Reflection For Night By Elie Wiesel

People have survived many situations throughout the years. Some of the these situations have been life threatening and some have not been that bad. These situations have left people wrenched, mortified, and distressed. Elie Wiesel in Night is innocent, desperate, and numb. Overall, Wiesel is left broken. Night was written by Elie Wiesel and the book is about his personal experience about being a victim of the Holocaust.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw. George Shaw’s famous quote describes that to achieve, you must change yourself. On May 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family were forced out from his home in Sighet, Romania to live in Auschwitz, Germany. He and his two older sisters survived the holocaust, Elie then wrote his experience in 1960. During the span of the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the novel demonstrates that traumatic events can change a person drastically. In the beginning, Elie lived with his family in Germany, his mother, his father, and his three siblings. The Germans forced the Jews to hand over their valuables, live in ghettos and finally moving them to concentration camps, including Elie’s family. He was disunited from his mother and three siblings, but managed to stay with his father. At first when he entered the camp he was pessimistic and discouraged when he saw the townspeople crying including his father. After, Elie then learned to take care of himself and his father during tragic events, he stuck to his ambitions and values which led him to go through many obstacles , despite the limitations, and be free of the camp of Auschwitz. As he set out Eliezer was an immature and carefree 15 year old who developed into a responsible young adult.

A great quote that Elie Wiesel said. The way he said it made it meaningful and powerful, just like his book Night. In his amazingly written book is about Elie Wiesel himself as a 15 year old going through the Holocaust. At the time he was in Transylvania that was invaded in 1944 by Germany. Later on forced to move to a ghetto then moved again to the concentration camps by cattle cars. Once Elie and his family got to the concentration camps soon enough he mother and sister were killed but Eile stood

Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on giving the reader a precise understanding of the Holocaust from the perspective of a man who endured it. In order to vividly describe the situation, Wiesel uses specific words or phrases to signify the importance and value behind it. Wiesel writes, “Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes” (Wiesel 21). “Night” is used abundantly throughout the book. In today’s American society, night is for rejuvenation, peace,

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experience during the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through his “night” of the Holocaust, and how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel will captivate you on his earth shattering journey through his endless night. Elie Wiesel’s book Night forces you to open your eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove that man does have the capability to create such a harsh reality.

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

There are many important themes and overtones to the book Night, by Eliezer Wiesel. One of the major themes from the book includes the protagonist, and author of his memoire, Elie Wiesel’s ever changing relationship with God. An example of this is when Moche the Beadle asked Elie an important question that would change his life forever, as the basis of his passion and aptitude for studying the ancient texts and teachings of Judaism, “When Moche the Beadle asked Elie why he prayed, Elie couldn 't think of an answer that truly described his faith, and thought, "a strange question, why did I live, why did I breathe?" (Wiesel 14).

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." This quote was once said by a humble man whose name was, Elie Wiesel. He was a strong, but gentle man who had never thought he would undergo the pain that he endured. Elie lived humbly but happily with his family, which he adored. He had two older sisters, one younger sister, and two happily married parents. He was very religious and stuck to his Jewish beliefs and traditions. For the most part, everybody in his community treated each other with benevolence, respecting each others beliefs and traditions. Elie was just a normal kid wanting to live as much of a normal life as possible. He never looked for trouble or ways to hurt someone, he just wanted peace and love in his life. Elie also stated that "No

Stress and change have a strong relation because with one, comes the other. Elie Wiesel; the author of Night and Jonathan Marc Feldman; the screenwriter of Swing Kids, let readers witness characters reactions to the stress’ they encounter as the Nazi’s take over in World War II. The relationship between stress and change relates to these characters because as they experience stress throughout these stories, they undergo spiritual, emotional and interpersonal changes.

After reading Elie Wiesel’s preface of his very own, “The Night”, and after watching the short film of Rudolf Vrba’s escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, I’ve come to notice that both men have a lot in common based on what they went through during the period of the Holocaust. There are two ways both men’s stories correlated; through similar ideology and through the loss of loved ones. Both men lost a loved one in front of them which for Elie, it was his own father and for Vrba, it was his brother “Sammy” (says holocaustresearchproject.org). The ideology that both Vrba and Elie share is the idea of informing others of the tragic ordeal that we know as the “Holocaust” by escaping from Auschwitz and informing the uninformed. While

Last year in English class we were required to read the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. I have read many Holocaust journals and memoirs in the past, but none of them had quite the same impact as Night. The book opened my eyes to the freedom and the comfortable lifestyle that I take advantage of everyday. It was hard for me to fathom the pain that he and the other prisoners suffered, and the possibility of my entire world changing overnight the way Elie’s did.

History helps us better understand change and why things are the way they are. We study history because the past has a direct link to our present and ultimately our future.Through the study of history, we hope to learn from our past, and not make the same mistakes again. The holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others leading up to it, during world war II.The killings took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945, they were organized by the German Nazi party which was lead by Adolf Hitler.The largest group of victims were Jewish people,Nearly seven out of every ten Jew living in Europe were killed.Most of the victims were killed because they belonged to certain racial or religious groups which the Nazis wanted to wipe

“We sensed that we were gathered around the familial table for the past time” (p 22), this is one of the quotes in Night by Elie Wiesel that has brought people to tears. This book is a story about a father and son who went through the holocaust together. You are that takes you taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride by a voice from the past. It is by far one of the most memorable books that I have read in a long time. Not only does it make you feel like you’re in the story yourself, but it also causes you to think about your bond with your parents.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel is one of the books that I definitely read, but will never read again. Despite the short volume, the content is intense. At the deepest level, the horror is not what happened, but that human beings let it happen, or in a scarier way- human beings are the author of it The more I read, the more I feel ashamed and powerless. That is also the main reason that I will not re-read this book. However, this tiny but powerful book does strike me with a new aspect of writing, reading and perceiving a war story. Not every story is written to provide knowledge, to entertain and to educate. Stories are also written down to feel and to connect. Feeling depressed while reading this book is a sign that it touches my emotion. Changes always

As we all know after reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz was the largest German concentration camp and unfortunetely over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives there. However, from January 17 to 21, 1945, the Auschwitz administration were able to evacuate 58 thousand prisoners.