Tone Of Night By Elie Wiesel

People have survived many situations throughout the years. Some of the these situations have been life threatening and some have not been that bad. These situations have left people wrenched, mortified, and distressed. Elie Wiesel in Night is innocent, desperate, and numb. Overall, Wiesel is left broken. Night was written by Elie Wiesel and the book is about his personal experience about being a victim of the Holocaust.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw. George Shaw’s famous quote describes that to achieve, you must change yourself. On May 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family were forced out from his home in Sighet, Romania to live in Auschwitz, Germany. He and his two older sisters survived the holocaust, Elie then wrote his experience in 1960. During the span of the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the novel demonstrates that traumatic events can change a person drastically. In the beginning, Elie lived with his family in Germany, his mother, his father, and his three siblings. The Germans forced the Jews to hand over their valuables, live in ghettos and finally moving them to concentration camps, including Elie’s family. He was disunited from his mother and three siblings, but managed to stay with his father. At first when he entered the camp he was pessimistic and discouraged when he saw the townspeople crying including his father. After, Elie then learned to take care of himself and his father during tragic events, he stuck to his ambitions and values which led him to go through many obstacles , despite the limitations, and be free of the camp of Auschwitz. As he set out Eliezer was an immature and carefree 15 year old who developed into a responsible young adult.

The holocaust is the most deadly genocide in the world that impacted millions of life by controlling and running life because of one mean man. In Elie Wiesel memoir, The Night is describing his own experience before, during and after the holocaust. He describes in meticulous details his experience in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buna with is father. Wiesel depicts how the Nazi slowly destructs every interpersonal relationship in the Jews community. Within the autobiography, Wiesel shows how the interpersonal relationships are important within the population in general, in the concentration camp and in more precisely with is own relationship with his family.

As the famous journalist Iris Chang once said, “As the Nobel Laureate warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.” After experiencing the tragedies that occurred during the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel narrated “Night”. Eliezer wrote “Night” in an attempt to prevent something similar to the Holocaust from happening again, by showing the audience what the consequences are that come from becoming a bystander. Elie illustrated numerous themes by narrating the state of turmoil he was in during the Holocaust. In Night, Eliezer provided insight into what he experienced in order to teach the unaware audience about three themes; identity, silence, and faith.

Elie has adapted to his environment and adjusted to how others act around him. At the beginning of the book Elie is unaware of the horrors of the Holocaust and was in denial of the Nazi’s coming to Sighet. The author shows his further optimism when he states, “... optimism soon revived: The Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest” (page 9). He drifts away from these early beliefs as his journey continues. He soon starts to realize that this experience is a terrible one, and after fighting for so long he wants to quit and he even considers suicide, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot” (page 86). Based on this quote from the book, we see that Elie was in extreme pain and was ready to give up. Towards the end of the book, Elie gets tired of trying to save himself and his father all of the time therefore he becomes selfish and is somewhat relieved of his father’s death, the author admits this when he says, “I did not weep… I was out of tears… And deep inside of me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (page 112). As the books states, Elie was very impassive by the end of his journey. This demonstrates his feelings from the beginning to the end of the book and Elie’s overall self

“The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy but also a human tragedy,” (Wiesenthal). The Holocaust was all-around a dark patch in history. It was something that although it took a toll on lots of people throughout the world, and the Holocaust had the biggest impact for those being Jewish and living in Europe. There have been many films, movies, and books depicting life during the Holocaust. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, who was a victim of the Holocaust growing up as a Jewish boy and has as a result gone to numerous concentration camps. In Night, he describes a time period of his life which revolved around the Holocaust. Where his family, identity, and innocence were lost in a very cruel way. Elie Wiesel through his use of tone

After losing his mother and sister in chapter three of Night, Elie says, “All I could think of was not to lose him [His father]” (30). This quote shows the importance of family because it say that the only thing that Elie could think about is not losing his father. “The baton pointed left. I took half a step forward. I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right, I would have run after him” (32). This quote shows how much Elie’s father means to him. Knowing full well that he would get beat by a guard if he ran to his father, he would have just to be with him. Elie’s relative, Stein, shows how family is important to him by repeatedly saying, “The only thing that keeps me alive, is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up” (45). Overall, these three quotes show the importance of family to Elie, his father, and Stein, his

