Time In Night

Language has the ability to impact the mood and tone of a piece in literature. In Night, Wiesel uses imagery, symbolism, diction and foreshadowing to illustrate dehumanization. The deeper true horror of the Holocaust is not what they Nazi’s did, but the behavior they legitimized as human beings being dehumanized by one another through silence and apathy.

“Everything will seem better in the light of day”, a phrase commonly told to those suffering from the crippling anxiety and over thinking that often accompanies the fall of night. Night by Elie Wiesel gives numerous examples of the complexities and range of emotions that can occur simply by the setting of the sun. The night is a heavily used theme in the book, inasmuch as it was even deemed important enough to be set as the title of the work. The reader is given such a detailed account of the many long and difficult nights that Elie endured, that it is as though one can feel the passage of years in only 115 pages. Throughout the novel, there are many instances where the length, amount of sleep, and feelings associated with night are inconsistent due to the psychological distress these men and women were under. Perhaps the only consistent thing about the night in Elie’s life is how inconsistent it is.

At the beginning of the book Wiesel mentioned that his dad was a cultured man, his dad was also said to be “rather unsentimental” (4). On page 32 Wiesel mention he was still happy since he got to be near his father. Wiesel got to be in a working spot next to his father too, which once again he was stationed ny his father and was very happy about it as mentioned on page 50. Wiesel also seemed to be worried about his father’s factory getting bombed on page 60 since the buna factory had been bombed and went up in flames. On page 94 Wiesel was calling for his father making sure he was near, which to mean means he was still very worried about losing his father. On page 96 wiesel’s father was about to get exterminated in the crematoria but Wiesel made a scene to distract the SS officers working, so his dad could sneak to the opposing line which was for the prisoners that could live longer. “I tightened my grip on my father’s hand. The old, familiar fear: not to lose him.” (104). Wiesel was getting closer and closer to his father throughout the book which you can tell by looking at the above quotes throughout the book. On page 111 an SS officer was striking wiesel’s father on the head and Wiesel was to scared to do anything about it, and every muscle in his body tightened leaving him left standing there

The soldiers had taken every part of their humanity by treating the Jews like slaves and animals. It was through this stripping of Wiesel’s humanity that took who he was as a person from his identity. The killing of one’s body and soul can undoubtedly lead to the demolition of a person’s identity. When he is separated from his mother and sisters and sees the horrendous crimes being inflicted upon the Jewish people, Wiesel contemplates suicide as they walk past the flames to which the Jews were thrown.

There are many parts in the novel that speak to us. When Wiesel states, “man carries his fiercest

At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.

Wiesel is commenting on the fact that everyone was living with false hopes and not really paying attention to the problem. The Germans had put the Jews in the ghetto, but they didn't interfere with anything going on inside until it was decided that the people were to be sent away. With the Germans temporarily out of the picture, the Jews would be the likely ruling force. But their need for hope kept them from realizing that they were captive. Instead, they convinced themselves that the ghetto was a safe, secure place. They were living in a fantasy land.

Wiesel was still young when he was forcibly sent to a death camp. He was forcibly separated from his mother and sister at Auschwitz whom he never saw again. Luckily, he was able to stay in contact with his father throughout the book Night. He helped his father a lot, sometime giving up his food or encouraging him to prove he is fit to work because if the SS soldier found you were no help or weak you were most likely to be killed. “I was terribly hungry, yet i refused to touch it. I was

In the beginning of the speech Wiesel explains his childhood. He uses imagery to paint a picture in the audience’s mind of what it was like to live in a war-torn country. He states, “Fifty-four years to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe’s beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.” (Wiesel 1) This makes the audience think about what he just said and where Wiesel came from. It also makes the reader feel

As a human, eyes are a vital part of one's anatomy. While it is not always obvious, eyes do more than see. Eyes help one to feel, and feeling the most crucial thing in proving that one is alive. While feelings were more than stripped of, of the people of the Holocaust, in the beginning their eyes and feelings were all they really had. In analysis of the motif of eyes, in Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, the reader can better understand the characters sanity or state of mind, and how they took the role of witness many times.

“He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart.” In a few years the Nazi’s the villians, the aggressors had taken everything from him, there was no happiness, nothing to look forward to left. Elie Wiesel talks about himself in the third person to show how he reflects upon himself and his own experience of being a victim. “Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw…. He will always be grateful to them for that rage.” He is happy and reassured that

When Elie arrives at the camps, the author begins to use the corpse as a symbol of a living person who is dead inside. This is how Elie begins to see himself and others as, the living dead. "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 109)." When Elie looks into the mirror he can not recognize what he has become. He thinks of himself as one of the others who died like his family or the millions of others slaughtered right before his eyes. He essentially becomes a useless body that works on the outside but is undoubtedly damaged on the inside. Wiesel also brings the story to life with imagery that stimulates all of the senses. He illustrates the horror of the crematories with vivid words that make the reader feel the sympathy he feels."Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget the flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.

Wiesel’s inclusion of this quote shows readers that he was appalled by the inhuman prisoners and concentration camp leaders. One of the reasons for Wiesel becoming so traumatized by the evils of humanity is his prior belief that people would help each other in times of need. Halperin writes, “Before coming to Auschwitz, Eliezer had believed that twentieth-century man was civilized. He had supposed that people would try to help one another in difficult times; certainly his father and teachers had taught him that every Jew is responsible for all other Jews” (Halperin 33). Convinced that people were kind and that Jews would help one another, Wiesel was greatly disappointed after coming to a tragic realization in the concentration camps. Wiesel was robbed, pushed, beaten, and betrayed by his fellow Jews at the camps. Contrary to his prior belief that Jews should be working together, the other Jews invested in themselves. They cared, solely, about their own well being. In including the evils of the other prisoners, Wiesel is able to show readers that due to the lack of innocence within the concentration camps, it was inevitable for him to lose his

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.

He originally thought that Hungary was a safe and inhabitable place. Even when Wiesel arrived at the camps, he didn’t feel threatened. Wiesel stated in the book that, "We didn't know. Nobody had told us. He couldn't believe his ears" (Page 30). Nobody in the town was well informed about the events occurring outside of Sighet, and as a result, nobody grew a strong fear towards the uprising Nazis. Wiesel was in denial of the actions of the Nazis until the entered the camps, where he soon began to deny the events that were occurring at the camps. He thought that life would continue as normal in the camps, even though he was subject to crude treatment and insufficient food. Soon, he would deny that anything safe would ever happen to him and his father. As Wiesel stated in the book, "How we would have liked to believe that. We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe?" (Page 46). Wiesel at first worried about the whereabouts of his mother and sisters, but soon he resorted to believing that they were already dead - he doubted that they would survive past the first day. As time went on, Wiesel began losing more and more of his sanity and doubted that he would eventually make it out of the camp alive. When veterans tried to tell their stories of survival, Wiesel stated, “‘Enough! Be quiet!’ I begged them. ‘Tell your stories tomorrow, or some