Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

“I won’t give you more, more than you can take and I might let you bend, but I won’t let you break.” Elie Wiesel has an unbreakable personality, but he was certainly tested when God put him through the Holocaust with the knowledge that he had the physical and mental strength to get through some miserable times and impact the world with his story. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, experiences great change through his horrific and scarring adventures that he endures at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Night, by Elie Wiesel, showed the devastation of Eliezer’s childhood and illustrated the loss of innocence through the evil of others. Elie Wiesel expressed to us that one’s own faith and beliefs can be challenged through torture and ongoing suffering. The novel, Night, allowed the reader to witness the change in Eliezer from one of an innocent child who strongly adhered to his faith in God into a person who questioned not only his faith and God but of himself as well. The cruelty is shown to him while in the concentration camp forced him to wonder if there was a God and if so why would he put him and the others through such torture. Through his suffering, Eliezer’s beliefs dramatically and negatively changed his faith in God and compelled him to experience a transformative relationship with his father.

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).

Jewish prisoners that were alone during the holocaust survived better than being with family. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie had to be separated from his family; he never saw them again. Family made the holocaust even harder; Jewish prisoners perturbed about their family every second. On top of Elie worrying about his family, his dad was an old man. There were many times throughout the book Elie had to be a provider for his dad.

“Hunger—thirst—fear—transport—selection—fire—chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times, they meant something else” (Wiesel ix). Years after he was liberated from the concentration camp at Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel wrote Night as a memoir of his life and experiences during the Holocaust, while a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Scholars often refer to the Holocaust as the “anti-world”. This anti-world is an inverted world governed by absurdity. The roles of those living in the anti-world are reversed and previous values and morals are no longer important. Elie Wiesel portrays four of the characters, in his memoir, Night, as prophetic figures, each with a new warning for the Jews. There are four main characteristics that make a person a prophetic figure. First, they always have a story or a tale they are trying to tell. Secondly, this story usually contains a warning of some kind. The perception of these individuals as mad by others in their community is the third characteristic; and isolation by their community as a result of this belief is the fourth characteristic. Throughout the story Eliezer struggles with his faith and belief in God. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, characterizes four prophetic figures to portray the distorted nature of the anti-world and to illustrate a constant questioning of God and faith by Eliezer.

Written response to a prompt- a statement about the theme which you are required to “break open” in your response.

The stench of burning flesh lingers over the piles of skeleton like people who could no longer fight the battle. Along with the millions of bodies that got left behind at Auschwitz so did much of Elie’s existence before he was brought to the camp. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie faces many challenges and loses much of himself due to his horrific journey in the camp. Elie’s losses contributed dramatically into the person he became after the liberation, he no longer valued religion or a higher power, he lost his family, and his innocence . Elie entered the concentration camp as a faith driven young boy but ultimately transforms into a scarred corpse like version of his old self.

Before Eliezer had experienced the Nazi filled wrath of the camps, he was religious and very faith-based. Wiesel was committed in his religion, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.” he wanted nothing more than to learn more about God. He was ready to spend more of his time on his religion, spending it with a ‘master’. In the eyes of one Jewish boy, God is capable of saving, “‘Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us…’” (Wiesel 20). Even when they were starting to be rounded up by Nazi soldiers, he prayed to the Lord, in hopes of receiving leniency. Unfortunately, Eliezer does not continue to show traits of his younger self.

in the book “night” by “elie wiesel” we see a boy who was trying to live a normal life but unfortunately for him the nazi’s enter and change his life completely. like elie gets sent to many camps to try and separate him from his father the only source of strength elie had. Over the course of the book, elie changes from a believing person to just a emotionally destroyed person. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the of theme of nazi has played a completely negative lifestyle for a person for example when the night at the camp, when elie gets ripped away from his father, but also we see elie show her weakness at the end of the book

During the gruesome times in the Holocaust, Elie and his father both experience suffer and torture. The Nazis treats the Jews like animals and place them in cruel conditions which causes Elie’s father to rely more on Elie. Over the course of Night by Elie Wiesel, the relationship between Wiesel and his father changes from distant to dependent, committed love.

Change is an immense portion of human development that can alter a person’s character traits based off of a single experience. A time known to change man is the era of the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes dramatically through his unbearable events that he had experienced in Auschwitz, a death camp, known for its extreme and unusual tactics. Eli Wiesel’s book proved that he has seen the absolute worse so how has these experiences translate change throughout Eli’s life for the better, or for the worse?

One of my favorite books I have ever read was Night by Elie Wiesel. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells a horrific tale of a Jewish teenager’s experiences in the Holocaust. This story takes place in Germany at several different concentration camps, one being Auschwitz. Throughout this heart wrenching story, Elie Wiesel falls victim to one of the millions of Jews getting taken from their home and out into camps during the Holocaust. The book Night has a title which symbolizes death. The novel has a theme of family; a lot of people take for granted their family and the ties between them. In the book, the character Elie matures from a young teenager into a strong man with many qualities, including being a brave, loyal,

Throughout “Night” Elie goes through massive changes. He changes religiously, emotionally, and physically. These changes cause Elie to behave differently in the concentration camps. He begins to question his faith, and the existence of a God. He changes emotionally, and begins to blame to his father for everything. He blames his father for the beating, and for entering a concentration camp. He believes every situation could have been prevented. Elie also changes physically. He loses weight, becomes weaker, and is shaved. These changes make him appear physically different, but also cause mental changes. The religious, emotional, and physical changes make Elie a different person.

Eliezer's life, before the Holocaust, revolved around his faith because it was all he knew. We discover his devotion early on as so, “I was twelve. I believed

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.