Night By Elie Wiesel: Literary Analysis

The memoir, Night, exhibits a story that represents the adversity of millions of Jews during the Holocaust, while following the narrative of a young boy who works through the harsh marginalization of the people of his religion. Elie Wiesel writes from a passionate and raw place, resulting in the harsh, but true reality of his experiences as a child. Eliezer, in the book, describes his exposure to Nazi leadership during the Holocaust from before the ghetto system was installed, to the liberation of concentration camps. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes misfortune and tribulations in various people’s lives to illustrate the changes in faith that a person endures throughout life, in order to demonstrate how self-motivation can carry a

The advance of Hitler and his soldiers were daunting. Although, the German citizens had nothing to fear and went on with their daily routines and lived life as nothing had happened. Fortunately, the Germans were not disrupted nearly as much as the unfortunate Jewish population facing mass genocides. Wrenched out of their homes, forced into the ghettos, and losing all of their civil rights, the Jews were punished and they were no longer being treated like citizens or people by the Nazis. As the Jews were decried, the majority of German citizens did not lend a helping hand. The German townspeople in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, remained satisfied, despite the detention of the Jews because they neglected the appalling actions against the Jews,

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

1. Describe the specific setting of the story; consider both time and place. Explain what influence or impact the setting has on the development of the plot- in other words, discuss the ways the story's setting impacts the events of the novel.

Context is important, what you know about an event or person can heavily influence your opinions on them and how you react in different situations. This is very important for authors writing in historical settings as often there are several very different sides to the story. Depending on the author’s personal context; their personal life experiences, and the historical context; what was happening in the world at the time, characters and events can be portrayed very differently. Different recounts of an event can be influenced by bias, the person may not know about other people and events, and they might tell the story differently depending on how they felt at the time. Examples of this can be found throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel where he recounts his time spent in concentration camps throughout the second world war.

The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.

American author, Ursula K. Le Guin, once stated, “In our loss of fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.” Between the timeline of 1933 through 1945, people witnessed the massive genocide of innocents single-handedly conducted by Adolf Hitler. Within the concentration camps implemented by Adolf Hitler, people struggled to survive, and the people who failed to survive, died miserably. While surviving, some resorted to religion in order to fortify their well-being and state of mind. On the contrary, some individuals lost their religion due to their unimaginable experience in the concentration camps. The memoir Night, reminisces Elie

“I would tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices,” Elie Wiesel tells his former self (118). Wiesel has dedicated a majority of his future to fighting against the world’s silence with lessons such as these found in his memoir, Night. Even after undergoing the mass genocide called the Holocaust and hearing of the experiences from one of the victims himself, the world has fallen into a time of suffering yet again. Today, North Korea’s line of oppressive rulers practice their absolute control on Korean lives just as the Nazi’s oppressed the Jews. Following the second World War, the Korean War took place resulting in the country splitting in two: communist North Korea, or the Korean Worker’s Party, and democratic South Korea, or People’s Republic of Korea. This event began the brutal reign of the Kim family, consisting of Kim Ill-sung, Kim Jong-ill, and Kim Jong-un, on North Korea. For three generations, North Koreans were burdened with decades of torture, starvation, and manipulation. Now, the world is seemingly turning its eyes away from North Korea and labeling it a lost cause. There is little hope in store for these Koreans as Kim Jong-un expands his control globally with a new force of destruction: nuclear weapons. Similar to the concentration camps depicted in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the people of North Korea continue to face oppression

The author of Night, a novel documenting the horrible and gruesome events of the holocaust, Elie Wiesel expresses his experiences and observations in which he and his fellow Jews were dehumanized while living in concentration camps (a hell on earth). All Jews, as a race were brutalized by the Nazis during this time; reducing them to no less than objects, positions which meant nothing to them, belongings that were a nuisance. Nazis would gather every Jew that they could find and bring them to these infernos, separating the men and women. Families, not knowing it would never see each other again. Individuals within the categories were divided even more, based on their health, strength, and age. They would be judged by a Nazi officer, which

The Holocaust is one of, if not the most, well-known genocides in all of history. Families were torn apart, by being separated, killed, or just by deciding that survival was more important than family. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel wrote about his own Holocaust experience with his father. Throughout the book, Elie becomes more interested in his own survival than following his responsibilities as a Jewish son. Elie is silent as his father is maliciously beaten, he becomes tempted to abandon his father,as well as feeling liberated after his father died.

Night by Elie Wiesel and Life Is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni are both detailed stories of the Holocaust experienced by a father and a son. However, both feature different tones during the stories. Night uses a depressing and dark tone, while Life Is Beautiful incorporates an optimistic and joyful tone. Weisel recalls the many horrific acts witnessed and how he tried to always be with his father. Whereas in Life Is Beautiful Guido (the father) tries to convince Joshua, his son, that this is simply for fun and they know nothing bad is going to happen. The tone in Night is depressing and centered around the

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

There are many vices that are taken up exclusively by Humans. Other animals don’t think about wiping out entire races or species just for kicks, most species don’t have the urge to attempt genocide or even turning on their own kin, but humans do. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor whose ghastly year at the Auschwitz death camp was shared with the world by way of his book, “Night.”

Elie Wiesel, one of the most famous Holocaust survivors explains his story of the Holocaust in his book, Night where is talks about not only his life, but the life of others in his community and camps. Wiesel has an interesting storyline, different from most because he along with the other Hungarian Jews only started feeling the pressure of the Holocaust in 1944. However, other jews, primarily polish jews started being effected by the Nazi regime starting in 1939 when they created new laws prohibiting jews from owning properties, running businesses and even prohibiting them from going into certain places. Although Polish and Hungarian jews had different trajectories throughout the Holocaust they ended in the same place and were equally persecuted, forced to work in horrendous conditions and tortured.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beetle is a common, poor Jewish man. He is taken from his village by the Nazi's and left for dead. He mercurially survived and journeys back the Sighet. He tries to inform the community of the deathly threats, but they do not adhere to his warnings. Similarly, my Zaidi also went, by boat, across the Atlantic, to warn other relatives. He informed them of the possible danger, but they too did not listen. Likewise, Jan Karski, also saw the danger coming and tried to warn the leaders of the allies of the upcoming threat. In all three stories, warnings were said and then ignored. This essay will discuss, the warnings and their audiences, the reasons the people did not listen to the warnings and the outcomes