Survival In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

The Holocaust is an unforgettable event to anyone who had to live through the horrors of a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is no exception. He was taken to a concentration camp in 1944 and lost his mother and father in the concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel was brave enough to step forward and share his experiences during the Holocaust, which he recorded in his book Night. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel uses irony, foreshadowing, and tone to describe the uncertainty of one’s future before going and while in a concentration camp.

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.

Elie Wiesel, the author and the character in the memoir Night, fights to live through the Holocaust with his father. Wiesel, a 13 year old boy from Transylvania, his father, his mother and three sisters struggle to live through the Holocaust. Together the father and son battle against starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, and the multiple of brutal beatings given by the Nazis, while the mother and three sisters are separated from them. Finally after a hard year and a half Wiesel’s father dies of dysentery in Buchenwald, another concentration camp outside of Auschwitz, just shortly before Wiesel and his father could be liberated from the camp by the Russians. Hitler, a man corrupted by power, lead the Axis against the Allies. While doing so

In the book “Night”, Wiesel describes his own private experiences with inhumanity during his time inside the camps, going into vivid detail the true nature of the SS men who guarded the camps, and the starving slaves who were worked till they fell over dead from starvation. A prime example of these personal incidents include the death march. While being evacuated from Buna, Elie and his bunkmates, or blockalteste, were marched through the snow. If the prisoners slowed their pace or fell behind the others there were killed. “ They had orders to shoot anyone who did not sustain the pace”, shows this inhumane dynamic perfectly and goes on to include that” if one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog” (Wiesel,85) Another example of Elie’s personal experiences on inhumanity includes him being forced to have his gold crown removed. The passage states” the dentist from Warsaw pulled my crown with the help of a rusty spoon.” (Wiesel, 56) This infers that Elie was forced to have his crown removed. It was not by choice, rather it was a way to profit off the prisoners by selling their gold teeth. However, one of the most severe personal experiences Elie had to endure was when he was beaten as

Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a real life story of the hardships faced by a 15 year old Jew during World War 2. Elie Wiesel’s account of the genocide he faced embodies human natures at its weakest. Night illustrates the selfishness and indecencies that human beings are capable of when faced with the prospect of death. The Jews and prisoners were often self-centred, only able to think about themselves, and the Nazis also often degraded the people of the concentration camps.

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

In the beginning he was horrified of the things he saw. On his first day at a concentration camp Elie saw babies being thrown into large pits of fire, people being taken to the crematory and Jews being hit and beaten for no reason. As time past and Wiesel was moved from camp to camp he started to only care about his survival and the horrible things done by the Nazi’s became apart of his everyday life.He saw a boy whose face he said looked like the face of an angel being hung. The little boy struggled to breathe for over thirty minutes before the life in his eyes faded away. Wiesel's own father was beaten because he was sick and not given the proper medical care from the nazi’s. Days later his father was taken to the crematory. Instead of Wiesel being sad he was relieved that he no longer had to take care of his father. Elie lost friends family and saw many more being killed. Wiesel was almost numb to the things happening around him.

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.

At the beginning of the memoir, Elie describes the extent of psychological abuse that he is subjected to, and already the reader can sense a theme of darkness. The atrocious cruelty showed by Nazi soldiers toward Jews, is beyond all realms of rationality. Through strategic verbal abuse, Nazi soldiers slowly deprive the Jews of their stimulus and ability to react. The author reveals, “Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog…The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us” (Wiesel 36). This daily psychological pressure is intended to extinguish any trace of humanity in Jews. The Nazi soldiers know that if they deprive the Jews of their innate nature and interests in life, it would be easier to instill fear and exponentially erase hope. The author affirms, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would had dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast?” (39). In this section of the memoir, Elie underscores the Nazis’ success in creating a mental paralysis and an incapacity to react to injustice. The Nazis are using one of the most invasive forms of torture, the psychological abuse. They are progressing every day in their brutal plan, and consequently, the Jews’ anguish becomes more intense and precise. Caleb Lewis in

The holocaust is the most deadly genocide in the world that impacted millions of life by controlling and running life because of one mean man. In Elie Wiesel memoir, The Night is describing his own experience before, during and after the holocaust. He describes in meticulous details his experience in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buna with is father. Wiesel depicts how the Nazi slowly destructs every interpersonal relationship in the Jews community. Within the autobiography, Wiesel shows how the interpersonal relationships are important within the population in general, in the concentration camp and in more precisely with is own relationship with his family.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experience during the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through his “night” of the Holocaust, and how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel will captivate you on his earth shattering journey through his endless night. Elie Wiesel’s book Night forces you to open your eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove that man does have the capability to create such a harsh reality.

Throughout history, many terrible things have happened that have put people in terrible conditions. During the Holocaust, millions of people died, and the few that survived were very lucky. Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, endured many horrible things in the Holocaust that shaped him as a person today. In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz.

The Holocaust was a time of death. It was initiated by Adolf Hitler and his German army and was the mass genocide that killed over six million Jews. Among those were women and children being sent to death right away, the others were then “selected”, Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky ones. He was a survivor who lived to tell about his experience in the death camps. Elie Wiesel wrote the book ‘Night’ because he felt it was his duty and responsibility to show readers what really happened during the Holocaust. His writing style effectively develops his point of view so he is able to convey a compelling story-his story.

Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War 2 were killed by Nazis. The book Night is about the author’s,Elie Wiesel (a young jew), experiences that he went through during his time in different concentration camps from 1944- 1945 before he was liberated. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character , Elie, was effected by the events in the book because of his mental changes, him losing his faith, and his changing relationship with his father throughout the book. One of the main things that Elie went through mental changes through the entry of the book. In the beginning of the book Elie is very eager to find himself “a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah” (page 4), but he was turned down because he was too young.

Everything that happened from this point on was barbaric and exhibited all the Nazis’ anti-Semitism and disregard for Jewish lives. The Jews were forced out of the cattle car under the threat of being beaten and shot, all their precious belongings left behind. The Nazi’s showed no regard and in a cold tone, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” separating families without any mercy. One of the first individuals they encountered was the notorious Dr. Mengele. He was renowned for experimenting with Jews: replacing body parts, testing life limitations. Out of complete luck, Elie stood in front of an inmate who instructed him and his father to lie about both their ages and their professions. However, Elie Wiesel was a good Jew, and under normal circumstances, he would never lie. ‘”I’m eighteen.”…”Your profession?”/Tell him I was a student? / “Farmer,” I heard myself saying.’ He wisely did as the inmate advised. “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! ...children thrown into the flames.” At this moment Elie lost all belief in God. He heard his people praising His name begging for forgiveness which made him sick. Elie Wiesel was certain he was asleep, that this was all a nightmare, that he would wake up in his bedroom with his heart pounding. In the back of his mind, however, he knew this was no nightmare. This was real. He was ready to jump into the electric fence surrounding Auschwitz and end all his suffering. “Two steps from the pit, we were ordered to turn left and herded into barracks.” Elie Wiesel and his fathers’ lives were spared