Sarah's Key Themes In The Book Night

They stayed in certain homes of jewish people and they seemed so polite but, distant. Never made any rude remarks, and “...sometimes even smiled at the lady of the house.” (page10) However on the eighth day of passover the germans revealed themselves as the monsters that they had been hearing of, they had arrested the the jewish leaders the community. The jews were not allowed to leave their houses for three days and if they did they would get the death penalty. Moishe came to Elie’s house and yelled “I warned you.’ And left without waiting for a response.” (page

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

Elie Wiesel, the author of the literary memoir Night, illustrates the impact of notable events on his destiny. Eliezer Wiesel grows up in Sighet, Transylvania. A devout Jew, his entire

Night is an non fiction, dramatic book that tells the horrors of the nazi death camps all around Europe. The book is an autobiographical account of what happened, so the main character is the author. The author is Elie Wiesel who was only 14 year old when Nazi Germany came through his town of Sighet, Transylvania. This is story is set between the years of 1944 and 1945. Elie and his family of 4 are optimistic when Germany begins to take power. Germany invades Hungary, then arrives in Elie’s town. The Nazi’s begin to take over the Jews by limiting their freedom. Jews are eventually deported. The Jewish people are crowded into wagons where they are shipped to Auschwitz. He is separated from his mother and sister. Over the course of the book,

As well as this, the novel signifies indifference of the will to live, whereas the film hardly mentions it among the Jews. As the end of the story grows near, Elie notes the indifferent attitude of those simply forcing themselves to go on, to survive during a Winter march: “Beneath our feet there lay men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention to them” (89). Yet again, indifference is illustrated because of how they no longer had the will to push themselves. Instead, the Jews started following orders out of habit and lacked the will to object. Lastly, the novel shows little to no opposition from the Germans, demonstrating Nazi indifference. When the officers at the camp separate the men and women. Elie says these officers declare orders in “words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion” (29). In other words, the Nazi officers are simply carrying out orders to avoid exhibiting that they are against anti-Semitic norms that most Germans have adopted. In the film however, although Bruno’s father is a Nazi general, his mother and grandmother still demonstrate a strong opposition toward the Nazi party’s anti-Semitism the more they are exposed to it. For example, while the mother gets into a big argument with her husband, the grandmother refuses to show up at her son’s house for a visit (Boy in Striped Pajamas). Unlike the Nazis in the novel, this clearly

The author demonstrates that an adverse atmosphere can cause a person to relinquish their faith. The author establishes the purpose through the sufferings of Moishe the Beadle, Wiesel’s torment and plight of other prisoners in the concentration camp.

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a story about a Jewish boy growing up during World War II. The main character in the book, Eliezer Wiesel, talks about the different experiences he had during World War II. He started off by talking about how everything was normal, and no one was too worried about the war that was going on. One man, Moishe the Beadle, was taken off to another country, and when he managed to get back, he warned everyone what would happened if they did not leave. A few people listened to him, but not Eliezer’s parents. A couple years later, when the war sounded like it was almost over, Germans entered the town that Eliezer’s family were living in. After this, the

Moishe gets back into town by train and starts crying when he prays. Elie sees Moishe crying and asks him what’s wrong. Moishe tells Elie his story through tears. Elie starts worrying if this will happen to anyone else. Everybody was losing their faiths faster in the concentration camps.

78 years ago, over seven million people were leading normal lives. They woke up in their beds, interacted with their families and friends, and followed their habitual routine. Those millions of people had something in common - they all followed the Jewish faith. When the Holocaust began, the Jews had to fight for their lives. Some were able to hide, and some fled the country. Many were forced into ghettos and concentration camps. Over six million Jews did not survive this terrible fate. Less than one million survived. Every one of their lives was irreversibly changed. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it is revealed how dehumanization leads to loss of faith, proven by the aftermath of the Holocaust on its countless victims.

Moishe the Beadle, a poor man from the town of Sighet, struggled to maintain his faith after the horrors he witnessed while he was in Galicia, a labor camp. While he was there, he saw babies being used for target practice, and parents being murdered in front of their children and vice-versa. He was only able to escape this nightmare after he hurt his leg and was left for dead. Moishe, “ … was saved miraculously,” but he did not

Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Cabbala (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. In a few months, Moshe returns, telling a horrifying tale: the Gestapo (the German secret police force) took charge of his train, led everyone into the woods, and systematically butchered them. Nobody believes Moshe, who is taken for a lunatic.

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.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his time spent during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a normal jewish boy, who lived in the town of Sighet. He studied the Torah and went to school and played games and had friends, just like you and me. Everything changed in the year of 1943 during the beginning of WWI. You can only image what happened to the Jewish boy Elie and his beloved family, but with the book Night the images in your mind come to live through Elie’s writing. You feel his sorrow and pain, you feel his slow deterioration of his everything that makes him human.

In the book, Elie talks a little about life before the Germans came in and forced them to give up their humanity. During this time, life was fairly normal and Elie spent his time studying the Zohar with a man name Moishe. Even when Moishe was forced to leave, because he was a foreign jew, not much changed; he continued studying the kabbalistic works and building a relationship with god. It isn’t until Moishe’s return that people start becoming slightly worried, but it still wasn’t enough to really cause a stir within the community. Most citizens just assumed Moishe was crazy whenever he tried to tell people his experiences away from the town. When German police came into the city, people finally began to worry. It was known throughout the town that Hitler had planned to destroy the race of jews but people didn’t believe that one man could manage to kill an entire race. For a time people and the police coexisted with some amount of peace, but then came the ghettos.

The boy and the father have strong morals demonstrating a high level of authenticity, especially in a world where morality is extremely uncommon. To be ‘authentic’ means to genuinely be yourself. Although, as presented by Existentialism, one cannot be their true self until one has defined themselves. First, one must create their authentic selves, then they must live according to that (Varga). The father and the boy have strong principles to do what is right, even when their fellow survivors have completely abandoned morality altogether. At times, the father struggles with following said principles, however, he then justifies his actions which are purely for the safety of his son. This depicts that the father will do anything and everything to assure that the boy lives. The father expresses that “He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (5). When a man holds a knife to the son's neck, the father does not hesitate to kill him. Although this is