Response To Night By Elie Wiesel

Night is an auto biography by Elie Wiesel. This story is about his family and how they make it through the Holocaust. One of the themes in this story is the Jewish heritage and beliefs; and how when all that was occurring some may lose hope in God. While some people faith stayed strong.

His father, the same person who helped him rekindle his humanity, is dead, representing a large part of his humanity that was lost. Wiesel uses the phrase “weakened conscience” to express that condition after leaving his father to die. He also uses the phrase “free at last” signifying his the release of a great portion of his humanity and the sickly, sweet release of caring for his

Wiesel exemplified the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners in Night. He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. They lost their possessions,

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,

In the start of the Holocaust, Wiesel is very oblivion of the situation, along with most other people. As he continued through the journey he was unsure of what he should do next. At this part of his life he was still faithful, and he believed everything would be fine. Once Wiesel thinks his mother and sister die, he begins to lose faith and hope. During this period Elie Wiesel began to lose most of his strength, as he struggled to continue with little water and food. Unfortunately, later in his journey, he struggled so much that he completely lost hope for all things but his father. As this feeling went through hi body, he stopped thinking that survival was so important, yet he made it so far. He then realized that he had to push to live on his full life. Sadly, Wiesel had to watch his dad die right in front of his eyes, yet that brought a thought to his mind- he is better on his own. In the end, Wiesel went from hopeful to hopeless, proving that he had changed emotions throughout his

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

In 1940 , Hungary annexed sighet and the wiesel’s were among the jewish families and forced to live in the ghettos.May 1944,Nazi Germany with the Hungary’s agreement, forced jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of Fifteen Wiesel’s family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million jews. Wiesel’s family was affected during the holocaust, all jews were forced to have their heads shaved and a number tattooed on their heads after all the men left the barber they were all standing around naked finding acquaintances and old friends, they are joyful at finding each other still alive. Elie Wiesel’s Night highlights the overarching issues of discrimination toward the Jews as they are forced to abandon their lives and face a death that consumer their existence, relationships and faith.

Elie Wiesel’s life has been molded by the events he endured while in Auschwitz during World War 2. His memoir, “Night,” illustrates his life during the darkest moment in Jewish history. The story begins in 1941 in the town of Sighet, where Eliezer his parents are shopkeepers and he strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law. By 1944, the Hungarian government fell to the Fascists which resulted in the eventual oppression of Jews in Sighet, where Eliezer, his family, and other Jews are forced to wear yellow stars and succumb to the strict measures of the Germans. Later, the Jews are herded into ghettos, where they unknowingly awaited their trains for Auschwitz. By the end of his ordeal and his liberation from the camp, he had witnessed the

Elie Wiesel’s short memoir Night recounts his experience surviving the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the third chapter of the book, he focuses on describing what it was like to arrive at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the process the men had to go through to transform from men into prisoners. In addition to lying about his age and occupation, Wiesel lost his hair, his clothing, his mother and sisters, his name, and most importantly, his faith. Elie Wiesel's use of imagery and diction in Night makes readers understand the true atrocities of the Holocaust.

Let me ask you this; How would you respond if you were thrown onto a cattle car, sent to a work at a concentration camp, for possible the rest of your life, and, in the process, have your family sent to their death? Don’t forget you face all this while being starved and forced to fight for your life. That seems like a completely ridiculous question, but for millions of Jews during World War II, it was the exact situation they experienced. Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, tells the story about the cruel treatment Jewish prisoners experienced and how that turned them into savages. As you will see, Elie himself will not be able to escape this fate, but I do believe he didn’t quite reach the same level as some of the others.

Night is a memoir on how surviving the holocaust could change a person3. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, involves mostly himself (Elie Wiesel) and his father, and how he survived the holocaust, along with death camps Auschwitz/Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. This memoir shows how Elie manages to survive the holocaust, while in a concentration camp. Surviving the holocaust changed Elie Wiesel forever.

During evaluation were the germans ask the New Jews their age and health an inmate made Wiesel and their father change their age just to stay alive. This is changing who they are. Very shortly after the arrival they soon realize the atrocities that were done at the concentration camps. When someone told Wiesel and his father that people were being burned alive Wiesel instantly lost his faith in the world and humanity itself. “I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times the world would never tolerate such crimes…”(Wiesel 33) Sadly for him all of this was true his father tried to reassure him, but seeing this nightmare was almost too much for him and lost faith in life and threatened suicide. “If that is true, then I don’t want to wait. I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in flames.”(Wiesel 33) Almost instantly after the arrival of the concentration camps a huge mood change and personality change happens to Wiesel. Wiesel who was proud of his Jewish heritage already questioned it. “For the first time, I felt an anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”(Wiesel 33) He is already questioning his faith in god and others will eventually do the

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.

Throughout this section, I knew what was ultimately going to happen. I knew that Elie and his family were going to be taken from their homes to a concentration camp. However, the story played out differently than I had originally imagined it might.

Night, Elie Wiesel’s memoir about his time in concentration camps, is a startling revelation with passages that stick to the mind, etched in the brain. Many of the passages in this book are about the views of human life, and can be perceived in many ways. One of these passages is, “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” This description is of a moment where Wiesel looking in a mirror at himself. He had not seen himself since he had left the concentration camp, and his expression of what he saw is a powerful statement with underlying themes and messages. Wiesel may never forget the look in his eyes, but readers may never forget his words and the meaning it holds.