To read is to feel connected; to feel as though we are not alone, each of us read for a different purpose. Just like reading authors have a purpose for writing. The purpose behind Elie Wiesel novel “Night” is the duty he felt as a survivor, he felt as though he was a messenger and needed to tell the world about this catastrophe. There are many aspects that make a novel good and bad, each is determined by the details given by the author, but also the lack of detail can make a novel feel as if it’s bad because it leaves us hanging; wanting for more. There is always a way the author can make their novel better, just like with everything there’s always room for improvement. Wiesel wrote his novel for more than simply wanting to share his story with his reader, he wrote “Night” because he felt, “I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel, 6), he believed he survived for a reason not simply by luck or chance. Although there are many controversy as to why he wrote his novel, in his interview with “The Paris Review” he address as to why, “I didn’t want to write those books. I wrote them against myself. But I realize that if we do not use words, the …show more content…
In his interview with “the Paris Review”, he talks about “Night” and what it really means to him,” Night is not a novel, it’s an autobiography. It’s a memoir. It’s testimony “(Wiesel) all his written work ends up having a connection to his first novel, writing “night” made him want to share more of himself with his readers. Although throughout his novel Wiesel leave us wanting more. We feel as if there are details in his life that he holds back from his readers, either because they mean to much and he wants to feel a sense of privacy or because they are still too vivid in his mind to write
Within Wiesel’s reflection of his life during World War II, it is evident that Night reveals much that is wrong with human nature, particularly the cruelty represented by the Nazis. During the novel, Elie and every other Jew suffer extreme circumstances, such as, having to leave their loved ones behind or being threatened to do
People have survived many situations throughout the years. Some of the these situations have been life threatening and some have not been that bad. These situations have left people wrenched, mortified, and distressed. Elie Wiesel in Night is innocent, desperate, and numb. Overall, Wiesel is left broken. Night was written by Elie Wiesel and the book is about his personal experience about being a victim of the Holocaust.
Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel. In this book Wiesel tells about his experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel was only twelve years old when the Holocaust first affected him. Early on Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister. Him and his father were then moved from camp to camp having to endure harsh conditions. Together they both saw terrible things that they will never forget. Many conflicts in The Holocaust changed both Wiesel and his father. The two factors that affected Wiesel the most was him having to indirectly face the entire Nazi society and his believe and trust in God.
And without these men’s stories these events would never have been available to the public or be understood how they are today. The book Night expresses what happens to a young boy as his family and innocent life is stripped right from underneath him. Ellie’s use of “taut style and emotional restraint make his experiences even more believable and frightening” (Winters 1). Wiesel’s need to survive created the true motivation for him to stay alive and write his memoire of his
Night is a first-hand account of life for Elie Wiesel as a young Jewish teenage boy living in Hungary and eventually sent to Auschwitz with his family. The moment his family exits the cattle car the horror of Auschwitz sets in. His mother and sisters become separated from him and his father immediately, their fate sealed. Elie stays with his father and right away a stranger is giving them tips on how to survive and stay together. Immediately told to lie about their ages, making Elie a little older, and his father a little younger. This lie may have been the only chance they had to stay together, so they follow the stranger’s advice and pass by the first peril and housed together.
Imagine you being stripped of all your dignity, hope, and freedom in one swoop. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night he has many problems he needs to overcome. His family splitting up and he stays with his father while his sisters go with their mother. His father and him getting split up when he changed barracks. Him hurting his foot and having to tread through the snow with his father. Then, his fathers death in the new camp. Wiesel’s main goal of this book is to show that if you don’t give up you can do anything you set your mind to.
Night by Elie Wiesel was heart shattering; The experiences Elie had, undoubtedly affected him and his perception of the world. Elie Wiesel was put through unbearable oppression; torture, starvation, and extreme labor, simply because he didn't fit the nazi standards. Due to his hostile environment he struggled with many things including his faith in God. Throughout the novel Weisel described countless acts of violence between men, causing him to question humanity, and whether or not humanity was present. The theme of Night is inhumanity as described by the pain and vulgarness towards him, along with Weisel losing his faith in God, but also humanity.
To begin, it is impossible to read Night without being assaulted with images Wiesel creates through his writing. One such image is created through
Elie Wiesel's writing of Night is about his journey through getting to and going through the
Based on the reading experience, what the author of the book, Elie Wiesel achieved with “Night” is having people understand the true horrors of the Holocaust. An evidence to prove that what Elie Wiesel achieved was achieved is the horrific events in the book and the reader’s general thoughts. By reading the book the reader followed Eliezer the protagonist on his survival out the camp alive, mentally witnessing and feeling the same horrors Eliezer had to face. Horrifying events such as child hangings on page 96 “...They hung the poor boy…”(Wiesel 96) and when Eliezer is finally free, it is not as if he ends on a happy note and is joyful but instead weary unable to tell if he is dead or not and filled with sorrow as Eliezer is constantly haunted
I think the purpose for Wiesel writing Night was to tell others about what actually happened during the Holocaust and how he survived. It's important for future generations to be informed about what happened during the Holocaust. If the Holocaust happened again, we could use the information we read in Night and learn from his experience. For example, when Elie said "Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days," (page 114) we now know to try not eating all of your bread and soup at once because there might be times when you go days without eating.
Night is just one of many memoirs by Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust. Wiesel feels compelled to bear witness to the suffering that he experienced and observed in the concentration camps. In Night he narrates the experience of the deaths of his family members, the death of his adolescence, and the death of his naïve belief in mans innate goodness.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, is a very vivid description of his time during the Holocaust. He paints a colorful picture of how his family and families like his were broken apart and murdered by Nazis. He recalls how he was placed in numerous concentration camps with no idea what his fate would be, which in turn changed him. In my opinion, Night is a chronological account of how Wiesel was slowly dehumanized and how he witnessed the dehumanization of the people around him.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a book about his personal life experiences with the Holocaust and the central theme of his book is his loss of religious faith. In the beginning of the book, Wiesel has strong devotion and love to God but it all changes as he experiences the Holocaust as a Jew. Throughout the book, we can see that Wiesel becomes extremely cynical about God and his religious beliefs. In the beginning of the book, Wiesel is shown to have strong loyalty with God.
Oftentimes in novels authors write a purpose to teach the reader about the story. In night Wiesel teaches us something about the his journey during the holocaust. He teaches us his experience on the train and what he saw when he stepped food out of the train and arrived at the destination . He teach us that how he witness people killing other people for small amounts of food,people getting tortured. Wiesel shows us that in able to survive he cant he cant help no one even his own father.