Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

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

“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.

In the memoir Night, a boy’s youth becomes unapparent after witnessing only a few of the many horrors in Auschwitz. After being deported to a concentration camp and separated from all family members besides his father, Elie realizes that his youth will soon be distant. Shortly after entering the camp his father asks the guard a question, something not allowed in the camps. He receives a blow to the head as punishment, which surprisingly Elie does not even react to, “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 that much? So fast?”(39). At this point of their journey, Elie is beginning to realize that he is going to witness actions no innocent boy should have to witness, especially at his age. These thoughts allow him to identify that the youth he once knew will be gone forever.

In the book Night written by Elie Wiesel was mainly about how a young boy had to suffer the traumatic experience of existence and fatality at Nazis concentration camps. In the book, Elie Wiesel was the character “Eliezer Wiesel”. Eliezer was a young boy at the age of fourteen who lived in Sighet, Transylvania. During the lead of World War II, Eliezer was an extremely earnest young boy who desired to examine and practice Jewish theology. He also occasionally spent a great deal of time and passion on the Talmud, the gathering of Jewish decrees and ways of life that included the Mishnah and the Gemara. Eliezer’s father, who was a protuberant head of the Jewish neighborhood, strongly believed that Weisel was not of the right age to try and go forward with the doings. Still, Eliezer begins examining and practicing the cabbala with an instructor by the name of Moshe the Beadle.

If God is so loving and good, how can He allow so much evil and bad things to happen in this world? One of the biggest stumbling block for millions of people in the world, commonly this is the question that I have heard, keep people from believing in God at all. In reflection of reading Night, by Elie Wiesel, I think that this is an important question to tackle. One of the themes of the memoir Night is, “the silence of God in all the atrocities and evil of this world.” Eliezer becomes hopeless, we see this when he says, “And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” (pg. 69, Night). When investigating such a heavy topic, it is important to focus on a few different areas. The idea of a loving and perfect God, but an evil and corrupt world. On page 76 of Night, Eliezer cries, “"It's over. God is no longer with us." And as though he regretted having uttered such words so coldly, so dryly, he added in his broken voice, "I know. No one has the right to say things like that. I know that very well. Man is too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways...I suffer hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and I see what is being done here. Where is God's mercy? Where's God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?"” To explain such a claim, let’s look at where evil comes from (what is the root of all evil), and, what the bible says about God being faithful/good. When it comes

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

In the beginning of the book Elie’s father was too focused on community matters to have a close relationship with his son. Towards the middle of the book they’re urgency to survive brought them together, but by the end Elie started to let go of the trying to keep his dad alive as he got more focused on his own survival. This shows how crisis can bring people together, and tear people apart at the same time, meaning that there is a time to be independent and time to rely, and support others. It takes a lot to realize the difference in these

The Germans were pushing the Jewish community towards death to see who survived. The Passover ended, “the curtain rose” (Wiesel, 2008) and the Germans “arrested the leaders of the Jewish community” (Wiesel, 2008). Elie states, “from that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun” (Wiesel, 2008).

One reason Eliezer comes to lose his faith is because of the way he sees the human character of the victims corrupted in the death camps. In the ghetto, there was at least some unity and solidarity amongst the persecuted Jews. In the death camps, survival is the only priority. Eliezer's mother and sister are taken away; he is left alone with his father with the men. Eliezer's father, ignored warnings of the horrors of the death camps when the family was still living in the ghetto. Almost immediately, upon coming to Auschwitz, Eliezer exhibits religious skepticism when seeing the sights of the bodies

He planned to study his religion. This quickly changed when Nazi officers began to round up Jews in his city. Him and his family were taken to Auschwitz, a camp where Jews were either immediately killed or worked to death. Elie and his father stay together, but are separated from the rest of their family, whom they would never see again. Elie goes through a lot, and is changed in many ways throughout the

Sufferage. Loss. Tears. Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, explains what his father & himself went through as prisoners during the Holocaust. Elie describes everything his father and himself saw and experienced while in a concentration camp. Elie had great faith before the Holocaust, but questioned it due to his experiences at the camp.

Moishe gets back into town by train and starts crying when he prays. Elie sees Moishe crying and asks him what’s wrong. Moishe tells Elie his story through tears. Elie starts worrying if this will happen to anyone else. Everybody was losing their faiths faster in the concentration camps.

All humans should be born with the basic rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but other groups work to prevent many people from experiencing these rights. In the memoir titled Night by Elie Wilson; he told his story of his encounters at Auschwitz. During his time there he saw different incidents of people showing humanity and dehumanization towards each others. Humanity means the culture and how a race lives and survives. Dehumanization is taking away people’s basic human rights.

Germans being already in the town and the fascists already in power the verdict was already out but the Jews of the Sighet were still smiling. Eight days later, weather was abstract. The chapel were no longer open. Private houses were gathered with people. Rabbi’s homes became house of prayer. By the seventh day of the Passover the curtains had finally rose, the Germans had arrested the leaders of the Jewish community.