Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

On the cattle car back from Auschwitz, Wiesel describes the prisoners as being beasts of prey, almost like the Holocaust has destroyed their humanity and transformed them into animals: “Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes...the spectators observed these emacipated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread” (Wiesel 101). This quote mainly serves as a device to express prisoners as being animals, but also describes the role of a bystander. The Holocaust was a period of time full of passive bystanders who didn’t do anything despite having full knowledge of what was occurring in the concentration camps. The unnamed spectators in this quote symbolize all of the people that turned a blind eye once they figured out what the Nazis were truly doing to jewish and other “lesser” populations. In addition, in the last line of the memoir, Wiesel sees himself in a mirror for the first time since he had left his ghetto. Wiesel describes himself in the third person as being a corpse, displaying the immense toll that the Holocaust has had on certain people: “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel it says “human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” This shows that the world’s problems are everyone’s problems. Everyone has their own responsibilities and when war occurs people tend to take on more responsibility than ever before. The United States is a prime example of making the world’s problems their own.

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, acknowledged that “There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention: victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution, writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right. Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.” When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they believed that the Germans were “racially superior”and that Jews(their biggest enemy) were to be called “inferior.” As the “Final Solution” came, no Jew was safe. The Germans figured every way to get rid of them. One single gunshot wasn't enough. During this

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.

Kofi Atta Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations once said, “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.” (www.finestquotes.com). Just because someone may look or act different, there is no reason to treat that person entirely different when in reality, that person is just the same. Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel struggled to understand why only the Jews were being treated horribly in the world. He knew that deep down, everyone is the same. As the Nazis tortured the Jews, Elie tried his best to be strong and look on the brighter side. Elie and his family were taken by the Nazis to a

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.

Eliezer’s faith in God was strong in the beginning, believing that God had unconditional love and was great. Eliezer could not begin to think that he could live without his God. He believes that God is in the whole world. Later on his faith is tested by the cruelty and evil he witnessed in various camps. He also saw the same evil in prisoners, Jews just like himself he wanders how his God could allow this and if God is also cruel like the. Eliezer manages to keep some faith during his various experiences when Moshe asked why Eliezer prays he says “I pray to the God within me that he will give me the strength to ask the right questions” (pg4). Drawling near to the end is where Eliezer says he gives up on believing in God but, deep inside God is still within him.

After the Genocide of Jews throughout Europe during the Holocaust, there was no way to inform others of what happened from a Jew’s first hand perspective. Then, the book Night was written by Elie Wiesel to speak for those that were victims of the Holocaust. The author, Elie Wiesel was a Jewish adolescent who lived in the village of Sighet within the region of Transylvania during the Holocaust. Wiesel first hand experienced concentrations camps. Although he was never officially diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder he seldomly discussed his feeling with others which is a common symptom of those who suffer from this disorder. He eventually did find a way to deal with his issues which was was through writing. It took him 10 years to decide

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is a story that the author tries to tell from his perspective of what it’s like to try to survive during the Holocaust, and the things that people would have to go through plus what they had to do to live another day. Wiesel is a boy that had to go through hell for the years that are usually the best as a child growing up, and he had that taken away from him. He tells his story and explains to the reader using mixed diction and tones. This time was not an easy time to have survived especially in the camps. Some of the times Wiesel had to lie to not be cremated. “‘Here, kid, how old are you?’ It was one of the prisoners…… Our procession continued to move slowly forward.” (Wiesel 28-30). This is a way Wiesel

Anne Frank, a victim of the Holocaust, once said, “Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again.” Similar to Anne’s questions, Elie Wiesel pondered the same. However, she believed that the people will be salvaged by God, but Elie believed God left him and millions of other lives alone to perish. In the memoir Night Eliezer Wiesel experienced years of mental and physical torture, which condemned him and other survivors to a life with unforgettable, painful memories. While some may think that views and opinions of God does not define them as a person, Weisel presents

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.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night paints a chilling picture of what life was like for a Jew in the depths of the Holocaust. The memoir follows the story of Ellie in the infamous concentration camps of Germany that took millions of Jewish lives.The events that happened in the death camps were inhumane and would affect anyone forced to experience them. Elie’s faith and maturity were greatly influenced by the events that happened in the concentration camps.

The Jewish people were robbed. They were stripped of their freedom, their identity, their humanity, but most of all they were stripped of their religion. Not only was the Jewish religion the entire basis for the Jews’ capture; it was what was taken from both young and old minds of those captured. We see the absence of God in Elie Wiesel’s experience in three stages.

Despite warnings about German intentions toward Jews, many Jews fail to flee to others country. Many Jews have to sent to the camp Auwschitz. Eliezer with his dad struggle at the camp and meet Stein. There live are keep passing day by day until one day, Stein’s death came.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie begins to lose his faith through internal conflict. After debating the merit and value of his faith, he finally concludes that he and the other prisoners are stronger than God. This newfound belief is born out out of his idea of God’s intentions and his lack of faith. To begin, Elie believes that he is stronger than God because it is God who allowed for the Jewish people to be put into concentration. He questions God’s intentions until he finally concludes that he should no bless one who has witnessed all of the horrible events of the concentration camps failed to take action. Elie once thinks to himself, “Because of His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?”