Night Reflection

After being imprisoned, starved and beat in the concentration camps, he begins to question Gods existence and his mercy. Wiesel himself writes, “I was alone, terribly alone in a world without

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells his story of the Holocaust and how the Nazis tried to destroy the jewish race.. In the Holocaust, the Nazis thought the Jews were less than them. Elie tells the story of how the Nazis tried to eliminate the Jews. . The Naizs treated the Jewish people badly because they dehumanized them, they treated them as they were nothing, and the Nazis destroyed the Jews from the inside out.

The Wiesel family had been deported from Sighet and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkeanu camp, where all deportees were put into two different lines, males and females. This is where Elie and his father were separated from the rest of their family. It is after they realized that they had survived the first selection that Elie, looking back, says: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never" (P34). In this quote, the author applies visual, auditive and olfactory imagery to portray the theme of the horrors of war. Here, Elie reflects upon his experiences and how these have permanently marked him, making him feel haunted by such memories. On the other hand, the reader feels heartbroken and hopeless, seeing as Wiesel will have to shape his life around the impact that the camps had on

When Wiesel first arrived at the concentration camp where he encountered the first selection and babies being burnt to death, he infuriated, "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust... Never” (34). Here, Wiesel enraged toward God who merely observed innocents being burnt to deaths. This passage was where Wiesel doubted God's presence for the first time and where his faith in God aggravated. He not only repeated "Never shall I forget" to underline that the Holocaust and its sin must not be forgotten, but also to assert that he was now in a world without the God's presence, the world with merely the evils. Through using the repetition and powerful phrases such as, dreams turning to dust or God and soul being murdered, the quote delivered extreme profundity and intensity when one loses his faith in God. Again, in page 87, Wiesel used repetition to stress his change of faith in

The greatest change to Elie Wiesel’s identity was his loss of faith in God. Before he and his family were moved to the camps, Wiesel was a religious little boy who cried after praying at night (2). When the Hungarian police come to force the Jews to move to the ghettos, they pulled Elie from his prayers (13). Even on his way to Auschwitz, stuffed inside the cattle car with other terrified Jews, Wiesel gave thanks to God when told he would be assigned to labor camps (24). After a few days in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel heard about the crematory and the fact that the Nazis were killing the sick, weak, and young. In his first night in the camp, Wiesel experienced his first crisis of faith: Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. …Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust (32).

One of the first impactful quotes is when Wiesel writes about his first night in Auschwitz, stating “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes,” (34). He’s speaking about how everything changed when he arrived at the camp. Where he was once carefree, he now had a burden. Where he once had faith, he now had a God who didn’t care whether Wiesel and his people lived or died. He’s not only speaking for every person, every man and woman and child who went through the concentration camps. Everyone went through an enormous

elie wiesel was born on september 30 1928, he was sent to a nazi death camp at the age of 15 during WWII. elie and his family was sent to auschwitz as part of the holocaust that killed over 6 million jews. wiesel had to overcome death, starvation, and poor living conditions. these adversities made elie wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the small town of Sighet Romania. (Roth page 1) He was 3rd born and the only son to Sholmo and Sarah Wiesel. (Roth page 1) In Elie’s hometown of Sighet about 40% of the population was Jewish.

He was born on September 30th in 1928, in Sighnet Transylvania which later becomes Romania it was a very small village. As for growing up in a small village his world revolved around family, religious study, community, and god. Elie grew up with three sisters in a small village with not many friends so his whole life he was stuck with girls except for his dad. At age fifteen he and his whole family were sent to Auschwitz, in 1944 out of him and his famiy only three of them surived. He surived with his two older

Eliezer Wiesel was born on September 30th, 1928. He was the son of Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig. Eliezer had three sisters, Hilda, Beatrice, Tzipora. They grew up in Sighet, which was in Transylvania, but now located on Romania. Before he and his family were sent to Auschwitz, Elie was living a normal life for a young Jewish boy. He attended Mosque and studied under Moishe the Beadle during his early teen years. Germans then came into town, and everyone trusted them. As if instantly, ghettos were made in, and the Jews of Sighet would soon transported to Auschwitz

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the town of Sighet in Transylvania, which is located in Romania. His parents, Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig had three other children not including Elie. The three other siblings were his sisters Hilda, Bea, Tsiporah. Wiesel and his family primarily were an Orthodox Jewish family. When he was very young he started to study Hebrew and the Bible. He mostly focused on his religious studies. According to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, “He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz.” During the time they spent at Auschwitz, Elie’s mother and younger sister didn’t make it, but his two older sisters were fortunate enough to survive. “Elie and his

During the 1930’s in Europe Jewish people were persecuted. As Hitler continued to rise to power, his hatred in the Jews penetrated through society.In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie discusses his experience of being a Jewish during that time period by narrating his transitions from being sent to live in the ghettos and being sent to multiple concentration camps. Through mapping these experiences he also shows the struggle of having faith in humanity and in God. In Night Elie uses different literary techniques: point of view, imagery and metaphor to display how witnessing inhumanity can cause someone to be dehumanized.

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Transylvania, which is now Romania. He and his family were deported by the Nazi’s in 1943 to the most notorious concentration camp of all time, Auschwitz. He regained his freedom in 1945 when the camp he was at, he was transferred to Buchenwald with his father, was liberated by the allies. After the war, Elie studied writing and became a journalist in Paris. It was

What you know and believe in can change at any moment. We see a first hand account of this in the book Night. Everyday we see the jews face the horrors of the Buna work camp, as a result of this we see most people change their ethics. As fight or flight instincts kick in, people abandon their family and friends to survive. Elie fights an internal battle to keep his father alive and strong during these tragedies. As others around him give in to the cruel punishment, Elie himself wants to drift towards the darkness. When people are faced with such cruel punishment everyone changes to some extent. For some the change is instant but for most the process of breaking their will is extensive.

In the movie Moonlight, written and directed by Berry Jenkins, follows an introverted black boy named Chiron through three pivotal stages in his life as he struggles to come to term with his sexuality. What made it even harder for Chiron was living in a drug-infested, poverty-stricken environment filled with people who constantly remind him that he is “different.” Throughout the three stories Chiron gets bullied through his childhood and high school years, causing him to eventually snap into what his society wanted him to be.