The Theme Of Giving Up In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

Every man, woman, or child has his or her breaking point, no matter how hard they try to hold it back. In Night by Elie Wiesel the main theme of the entire book is the human living condition. The quality of human life is overwhelming because humans have the potential to make amazing discoveries that help all humans. Elie Wiesel endures some of the most cruel living conditions known to mankind. This essay explains the themes of chapter one, chapter four, chapter eight in Night by Elie Wiesel.

All the way through the book, character are showing us they never give up through quotes. One example of this occurs at Auschwitz. Elie’s father says “Mother is still a young woman. She must be in a labor camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She too must be in a camp...” (pg. 46). This shows us that he will not give up on the idea his family might be okay, and he will hold on to that hope. Afterwards in Buna when Elie’s father was deemed weak and was going to be executed, he said “‘it is not certain yet. There’s still a chance. Today, they will do another selection… a decisive one…” (pg. 74). He attempted to give Elie his spoon and knife, his inheritance, but Elie replied “I don’t want you to say such things. Keep the spoon and knife. You will need them as much as I. We’ll see each other tonight, after work.” (pg. 75). These two quotes exhibit how these two won’t give up the idea that they will survive. They won’t stop hoping that maybe everything will be okay. That’s the lesson these quotes prove. The lesson of hope and

Often, the theme of a novel extends into a deeper significance than what is first apparent on the surface. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of night and darkness is prevalent throughout the story and is used as a primary tool to convey symbolism, foreshadowing, and the hopeless defeat felt by prisoners of Holocaust concentration camps. Religion, the various occurring crucial nights, and the many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism clearly demonstrate how the reoccurring theme of night permeates throughout the novel.

As others around him continue to pray and hope, Wiesel finds it pointless. He focuses his energy on staying alive, not praying to a cruel god who does not seem to care about the millions of people dying for no good reason. Among the continuous believers is a Jewish prisoner named Akiba Drumer. Drumer wants to believe so strongly that rather than admit he is starting to give up hope that God will save him, he offers himself to the SS officers. Wiesel says of Drumer, “He could only repeat that all was over for him, that he could no longer keep up the struggle, that he no longer had any strength left, nor faith” (72). Drumer’s dying wish is for his fellow prisoners to recite the Kaddish for him in 3 days, when he is no longer alive; no one remembers. Akiba Drumer’s death demonstrates how Elie Wiesel’s loss of faith may have saved his life. If Wiesel would have had the same thought processes as Drumer, he would have also offered his neck to the SS officers and would not have made it past

The book, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is about the Holocaust. The Holocaust took place in Europe but specifically in Germany, between the 1930s and 1940s. Adolf HItler was the leader of that time. The Nazi party and Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate all jews, because they believed jews were the reason they lost WW1. They also believed in anti-semitism. They murdered over six million jews, but before the Holocaust was over, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel focuses on the idea of the unknown. It is a recurring theme throughout the text. The book gives many examples of things that are unknown to Elie and the other characters. For example, on page 27, Elie writes, “‘Auschwitz.’ Nobody had ever heard that name before.” This quote tells readers that the characters had no idea about the concentration camp prior to when the person by the window read it out loud. They were unaware of the sinister things taking place in Auschwitz and the danger that was now placed upon them.

When Elie is being transported to the other camp someone begins to choke him. He beings clawing at the attacker, fighting for his life. This shows bravery because he was fighting to live despite all that is happening all around him. The camp is slowly killing him but yet he mustard up the strength to fight for his depleting life. “But I myself was crushed under the the weight of other bodies. I had difficulty breathing. I dug my nails into the unknown faces. I was biting my way through, searching for air. No one cried out.” (Wiesel

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the main message is that many people are losing faith in each other and everything. Once someone lose their faith, they lose their faith in God and they start to just give up on what their main focus was. People can start losing their faith once they see things that should be seen. It starts to scare them and their faith is lost. Elie started to slowly lose his faith once he was separated with his mother because he was brought to a place where inhumane things were happening. Once people start to lose their faith, they start doing things that leads to the loss of humanity.

As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

A tragic event can change someone’s life forever in a good way or a bad way. The holocaust shaped people's lives into a way where they can never go back. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz. Elie was a victim of the holocaust and it changed his life forever as a person and a Jew.

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When people lose their dignity, they also lose a part of the very thing that makes them human. Despair, hopelessness, fear and apathy are all ways a human can lose their humanity. The eyes provide a window onto the soul, and thus a view on the person’s mental state. The eyes also function in reverse, as a symbolic gesture of control over someone. All of this is present in Night, by Elie Wiesel, an account of human tragedy, human cruelty, human dignity, and the loss thereof.

This section of the book proved to be one of the most suspenseful and thrilling parts of Nyiszli’s nightmare. I didn't expect him to survive, but at the same time, how would he write this book? I worried for the doctor because I knew the outlook of his future would be bleak. He would come home without his wife or child. Without any money, he would not be able to afford anything back at home. With his home probably destroyed from the war, he would not have anything to come back to. Survival was meaningless to him, but he still continued to push through the adversity. All in all, I enjoyed the ending. I was not expecting him to be so happy at the end. In fact, I thought he would spend the rest of his days and sadness, but with hope, miracles can happen.