Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

The first and most prevalent example of symbolism in the book is the title itself. By calling the novel “Night” it is apparent to the reader that the Holocaust was a dark experience, full of terror and suffering. The entire novel is filled with “last nights”. Elie experiences the last night withEl his father, the last night in Buna, the last night in the ghetto, and several others throughout the book. The term “night” also references to a life without a God. Wiesel often says that God does not

Symbolism: the artistic and poetic use of a phrase, object, or relationship to express a deeper idea. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a retelling of Wiesel’s sacrifices and experiences as a young Jewish boy who had spent many years in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel uses an overwhelming amount of symbolism to express the deeper thoughts and feelings of the Jewish people as they did all they could to survive. Wiesel’s relationship with his father, Juliek’s violin, and the rations of food the Jews are provided with all symbolize the remnants of humanity that still remain in the Jews, who have been stripped of basically everything.

Elie Wiesel writes a powerful and moving novel titled “Night” detailing his journey throughout what we now know today as the Holocaust while also bringing in elements of symbolism and imagery to strengthen the novel and deliver a story that is not only incredible but impactful as well. Throughout the book Elie slowly begins to lose his faith, his father, and his dignity which is shown through the symbol of night. "We were given no food. We lived on snow; it took place of the bread. The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our souls"(Wiesel 94).” In this quote Elie states what the nights would bring to the Jews which is darkness. This reveals his feelings of being alone with no God and the dark of night that

The pain, the cold harsh wind biting at the ankles of hundreds of thousands of people. Human beings enduring torture so great it was not life, it was survival for beasts. Pain so great that no word in any dictionary can describe it. The emanation of a thousand rotting corpses lying in the snow. The wailing of millions so intense it was like it was from the depths of Tartarus watching as they trudged on. The cold snatching hundreds of lives and the only heat sources are from the eternal fires of death. The holocaust, the hand of hell descending on the world. Jews crammed into cattle cars and sent to concentration camps. Families were separated into different camps and many died in the rigorous selection process. Survivors were worked to near death by German SS officers as shown in Elie Wiesel’s Night, a memoir of the holocaust. Imagery, Symbolism, and Comparisons are all viable writing tools that provide a writer the best

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the main character Eliazer goes through some major changes throughout the book. He starts out as a naive young boy in Singet who is mainly focused on religion to an uncaring hardy man who doesn't believe in god. Some major moments in the book that changed him from who is was to who he became was when the German Police first come and remove him from his house, when Eliezer experiences his first night at Auschwitz, when his father gets beat in the camp, when he encounters a French Girl that speaks to him, when he witness a child being hung, and when Eliezer's father gets sick, just to name a few. These moments in Eliezer's life changed him during the book.

In the book Night author Elie Wiesel enlightens us into his world and vision he once lived before in a time in which was known as some of Americas worst times. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night gives off very good imagery in which we see in his writing by the precise wording he uses. His emotion in which he gives are a mixed in between frustration, confusion, hope, and etc. An example in which he gives “Jews, listen to me,” she cried. “I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!” (Wiesel). By this quote shows very well imagery as well as to show emotions such as destruction, death, and damage.

What is pain? What is loss? What is abandonment? It is something that modern most modern humans don’t need or want understand. Elie Wiesel is a 13 year old boy that had to go through the harsh truth of World War II. He is separated from his family, beaten when he is not obedient, and had to go through the loss of his father. Humans always feel the need to give up. The definition of lack of humanity is not humane (kindness of being human). Symbols are used to prove that lack of humanity can drive people to lose their identity and pride.

When reading chapter five, I felt very scared for Eliezer. This is because his father was almost taken away from him. His father being taken away would have been very catastrophic for Eliezer because his father is like his rock, he keeps him calm and is his reason for living. Without having his father Eliezer would most likely be dead by now. This also was scary because the process of finding out if his father would be taken away was very suspenseful. First, he didn't pass the first inspection and was on the list. Then, he thankfully past the second inspection, but was almost then separated from Eliezer because of another evacuation.

This example of Night is apparent on Elies very first night in the camp, which has completely changed his life forever. This representation of fear is apparent when Elie's first night in camp is not like he expected. “Never shall i forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” (Weisel 32). This symbolism helps the reader apprehend how dangerous the camps can be at night. Night is the most important symbol in the story because Elie has spent many horrible nights at the concentration

Have mercy on me!” (Wiesel 25). Elie portrays the theme of silence using foreshadowing because Mrs.Schachter was yelling about the fire yet no one believed her. The people on the cattle car all thought she was going crazy and hallucinating, but in reality she was trying to break the silence. Little did everybody know, but Mrs.Schachter was actually foreseeing the future. Elie Wiesel also states, “ He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen...Only no one is listening to me…” (Wiesel 7). Elie stablishes the theme using foreshadowing because he was only telling what he had seen and what had happened to him, yet no one was believing him. By everybody not believing him, it got them

Silence is often thought of as non threatening and harmless but this was not the case during the Holocaust where silence arguably killed millions. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, recounts his horrifying experience in the concentration and work camps at Auschwitz and many other camps in the memoir Night. In the novel Wiesel explains the Nazi’s systematic approach to wipe the existence and memory of Jews from the planet. The plan started by sending Jews to ghettos then to cattle cars that transported them to concentration camps where nearly six million Jews were maliciously slaughtered at the hands of The Nazi’s. Elie finds himself silenced in the face of Nazi aggression, even when his own father is beaten.

Eliezer’s dad Chlomo did not realize the true meaning of the yellow star and what it represented. There are numerous examples of symbolism in the novel “Night.” The title itself is a form of symbolism as the holocaust itself did not only occur at night. The author uses symbolism to really portray the story in a deeper manor. We will discuss many examples of symbolism, but we will mainly focus on the constant use of the words “corpses” and “fire” and what they represent.

“Night,” by Elie Wiesel is about his experience and what was going during the Holocaust. It is also about how his faith in his religion starts to fade away. The way Elie development of faith was he was supported and being strong about religion in the beginning of the book, to not putting much importance, and to not being desired and not caring anymore.

Wiesel uses foreshadowing to convey the mood of uncertainty. At this point in the book, the Jews are about to be ghettoized and eventually sent to the concentration camps. Because this is about to happen, Elie's father can sense that something bad is coming. His face had "turned pale" in anticipation of the Jews heading into what will seem like a lifetime of

I would recommend this memoir to others for several reasons. I believe that many people don’t know as much about the holocaust as they should, even people whose ancestors had to experience it. Before we read the saw section from Night, I had never actually read a real story from the holocaust, i had only seen movies and read realistic fiction stories that depicted stories that were similar to real events in one way or another. The first person point of view and literary elements that Wiesel uses really helps the reader understand how terrifying being in a concentration camp was, especially during selection. Throughout the passage Wiesel uses several literary elements, such as verbal irony, repetition, and parallelism. On page 310 Wiesel uses