Analyzing Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

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

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.

In Night by Elie Weisel, his father fails to give an account of what he heard at the council meeting so therefore nobody knows what’s going on. Secondly, the sighet residents aren’t listening to Moishe the Beadle who has already experienced a concentration camp. All the Jews are relying on Elie’s Father to give them information because they think what Moishe said was false.Once everyone steps of the train, they find out that what Moishe said wasn’t false. It’s ironic that people believed Elie’s father instead of Moishe the Beadle because Elie’s father was a respected leader of the community and Moishe was not a prominent figure in the town of sighet.

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is a story that the author tries to tell from his perspective of what it’s like to try to survive during the Holocaust, and the things that people would have to go through plus what they had to do to live another day. Wiesel is a boy that had to go through hell for the years that are usually the best as a child growing up, and he had that taken away from him. He tells his story and explains to the reader using mixed diction and tones. This time was not an easy time to have survived especially in the camps. Some of the times Wiesel had to lie to not be cremated. “‘Here, kid, how old are you?’ It was one of the prisoners…… Our procession continued to move slowly forward.” (Wiesel 28-30). This is a way Wiesel

The end of a story is just as important as the beginning. The end of a story seeks to bring a sort of closure to the adventure that was just had in the pages before. With the more intense the story the more difficult the end is. Elie Wiesel’s book Night has an ending that seems rather abrupt but is none-the-less appropriate to the horror that was written on the pages before. The title itself is significant to the end of the story, not just because it is where the story begins, but because the end of the end of the story is the end of the long night that was the Holocaust.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

In the novel Night, Elie Weisel's purpose of writing this story is to ensure that anything relatively close to the Holocaust never happens again. The fact that Night was written about Elie Weisel establishes credibility. Elie Weisel was born in Hungary in 1928 and was then deported with his family to Auschwitz as a young boy. Elie wrote Night as a memoir of his experiences. This affects the readers by showing the novel is based on a true story which gives the readers a reason to trust and listen to what the author is trying to say. The author uses pathos in his writing as another way to reach his audience. Towards the end of the novel Elie "...wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.

In the non-fictional memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of conflict is present. Eliezer faces many mental hardships and conflicts. He also has disagreements with other characters throughout the book. Obviously Wiesel uses the conflicts of man vs. himself and man vs. man to prove one of the underlying themes of the memoir: Hope is an invisible concept; nonetheless, people will not relinquish.

“My hand tightened its grip on my father, all I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” How far does love for our family go? How much could we suffer for the people we love? How much do we want to be alive with people we’re related to?

In the haunting and disturbing memoir Night, Elie Wiesel's powerful words light up the darkness that floods the human spirit when faith is broken. Night is a memoir of Elie Wiesel’s experience as a young Jewish boy; the book depicts the horrors and atrocities he saw in concentration camps. I believe that Elie's beliefs in God have changed a lot throughout the story and that he has lost faith but regained it. I think what this is saying about the real world is that even if you lose faith in such a horrible event, you can always regain it.

Remembrance Do you try to forget terrible events in your life or do you keep the memory alive so you can share your story? Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, decided to share his experience so that the world can remember what happened. “If we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.” (Wiesel acceptance speech) Forgetting would be a mistake because thinking of the atrocities of the Holocaust and how Jews were treated as less than humans, it is terrible to forget and not put any thought into it.

Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

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 story of Night, by Elie Wiesel, transpires over a long period of time where the Jews are forced, while against nearly insurmountable odds, to either survive the horrific torture or die. Hope was a constant theme that helped some of them survive, while the absence of it for some caused many of them to die. The knowledge that their loved ones survived had a tremendous impact on how hopeful the Jews were, and they were also inspired by overcoming the daily and deadly challenges that the concentration camps posed; however, those horrible events, like the death of a loved one, ripped the hope from many, only to be diminished further by the emotional and physical hardships of the camps.