Reflection On The 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.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author reflects on his own experience of being separated from his family and eventually his own religion. This separation was not by any means voluntary, they were forced apart during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jew when the invasion of Hungary occurred and the Germans ripped members of his religion away from their home in Sighet. A once peaceful community where Wiesel learned to love the Kabbalah was now home to only dust and lost memories. Most members of that Jewish community were never to return, hell greeted them with open arms as they walked through the now rusty gates of Auschwitz. In order to survive unimaginable circumstances that were enforced in these camps, a boy had to hang on to his humanity. But by no means did humanity stay with the boy, being subjected to the horror of concentration camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel saw first-hand how members of other communities attempt to silence opposing voices. All of the pain that Wiesel saw inspired him to keep watch and tell stories for people who wouldn’t live on to tell them for their own families. Stories are what keeps a person alive and through Eliezer’s words that he puts down many are able to get a sense of closure in knowing what occurred at these camps. One story occurred on the first train ride away from home, a lady named Madame Schächter was beaten up for crying out against imminent death, unseen by others.

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.

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).

In this lesson, we will explore three of the major themes of 'Night ' and the imagery that the author, Elie Wiesel, uses to create them. The themes we will discuss are identity, silence, and night.

The Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays the relationship between two different people in a different way, each changing in a new way. Between Elie and her father, the relationship changed and changed. Their relationship went from bad to good, starting shakily then elevating to a better level. Within the memoir, there are many ways to see how this relationship changed. Elie’s father had started changing the way he perceives Elie at this time, but often not being as in an intense situation as this one.

Seven billion people, seven billion different faces, seven billion unique characters, and most importantly, seven billion significant identities. Trauma, is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience, everyone experience trauma in their life, from breaking their bones to surviving a Nazi concentration camp. Identities are changed during these experiences, negative or positive, one’s identity can be described as your personality and who you are. Everyone’s identity changed during their life from different events that occur in their life. Elie Wiesel’s memoir ‘Night’ and his famous Nobel Prize acceptance speech are two of the most moving and touching examples of how horrible traumatic experiences can be. Traumatic experience is far worse than you think it is, and the changes of one’s identity is bigger than anyone could imagine. Traumatic experiences affect one’s

The Night was written to remind people of the tragedies occurred during the holocaust, aswell to tell people that it is an obligation to pass on stories of the holocaust to further generations. In the Preface, Elie mentions how terrible the holocaust really was, while doing so several times. The author mentions seven clear words that describe the holocaust, “Hunger-thirst-fear-transport-selection-fire-chimney:” In the concentration camps, there was little or food and drink. The fear of dying, getting separated from family, friends, and loved ones. The day of being sent on trains filled with people, with no room to spare. Either being sent to death, or working in horrible conditions with little food, and the sight of flames coming out of the

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?

I chose to tell you about shadows, because they seem like nothing big to us nowadays, but during the Holocaust they are a sign of fear. Shadows are another word for darkness, and both The Diary of Anne Frank and Night have a lot of darkness in them. Night basically means darkness, from when Elie spent his first night in the ghetto, until he was freed from the labor camp, he counted the days by counting the nights. Shadows were the demons of the Holocaust, that is why I chose to write about them.

Change. The Phenomenon that is feared, envied, and loved. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel includes many changes. All of them revolve around Elie and how his experience in Auschwitz changed him forever. In this heart wrenching story Elie is taken from his home, and put into a concentration camp. He falters in many things he once believed in, especially his misgivings when it came to family and god. Elie Wiesel was transformed religiously and socially, along with his moral character.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through the his “night” of the Holocaust, how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel pulls you along on his dramatic journey through his endless night. Night, by Elie Wiesel forces you to open our eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove to his readers that man does have the capability to create such a harsh reality.

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.

In this eye-opening book, Night by Elie Wiesel, it became very obvious that, not only his view on the world, but his view on others and himself changed dramatically throughout the book. He changed mentally and became stronger in the mind, the things he went through had changed his whole body, leaving scars and showing his rib cage from lack of food, and his beliefs in God and humanity. His human right on how he wanted to grow up was taken from him and instead he was handed the brink of life or death, along with his father, who was constantly on the edge of death. He often questioned the fact that God was on their side, given the fact that he and thousands more were tortured, beaten, and killed everyday. He also questioned why God would want them to go through this; was it to make them stronger people… or did God just want them to suffer?