Themes Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel is the terrifying testimony of Elie’s memories of the death of his family, innocence, and faith. In the novel, Elie Wiesel uses the grotesque images of men collapsing from the torture of the S.S. and their mocking and ironic comments to not only display the pain and unjust cruelty that the victims of the holocaust endured, but to convey the theme of strength through syntax in the use of first person plural and allusions. At the beginning of chapter six, the prisoners are forced to run through the cold, winter snow by the S.S., to travel to another camp. As they are running the S.S. yell at them, “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs…

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.

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.

Robert Shapiro, an American civil litigator once said, “To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization,” The Holocaust, a genocide led by Adolf Hitler, killed six million jews, and dramatically affected the whole world. The memoir “Night,” written by Elie Wiesel describes the brutality Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, and how life changing it was. Although some may believe the memoir written by Elie Wiesel was titled “Night” because he was forced to leave his home during the night, Wiesel illustrates Jews losing hope, faith, and happiness through the symbol of Night, to prove that the memoir was titled “Night” to symbolize the darkness the holocaust created.

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.

In the novel “Night”, author, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to share his experiences as a jew during the holocaust. Wiesel’s use of imagery helps demonstrate the tone and purpose of the entire novel. Elie Wiesel’s journey starts off  subtle but in the end leaves the reader heartbroken.    Throughout the story, Wiesel describes his tragic memories during the nazi concentration camps, which establishes a dark and somber tone. His descriptions and use of imagery creates the tone and purpose of “Night”.

* “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

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel writes about the human condition. Dictionary.com defines human condition as the positive and negative aspects of existence as a human being in the book Night there are three main themes: Faith, Survival, Family.

“I don’t know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself,” - Elie Wiesel. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel, wrote this book to tell the story of what he experienced during the Holocaust. He writes how when he first walked through the gates of what he soon found out was a concentration camp, he was immediately separated from his mother and sisters, and moved to a separate line with his father. He and his father survived the best they could together, until his father could no longer go on and Elie was left to survive on his own with the rest of the prisoners. He survived the beatings, harsh weather, hunger, and overall the concentration camps. He lost his family through the process, but he made it. This makes it very clear that the theme, survival, is important in the book in order to show Elie’s strength and how he fought to stay alive during the duration of time he was held in concentration camps.

What begins and has no end, and ends all that which begins? The answer is death. Most of the time, death is a topic people tend to avoid or deviate from since it causes uncertainty and fear to surface. During the Holocaust, however, death lingered through the air as thick, black smoke does, suffocating its victims and cruelly seizing their lives. The grim reaper was a daily visitor in the ghettos, transports, and concentration camps in which about six million Jews perished. Death was not only physical for people also experienced moral, emotional, and spiritual death. Countless people lost the faith and values that they had developed throughout their whole life once they experienced or witnessed the brutality and horrors of the Holocaust. Once

Elie Wiesel’s book “ Night “ takes place during the crucial events of the Holocaust. Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto and later on taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. They were taken there for one reason and one reason only, they were jews. Elie witnessed murder and soulless acts at his stay in Auschwitz, death was in the air. Elie and his father only had each other. One theme that is seen throughout the novel is that times like this can bring two people together to build a better relationship.

The memoir, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, talks about Elie, the main character, experiences life in several concentration camps and settings. The narrative starts off in Sighet, Elie’s hometown; however, Elie spends the most time at Auschwitz—a concentration camp in Poland overrun by the Nazis. Wiesel writes himself as the main character, a young Jewish boy about 14 years old. Elie not only struggles with abuse and starvation, he also struggles with his faith in God—questioning God’s justice—and himself as he goes through the concentration camps. Through Elie’s struggles, the author conveys that there was none or very little humanity left in the concentration camps. Human nature was very scarce with all the cruel treatment from the Nazis. Wiesel uses the symbols fire, bread, and eyes to convey and illustrate themes in the narrative.

Having the knowledge of inherent good and evil, using that knowledge to determine ones actions and putting others before oneself is what constitutes a good human being. Living in a world that has so much hate and suffering, (that has been exemplified throughout history by men and ruthless leaders like Adolf Hitler; the evil mastermind behind the atrocities of the Holocaust during World War II and Jay Gatsby in the novel The Great Gatsby for blinding himself from the ways of right and wrong to simply be able to make Daisy his after many years having passed), it is hard to find examples of good people in characters within books; much less actual human beings. And yet, there are still good people and virtuous characters in literature and film that give hope for there being a truly good person. In the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, the integrity behind Elie’s actions can be seen when he struggles to make life decisions for not only himself, but for his father. The story Of Mice and Men where Lennie takes care of George even though he, (George), held him back from some of his aspirations that he had been striving towards for many years. And Harold Crick in the film Stranger than Fiction who put himself before the bus to save a child’s life along with Karen Eiffel changing her writing style to better other people’s lives.

When condemned to torture and inhumanity self-preservation will begin to arise. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor discusses the pain and struggle he and millions of Jews endure. Nazis acts of cruelty upon people in concentration camps bring out a theme of every man for himself. Wiesel shows readers through his point of view how he deals with others and himself succumbing to self-preservation.

A theme in Night by Elie Wiesel is, when someone is treated like an animal for so long, they become one. These animals are enveloped in darkness and rage with a fading conscience. They care about one thing, surviving. The first example of Elie showing this is when he feels pure rage and considers strangling a doctor. “To strangle the doctor and the others! To set the world on fire! My father’s murderers,” (Wiesel 109). Elie is so angry at this moment he wants the whole world to perish because of the actions of a few. No one is showing sympathy or care because they are now animals. Another example of this is when Elie explains what he and the other prisoners do once they are free. “ Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves into the