Night And Unbroken Theme Analysis

When people lose their dignity, they also lose a part of the very thing that makes them human. Despair, hopelessness, fear and apathy are all ways a human can lose their humanity. The eyes provide a window onto the soul, and thus a view on the person’s mental state. The eyes also function in reverse, as a symbolic gesture of control over someone. All of this is present in Night, by Elie Wiesel, an account of human tragedy, human cruelty, human dignity, and the loss thereof.

More than once Eliezer experiences the rupture of the bond a family shares between both the

One of the main themes throughout the book is the title of the book “Night”. There are references from Eliezer about night during the book, which are full of symbolism. The word “night” is used repeatedly, and Eliezer recounts every dusk, night and dawn through the entire book. For instance, Night could be a metaphor for the Holocaust—submerge the family and thousands of Jewish families in the darkness and misery of the concentration camps.

Eliezer and his father never wanted to be separated. But as the book goes on the father gets very sick and Eliezer has to take care of him. While they were waiting in line they watch a load of children go into the fire. After that Eliezer debates running into the electric fence but he doesn’t. Eliezer’s father soon gets very sick and the Nazis ordered him to the furnace and after Eliezer loses his father, he feels a sense of relief because he no longer needs to take care of him but also misses him

“Family like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” Maria Bastida was basically saying that family is always going to be there for each other. In this short story a young girl named Cecilia learns how important her family is. Cecilia really wanted to go on her first class trip, but instead she has to go watch her grandmother because she just got out of surgery. In Carol Shaw Graham’s short story “To Sleep Under the Stars,” the family relationship is the most vital kind of intimate relationship across all of humanity.

Everyone's experiences with it are different, some are favourable, and some are fallacious. Everyone has it, but no one’s family is synonymous. Family is strong and sacrosanct, but strange. The understanding of family varies between people and their personal experiences. In the play Only Drunks and Children Tell The Truth(ODACTTT) by Drew Hayden Taylor, one sees family defined in several legitimate but different ways.

The novel “Night” is a vivid representation of a man’s loss of faith from the beginning to the end of the catastrophic era in which this book takes place. As a young boy Elie’s inquisitive mind directed him to the synagogue where he would study the Kabbalah’s revelations and mysteries. Here is where “Moishe the beadle,” a friend to Elie, would sit with him in the synagogue and they would talk for hours about the intriguing secrets of Jewish mysticism. One important piece of advice that Moishe told Elie was, “There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of the mystical truth.” This simply meant he would need to pursue these answers on his own. However, Elie believed Moishe would help him bind his questions and answers as well, into one. These meetings were interrupted when Moishe was extracted from the Sighet where he experienced malice.

The first of the 2 novels is Night, in this novel; it is often shown through-out the book that in times of need, people are willing to turn on one another. By seeing how Eliezer’s views about his father changed in the novel, it is proven that Eliezer began to focus more on surviving and desires than some of the important things like family thus proving that the evil change that Eliezer went was in fact nothing more than him falling back onto his more primitive beliefs of focusing on living by instinct and desire. The first of the two quotes to prove that is here: “He slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours. I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed so much?”(Wiesel 39) This quote is from Eliezer’s first moments in Auschwitz. And from this quote, we know that it also marks the beginning of Eliezer’s steadily decreasing lack of sympathy for others for he had already began his descent to using his primitive instincts. This quote though, is extremely enlightening when compared to the thesis. This would be because this quote illustrates the fact that Eliezer

At the beginning of the novel, when the Jews first arrive at the camps, all they have left is their family, so they cling to them. During one of the work periods, Elie comes across two brothers, “Yass and Tibi, two brothers… whose parents had been exterminated… they lived for each other, body and soul” (Wiesel 50). This relationship between the two siblings shows, a bond that has been strengthened by loss. Elie includes this small tidbit about them to show that the Jews still have some hope and compassion still in them. Once news of evacuation hits the camp, Elie’s only thought is of his father, “I was not thinking about death but not wanting to be seperated from my father” (Wiesel 82). This shows the personal level of how the Holocaust affected the families in it. It shows that because family was the only thing that they had left, that was all that they could think about. The Jews lose everything when the arrive at the camp so they cling to what they have, their family.

Family is important but, sometimes it can be everything. Eliezer Wiesel’s novel “Night” the narrator known as Eliezer discovers the hard truth about his family and his religion. Since a young boy Eliezer was a very religious and studied Kabbalah. As he got older the Nazis came to power and started making him question his religion in the concentration camps. Later he gets separated from his family and only has his father by his side. Then he had to help his father survive through there hard journeys. Ultimately, Eliezer learns that his relationship with his father can help them both conquer anything.

This scene in Night is a turning point in the story. Until, this point the only enemy was the German officer but now they were all hardened and were willing to do anything to get an advantage. In this scene Eliezer witnesses his father beaten by Idek the Kapo, who was in a violent rage because he was working too slow. Afterwards, Franek the foreman spots that he had a gold crown and when Eliezer would not agree to, he would beat Eliezer’s father until Eliezer gave him his crown. Throughout the book and especially this scene the theme that war brings out the evil in people is apparent.

Although both Night and "Life is Beautiful" are centered on the tragic journey of a father and son, the dynamic of each relationship alters the lens through which the story is interpreted. Guido shields Joshua from the horrors of concentration camp life whereas Eliezer and his father support one another in a symbiotic union. For example, Elie resists the seductive pull of death on the evacuation from Birkenau out of obligation to his father (Wiesel, 2006). Eliezer bears the onus of choosing the hardships of life over the sweet aroma of eternal rest in refusal to abandon his father amidst the horrors of the camp. Alternatively, Guido in "Life is Beautiful" goes to great efforts to ensure that Joshua is never forced to shoulder the weight

A family is seen as a group of people who are biologically or psychologically related. They connect on historical, emotional

To me, family means to always be there for another and always have each others back. Unlike friends, you can’t choose your family. You know that as much as they might get on your nerves sometimes, you must look past that, and find the good in what you are blessed with. While reading Van Allen’s essay I felt that I could relate to a lot of what he was saying and found it very easy to understand what he was trying to get across, which kept me wanting to read more. I strongly agree with

In the essay about in certain experience can cause people to alter their ideas about what is valuable in life, we talking about the fact like when a person live a hard moment they change all their value and idea about the life. This is what happened to ELiezer and Eliezer’s father during the novel “Night”. They change their perspective of their life because they life a hard moment and they were separated from the thing they