A writer writes a novel with no purpose behind it. Yes, the book could possibly be really amazing, but in ,most cases people are not able to connect or understand the book. However if you have an author who writes with purpose behind his words it is easier to connect and feel with the book. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night from personal experiences to show people what happened and he didn't just write for the fun of it. Elie wrote it with passion and purpose and therefore has been able to have an impact in the world. Elie Wiesel wrote Night to teach the world a lesson about dehumanizing people, not remaining mute, and the loss of religion. Dehumanization. One of the most important main principles of Night is how awful the Nazis treated …show more content…
Another purpose for Elie writing Night was to explain that from the Jews perspective, people watching the holocaust happen we're just as guilty as the Nazis. Albert Einstein once stated, “The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” This quote clearly shows Elie’s point of view from which he wrote, because Elie is trying to convince all the “innocent” bystanders to stand up against the wrong and not watch it all play out. Elie claims in his nobel speech, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.” This claim is his way of showing people that during the Holocaust no one stood up for them so the Jews know how it feels to be ignored. The fact that he wants t never be silent when he notices injustice is very impactful because he knows how it feels. Besides silence, Elie’s constant conflict with religion was a major …show more content…
The morality of a person's faith in their religion was a key theme throughout the whole book. The first signs of challenge for the Jews was when Akiba Drumer had lost all faith and hope, however he was able to pull himself together enough to ask for Kaddish. He did die and 3 days later everyone was starting to feel the camps rath and they forgot to say Kaddish for him.Towards the beginning before Elie even knew about all the camps there was a slight reference to the loss of his faith, “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness.”(19) I feel as if Elie purposely put in the last section of the quote as a way of foreshadowing his constant battle of religion throughout the book. As Elie attends a Rosh Hashanah service in one of the camps he curses at God. At the beginning of chapter 9 is when I feel like he knew that he shouldn't quit on his faith in God because of one line, “On April 5, the wheel of history turned.” This was when the Jews were about to be liberated and I think he said this as an overall view that he could finally breathe again and do the things in life that give him purpose.
In my essay I decided to include the 3 most important themes in my eyes, however there are plenty more that I could have choose. I had a hard time deciding what were the main purposes of Elie writing Night because there are so many, because he
Setting (time and place): Early 1940s, during World War Two, Holocaust era. starting in Sighet, Transylvania, and moving throughout concentration camps in Europe.
The book Night is a story of family, religion, violence, and hope. This book tells the story of Elie Wiesel’s journey through the holocaust. During the novel, Wiesel writes with the purpose of teaching us several lessons. This lesson is conveyed through Wiesel’s actions, other character’s actions, as well as quotations. The lesson Wiesel taught in Night is to persevere and never lose hope up no matter how hopeless the situation may seem.
Some of the things that happened during the Holocaust was murder, starvation, gas chambers, mistreatment, concentration camps. What was Elie Wiesel purpose for writting the book Night? One reason for Elie Wiesel’s writting the book Night was to remind people of what happened to him/ the Jews. He also wrote it to remind people of it so people do not forget. Also, to make sure something like the Holocaust does not happen again.
Wiesel wrote his novel for more than simply wanting to share his story with his reader, he wrote “Night” because he felt, “I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel, 6), he believed he survived for a reason not simply by luck or chance. Although there are many controversy as to why he wrote his novel, in his interview with “The Paris Review” he address as to why, “I didn’t want to write those books. I wrote them against myself. But I realize that if we do not use words, the
Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences
The Holocaust changed the lives of many. Those that survived have many terrifying stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too shocking to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust. "Night", his powerful and moving story, touches the hearts of many and teaches his readers a great lesson. He teaches that in a short span of time, the ways of the world can change for the worst. He wants to make sure that if the world didn't learn anything from hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust, maybe they'll be able to learn something from Elie's own personal experience. Usually, a person can internalize a situation better
The constant evil that the Jews witness is capable of destroying their mentality, which is why the acts of evil that the Nazis bestow upon the Jews is one of the many connotations of night. In their minds, the Nazis have dehumanized the Jews making it easier for them to torture and kill them. The SS guards call them “filthy dogs” and treat them like animals. They publicly hang people, including children, and make everyone watch
In the novel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor suggests that when humans are faced with protecting their own mortality, they abandon their morals and values. This can be seen in both the Jewish and German people. The German’s are inhumanely cruel to protect their own jobs and safely by obeying government commands. The Jewish captives lost their morals as they fight to survive the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel encountered many obstacles that made many of his ideals changed drastically for Wiesel which was his loss in humanity throughout the book he explains the many ways he does not see people as people anymore. He also explains how all of his natural human rights were no more during the time in the Holocaust. He had to find a sense of self because he could have easily fallen apart. He could not have done anything different, he knew it was going to end poorly. Silence is a very important and prominent theme in this book as silence represents many key symbols such as. God’s silence: Eliezar questions God’s faith many times throughout this book and wonders how he could just sit there and be silent while people are mass murdering people.
Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans.
In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel writes about his experience inside the concentration camps of Germany during World War Two. He realizes how his humanity changes after he is free. Elie ponders about if he can be re-humanized after he passes trials, when he looks at a mirror. Wiesel uses a gloomy tone to reveal the Nazis’ plan to dehumanize the Jews so that their suffering .
We encounter Elie’s lost of faith throughout the book. Once he was separate he was brought to an area where bodies were being thrown into a fire. He started losing his faith in humanity once he saw the cruel things that were happening. When people lose there faith, they lose their faith in God and themselves. They start looking on the negative side of life and just lose their focus for what they wanted. Elie would want to study the Cabala but his father didn’t approve of it. He would always look out for not just his family but the people around him. Elie would always pray but wouldn't know why. He fascinated with Judaism so he goes without his father’s permission to learn more. “Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever.” on page 45 clearly tells us that his faith was lost due to the fact that bodies were being thrown into the flames. As the book
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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.
Though faithful as they enter the horrific camps of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buna, Birknau, Dachau, and Buchenwald, the Jews become capricious. They start losing grip and begin falling down the slippery slope of death the Germans set up for them as more horrors of the camps become unveiled. Soon after arriving in the camp and being told about the crematoria, he felt “anger rising with me [Elie]. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). This is the first time that his faith is challenged. After a few days in Auschwitz he “had ceased to pray. I [Elie] was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). As seen, Elie is beginning to have doubts about God and therefore his belief and faith in him. Finally, when Elie is looking for God to come though he doesn’t and he asks,
day before, one of which was merely a child so light in weight that he