Night By Elie Wiesel : Book Analysis

At the beginning of night, Eliezer describes himself, who believes strongly. How have his experience at Auschwitz and other camps affected his faith? It has changed a lot and I will be talking about it in these three paragraphs.

In the camps, the prisoners were continuously being persecuted and there were always selections going on as well. The selections would determine whether you were valuable to them or not. If you weren’t, you were killed and if you were, you continued to work. All of these things caused the Jews to be in a state of hopelessness and apathy while always being quite anxious too (Gutman, 1). With

will to live would be shattered by the Nazi rule. Upon arriving at the camps, the prisoners

Actions like killing someone over a crumb of bread is the last thing that people will resort to. During the holocaust prisoners in concentration camps were treated so poorly that they turned to these actions. A Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir about his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s book Night shows the awful conditions that he and other prisoners had to go through which caused them to change. The dehumanization of prisoners in the Holocaust caused them to be desensitized to death and mistreat other prisoners.

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly”. Throughout the book, Elie’s faith slowly fades away until it’s gone. His experiences during the Holocaust severely affected the way he views God and his faith.

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 Nazis scream on the death marches at the Jewy: “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” which forces them to run faster to the next concentration camp (Wiesel 85). They don't have the ability to decide where they want to go or if they want to make a break, because the Nazi soldiers threaten them with death. In the graphic novel Maus by Spiegelman Vladek explains that “International laws protected us a little as Polish war prisoners. But a Jew of the Reich, anyone could kill in the streets” which is a very interesting because prisoners committed a crime or killed people, but Jews didn't do anything like that, they just wanted to live in peace, but the prisoners had more rights and more ways to decide about their life than Jews due to international laws. Basic rights were also taken away by the Germans - The Jews weren't even allowed “…to

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.

We all know the tragedy that happened during the world war 2 with the Jews, during my summer I read about Japanese and Jews living during and after the world war 2 and how their community was like. My point is I want to know how does the internment impact the identity of either Elie or Chizu?

Page number seventeen begins when the Germans are clearing out the ghetto, in which Wiesel first states, “On everyone’s back, there was a sack.” From his position on the sidewalk, he describes the raw emotions that everyone’s eyes and posture were exposing, but no one had the courage to speak about. He says that as everyone moved in a slow and steady pace to the gate of the ghetto with distress and tears running down their cheeks. He states that he is stiff, unable to move, when the whole situation becomes surreal, as if it was torn out of a novel. Wiesel sees Chief Rabbi hunched over with a bundle on his back, looking strange without a beard and hunched. Teachers, friends, and people who Wiesel had once feared or had found ridiculous all

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?”

In the excerpt above, the word "night" is repeated multiple times, giving off a negative connotation. The authors reuse of the word, and placement of the word makes it seem as if their lives are never truly ending, like they keep have last days but they are never truly the last days. I think that the author used "night" as the tittle because it conveys the message of how dark the situation really is. It gives off this vibe that the things he went through were dark, harsh, scary, and that no one knew what was coming next. In all after reading the book you get the idea that night sort of symbolizes a new beginning that could possibly bring on a slightly worse life than that of the one they are ending.

The novel Night is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel of his life in a concentration camp. During World War II, anti-Semitism spread in Europe and people like Hitler and his Nazi army started targeting all sorts of Jews, believing them to be “lesser beings”. The Nazis forced the Jews from their homes and into ghettos to isolate them and then deported them to concentration camps. In these Nazi concentration camps, beatings and hangings were common as the SS officers tried to make an example out of the misbehaving prisoners.

The holocaust proved that sense of right and wrong is able to change in extreme facts or conditions (that surround someone). Traditional sense of right and wrong stopped being so within the sharp-spiked wire of the concentration camps. Within the camps, prisoners were not treated like humans and therefore changed (for improvement) animal-like behavior necessary to survive. The "ordinary moral world" (86) Primo Levi refers to in Survival in Auschwitz, stops to exist; the meanings and applications of words like "good," "evil," "just," and "unfair" begin to join together and the differences between these polar opposites become unclear.