Optimism In Night

The book Night is a story of family, religion, violence, and hope. This book tells the story of Elie Wiesel’s journey through the holocaust. During the novel, Wiesel writes with the purpose of teaching us several lessons. This lesson is conveyed through Wiesel’s actions, other character’s actions, as well as quotations. The lesson Wiesel taught in Night is to persevere and never lose hope up no matter how hopeless the situation may seem.

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -President Snow in The Hunger Games. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a true story about the holocaust. In the story the main character, Elie, experiences terrible things. He is so hopeful that things are going to get better (after all how could they get any worse) and he is so fearful that his last bit of hope will be taken away and he will give up on life. Elie experiences the worst things that we can imagine. How could anyone have hope in such darkness? What could anyone fear when they have lost everything?

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

In the night one is frightened to try to determine whether one should undergo the perception of being fearful and unattended. To be hopeful and wanting to get through the position one is in during war and the separation of loved and dear ones. This is the darkness and negativity affecting people who may have been in the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, portrays such graphic and traumatizing experiences one may have gone through in the holocaust. Which establishes night and darkness as a key subject to focus on throughout the book, it may be used metaphorically or literally in such context. A theme that may be used is, to lose one's consciousness and ones self worth may also lose their humanity and feelings when going through traumatic

In Night, the point Elie Wiesel is making about survival is disheartening, giving examples of what people will do to survive and their every man for themselves mindset. While fighting to survive, numerous animalistic instincts control every aspect of how a person thinks. Moreover, these instincts make you think you must do whatever you can to survive, regardless of who you are harming in the process. Night gives an excellent example of the concept that family and friends do not matter when it comes to life or death, people with this mindset will do nearly anything to live another day. Nevertheless, there are many instances when the survival mindset is strictly internal, pushing them further than they thought they were capable of.

For example, in Night, countless people were unable to maintain their faith in God due to the events that took place during the Holocaust. Similarly today, Jewish communities in Europe are struggling to maintain their faith in both God and in humanity. This is because anti-Semitism is continuously increasing, which is causing individuals to question God and his reasons for allowing these acts to occur. Another key idea in this book is remembrance. One of Elie Wiesel’s main purposes of writing Night was to inform people of the tragedies that occurred during the Holocaust. He not only wanted people to understand the conditions and emotions people were going through, but he also wanted to prevent something like this from ever happening again. The information in Ross’s article indicates that Elie Wiesel was unfortunately incorrect. Anti-Semitic acts are still occurring around the world everyday. They are also becoming more frequent and violent due to the upcoming anniversary of the

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Fear is the main source of superstition.” In this quote Emerson brings the reason for superstition to be present for such a common feeling for people. Elie Wiesel uses Night to symbolize the persistent feelings of anxiety and fear shown through the characters and how they react in his memoir Night. One of many example is Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, is how the Elie and his father reacted when they arrived to Auschwitz.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie flips on and off with having hope and hopelessness. It was hard to have hope in this horrid time, but however even the smallest and some of the most dangerous things gave Elie hope.

The author Veronica Roth says “Desperation can make a person do surprising things”. In Night by Elie Wiesel, you see this quote come to life. Night is about a teenage boy, Elie, who survives the Holocaust. As he experiences the concentration camps he and his father fight for their survival. Elie Wiesel witnesses a son kill his father for a piece of bread. Through imagery and motifs, Wiesel shows the desperation for survival. After the prisoners experience the horrors of the concentration camp they lose all sense of morality because of their will to survive.

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.

Will hope always prevail? In Night, a memoir by Eliezer Wiesel, young Elie grows up as a devoted Jew. He studies the religion so often that he cannot find someone in his hometown of Sighet that can teach him anymore than he already knows. His friend, Moishe the Beadle escapes from a camp that he was taken to, and says that he witnessed all sorts of violence, like shooting innocent children with machine guns, but Elie does not believe Moishe. He is blinded by his tremendous hope and faith, even when the Nazis take over Sighet. In this book, Elie uses dark and evil-minded words to describe his experience in the concentration camps through various literary devices.

The Psalmist, David, in Psalm 43 sang “Why are you downcast, o my soul.” Even those chosen by God, blessed by God, find themselves losing hope in times of trouble. Such was true with Elie Wiesel. Wiesel wrote Night, as a memoir of his time in the concentration camps and the horror that his life became during that time. His story demonstrates that over a period of time relationships change during severe situations, causing a loss of hope.

When Elie and his father before they went into the concentration camp they were not close enough to each other his father didn’t put much attention to him but when they went to the, camp no one in the world could separate them from each other. “I knew that my sins grieved the almighty and so i pleaded for forgiveness. In those days I fully believed that the salvation of the world depended on every one of my deeds, on every one of my prayers (wiesel 68).’’ everything that Elie Wiesel said was important to him because he was losing faith to his god but he tried not to, even though he thought that god left him and the rest. Also when people revalved they start to lose faith and start to disbelief in positive things. Another theme in Night is that inhumanity causes become closer to love ones. Take care of your land and your love ones and always keep them

Bear Grylls once said, “ Survival can be summed up into three words: never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” In the book Night, Elie Wiesel endures many misfortunes and has to motivate himself to continue to live on. The message that he is trying to relate concerning resilience is that pushing and trying to survive to make it through the hard times in life can lead to overcoming the hardships.

Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel provides us with anxiety as Elie and his father go through multiple hardships. Although it may seem like hope, the author discreetly shares despair with the book. Throughout the book they somehow still survive. For example they always pass the selection test even when it seems like they won’t. As it states on page 76 “Were there still miracles on this earth? He was alive. He had passed the second selection.” When it seemed like he was going to lose his father, the author shares hope as the father passes the selection. Families have been separated, Jews are deprived of food and water, are treated like they are lesser humans, killed without regard. They both survive for four years, however when they are