Violence In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

Conformity and rebellion affect people in many different ways. Those who defy social norms are often unaccepted or even punished. Also, taking the risk to rebel triggers fright in individuals. Whether it is the fear of physical harm or social intolerance, it takes great strength to overcome this fear in order to resist injustice. In Night, many characters experience conformity and rebellion. Elie struggles with his doubts in God. On Yom Kippur, when he was supposed to fast, Elie explains, “And I nibbled my crust of bread. In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void” (66). By eating on Yom Kippur, Elie stages his personal revolt against his religion. As Elie witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust, he loses his faith in God. He describes,

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a book describing events during the Holocaust that happened in a concentration camp. He has many different conflicts throughout the book. Dealing with his dad is a big part in the book.

Setting (time and place): Early 1940s, during World War Two, Holocaust era. starting in Sighet, Transylvania, and moving throughout concentration camps in Europe.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.

When living through the holocaust the SS men were continuously cruelty to keep the prisoners in fear of them so they are easy to control. Elie Wiesel uses his personal experiences from living in the camps to write the memoir Night. The memoir shows how cruelty can change a person's personality, and how they react and treat other people. Cruelty is not always a physical thing, the SS men used emotional cruelty to bend the prisoners to there will. Several cruel things happened to the prisoners, but the Nazis were not the only ones who were cruel. The prisoners became rude and ruthless to each other.

“The Red Army is advancing with giant strides… Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to…” (8). The quote comes from a novel, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel, who was a survivor throughout the Holocaust. Elie and his father are the protagonists as they strive and suffer to survive the rough times. The two gentlemen are split apart from the rest of their family when they arrive at Auschwitz. On a daily basis, Elie and his father went through hell, whether it was being whipped or just being screeched at. Time passed by at a tremendously slow rate. Elie’s father was sick for weeks, but Elie couldn’t help rather than giving up his ration of bread and soup every day. Day after day, being sick and tired had finally come to an end. The U.S.

"Night" by Elie Wiesel is "A slim volume of terrifying power" (The New York Time), the novel is concerning the tragic events that occurred during the Holocaust. The first section of the memoir raises an internal conflict, regarding the Jews of Sighet being ignorant about the terrifying events that are occurring outside their small town. This conflict is created when Moishe the Beadle escaped from the Gestapo and returned to Sighet to warn the Jews of the crisis, which is happening right under their noses. This is shown in the following quote, "he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story" (7), despite warning his community of the dangers that are progressing towards them, the Jews of Sighet ignored him and did not believe Moishe. The ignorance of the Jews is shown when

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

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.

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “Profoundly.” However, as the book carries on, that tends to change. The experiences he goes through changes him as a person.

To deem anyone a victim, he, she, or it must receive harm, negative feelings, or lies, and what is causing the harm must have more power over the victim. This perpetrator receives this power using coercive force, whether or not it is on purpose or a mere accident. This person uses this power to make the victim fear him or her. Nonetheless, there are different types and degrees of victimizing.

Although Eliezer survived the bloodcurdling Holocaust, countless others succumbed to the Nazi’s inhumanity. The Nazi’s progressively reduced the Jewish people to being little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place, as the Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Germans dehumanized Eliezer, his father, and other fellow Jews for the duration of the memoir Night, which had a lasting effect on Eliezer’s identity, attitude and outlook. Wiesel displays the Nazi’s vicious actions to accentuate the way by which they dehumanize the Jewish population. The Nazis had an abundance of practices to dehumanize the Jews including beatings, starvation, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, among other horrific actions.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

Can glimmers of light shine through the darkest time of life? Countless horrible acts occurred during the Holocaust, including the slaughter of millions in the space of 4 years. Jews were starved, killed, beaten, and so much more due to their religious beliefs. In the midst of all of the cruelty, some light—some kindness—can still shine through.

« Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole agin and even to lose the very thing you are desperate for » (Laura Miller). As Eliezer witnesses the deteriorating levelheadedness among the inmates, he realizes that their oppression and desperation for any kind of life they can acquire massively alters their sanity, and turns innocent beings into barbaric savages who mentally lose control of themselves. Eliezer, however, realizes this prevalent epidemic before he spirals into his own never-ending pit of brutality, and successfully perseveres the small sliver of sanity that he has left to ultimately escape the seemingly inevitable fate of inhumanity. Throughout his psychological journey while imprisoned at Auschwitz, Eliezer recognizes and utilizes the episodes of Mrs. Schächter’s beating, Stein’s search for his family, and the burden that his