Night, By Elie Wiesel

“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.” (5)

During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.

There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

As the enforcements of the Holocaust start appearing in Wiesel’s hometown, his father’s behavior begins to slowly change, making it easier for Wiesel to connect with him. While watching other families being deported, Wiesel, his father, and the rest of his family witness the Hungarian Police strike old men and women, without reason, with truncheons, for the first time. The next day, as they are being deported from the ghettos, Wiesel writes, “My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep. I had never imagined that he could” (16). Wiesel’s prior belief that his father was emotionless is proven to be wrong before they even arrive at the concentration camps. Wiesel is able to relate to his father in this moment, for he too is terrified of what lies ahead. As Wiesel and his family arrive at Birkenau, the Nazis

There are many important themes and overtones to the book Night, by Eliezer Wiesel. One of the major themes from the book includes the protagonist, and author of his memoire, Elie Wiesel’s ever changing relationship with God. An example of this is when Moche the Beadle asked Elie an important question that would change his life forever, as the basis of his passion and aptitude for studying the ancient texts and teachings of Judaism, “When Moche the Beadle asked Elie why he prayed, Elie couldn 't think of an answer that truly described his faith, and thought, "a strange question, why did I live, why did I breathe?" (Wiesel 14).

Wiesel exposes the actions that are a result of survival instincts in Jews by describing the setting and environment of the camp. When Elie is introduced to the barracks, he can’t help but be shocked by the behavior and reactions of those around him. “This is what the antechamber of hell must look like” Elie thinks as they entered the barrack. He is so convinced of this because there’s “so many crazed men,

Author Elie Wiesel writes about his experience as a Jew in concentration camps in his book Night. Elie includes similes, pathos and repetition in Chapter three to illustrate the inhumanity towards Jews while in the concentration camps.

Women and men are separated almost immediately upon arrival, and although he didn’t know it yet, “this was the moment… [Wiesel would be] leaving [his] mother and Tzipora forever” (29). After going with the men, Wiesel and his father are told to lie about their ages, presumably because they would be seen as useless if they were to reveal how old they truly were. This proved to help them, as they were both sent to the barracks, and not the dreaded crematorium. Looking back at this time, Wiesel admits that he would never be able to “forget those flames that consumed [his] faith” (34). The treatment of his people at the labor camp resulted in him doubting his God, and whether or not he should believe in someone who allowed this to happen to him. The chosen men run several kilometers to Auschwitz, a concentration camp, in the freezing cold while wearing hardly anything. Upon arriving, they are told that they must decide between “work or crematorium,” and if they don't work, they “will go straight to the chimney” (39). The thought of suffering from a burning death haunted the men, and seemed to be the only thing that frightened them at this point. For the following weeks, the inmates had a surprisingly humane Blockalteste, and didn't have to work much but this quickly changed once he was replaced with a much more difficult one. One night when the men are speaking of God, Wiesel begins to doubt “his absolute justice” due the situation that he’s in, but is told by Akiba Drummer that God is simply testing their faith (45). Soon after, the men leave with the next transport, arriving at their new camp, Buna, four hours

The concentration camps were one of the hardest thing Elie and his family went through. Elie Wiesel explained what the camps were like and how they were treated as jews at the camp. As Jews, Elie and his father were not treated fairly at the concentration camps. They were forced to take showers that sometimes could have killed them because they contained gas in them instead of water. They did this purposely to torcher the the jew, this wasn't a accident. This example showed imagery because i could just picture the people getting tricked and when they showered they all showered at the same time so i could picture them all waiting and getting mad because they

When I first started reading Night, I immediately knew that I was going to thoroughly enjoy this book. I have always been very interested in history. I am especially interested in learning about the Holocaust. In this book, Eliezer is the narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night is written on Wiesel's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. Night tells the story of Eliezer’s physical journey as well as his psychological journey as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. I can honestly say I was astonished with the horrors that took place during the Holocaust. My jaw dropped many times while reading this story. My

Often times people say nothing has caused more suffering for man than man himself. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, tells his story about being in concentration camps for almost a year of his life to show the theme of how cruel and inhumane men can be to other men. The incidents that take place in Night are horrific. From the Nazis being cruel to the Jews to bystanders being cruel and ridiculing people for entertainment, this time period is filled with atrocities.

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