Night Elie Wiesel Night Analysis

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Wiesel alludes to the book of Leviticus when he says that his life was “seven times cursed” and to the book of Revelation when he states that he was “seven times sealed.” Wiesel alludes to Leviticus, which describes how God will punish the people who go against his will. He alludes to the book of Leviticus in order to illustrate the atrocities that he had encountered during his days at the concentration camps. The horrid sights that Wiesel saw during his first night at the concentration camp caused him to lose his faith in God. According to Wiesel, due to his abandonment of faith in God, he was harshly punished. The punishments were as severe as the punishments that God threatened to enforce in Leviticus. Later, Wiesel alludes to the text of

Elie Wiesel faces many conflicts throughout this memoir. In the memoir, Night, by Elie wiesel, Hitler works hard to eradicate the Jewish people. Fallaciously, he forces Jews into thinking they aren’t going to be harmed. Adolf Hitler houses all Jewish people in death camps for he is indignant and he needs revenge after the World War. Also, Hitler is being hypocritical because he says the only worthy people are Aryan people, but he isn’t even Aryan. He often instructs the Nazi Soldiers to make all Jewish people despondent about life. The Germans are to have no decorum with the Jews. They are told to starve, beat, and punish the prisoners. Throughout the story, Wiesel struggles with staying alive and with helping his father stay alive in aspiration

“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.

Night starts out with the normal life of teenage Elie Wiesel, a Jew in Sighet, Hungary. He studies the Torah and the Kabbalah, two Jewish texts. Then the Nazis take over Hungary and enforce their anti-Semitic laws. The laws get more and more restrictive on the Jews. Eventually all the Jews in Sighet are forced into small and cramped ghettos. Soon after they were put in the ghettos they began to be put in cattle cars and shipped off on a long journey to a location unknown by Elie and his fellow Jews. After numerous days in the cattle cars the group of Jews arrive at Birkenau, the entrance to Auschwitz. They go through a selection and the men are separated from the women and Elie’s family is split up. Then they were shaved, and cleaned, and stripped of everything they own, even their humanity in the eyes of the Nazis. Elie is left with only his father and his determination to survive.

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.

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

Before the concentration camps, Elie possessed a lot of important and good character traits. “After we were given permission to go back to our block and have our meal. I remember that evening, the soup tasted better than ever.” (Wiesel 63). A man who was convicted of stealing had just been hung in front of thousands of prisoners. Elie had always been thankful for everything he received, even during the concentration camp. He just became more grateful for the smallest things that most people would not think would have meaning. My next point from ‘Night’, “We were the master of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything- death,fatigue, our natural needs.” (Wiesel 87). Elie and the remaining prisoners are running to get to their new camp because the army comes to liberate them. This text evidence shows how Elie was intrigued and surprised. Elie was curious about his religion and surprised by many of 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.

During Elie Wiesel’s book there seemed to be many mixed emotions throughout the situation of being in the camp and the separation of their family, and along with the relationship between him and his father. In the beginning of the book Elie thought that his father could care less about him and what he does since he always seemed to be busy and had no time for his wife or his children. “My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental, He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel, 4). In the middle of the book things started to change, the both of them tried their hardest to stay together and to never be separated apart no matter what circumstances stood by “We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me” (Wiesel, 89).

During the holocaust many children and teens suffered from the loss of their innocence. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel explained the loss of his innocence through experiences during the holocaust such as the harsh new laws and the death of his family and friends. The death of a family member and harsh punishment cause the loss of innocence.

And when Wiesel thought about this, he knew that even though his dad were growing weak, he would have never given up on his dad. He even thought to himself “ ‘Oh God’, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done”(Wiesel 91). Not only did his dad helped him through bad times, he helped his dad through his weak points to death. Even according to Jane Elizabeth, that Wiesel saved his father’s life even at risk of his own. With Ted Estess, he said that Wiesel has put everything in his fidelity to his father. Because God broken his covenant with Wiesel, Wiesel did not want to break his relationship with his father. Throughout the text, Eliezer had continuously saved his father no matter the situation

Can you comprehend living in a place where you or your father can be murdered by so much as a hand motion dictating your fate.Well in the book Night written by holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel he tells of he and his father being sent to an internment camp where they begin to bond and look out for each other in order to stay alive. Concentration camps brought Elie and his father closer together where as others it tore apart.

Elie Wiesel in his memoir titled, Night informs the readers that the Jews were forced to leave their homes, beaten and killed by the S.S, treated like animals, starved to death and gassed in chambers and supports his claim through giving examples of his own personal experiences as a victim in Auschwitz. Wiesel’s purpose is to convince the reader to see that the Nazis were monsters who did horrible things that scared people in order to make sure that what happened is unforgettable no matter how hard others try to forget it so his horrendous past doesn't become others future. The intended audience is the entire world and the author uses his own authority and experience in the camp as giving information of his past and hardships that he endured through the concentration camps to support his claims.The author writes in a dark, somber tone and asserts a justifiable bias against the Nazi S.S and Hungarian police for the horrible acts they performed such as the beatings, taking the Jews from their homes, sending the Jews to the crematorium, and so many more unimaginable horrific things.

Night by Elie Wiesel is the story of a young boy torn from his faith. Elie Wiesel, born into the Jewish faith and grew up during a time of desperation, the Holocaust. Elie survives through the blinding persistence of love in an abyss of despair. He and his father had been forced to run 12 kilometers in the freezing cold, they wanted to quit but hung on for the each other. “My father's persistence was the only thing that stopped me.