Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel

During the first night Elie was forced to endure at the camp, he said “ The student of Talmud, the child that I once was had been completely consumed by flames “ (37). Elie uses imagery to show how the sudden cruelness of this world slowly but surely began clawing and scratching and burning at his faith. With each cruel word from the Nazi’s mouth that night his soul and his faith were devoured. Elie would never be able to recover that boy he was before he stepped foot in that camp from that instant on he wasn’t the same Elie he

On Elie’s “journey” to Auschwitz by cattle car, he witnesses a woman broken with grief: Mrs. Shachter. She, on page 25, screams, “Jews listen to me! I see fire! I see flames!” Because of this, the Jews in the car went to the extreme extent to beat her in order to keep her silent as a result of the fear of their unknown destiny.

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.

Like one of the symbols Elie uses is he father in his narrative. All through the book Elie doesn't leave his father, he never leaves his father's side. His father clearly means not being alone, comfort. I feel like is Elie didn’t have his father he wouldn't have survived. I only say this because Elie went to his father for anything and everything. If he didn’t have his father I think Elie would have lost it or possibly killed himself, because he's lived a life where he's never been on his own and he's only 15. To continue, Elie’s father also symbolises growing up. When his father started getting weaker by the day, Ellie grew up to take care of his father instead of his father taking care of him. Furthermore along the story you will see almost a pattern in the book, in the nights of the book that's well most of the horrible actions are taken place. When Elie’s father goes to that meeting with the council in the ghetto, that took place at night. Then every time Elie and his dad switched concentration camp that was at night. This is probably the main reason why Elie Wiesel named his book night, probably to get the reader to think more about the nights Elie went through in his narrative. Lastly, one of the symbols that I caught while reading is fire. In the beginning of the book, there's a woman by the name of Mrs.Schachter. She was in the cattle car with

After surviving the Holocaust, Elie writes down the things he experiences as a young boy during that time period. As Elie enters Birkenau holding his father’s hand, he claims, “Never shall I forget the small faces of children whose bodies I saw transform into smoke under a silent sky… Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.” (Wiesel 34). Upon his arrival at the concentration camp in Birkenau, Elie witnesses young children being burned alive in crematoriums. He asserts that he has seen events so horrid that the memory would stay embedded with him forever. As soon as he witnesses the death of countless people, Wiesel begins to see the world as one filled with cruelty and hatred, the exact opposite of what he learns in his Jewish studies. In the end of his memoir, Elie finds himself in the hospital after being liberated by American soldiers. Elie looks into the reflection of the mirror hanging on the wall and describes what he sees as, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me” (Wiesel 115). After experiencing such traumatic events, Wiesel refers to himself as a new person. The innocent and religious Elie slowly dies during the Holocaust. In his biographical memoir, Elie slowly changes his

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel goes through the worst experience of his life along with his father- they are taken to Nazi-German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel turns his painful story into an acclaimed work of nonfiction. The Jews lost their humanity through prolonged periods of starvation, beatings, murders, separation of families, and theft of their belongings. Throughout the book, dehumanization grows and slowly begins to exhaust the Jews while they are also drowned in fear and witnessing millions of deaths taking place. He does this by conveying how the fire not only consumed the lives of many but their fears and hope as well, dehumanizing all Jews. Through the symbolism of fire, Wiesel conveys how the violence of the

One image that demonstrates the horrific things that went on during the holocaust was when Elie and his father were being moved to the barracks. They were being forced to walk by the pits that were filled with fire in which babies and little toddlers were being thrown into. “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). It was this experience that shook up Elie’s faith and introduced him to the awful things he would witness and have to go through in the near future. This made it so hard for him to continue on and not just give up and throw himself on the barbed

In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.

“Never shall I forget that smoke… Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever...Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes…”(page 34). Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, describes his experiences in the Holocaust. Elie experiences pain and suffering throughout his time in the concentration camp, Auschwitz, and he shares how he survived. In the book “Night” the main character, Elie, is affected by the events in this book such as loss of faith, emotional connections with his father, and his self changes mentally and physically.

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.

During the holocaust the Nazis imprisoned millions of people, among them Elie Wiesel and his family. Elie Wiesel is the main character and author of Night and is victim to many atrocities committed by the Nazis. His journey lasts over a year in which he undergoes many hardships. He uses his father as motivation to survive the horrible things that are done to him. In the novel Night, Elie and the other prisoners experience dehumanization through poor living conditions and abusive treatment by the Nazi guards.

* “I shall never forgive myself. Nor shall I forgive the world for having pushed me against the wall, for having turned me into a stranger, for having awakened in me the basest, most

The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the author’s life story as a jew inside the concentration camps. He uses a lot of imagery and metaphor as well as other literary devices to show his feelings through each of his words so that we could feel what he felt and relate to it. Many of these sentences and imageries connects to one another and leave powerful messages for those who choose to seek for it.

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

Hopeless , in fear , doubting the Jewish people felt hopeless during the holocaus. The Jewish people felt that his way during the holocaust. They had fear of not getting food that they to survive. The experiences that they went through made them doubt in God. In the memoir of Eli Wiesel called Night it talks about his life during the holocaust. Eli was a devoted Jew and his faith was very strong. He loses hope and he starts to change his on God.