Persuasive Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

Most of the time having family during a crisis is a good thing. In the book Night a memoir written by Elie Wiesel a man that lived through the Holocaust himself, he talks about his struggles and unimaginable times he had. His name is Elie Wiesel; the things he witnessed, he can never forget. In one part of the story he explains how being in the concentration camp took away his childhood and changed his life forever. Having family during a crisis can be a good thing and a burden at the same time.

Just like there are up sides to freedom, there can be positive outcomes from controlling environments as well. In order for freedom to be a positive thing, it needs to be a privilege that people are only granted as much of as they can handle. In high school students are given a range of classes they are allowed to choose from, but ultimately they are still controlled by teachers and parents. As children grow up they are given freedom in stages, a little but at a time so it is never too overwhelming. Until one reaches full adulthood, there will always be other people that have control over certain factors of their life. This is necessary for most children to be successful in school so that they can later reach their aspirations in life. However,

Night: a pitch-black time of day in which no light is shown, other than the reflection of sunlight off of the moon's surface. Darkness is scary when alone and can also be dangerous to those not cautious. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of something so gruesome but inspiring to all people who have read the Nobel Peace Prize winner's novel. Elie was trapped in a darkness he could not escape until the world once realized it was not all about themselves. To be free and living a life worth living then in a matter of seconds, being confined as though you are a zoo animal. Only to be observed at a distance with no pity or thought that lies behind those caged doors; And once that caged animal is released, not all of it is free.

Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.

After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.

In the camps Germans used violence and death threats to keep the Jewish prisoners frightened and submissive. “The night was pitch-black. From time to time, a shot exploded in the darkness. They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace. Their fingers on the triggers, and they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, quick shot eliminated the filthy dog.”(Night, 87), the officers didn’t see the Jews as nothing more than inferior. They were viewed to be less and treated like a smelly homeless dog. The prisoners themselves began to act similar to the Germans when they began to view violence as entertainment, a coping mechanism, and pleasure. The inhumane aggression and senseless, cruel violence they were given forced them to be just as inhumane towards their fellow prisoners.

Elie Wiesel’s book “ Night “ takes place during the crucial events of the Holocaust. Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto and later on taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. They were taken there for one reason and one reason only, they were jews. Elie witnessed murder and soulless acts at his stay in Auschwitz, death was in the air. Elie and his father only had each other. One theme that is seen throughout the novel is that times like this can bring two people together to build a better relationship.

Fear, fear is what Daniel experienced every second of the Holocaust, fear that he would be killed or tortured. During the Holocaust millions of Jews were killed. They were forced to go to concentration camps where most of them were forced to work. Once they were unable to work they were sent off to the gas chambers. Adolf Hitler was able to convince the Germans that the source of all of their problems was Jews. Adolf Hitler was a motivational speaker people believed him. Causing millions of German to harm Jews. By the time the war was over thousands of people continued to die. Not having the hope to keep living, or that there was anyone in the world that would accept them. Many would still live in fear and never recover from what they have been through. The experiences that have the greatest impact on daniel are when Aunt leah and a young boy are murdered in cold blood, causing him to fear the Nazis.

During the Holocaust, about six million Jews died. Some were taken to concentration and execution camps, such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Chelmno. Others were kept in ghettos with terrible living conditions in order to segregate them from the rest of society. Regardless of the suffering, these people miraculously managed to keep their head up and look on the bright side. To some, it may be a mystery of how they stayed strong. However, it is clear that love, nature, and humor allowed human spirit to triumph during the Holocaust.

Think of the most horrifying or gruesome act in all of history. Does the Holocaust come to mind? During the Holocaust over 11 million people died. Elie Wiesel survived the death camps during the Holocaust. Throughout the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he tells of his horrific journey during the Holocaust and shows his many accounts of bodily and emotional endurance.

During the process, Tadek witnesses a young lady dropping one of her belongings onto the floor, he states, “A woman reaches down to pick up her handbag. The whip flies, the woman screams, stumbles and falls” (Borowski 108). This is the second action, out of many that shows the lack of compassion the SS officers had against anybody that they deem an enemy of Germany. The officer could have allowed her to pick up her bag and express sympathy towards her by allowing her to pick up her bag because she was destined to head towards the gas chambers, but the officer refused and proceeded to whip her. Thus showing the lack of sympathy they had against any

What is it that makes us human? Is it our physical characteristics, like having opposable thumbs and standing on two legs, or is it also the way our personalities are and the way we act? If we do not stick together as families, are we still human? If we are not even allowed to have our own beliefs, are we still human? If we are not even treated as humans, are we still human? In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, the Jews in the holocaust were not treated as humans. Their families were split, never again to see their siblings or parents, they were killed for their beliefs, and they were treated as if they were obnoxious “things”. Would you like that? Probably not!

     Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle. Moshe is taken away and sees an entire train of people murdered by the Gestapo. He returns to Sighet and tries to warn them, but no one believes his story. The Nazis come and take over Sighet. Elie is moved to a ghetto, along with all the other Jews in Sighet. They soon are taken away in a train to Auschwitz.

The Holocaust is one of the worst things to happen to humanity in the history of humanity. We