Reflections On Night By Elie Wiesel

The emotional connection Wiesel has to the injustice and inhumane acts from other people being a survivor from the Holocaust

The Wiesel family had been deported from Sighet and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkeanu camp, where all deportees were put into two different lines, males and females. This is where Elie and his father were separated from the rest of their family. It is after they realized that they had survived the first selection that Elie, looking back, says: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never" (P34). In this quote, the author applies visual, auditive and olfactory imagery to portray the theme of the horrors of war. Here, Elie reflects upon his experiences and how these have permanently marked him, making him feel haunted by such memories. On the other hand, the reader feels heartbroken and hopeless, seeing as Wiesel will have to shape his life around the impact that the camps had on

Wiesel was still young when he was forcibly sent to a death camp. He was forcibly separated from his mother and sister at Auschwitz whom he never saw again. Luckily, he was able to stay in contact with his father throughout the book Night. He helped his father a lot, sometime giving up his food or encouraging him to prove he is fit to work because if the SS soldier found you were no help or weak you were most likely to be killed. “I was terribly hungry, yet i refused to touch it. I was

As their time in the concentration camp continues, the conditions there worsen. The prisoners are soon forced into a treacherous forty-two mile run in the icy cold, which makes them struggle between life the death. During this march, one thing keeps Wiesel’s will to live alive and that is his father. This shows one of Wiesel’s weakest moments, where he contemplates giving up numerous times. Exhaustion takes over his body, and the only thing he can think about is the pleasures that death would bring him. Wiesel’s mind overpowers him and he reflects, “Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled. It stuck to me. I felt that I could touch it. The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me” (82). However, his father needs him, and that is truly what drives him to keep pushing until the end. They stay alive for each other, which shows how much they really care about the other. While Wiesel rests in the shed after the run, Rabbi Eliahou, a very well-liked man, comes in looking for his son. He and his son have been sticking together for three years. Wiesel expresses that he has not seen him, without realizing that this is false. The Rabbi’s son purposely left him, to strengthen his own chances of survival. Wiesel is taken aback by this, and astonishingly begins to pray. He thinks, “My God,

Wiesel’s story centers around the tragic horror that is genocide. He was apart of what is notoriously known as the Holocaust. This event is the most talked about and studied example of genocide but that doesn’t mean it’s the only one of its kind. There have been various examples of mass genocide over the years that don’t seem to stick in history the way the Holocaust does. This is precisely what Wiesel wanted to make

at that moment in the autobiography Wiesel was a young teen age boy who has never experienced a dramatic event. Wiesel witnessing the horrific burning of young lives this thought has literally became a nightmare for him that he cares with him.

Realizing that Wiesel showed no emotions, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep,” it shows that he has completely loss his innocence and was emotionally exhausted. Wiesel struggles to keep himself and his father alive, that when his father passed it was a relief, and he no longer carried a burden, “‘ Free at last.’” As Elie is impacted from showing no emotions he is also affected by losing his faith in

Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, reflects a time in his life during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, over six million people deemed “unworthy” were sent to concentration camps, where they were forced to work, or killed. Over three millions Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s feelings about God change from being very religious and wanting to learn more about God, to losing his faith in God and going against his religion after the young pipel is hanged.

In the concentration camps, Jews have witnessed and experience violence towards them. One way Wiesel’s life became challenging is by the loss of his innocence from witnessing his father being stuck in the face. In Auschwitz at a concentration camp, Wiesel's father asks the Gypsy a simple question that results in him getting slapped painfully, in “ My father had just been struck in front of me, and I had not even blinked” (Wiesel, 39). As Wiesel’s father is being slapped in front of him, Wiesel becomes frozen in fear. He begins to understand that violence is real in the world. Wiesel has never witnessed anything that has ever made him fear for his life. He says this in “ I had not even blinked”, where he petrify in fear. As his father is getting slapped, Wiesel is silently

Throughout the book Wiesel’s he loses his innocence do to violins and traumatising actions by the Nazis . At first he is a good kid who practices his religion a lot and, towards the middle of the book he completely changes he loses his innocence because violence. Because of violence has been so traumatising to him as only a 15 year old , in his mind is nothing but an everyday thing because he goes through it almost everyday for example Wiesel States “I did not move.What happened to me?My father had been struck Before my very eyes And I had not Flickered and eyelid” This shows how for a 15 year old boy he has gone through many terrible things end changes All the violence that you was put through is just very normal to everyone now no one really

To lose someone very close can hurt; it can change how one behaves and how they may think. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel and his father endured unbearable amounts of torment during their stay in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. Emotional death was a very common side effect of the concentration camps. Many of the Holocaust victims such as Wiesel felt emotional death as a result of witnessing acts of violence, being forced to do extreme manual labor, and overall being brutally mistreated. Wiesel’s encounters with violence and death struck him monotonously.

Elie Wiesel was an award-winning author that wrote many inspiring books. “Night”, a book about Wiesel’s time spent as a prisoner during the Holocaust inspired many to share their stories about the troubling experiences they faced in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel has had many experiences during his lifetime, here, I will answer a set of questions to help the reader better understand the thesis of the book “Night” by: Elie Wiesel.        Elie Wiesel wrote the book “Night” as a tribute to all his loved ones that did not make it through the Holocaust.

While Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy subjugated to the violence of the Holocaust in Night, embarks on his atrocious journey in struggling to survive the brutality perpetrated on him, he loses his innocence in the traumatic circumstances. Wiesel’s main aspiration of writing about his development from childhood to adulthood is to showcase how cruelty within society can darken innocents’ souls. As Elie grows throughout the story, he starts to understand that he has changed from a pure, little child to a young man filled with distress and thoughts of danger. He reflects over what kind of individual he has evolved into because of the all the killings and torture he has witnessed: “I too had become a different

Having grown up an Orthodox Jew in the Hungarian village of Sighet, Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and youngest sister were immediately sent to the gas chambers. While both his older sisters survived, his father, with whom Wiesel had fought to survive the labor camps, died shortly before the war ended. Night tells the horror stories of the Holocaust through the eyes of the fifteen-year old Wiesel who recounts the loss of his innocence, his faith in God, his sense of time and his sense of self. Night describes how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews at every stage through the war years. And in the process, they lost their own sense of humanity.

In the book , Wiesel had to change from being a careless free kid to being an adult for his survival. He witness his people get taken from their homes, beaten death,killed, and receiving unfair treatment just because they were Jews. His experience going through that tragedy, definitely questioned his views about life. The reader can see how trauma and tragedy can shift a person's faith, views about society, and within themselves. Wiesel had to change within himself.