Night By Elie Wiesel: Literary Analysis

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times scaled. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw

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“Nazi ideology presented all Jews as some sort of very dangerous sentient disease, and only by separation from them would humanity be able to survive. These solutions were a way to effectively eliminate the Jews without having to deal with the problems of physically killing them.” (Source T). Many Germans after the war claimed that they were forced but sources says that were was never a punishment for refusing to kill. I feel like the Germans did not think because it was a slow gradual build up and in the end they realized what had happened they denied.

In “Night” the setting creates an anticipating mood which often makes the reader want to keep reading and see how the story develops. When Wiesel describes the Germans appearance he does so as the Jews are gaining optimism and think that the Germans would not come to their town while the author is still hesitant to believe they won’t come to Sighet making the reader want to know if the people or the author is correct. Whenever Wiesel says “The trees were in bloom . It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, it’s weddings,and it’s births.”(8) Things like this would make the Jews happy and think that nothing could rain on their parade. He continues to say later “The news spread through Sighet like wildfire. Soon

Throughout one’s life, many decisions are made that impact one’s future. These challenging decisions can also impact the people within their life. Someone can lose a loved one, breakup with their partner, or have someone walk away from their live with just a few simple words or actions. With some many difficult choices, remembering the monumental impact a decision can have allows one to make more knowledgeable decisions. In times of trial, morality depends on ethical and honorable decisions.

During the holocaust, the germans saw the jews as a “tainted race”, and saw them inferior to themselves. They also sought to kill off the jewish bloodline completely.

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.

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

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?

Setting (time and place): Early 1940s, during World War Two, Holocaust era. starting in Sighet, Transylvania, and moving throughout concentration camps in Europe.

In the book, Elie talks a little about life before the Germans came in and forced them to give up their humanity. During this time, life was fairly normal and Elie spent his time studying the Zohar with a man name Moishe. Even when Moishe was forced to leave, because he was a foreign jew, not much changed; he continued studying the kabbalistic works and building a relationship with god. It isn’t until Moishe’s return that people start becoming slightly worried, but it still wasn’t enough to really cause a stir within the community. Most citizens just assumed Moishe was crazy whenever he tried to tell people his experiences away from the town. When German police came into the city, people finally began to worry. It was known throughout the town that Hitler had planned to destroy the race of jews but people didn’t believe that one man could manage to kill an entire race. For a time people and the police coexisted with some amount of peace, but then came the ghettos.

Next, the Germans stripped the Jews of their faith, which is another way they dehumanized them. An example of this is that Elie stopped believing in God. According to the novel, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled… And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God” (Wiesel 67). The Germans were taking away the faith of the Jews by everything that they were doing in the concentration camps. They were burning children, shooting at babies, and killing Jews left and right. Since they were doing

When word first spread that the Germans were committing massacres towards the Jews, people remained calm.

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.”