Night In Elie Wiesel's Night

"The night seemed endless" (Wiesel 26) on the train to Auschwitz. In the memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Night is symbolic, and its meaning can be interpreted in multiple ways. Night epitomized fear whilst also serving as a haven from the torture in the camp. The horrors Elie witnesses in the camp are relieved, even if it be for a little while, at night. Night is not just a period of respite, but also a time of anxiety for the coming day of torture.

In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the word night is repeatedly used as a metaphor symbolizing the conditions and emotions that the Jews struggle with during the Holocaust. Elie’s personal struggle with his experience evoke connotations of darkness that describe the inhumane treatment that Elie and the Jews are forced to endure throughout the memoir. In the beginning, Elie's town is invaded by German soldiers and soon, the Germans force all of the town's Jews to evacuate. After being thrown onto a freight train to Auschwitz, Elie experiences a whole new world filled with fear and hatred. Elie uses “night” to describe the struggles and hardships that he encounters throughout his experience. The literal meaning of the word night is simply the period of darkness everyday between sunset and sunrise. However, the metaphorical meaning of night, in this memoir, is far more sinister. As depicted in Night, the title metaphorically refers to the evil, hopelessness, and emotional coldness that the Jews are constantly forced to face throughout the Holocaust.

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

The reason for the title, “Night” is symbolic for Elie’s loss of faith in God. His time in concentration camp gave him a lack of belief and trust in God. This loss of faith depicts a state of darkness and incompleteness. For example, there wasn’t any light until God put it there. There was a light in Elie originally, but after his experiences at the concentration camps, he lost all faith and trust in God, hence, his light burned out. Putting him in complete darkness, or as he put it,

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

In the book ¨Night¨ by Elie Wiesel probably choose the word night because of the meaning behind the word and how the book is portrayed. For example, the book was dark,sad and lonely. Many Jews had a dream to get out of the concentration camp and be able to move on with their life it was just a total nightmare for them. And consequently the Meaning of the word is just like that night means it dark and people dream about positive stuff happening to them but when they wake up it's the complete opposite they have to deal with life and it's a nightmare because life is hard just like life

When the sun goes down, and the cold night-time begins, darkness spreads across the world. When the night creates its darkness, it limits your vision, leaving the atmosphere unclear, and the path ahead unknown. This ambiguity leaves people unsettled, and in some cases afraid of what might be covered up behind that dark barrier. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the darkness that the camps symbolize, influence the prisoners by leaving them with an ambiguous and frightening fate. Elie Wiesel was a young boy who was taken away to the Nazi death camps along with Shlomo (his father), his family, and the majority of the other Jews in Europe. These Jewish prisoners were put under several trials where only the strongest would survive. The ones that did survive would work in favor of the Nazi war effort. Luckily, Elie finds the strength and motivation to end up being one of the very few survivors, who lived to tell the story of the horrific acts that the Nazis put the Jews under. Upon his survival, Elie Wiesel decided to write a memoir about his experience in the death camps; he calls his book Night, which is one of the important motifs he incorporates throughout the story. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses the motif of night to convey the idea that the suffering in the camps was interminable and horrifying, just like the darkness of the night.

Since the book centers around the darkest time of Elie’s life, it would make sense to title it ‘Night’ as a metaphor that describes just how dark the Holocaust was. When Elie first reaches the concentration camp, it is clear that the time following would not be easy. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed... Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.” (p. 34)

Struggle. Devastation. Emptiness. These are all things young Elie Wiesel faced during his time in the concentration camps. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel tracking his journey and struggles with his life, family and faith. Elie, who was once a devoted believer, faced many challenges and traumatic experiences that made him question his faith and his identity.

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania. He grew up with three sisters and had a strong interest in religious studies. In 1944, Nazis forced Jews who resided in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to relocate to labor and death camps in Poland. When Elie was at the age of 15, he and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz. Elie lived in camps with inhuman conditions and was almost starved to death. He was eventually freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Out of all of his family members only him and two of his sisters survived. Elie then moved on to become many great things like a writer which won him a Nobel-Prize. He wrote many books including the one i am reading “Night”. Elie also taught Judaic studies at the City University

Elie Wiesel titled his book “Night” because it was a dark time in all the Jews lives; the title mirrors the painful feelings of others around him. The Jews were all going through the hardest times of their lives. Fighting for survival and trying to cope with their “new” lives. Elie Wiesel also uses the word night throughout the book numerous times. The word night is used to represent darkness, sadness, and depression.

The author Elie Wiesel might have different reasons on why he had called his book “Night”. I feel as if he named it Night because of the story and how it gets worst every day or every week. I thing he wrote the title because of his experience. I believe that what he wrote in the book made him come up with the title because when its dark during the night bad things happen like kids could be kidnapped and in the camps worst things happened. In the book I found this on page 101 and it says, “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… you’re killing your father…I have bread… for you too… for you too.” This is really deep because a girl or a boy is killing their own father because they wanted more bread and this is really harsh.

Night effected Wiesel and the Jews at the concentration camps significantly. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed”(Wiesel 34). Wiesel keeps thinking, and will never forget his night in the camp. This quote uses imagery, by explaining how his night was dark, and how it was so terrible that it felt like it lasted for seven days. “We had already lived through a lot that night. We thought that nothing could frighten us anymore”(Wiesel 39). It has only been one night and they have already gone through hell. Wiesel explains about how he has reached his darkest point and how they were already

Title: The title Night refers to the consistent night metaphor Elie Wiesel employs throughout the book. "Night" refers to the darkness of life, mind, and soul experienced by all who suffered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Elie and his family are taken away on a dark night, which is why I think that Elie referred to the title Night as a terrible time because of all the bad things that happened to him and his family during the night-time and to the many other Jews.