Night by Elie Weisel Book Analysis

The emotional connection Wiesel has to the injustice and inhumane acts from other people being a survivor from the Holocaust

When Wiesel awoke the next morning he realized that he had forgotten his father and went out to look for him. He thought if he didn’t find

Wiesel exemplified the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners in Night. He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. They lost their possessions,

This strong bond built between both father and son has truly benefited them both and helped them to survive the Holocaust and its’ horrible conditions in both emotional support and physical support. They both look out for each other, stick together, and confide in each other. For example, when Wiesel’s father became sick, he looked almost dead when he was asleep. A man told the others who were throwing corpses out to throw the father out as well. Wiesel, once indifferent to all the other bodies being thrown out, now states, “I woke from my apathy just

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times scaled. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw

Fifteen year old, Elie Wiesel relies on deception to give him a reason to continue on with life. “Mother is still a young woman… she must be in a labor camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She must be in a camp…” (Wiesel 46) Eliezer and his dad try to instill deception for themselves and each other about the likelihood that their loved ones are alive. In the end, however, Elie knows they’re just pretending in an attempt to keep each other’s hope alive. The Imagination illustrates, “There’s another place another time touching many hearts along the way… could it be a picture in my mind. Never sure what exactly I’ll find.” (Imagination)

After selection, Elie is stripped of his clothes and beaten. He tries to “protect himself from the blows”(41) but is unsuccessful. A young Polish man comforts Elie by telling him to not “lose hope” (41). These are the “first human words” Elie has heard upon his arrival (41). German officers maim and demolish any desire to survive that may thrive in prisoners. It is not common to witness compassion in the hands of the SS officers. Threats consumed the lives of innocent men, women and children. For a young man Wiesel had never met to reassure him (Elie) shows that few prisoners maintained their

In the concentration camps, Jews have witnessed and experience violence towards them. One way Wiesel’s life became challenging is by the loss of his innocence from witnessing his father being stuck in the face. In Auschwitz at a concentration camp, Wiesel's father asks the Gypsy a simple question that results in him getting slapped painfully, in “ My father had just been struck in front of me, and I had not even blinked” (Wiesel, 39). As Wiesel’s father is being slapped in front of him, Wiesel becomes frozen in fear. He begins to understand that violence is real in the world. Wiesel has never witnessed anything that has ever made him fear for his life. He says this in “ I had not even blinked”, where he petrify in fear. As his father is getting slapped, Wiesel is silently

In the society we live in people rebel against their parents or are not grateful to them. In addition, people have become more individual and do not spend as much time with each other. According to a quote by Elie Wiesel, “When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.” Wiesel quickly learned that his family would be all he has left. On page 29 Wiesel is hit with emotion as soon as a SS officer demanded the separation of men and women.

The youthful Jew gave this impression of a minding child until the minute his father needed him most. He left his father in a manner that he hoped would keep his poise in place. Wiesel describes another loss of humanity when the Gestapo's tossed bread into the train of pressed Jews. They saw the Jews battling for a definitive demise for simply some bread. The Gestapo's were so amused by the cold-bloodedness they've brought about that they chose to toss more bread for their entertainment.

While Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy subjugated to the violence of the Holocaust in Night, embarks on his atrocious journey in struggling to survive the brutality perpetrated on him, he loses his innocence in the traumatic circumstances. Wiesel’s main aspiration of writing about his development from childhood to adulthood is to showcase how cruelty within society can darken innocents’ souls. As Elie grows throughout the story, he starts to understand that he has changed from a pure, little child to a young man filled with distress and thoughts of danger. He reflects over what kind of individual he has evolved into because of the all the killings and torture he has witnessed: “I too had become a different

Once out of the cattle cars, the beloved objects that they carried with them from place to place were told to be left behind. Every few yards from the cattle carts there stood an SS man, as they marched another SS came up commanding all men to the left and all women to the right! With no time to think, his father press against Wiesel’s hand, and said we are all alone now. As he watched his mother and sisters move to the right, he witness Tzipora holding on to their mothers hand, he saw them walk father and father away, at that moment time stood still and now realizing that Wiesel and his father were leaving them, and nothing was going to bring them back together. So he continued to walk alongside his father, and griping tightly onto his father’s

In chapter five of Elie Weiser's memoir "Night", Elie began do doubt God. During Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, there was controversy amongst the Jewish prisoners over weather to fast or not. They were malnurished in the camp already, so some of them decided to focus on survival rather than religion. Elie did not fast as an act of defience to God. Because they were going through immense amounts of hardship, he saw the prisoners as stronger than God himself.

Wiesel wrote in a lot of detail about the events that were unfolding right in front of him. He could never forget the violence because it was stuck in his mind.