Night Elie Wiesel Quotes

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” (Winston Churchill,) In the memoir, “Night,” by Elie Wiesel, Elie who is very profound of his Jewish religion and Heritage. He is a Jewish boy who was sent to a concentration camp during the time of the Holocaust and is a survivor of it. He wrote the book “Night” after the events that happened during the Holocaust. In the book, the reader would think Elie Wiesel and Moishe the Beadle would agree with the quote from Winston Churchill.

One huge relationship changes in this book, his relationship with his god. In the beginning of the book Elie loved his god and always thought things would get better. Through the days of being in the camps he started to give up on his god and thinking why would god let this happen? “Where is he? Here he is, hanging here on the gallows…”(Wiesel 62) This Quote shows his loss of

In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, soup is a word that symbolizes something to Elie. His views on soup changes throughout the story, at first I thought the soup seemed uninviting but overtime he learns that the soup is one of the many keys to his survival.

“Quote goes here” Night is a book about Elie Wiesel and his experience in the Holocaust. It starts from right before it happened and takes you through his life, up until he was liberated by Americans. He was taken through many traumatic events, and watched his fellow Jews succumb to the terrors and reduce themselves to a more primitive state. There are many times where Elie experienced traumatic events, including the entirety of the holocaust. However, while he should have become, and in fact came dangerously close to becoming, a “brute”, he managed to escape this tragic fate. This resulted in his own, sane, survival.

Well to me Elie Wiesel quote is based on human rights and responsibilities. This quote is good mostly because the quote relies on the human live in danger and this quote basically explains everything that happens in live now in days mostly on the danger part because all this live is full of danger.

“For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify his name? The almighty, eternal and terrible master of the universe chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”. (Wiesel 33) “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity of the desire to live.” (Wiesel 22). These quotes from Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” directs us into a theme about being stripped of faith and exposed to the evil of this world. He and his father are sent to Hitler’s concentration camp “Auschwitz-Birkenan” with many other prisoners. During the beginning, Elie Wiesel prayed to God every night, but after the holocaust, he was shaken by evil and started to think God has left everyone, even after all they prayed to him. In Jewish mysticism, God is everywhere in the world and everything reflects his goodness. If God is good, then that means the whole world is also

In literal context, “night” signifies the fact that a majority of the important events happened during that time of day and that was when the horrific journey began; this was presented when Elie stated “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed”. In addition to the literal significance “night” also has a symbolic meaning: “death.” This was explored in many different ways such as faith. When Elie lost faith in God he described it as “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes”. This quote was a significant turning point in the memoir as it had an effect on the rest of his journey in the camp. The death of his fellow

”To forget a holocaust is to kill twice” Elie Wiesel. The book “Nite” by Elie Wiesel was published in 1956. The theme of the book is a memoir of the life of Elie Wiesel in the concentration camp with his dad and they go through so many struggles and fight for their life’s. This book is amazing and sad because of the ups and downs they have. Throughout “ Night “ there are three quotes that are incredibly powerful to Focus and understand in order to fully get the importance of this classic holocaust memoir.

In the beginning of the novel, Elie was always concerned for his father. Since his family had been torn apart, he was motivated to make sure him and his father survived.

The day Elie found his father alive, he had a feeling of shame because he wanted his father to be dead so he could be relieved. When the people were being herded from the train, Elie’s only thought was to not be separated from his father, but Elie started to want to be separated so he could focus on his own survival. The morning Elie found his father to be gone or dead, he felt relief and happiness and could not even cry. Also, there were no prayers said over his tomb or even a candle lit in his

     Eli has a definite change emotionally. He thinks about the things he would never consider if he was not in Auschwitz. For example, on page 102, Elie says, “I gave him what was left of my soup, But it was with a heavy heart. I felt that I was giving it up to him against my will.” In the beginning, it was as if Elie would do anything for his father. After all, his father was older and it was Elie’s turn to look after him. After a while, his father seems like almost a burden to him. Elie felt obligated to give him the rest of his food, but if given the choice, he probably would not have given it up easily.

In a quote from the author Elie Wiesel, “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time,” holds true because the holocaust is too important to forget. Elie Wiesel from night tells his story first hand of the tragedies. But throughout his years at the camp, Elie changes very dramatically in many ways. Including spiritually, emotionally, and self preservation, he transforms from a young innocent boy to a strong fighter.

In the text, ‘Night’, Elie survives because he keeps alive the hope of survival. An example of this is when he lies about his age and his occupation. “’I’m eighteen’. My voice was trembling” (page 33), this quote is evidence that Elie lied about his age so he does not get thrown into the crematorium, for being too young. Another example of Elie keeping the hope of survival alive is when he outcasts his father and decides to eat his rations. Elie does this because he knows that his father is sick and dying and he cannot help him besides watching him slowly die. Because of this his father has become a burden for Elie, lowing his chances of survival, and when Elie’s father dies Elie feels free from that burden. “And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (Page 112), this quote evidence

“Ten minutes later, we were in front of the warehouse. A German employee, a civilian, the meister, came to meet us. He paid us about as much attention as a dealer might who was just receiving a delivery of old rags.” (58)

The significance of the quote, “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people,” (Wiesel 81) is that it proves Jews were losing faith in their God. This is significant because God is a major belief Jews practice, and they practice that he will always be with them, to help and guide them through life. In the start of Elie Wiesel’s life, he he fully believed in God as a Jew. However,throughout his experience, he questioned God’s actions. He spoke to God saying, “But look at all these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered gassed, and burned, what do they do?” (68). At this point in Wiesel’s life he almost stopped believing in God because He did not do what He said he would to help the Jewish people. Elie Wiesel continued by saying, “My