At the beginning of the novel, when the Jews first arrive at the camps, all they have left is their family, so they cling to them. During one of the work periods, Elie comes across two brothers, “Yass and Tibi, two brothers… whose parents had been exterminated… they lived for each other, body and soul” (Wiesel 50). This relationship between the two siblings shows, a bond that has been strengthened by loss. Elie includes this small tidbit about them to show that the Jews still have some hope and compassion still in them. Once news of evacuation hits the camp, Elie’s only thought is of his father, “I was not thinking about death but not wanting to be seperated from my father” (Wiesel 82). This shows the personal level of how the Holocaust affected the families in it. It shows that because family was the only thing that they had left, that was all that they could think about. The Jews lose everything when the arrive at the camp so they cling to what they have, their family.

In the book Night, Eliezer’s father, one of the main characters, shows various changes throughout the story. In the beginning of the book, the book states, “Cultured man, .... He rarely displayed his feelings, .... The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought.” (pg. 4).

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, in the first three chapters Elie changes vastly. First, Elie does not react and stand up for what is essentially right. He does not seem to care about the brutal acts that were surrounding him. Secondly, Elie no longer gets to use his birth name. Lastly, Elie completely loses his faith.

When being shouted at by Idek, Elie “looked at him without seeing him. [He] was thinking of [his] father” and realized that “he must have suffered more than [he] did” (56). Because of his vile experiences, he finally understand his father’s pain. The hardships of the concentration camp have given them a mutual understanding of each other’s feelings. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Elie finds his father “standing near the wall, bowed down, his shoulders sagging as though beneath a heavy burden” (65). He kissed his hand and “A tear fell upon it” (65). Although they didn’t speak, they “had never understood one another so clearly” (65). Because of their struggles, they are finally able to relate to each other despite the fact that they aren’t together all the time. They are able to comfort each other through the harsh, rough times of the Holocaust. ____

This shows how Elie showed he had felt ashamed for turning his back on his father, like many boys he saw had done to their fathers while he was in the death camps. Another way Elie shows us his theme is through the language he used. Elie uses figurative

In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel you get brought into what it was like to be a Jew in the time of the Holocaust and what they had to go through. In the book even though you can see a lot about what was going on during and in the camps of the Holocaust you see that everyone is shocked mainly in the beginning that no one said anything and that no one was saying anything and that they were letting these women,men, girls, boys, babies even just die without a thought from their killer. Hitler and the Nazi they didn't care, they didn't like the Jews and they didn't want anymore of them around, sadly they got close to what they wanted by killing 6 million Jews in the course of just two years. With all the Jews coming in Elie was surprised that no

The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel portrays a real life experience of the author during World War II. In the book, he demonstrates how his experiences in the concentration camp affected him both mentally and physically. By seeing all the cruelties in the concentration camp, Elie eventually loses his faith towards the God. Elie Wiesel describes what he had seen by “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”(Wiesel, 34). Later in the story, Elie Wiesel understood the smoke rising the crematorium comes from innocent people, for the first time he began to question God. He was puzzled by the world and how human beings can be so cruel to each other, and the God he believed in did not do anything to stop it.

The book that has made the greatest impact on my life is Night by Elie Wiesel. After reading Night and even while I was reading the book it really just made me think about a lot of things, both good and bad. Night is a memoir, in this book you see Elie’s faith really tested. At the beginning of the book Elie was so strong in his faith, when he was asked “Why do you pray to God?” he answered with “Why do I pray?...Why do I live? Why do I breathe?” His belief in God was so strong at the beginning of his book. He was so strong in his faith primarily because that was what he was taught his whole life, he was Jewish. It was established in his mind, as well as in the mind of most other Jews, that God is everywhere in the world and that nothing would