Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences

When you go through something as horrible as the Holocaust, you change in many ways that didn’t seem possible. These changes could include struggling to maintain faith or the ability to no longer function as a man. The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel follows the journey of Elie who faced these struggles while suffering in concentration camps.

Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.

Through his first-person memoir Night, Elie Wiesel reveals that people experience changes in their attitude as they become products of their environments.

The murder of thousands can not only impact the universe, but the ones that live in it. For instance, victims of the Happiest had to deal with, not only losing all of their loved ones but the deaths of others around them. In “Night”, Elie is expiring death, of not only his loved ones, also other Jews who were taken by Hitler. The loss of your family is petrifying. But watching others have their lives slipped away from their fingertips, is indubitably scary. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes drastically throughout the book, because of the time he spent in Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person because of his experiences at Auschwitz. Throughout his entire journey, his choices became wiser and more strategic. Before entering Auschwitz, Elie was a very weak in the sense of decision making. He did not think ahead or think about the consequences for his actions. However, Elie’s character changed because of his experiences at Auschwitz.

In the novel, Night, Elie features an array of questions that cannot be easily answered, while setting up the stage for disagreements and tensions. In order, to provide a deeper insight into the question, similar to the question of whether a person has the power to retain their humanity in the face of persecution. To further explain, there are two sides to this question, resulting in a tension. This tension, as Elie intended, will provide a deeper insight into the question. For this purpose, as arguments arise on whether a person can or cannot retain their humanity in the face of persecution, it provides an answer to one of life’s most essential questions.

Unbelievable, unimaginable, uncivilized. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the main character in the memoir is trying to survive in the concentration camps during World War II. He slowly loses his faith in the camps which one thing he needed to get him through the persecution of his friends and family. Elie's attitude and beliefs in relationship to faith was strong at home, then it got weaker while in the camps and was totally gone when he was liberated.

Once, Elie’s father was in the infirmary, sick. A blockalteste approached him. He said “Listen to me kid. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.” (Wiesel 110) Elie agreed. He hated to admit it, but he knew that the blockalteste was right. Elie felt guilty for feeling this way but was still just waiting for the time of his father’s death to come. Elie’s father passed away. Ordinarily, Elie should have felt sadness at the death of his father. However, he felt little sadness. Elie was relieved. The burden of his father, was no longer on his shoulders. Elie no longer felt responsible for his father. Moreover, Elie was tired of it all and wanted a break. Elie could now finally focus on his own survival. Elie described the moment “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears... I might have found something like: Free at last!...” (Wiesel

Eliezer, in the book Night by Elie Wiesel was a very religious boy and always prayed to God when they were still living in Sighet and he says, "Man asks and God replies.". When they were forced to leave their homes in Sighet he says, "God alone could answer you.", which he is telling us that he still believes in God and prays to him. Eliezer said, "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us...", when they arrived in the Ghettos because he didn't know what was going to happen so he was praying for the best. When they arrived at Auschwitz Eliezer said in the book, "Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror.

Moishe the Beadle was a religious man reaching enlightenment before he was taken by Nazi soldiers, tortured, and made a witness of mass murder. He lost his will to live, his care for relationships with others, and his faith. After being dehumanized, he went from being at enlightenment to the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs. In Night, Elie writes “Moishe had changed. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or the cabbala, but only of what he had seen” (Wiesel 17). One of the few things that made Moishe human in his poverty was his religion. Due to the events he witnessed, he was no longer happy, and he never again sang about the things he once cared for. Most importantly, he lost his religion, which caused his dehumanization.

Wiesel went through the Holocaust and wrote a story about his experiences. Throughout the story, Elie Wiesel develops three major themes. The theme that is most prominent in the story is “In extreme difficulty, man struggles to maintain faith in a benevolent god.” The book “Night” shows the human struggle to maintain faith. In the beginning of the book, Elie loses his faith in God very quickly.

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented,” quote from Elie Wiesel, author of Night, about the Holocaust. Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel about his first hand experiences as a Holocaust victim. The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of eleven million people, more than half of them were Jewish (six million), by the Nazis under Hitler’s regime. The Holocaust was such an impactful event that three years later the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was written. The UDHR is an international document that states basic rights and fundamental

“Fifteen. No. You’re eighteen.”. This book is titled Night, by Elie Wiesel and this is about Elie Wiesel when he was a teenager, but then suddenly a friend, a man at that time had been seemingly insane; however, the madman spoke the truth, but the way he expressed it made no one believe him. Until more than a year or so had passed, then all of these “displeasing” events has been occurring and then changed their whole life in that one moment. The theme is that no matter the circumstance( for example having an progressing ladder towards hell) the inner soul has an unbreakable will. To sum it up in simpler terms being forced by a much greater power and turning his identity into a fantasy type peasant going through many punishments, the protagonist

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