Tragic Events In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

One of the main themes throughout the book is the title of the book “Night”. There are references from Eliezer about night during the book, which are full of symbolism. The word “night” is used repeatedly, and Eliezer recounts every dusk, night and dawn through the entire book. For instance, Night could be a metaphor for the Holocaust—submerge the family and thousands of Jewish families in the darkness and misery of the concentration camps.

Night begins with the narrator, Elie, talking about Moishe the Beadle, who is described as the “jack-of-all-trades” in a shtibl (Weisel, 21). He then continues by talking about his family. He goes back to talk about his deep conversations with Moishe and their evenings spent together. One day, the foreign Jews of Sighet, where he lives, were expelled. This included Moishe. They were taken away in cattle cars by the Hungarian police. Months past and one day, Elie saw Moishe sitting on a bench near the synagogue. He tells Elie about what happened to him; how he and the other Jews were transported and forced to dig their own graves in the forest. Luckily, Moishe had managed to escape. He had come back to warn the Jews in Sighet of what to come.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times scaled. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw

Night, by Elie Wiesel, showed the devastation of Eliezer’s childhood and illustrated the loss of innocence through the evil of others. Elie Wiesel expressed to us that one’s own faith and beliefs can be challenged through torture and ongoing suffering. The novel, Night, allowed the reader to witness the change in Eliezer from one of an innocent child who strongly adhered to his faith in God into a person who questioned not only his faith and God but of himself as well. The cruelty is shown to him while in the concentration camp forced him to wonder if there was a God and if so why would he put him and the others through such torture. Through his suffering, Eliezer’s beliefs dramatically and negatively changed his faith in God and compelled him to experience a transformative relationship with his father.

Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who studies the Kabbalah and wants his faith to evolve. Elie, along with many other Jews just before the Holocaust, was warned early about the terrible occurrences going on in Germany against the Jews. The Jews new something was going on but were reluctant to accept the reality of the situation. The Jews were taken on a train to Birkenau untold of the hell on earth they were about to encounter known as Auschwitz. Elie enters with his father, mother, and sister. At the camp Elie is separated from his mother and sister later finding out they were killed. Throughout the story roles switch as Elie must become the protector of his father

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Cabbala (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. In a few months, Moshe returns, telling a horrifying tale: the Gestapo (the German secret police force) took charge of his train, led everyone into the woods, and systematically butchered them. Nobody believes Moshe, who is taken for a lunatic.

It is finally Halloween, and the pageant will be happening this evenin’. The night is still and pitch black, the perfect setting for what I have planned for tonight. I'll show that no good niggerlovin’ bastard what happens when you mess with a Ewell. I'll show him what happens when someone has the nerve to make me and my daughter look like damn fools. If he won't be man enough to fight me when I go lookin' for one, I'll have to do it the hard way. I'll catch him while he's walking his kids home, and make sure he'll never ruin my family's reputation again. I'll leave the kids to deliver my message to this county, letting ‘em all know that Ewells mean business and we don't back down from a fight. I grabbed my kitchen knife and made sure it was

A point in time where innocence ceased to exist and the faithful fell flat, the Holocaust diminished and reconstructed millions of lives, including the life of the author of Night, Elie Wiesel. Eliezer transformed, his faith in God decreased, while his relationship with his father increased. His appalling experiences at the Nazi concentration camps, ironically, made Eliezer stronger and tougher mentally in his will to survive. He discovered the ways of survival, selfishness, and how little mercy there was at the time. In the end, he was a completely different person from his occurrences.

In literature as in life people experience tragedy and suffering. Survivors of the Holocaust can relate to this in more ways than one. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, it shows how humans can be cruel and kind. During the memoir, it also shows how courage and hope assist survival. Throughout the memoir, there are situations of dehumanization, cruelty, and suffering. This affects people in a such a way that causes intense diseases that they live with for the rest of their life. In contrast, kindness and compassion can positively affect people in their lives even while suffering through the worst of times. In the memoir, many people are faced with different challenges showing how their courage and faith can help them endure the toughest

seated at glass table hunched over a writing notebook, pen in hand, cigarette burning in ashtray, cup of coffee, typewriter on table, stacks of paper, candle burning on table.

The advance of Hitler and his soldiers were daunting. Although, the German citizens had nothing to fear and went on with their daily routines and lived life as nothing had happened. Fortunately, the Germans were not disrupted nearly as much as the unfortunate Jewish population facing mass genocides. Wrenched out of their homes, forced into the ghettos, and losing all of their civil rights, the Jews were punished and they were no longer being treated like citizens or people by the Nazis. As the Jews were decried, the majority of German citizens did not lend a helping hand. The German townspeople in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, remained satisfied, despite the detention of the Jews because they neglected the appalling actions against the Jews,

It was midnight, while he sat there nearly asleep, contemplating on something that made him dismal, and sorrowful, he heard someone knocking on his door.

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Passage one is in my personal opinion, one of the most powerful passages in Night. It recounts the night Elie first entered Auschwitz and how the terrible things he felt and saw will affect him for the rest of his life. After Elie had been taken from his home into a freight car, the only thing he witnesses after his journey is a nightmare. The trauma of these events brought him to a disbelief or even distrust of god and all of his infinite wisdom. It sets the stage for the horrific experiences in Auschwitz to come; it’s an important experience in Elie’s memories because it shows just how many people were killed without regard or reason, women, children, and other innocent people were burned alive without hesitation. It is regarded so ominously