light on how Elie’s relationship with his father Shlomo, reveals little that is right with human nature. Elie acknowledges how the struggle of faith reveals to the viewer what is wrong with human nature.

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel talks of what he had experienced within the concentration camps in WWII. Wiesel consistently portrayed faith throughout the novel showing hope and people stray away from their faith and what they have thought and believed. Elie is a 12 year old boy who is taken to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland where most Jewish prisoners knew if they were sent there it was a sentence to death. Elie has a lot of faith which he slowly starts to question as he endures the hardships within the camp.