Tragedy In Elie Wiesel's Night

“He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again”. This quote stated by Elie Wiesel from his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, refers to the day Elie Wiesel got liberated from the Holocaust when he was young. The Holocaust was just one of the many horrific tragedies that occurred during that century. In hopes of changing the future for the better, Wiesel decides to deliver a speech about helping the victims of injustice. He gives this speech intended for the President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, and friends hoping that they will make positive changes for the future. By using rhetorical strategies such as anaphora, rhetorical questions, and ethos, Wiesel tries to help the victims of injustice and prevent future tragedies from happening.

This shows that even a terrible event like this, will eventually work out. Another example that shows hope, is when maddie and grandfather are abandoned on the side of the road. They had to have hope, or else they would not have been able to gather food or water. As you can see, through these experiences, you must always have hope, because without hope, you will not succeed.

The brutality of the Holocaust drives many to abandon a family member or loved one. For example, when the son of Rabbi Eliahou sees his father losing ground, limping, and falling to the rear of the column, he continues to run on, growing distant from his father. The son feels as if his father can no longer go on anymore. Elie’s feelings are mutual, for his father is taking him for granted. He is like a metal weight attached to Elie’s foot by a rope. Sooner or later, Elie must cut himself free, or else he won’t survive either.

As Elie gets used to his new life in such a hellish state, he realizes that the trusting and faithful child that he once had been had been taken away along with his family and all else that he had ever known. While so many others around him still implore the God of their past to bring them through their suffering, Wiesel reveals to the reader that although he still believes that there is a God, he no longer sees Him as a just and compassionate leader but a cruel and testing spectator.

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

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.

It is evident that in all the documents, hope is one of the aspects of those people’s lives that provide them with the will to survive. I believe, that the best example that exhibits the importance of hope during those times is Anne Frank’s story (Doc D). At just thirteen years of age, she was forced to move to a “Secret Annexe” where she remained hidden for two years. She imagined what it would be like to go outside and experience happiness once again, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Wondering when she would be able to do so gave her life climax, thus providing her with the will to live.

Hope drives courage, people need to have hope in order to have courage. Elie also says that you need to have faith in life, and that you will see the day of liberation. This means that people in the Holocaust needed to have hope in their lives and hope that they would make it through this terrible

Like Wiesel proved through his experience that there is an exist of hope by praying, Koreans went through an event in 2016 to believe that hope comes from praying. When people earnestly prays with hope to make changes, they would act towards their wishes and eventually lead to achievement. Candlelight Revolution started from group of people who could not stand control of the media and corruptions of the government. They started protesting by gathering and bringing out candles wishing to impeach the president, Geun Hye Park. The protest continued for six months until the impeachment of the president. Starting from a small group of people who prayed for a hope, it became the Candlelight Revolution. Through Wiesel’s experience of believing

One reason why it is important to never lose hope is because you might succeed. To begin with, in the story, when Andrew’s mom passed away, his dad couldn’t support them, and had to end up living in an airport. However, even though Andrew’s dad doesn’t have much money, he still has high hopes for his future. In addition,

Barack Obama said, “While we breath, we will hope”. It seems a simple thing but hope is a powerful resource that helps people to live everyday, especially, during wars. That hope is described honestly in the movie “ The Diary of Anne Frank” and the story “ Life in Sniper Alley” how it raised people up through characters.

“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again” - Anne Frank. During World War II fear was something all persecuted Jews knew. But what kept some of them from giving up? Hope.

Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for certain things to happen. Right there and then, hope makes you vivid just imagining what your future could be even greater. His mates needed it as soon as possible when as one of the prisoners said to another, “How beautiful the world could be!” Frankl 40. Encouraging them and giving them hope that all of them are in the same situation and later on in life when they get out of there how they’ll be mimicking all those capos and just joking about it as if things had been not that bad.

From the novel Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, the author, writes about the importance of hope people should have during difficult times to make them stronger. For instance, he states, “The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power. That kind of hope makes one strong” (Stevenson 219). A person who gave people hope that made them strong was Vera Brittain. She was the author of “Testament of Youth” which stated horror of World War One ("Vera Brittain Biography"). Vera Brittain brought hope to people during the World War One and even brings hope to people today.

It is said that hope can surface out of the ashes of death, but how can hope manage to find its way through the looming pressure of 11 million life’s lost? Countless murders, numerous torturous experiments, and persecution of beliefs all can be lead back to the world altering event known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler created a Nazi party that went by the name of the SS, and quickly they received intense military training, planned out their war crimes, and developed concentration camps. The SS showed the world how powerful they truly were—and became the most feared power in all of Nazi Germany. Through this immense power they were able to persecute Jews for their beliefs and they tortured, killed, and enslaved them by the millions. From this group emerged Josef Mengele—a Nazi SS officer who believed heavily in nationalism and was fascinated in torturous experiments, that helped him to gain insight on the wiring of the human genetics. He grew up with cold hard parents who heavily supported the war efforts, and through experimenting he hoped to find altering discoveries in the science world—no matter how painful the experiments proved to be for his patients, and make his parents proud. Through the concentration camps he effortlessly selected his victims with one swipe of the hand to be experimented on, or sent to the gas chambers.