The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.
In the book, Elie talks a little about life before the Germans came in and forced them to give up their humanity. During this time, life was fairly normal and Elie spent his time studying the Zohar with a man name Moishe. Even when Moishe was forced to leave, because he was a foreign jew, not much changed; he continued studying the kabbalistic works and building a relationship with god. It isn’t until Moishe’s return that people start becoming slightly worried, but it still wasn’t enough to really cause a stir within the community. Most citizens just assumed Moishe was crazy whenever he tried to tell people his experiences away from the town. When German police came into the city, people finally began to worry. It was known throughout the town that Hitler had planned to destroy the race of jews but people didn’t believe that one man could manage to kill an entire race. For a time people and the police coexisted with some amount of peace, but then came the ghettos.
The ghettos are the first form of Alienation we see in the novel. The ghettos were places that the jews were forced to live in. Elie’s home
The project I did for Night shows the perspective from a window in Elie’s hometown, Sighet, during the war. In the first division of the window, you can see a Nazi car riding through the streets. This comes from page 9, when Elie says, “In less than three days, German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets.” The main focus of the second division is the yellow star, which all jews were forced to wear. The author writes that his father thought that “it was not all bleak,” on page 11. Since his father was an important figure to Sighet, many people believed him, and were not discouraged. In the third division you can see the appearance of a ghetto (one of the two in Sighet). While confining them “like a wall,” (page 11) the fence did
The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.
Elie remembers, “‘The time has come… you must leave all this…’ The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples” (16). The Hungarian police had been edict and in charge of everyone there. Yitskhok had a similar experience to this when he is standing outside his window and he watches people get beaten. Another example of a similarity is when they stayed in the ghettos. Elie and Yitskhok stayed in the ghettos for quite some time. Elie writes in the book that “The chaos here was even greater than in the large ghetto… [Elie] visited the rooms that had been occupied by my uncle Mendel’s family” (20). Yitskhok also stays in a ghetto, and he wrote in his diary about how in the ghetto where he was it was a mess with people falling; some people’s stuff even fell out of their bundles. Finally, some
Night by Elie Wiesel describe his experiences as a Jew in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel and other Jews survived, but many others did not. One of the key components to the Jews’ survival was faith and hope.
Elie Wiesel’s Night is an eye opening memoir of his experiences being in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel went from a man who loved his family and had great faith to a man who lost all hope in everything. His memoir sheds light on what it was like to be a teenage boy during this time. Throughout his memoir readers get to see his transition as well as the circumstances he was undergoing. Elie Wiesel named his protagonist Eliezer, who is the only boy out of 4 children.
The book, Night, is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, which tells a story of Elie and his terrifying experience during the Holocaust. Elie was a 15-year-old Jewish teenager when he and his family got deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. First, when he arrives at the camp, he gets separated from his mother and sisters. Moreover, his only hope becomes to stay with his old father and be with him as they transfer from one camp to the next. There he perceives the destruction of humanity and also faces extreme cruelty. Elie talks about the death of his family members and therefore how he changes as an individual. Throughout various experiences and in extreme situations, humans can persevere. People survive when they have a desire to live and someone along their journey. They do not lose hope in life and keep their faith. Most importantly, they show courage and do not relinquish in difficult situations. Humans can endure extreme suffering by having companionship, remaining faithful in life, and being valiant in the situation.
They assume that everyone is kind, everyone cares about each other, and nobody purposely hurts another. As they grow up, they get to see this lens quickly fade away as they are exposed to the real world. When Elie’s Community is forced into a ghetto, he still has his innocence on his worldview. He knows that not everyone is kind but he has not seen any extreme contradictions to his beliefs. As Elie sees everyone around him turn Savage, and make some question what he believed.
In “Night”, the people of Elie’s community start out thinking that the Germans were innocent, that they wouldn’t cause any harm to them. Then came the rules that little by little picked away at their humanity. The first experience of dehumanization Elie experienced was when Germans began to settle in their own homes and the synagogues were no longer allowed to be used. Although this was the first experience with dehumanization Elie had witnessed, it was not the first experience he had heard of.
Elie and the Jewish people are mentally dehumanized by the Nazis. Elie and his dad are on a train filled with people from the ghetto. They arrive at Birkenau just to be seperated and the Nazis are about to take all of their things. “‘Men to the left! Women to the right!’ [This] [is] the moment when [Elie] left [his] mother… [he] [doesn’t]
Elie Wiesel experienced many personal and social conversions. One theme that relates to everyone throughout the novel Night, is freedom v.s confinement. In the beginning of this nonfiction story, Elie and his family are arranged in a ghetto in their town. The author introduces this by saying, “Two ghettos were set up in Sighet. A large one, in the center of the town, occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several small side streets in the outlying district. The street where we lived, Serpent Street, was inside the first ghetto.” The idea of confinement is now being constructed. Within the ghetto, they are not aware, but this was the last time they would see their homes or a place that gives them full contentment/ satisfaction.
Elie Wiesel lived in a small jewish community at the beginning of the story Night. Through out the book Elie went through major changes emotionally and physically. Some of these changes more drastic than others but they still changed Elie as a person. There were many factors that contributed to Elie’s overall modification such as who he talked to and how he was treated.
“I don’t know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself,” - Elie Wiesel. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel, wrote this book to tell the story of what he experienced during the Holocaust. He writes how when he first walked through the gates of what he soon found out was a concentration camp, he was immediately separated from his mother and sisters, and moved to a separate line with his father. He and his father survived the best they could together, until his father could no longer go on and Elie was left to survive on his own with the rest of the prisoners. He survived the beatings, harsh weather, hunger, and overall the concentration camps. He lost his family through the process, but he made it. This makes it very clear that the theme, survival, is important in the book in order to show Elie’s strength and how he fought to stay alive during the duration of time he was held in concentration camps.
“Night” describes his personal experience in the concentration camp, where he was taken to being a boy. Germans forced Elie and other members of the Jewish community of Hungarian town Sighet to Ghettos. They left the whole families without any belongings and means to survive. But it was not enough: from Ghettos, people were transferred to concentration camps, where they were tortured and killed. But the book is not only about all the traumatic experiences that Jewish people had to withstand during World War II; it is about how poisonous and infectious xenophobia is.
Elie Wiesel’s book Night is the self-account of Wiesel’s life in the Holocaust. It reflects back to the time through the eyes of a Jewish boy living in the awful conditions. It tells the story from the first few steps that Hitler takes, to when the camps was liberated. Wiesel delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.
The novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel about the Holocaust, is an autobiographical account transformed into a novel. Taking place in Sighet,Transylvania, the story transitions into the concentration camps as fifteen year old Elie and his Jewish family are taken to the Ghettos by the Hungarian Police. The “Ghettos,” were an act of bigotry against Jews, were isolated and impoverished parts of a city set up to segregate the Jews from the rest of the population. After they were taken there, they were then transported by German soldiers to Birkenau, a part of the notorious concentration camp, Auschwitz. Prisoners at these concentration camps were fed poorly and given little to live on. They were degraded from human beings to animals, many of the