Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

Determination is an important foundation in human lives. Each time an individual or society faces great adversity, one tends to develop an aspect of their identity that showcases a strong link to the significance of determination in people’s lives. Determination is a trait that each individual possesses. However, the degree of this characteristic varies for each individual and depends on the person’s capabilities and willingness to attain a goal. In the Night, author Elie Wiesel provide the readers with an insight of how determination became the guidance for the Jewish people who suffered dreadful torture and endured a horrid lifestyle under the Nazi’s fascist and anti-semitic regime. Furthermore, due to

In the beginning of the book he studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts, “I continued to devote myself to my studies. By day, the Talmud, at night, the Caballa.” This text shows that he was a devoted jew who followed the texts. This religiousness soon came to change when Elie was in the concentration camps. Elie started to question god where an example of this would be in the quote “But these men here you have betrayed , whom you have allowed to be tortured,..., they pray for you! They praise your name!” This quote shows that Elie realizes that god has not devoted his time to his followers, and is angered that his “brothers” are dying and God is doing nothing about it. This quote changes his view of god showing the theme that the holocaust was a very difficult time for jews and that it made them lose faith in god.

Initially, Eliezer’s faith is a result of his Jewish studies, which teach him that God is everywhere in the world, that nothing exists without God, that in fact everything in the physical world is a reflection, of the divine world. At the beginning of the memoir, his faith in God is absolute. When Moshe asks him why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Weisel 4). His belief in comforting and caring God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in a divine power; however, throughout the Holocaust Elie’s faith is shaken to its core and he begins to question God himself. Since his studies showed God is good and God is everywhere in the world Elie believes the world is generally good. When

Though faithful as they enter the horrific camps of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buna, Birknau, Dachau, and Buchenwald, the Jews become capricious. They start losing grip and begin falling down the slippery slope of death the Germans set up for them as more horrors of the camps become unveiled. Soon after arriving in the camp and being told about the crematoria, he felt “anger rising with me [Elie]. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). This is the first time that his faith is challenged. After a few days in Auschwitz he “had ceased to pray. I [Elie] was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). As seen, Elie is beginning to have doubts about God and therefore his belief and faith in him. Finally, when Elie is looking for God to come though he doesn’t and he asks,

On the other hand people say that Jews still think god is true because of all that he has done to help them out. For example, “some talked of god, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of jewish people, and of their future deliverance”. However, Elie’s response to this is, “But i had ceased to pray” (Wiesel 42). This means that his faith in God has changed during his experience even though the faith of others has not

He is angry at God because even though God created Auschwitz, and has turned his back on the victims of the Holocaust, people are still praying before him. The God that Elie had trusted and given his life to turned his back on him when he faced death and suffering. This caused Elie to debate whether this “God” was ever going to save them from the torment of the concentration camp. It is debatable whether Elie has completely lost faith in God or if he is venting his rage upon God. Nevertheless, at this time in the Holocaust, Elie’s faith has definitely

Elie's faith began strong before entering the concentration camps during the Holocaust. When Elie was in Sighet he loved learning about his faith. He enjoyed praying with Moishe and with himself. Elie didn't bother listening to his father's when he told him he wasn't ready to have a mentor. Elie chose Moishe as his mentor to help him understand more about his beliefs. He wanted to learn the meaning behind some action in his faith, and Elie would spend all his day studying Talmud. By night he would go to a destroyed temple to cry for

Imagine being one of of five hundred thousand jews that survived the mass murdering of over 7 million jews. Elie Wiesel's survival of the holocaust was very significant due to how many times death was just on the tip of his nose during the duration of being in camps and getting transferred numerous times. In the novel “Night” the book goes over the whole experience of the holocaust down to the bare bone from a first person point of view, the author Elie Wiesel was really able to grasp how things were to go down during the holocaust and how almost everybody was mistreated. Some may believe that Elie's faith in god is what kept him alive during his time in the concentration camp; however such as physical and emotional support he got from his dear father more strongly proves that the relationship with his father is actually what kept him alive.

During Elie Wiesel’s book there seemed to be many mixed emotions throughout the situation of being in the camp and the separation of their family, and along with the relationship between him and his father. In the beginning of the book Elie thought that his father could care less about him and what he does since he always seemed to be busy and had no time for his wife or his children. “My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental, He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel, 4). In the middle of the book things started to change, the both of them tried their hardest to stay together and to never be separated apart no matter what circumstances stood by “We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me” (Wiesel, 89).

On page eighty-seven even though Elie lost faith in God, he says “ And, in spite of myself , a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed in.” Elie still believes in god even though he says he

Throughout the memoir “Night” many ways of how Elie loses his faith in God. While reading there are many different ways and times where Elie questions his faith to God. He reduces his faith to God and finally makes it clear that his faith was lost. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the

“My hand tightened its grip on my father, all I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” How far does love for our family go? How much could we suffer for the people we love? How much do we want to be alive with people we’re related to?

After Elie’s first night in camp, he believes God is dead; “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.” (pg 34). Here in the Holocaust, he witnesses the ‘death’ of God, or he rather recognizes it, and he thinks that he and God would never have died together. Wiesel thinks He is dead, and does not think he can escape. Then Elie realizes he is alone, “alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy… I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound…” (pg 68). It dawns on him that only he can help himself, no God, not another man, he then feels significantly stronger, than his God, as only he can save himself. Akiba Drumer, another victim of the Holocaust, who is in Elie’s camp, who is a very religious man, who begins to doubt God, and finally gives up. This is proven when Mr. Drumer was talking to Elie one day, and he uttered such cold, dry words, “It’s over. God is no longer with us.” (pg 76). Akiba was finally broken, after staying faithful with no reward, he willed himself into believing God was gone. Elie, along with many others, faith was gone, and God was