Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

Originally, Eliezer was a young teenager who was devoted to his religion and was pious. According to the text, Elie explains, “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (4). Religion was Elie’s way of life and brought him a sense of completeness. Praying and understanding his religion was like breathing, he couldn’t live without it. He dedicated himself to his faith and wanted to follow the same acts as his father who was a known man in their town of Sighet and put other people and his religion before himself. At a young age, Elie wanted to study Kabbalah, which is the deepest insights into God and the purpose of creation. He found his master in a man named Moishe the Beadle. Moishe the Beadle was a master in everything he has done and was an influential person in Elie’s life. For instance, “Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him...Man asks and God replies...The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself,”(5). Moshe proved that God is always there to guide you no matter what happens, but sometimes you also have to rely on yourself. Elie was astounded with the way Moishe viewed God and the lessons he was taught. It became a routine for Elie to converse with him. But after Moishe was transported from Sighet for being a foreign Jew, Elie started to have a change of thought. Weisel points out, “One day… I saw Moishe the Beadle… told me what had happened to him and his companions… were forced to dig huge trenches… they [the Gestapo] shot their prisoners… Infants were tossed… and used as targets for the machine guns,” (6). Moishe’s experiences sounded so horrifying that nobody believed him- he was called a fool and liar. Although

During the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive, little boy to a spiritually dead, dispassionate man. In his memoir, Night, Elie speaks about his experiences upon being a survivor of the Holocaust. The reader sees how Elie has changed through his experiences in Sighet and the ghettos in comparison to what it was like for him in the concentration camps.

Sometimes in life we are faced with challenges that threaten our identities. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel his challenge was the holocaust, and every aspect of his identity changed. He lost his faith, his appearance changed dramatically, and his lost his ability to care about things he loved most.

In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel the theme of self preservation and loss of identity plays a critical role in the development of Eliezer (Elie Wiesel) throughout the book. As Wiesel suffers through the tragic events of the holocaust, self preservation proves to be more difficult to keep and losing one’s character seems easy. Wiesel’s identity, faith, and his will to live start to fade as he begins to forms a new character, a character who remains silent. Losing identity means losing the values that makes up a character.

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.” ~ Adolf Hitler. The same stance that Hitler took against his military enemies is the one he used to kill each and every Jew from the inside, without ever using a single mortar, plane, or tank, and without specific action to do it. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a courageous, scholarly Holocaust survivor, many are desensitized and dehumanized through the Holocaust.

Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews. In the memoir Night, which took place during the holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote about his experience in the camps and the hardships he went through. The relationship between Elie and his faith was lost because of the way he and the others in the camp were treated along with the environment they were kept in. How the people Elie was with in the camps with were treated had an impact on his faith.

Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie recounts his experience in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Elie, his father, and the millions of other prisoners endure horrific abuse and torture inflicted by the S.S. officers. Throughout the novel, Elie and the other prisoners survive being horribly tortured and bullied by the S.S. officers, while many people witnessed it, but did nothing to help. Bullying and the bystander effect are depicted throughout Wiesel’s novel, and Wiesel also addresses them in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

Being kind isn’t ever a difficult task, right? Believe it or not, in extreme situations it’s very challenging for somebody to worry about being kind to another and having dignity when their top priority is to survive. In Night by Elie Wiesel, we follow young Elie through the horrific events that occurred at multiple concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. The Germans stripped the emotion out of all the Jews’ lives; therefore, they became dehumanized and desensitized. Elie was especially impacted by the people who were kind to him and showed dignity even throughout tough circumstances, all of whom vary from one another. Some inmates that were never named saved a numerous amount of lives with their kindness. Two of Elie’s

Losing faith in God, humanity and himself. Not able to awake from the nightmare he was in. Elie is losing his faith to his own God, religion, his family, and himself. "Never shall [he] forget those flames which consumed [his] faith forever" (Wiesel 32). The terror he experience devour his faith forever. How he would like to believe in faith. He did not feel thankful for "God's test", he wanted to die in a fast way, he was wondering if being chosen was a good choice, he did not believe his family was still alive, and he hated God for his justice.

Night, as a memoir is a first-hand experience of the dehumanization and its toll the holocaust had on people. Throughout the memoir, mental, emotional, and physical dehumanization are described through the text. Elie Wiesel, the author who is only an adolescent during this time period, is forced to suffer through all three stages. In the book, he names himself Eliezer and is ripped away from his mother and sisters when they are sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He and his father terror-strickenly witnessed mass murders and were innocently dehumanized. Nazis used these tactics to discourage the thought of hope and inject fear into the prisoners. Eliezer slowly began to feel the changes dehumanization was having on him.

In the book “Night” the main character, Elie Wiesel, changes throughout the book because of the traumatizing events that he endured at Auschwitz.

Elie and his father encounter several violent situations throughout their time at the concentration camps. On the train, Elie’s father had fallen into a deep sleep and the SS officers were looking to get rid of any dead. Elie recalls then “I woke from my apathy only when two men approached my father. I threw myself on his body. He was cold. I slapped him. I rubbed his hands, crying” (Wiesel 99). Elie’s affection and need for his father grows and he knows it is his job to protect his father. Elie sticks up for his father and is concerned for his health. Once again, Fine adds, “Eliezer and his father decide to watch over each other: they exchange vows of protection, which bind them together in revolt against death” (56). As the father and son continue on, they build an even stronger tie because they have no one left but each other. They rely on one another to prevent death. In conclusion, as their journey is coming to an end, Elie tries to keep his father alive, knowing that it is the only thing that will keep himself

Notably, when Elie was younger he always faced the fact that he father believed that he was not old enough to make certain choices and do certain things. Elie’s father made him believe that he wouldn’t understand making him doubt himself. During this time at the Concentration Camp he was beat even in the text he states, “ I tried to protect myself from the blows,”(41). The author has been through a lot through these past couple of days and weeks. He states that the first human words he heard were, “Don’t lose hope,”(41). Those words brought his dignity back up close to his previous personal

To cope with the oppressive treatment from the concentration camps’ officials, Elie’s innate senses of compassion and altruism wane. Watching his father subject himself to the beating, Elie’s wishes that his father had not incurred the wrath of Idek, the Kapo. However instead rescuing his father from the blows, Elie “watche[s] it all happening without moving. [He] kept silent. In fact, [he] thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows” (54). In his fleeting thoughts of abandoning his father to deal with the beating alone, Elie is beginning to betray the bonds of family; he is losing the original compassion and willingness to sacrifice himself that he entered the camp with. Although there is a suggestion of worry and compassion left in Elie’s tone, this is not strong enough to for Elie to forgo his own safety and wellbeing. In this, Elie has