Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Upon entering the concentration camps Elie forsakes God for putting him in this situation, but while being herded toward a fire and having a near death experience he still finds himself praying. "Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe, and against my will I found myself whispering the words: "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba … May his name be exalted and sanctified …" My heart was about to burst. There, I was face to face with the Angel of Death" (34). Elie finds himself praying because it is instinctual to him and is deeply rooted in him so that praying is what he does when nearing death. Even though Elie was condemning God a few moments before, he does not know what else to do but pray. Elie's belief in God is more powerful than his doubt in God. Faith is relief for Elie when he switches barracks and connects with two Zionist youth. Elie says, "They quickly became my friends. Having once belonged to a Zionist youth organization, they knew countless Hebrew songs. And so we would sometimes hum melodies evoking the gentle waters of the Jordan River and the majestic sanctity of Jerusalem. We also spoke often about Palestine. Their parents, like mine, had not the courage to sell everything and emigrate while there was still time. We decided that if we were allowed to live until the Liberation, we would not

Nearing the end of their arduous journey, the mutual dependence was slowly dwindling as Elie began to have to take care of his father. One example of this is when his father was sick and in the camp infirmary and had not been fed so Elie “gave him what was left of [his] soup. But [his] heart was heavy. [He] was aware that [he] was doing it grudgingly,’ (107). Being that he did this grudgingly, the reader is shown that, to Elie, taking care of his father had become more of an unwanted task rather than a kind action coming from his heart. Elie begins to see his own father as a thorn in his side much rather than his source support. His father is no longer there as a person who will provide motivation to survive but now instead a burden. In another instance, still in the infirmary, when his father pleaded for water and the officer came to silence him, Elie states, “ I didn’t move.

As elie grew up in jewish household and followed the jewish beliefs, he thought God would always be there and help him if he was ever in need. There were many times during Wiesel’s life where he started to lose faith because of how awful the Holocaust was. For example, “Never shall I forget that night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never should I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that 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. Never.” (34) Since his experiences had already been so horrific and horrendous, he had started to lose his faith in God because he felt as if God had left him stranded in the time Elie needed him most. Also when they entered Birkenau and began to realize the horrors that were around them, Elie begins to lose his unconditional devotion to God. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (33) In this moment Wiesel asked why should he praise God when God was silent when Elie needed him the most. Throughout most of the holocaust, God was silent, and that led to Wiesel losing his faith.

Lonely. Confuse. Disappointed. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie's family was sent to concentration camps, which drove the family to suffer. Elie had to experience traumatic events, which made Elie change. Elie's faith before the Holocaust was strong, then he started questioning his faith, and ended up losing his faith.

In the novel Night, Elie Weisel's purpose of writing this story is to ensure that anything relatively close to the Holocaust never happens again. The fact that Night was written about Elie Weisel establishes credibility. Elie Weisel was born in Hungary in 1928 and was then deported with his family to Auschwitz as a young boy. Elie wrote Night as a memoir of his experiences. This affects the readers by showing the novel is based on a true story which gives the readers a reason to trust and listen to what the author is trying to say. The author uses pathos in his writing as another way to reach his audience. Towards the end of the novel Elie "...wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.

In the short story “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the author tells of his experience of being placed into a jewish ghetto as a young man during World War Two. Wiesel tells of being forced to leave his home with his family and taking what personal belongings he and his family could carry. Elie and his family did not resist the german officers as they were threatened with being shot if they attempted to escape.

In the non-fictional memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of conflict is present. Eliezer faces many mental hardships and conflicts. He also has disagreements with other characters throughout the book. Obviously Wiesel uses the conflicts of man vs. himself and man vs. man to prove one of the underlying themes of the memoir: Hope is an invisible concept; nonetheless, people will not relinquish.

Wiesel’s descent from his faith begins with his loss of hope in the people around him. Throughout the book, the audience can see everyone go from well mannered to savages who only care for themselves, Elie included. Right as he had first entered the camps, he began to see the changes that happen when faced with horrible situations. His first experience

Subsequently, sometimes people can't control their emotions when they have to survive. In other cases, people want to die since they can't feel anymore, and they just lose hope. In "Night", Elie didn't want his father to rest and die, and his father couldn't control his emotions. "Father!" I howled. "Father! Get up! Right now! You will kill yourself..." And I grabbed his arm. he continued to moan:"Don't yell my son... Have pity on your old father... Let me rest here a little..." (Wiesel 105). Correspondingly, this quote indicates that Elie didn't want his father to die and his father wanted to die like those dead people in the corpses. Moreover, Auschwitz is a concentration camp and there is no helping one another to survive; it is a survival

Elie Wiesel used voices of the forgotten to inspire humanity upon the world. He shared personal experiences in Night to teach a sensitive subject. Wiesel’s message was spread throughout the world. He worked hard to influence leaders to create a better future. Even today, he influences the world and will continue to for many years.

“I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I cannot feel it. I believe in God even when he is silent”-Written on a cellar wall in Germany during the Holocaust. Many Jews went to concentration camps having faith in their God and thinking that they will someday be liberated soon. They had hope and faith in their god that they would get rescued while others had lost their faith the moment they stepped in Auschwitz. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a boy named Elie was fifteen when the Germans had reached his village and was separated from his family except his father, by which they traveled to camps in cattle carts. Everyday and night, Wiesel struggles with keeping his father and himself alive while they go from camp to camp. While Wiesel is living in these crucial camps, he experiences all these crucial events from babies being burned in front of him to own family members killing each other for survival. Every time people seem to bring up their god, Wiesel starts to lose and doubting his faith towards God.

He has a very strong connection to God and trusts him. In the middle of the story, Elie away to a concentration camp where his family is seperated. He is starting to lose his faith in God after seeing the horrors of the camp. In the end by the time Elie is freed he has lost all faith in God and doesn't even believe he exists. Throughout the story, we can see his faith fading away.

In a book full of horrifying experience with death of innocence you can never unread what you have read. But always when you read a great book you always take lessons away from the book or you always remember something. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel I will always remember a moment that became a prophecy.

Stripped bare of important necessities, desperation devours humanity as minds fill with nothing other than the chaos of wanting to survive. In the 20th century, Germany fell into an economic depression due to their loss in World War I, causing a man named Adolf Hitler to convince the people of Germany that the Jewish people were the reason for their defeat. Upset and vexed over their loss, Germans believed in Hitler’s rhetorics of hate towards Jews and soon began discriminating against them in support of Hitler. Consequently, the Nazi party, led by Hitler, captured Jews, along with other groups of people, and murdered more than six million lives. Several stories tell this horrific tragedy, but a survivor named Elie Wiesel recollects his

Night by Elie Wiesel is the story of a young boy torn from his faith. Elie Wiesel, born into the Jewish faith and grew up during a time of desperation, the Holocaust. Elie survives through the blinding persistence of love in an abyss of despair. He and his father had been forced to run 12 kilometers in the freezing cold, they wanted to quit but hung on for the each other. “My father's persistence was the only thing that stopped me.