Characterization In The Night By Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust was a very terrible time in history over six million Jews perished in concentration camps. Even though in every tragedy there are survivors. Elie Wiesel was a little boy when all of this happened. He experienced all of the terrible things that happened during this time frame. While suffering in the terrible condition of the camp Elie and his father’s relationship goes through a drastic change.

The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, contains the story of Elie Wiesel himself. In this bo

Moishe the Beadle, Elie´s mentor and Kabbalist teacher. He is seized by Hungarian officers, and expelled from Sighet, as he was a foreigner. Moishe details the Jews being moved over the Hungary border, and being taken by the Gestapo. ¨He told me what had happened to him and his companions… The train had

In the beginning of the book, Elie Wiesel introduced Moishe, a poor beadle who greatly impacted how an almost thirteen-year-old Elie reflected on and thought of his religion. As the Nazi power spread into Sighet, Elie’s home, they began to expell foreign

Moishe decided to come back to his town and warn the only people he knew instead of being silent. Secondly, Elie shows courage by staying with his father and helping his father during his last days. Elie visited his father and gave him his rations of food. Finally, the French girl provides a courageous act by cleaning off Elie’s face

In the start of the book, Moishe is introduced by Elie as an awkward fellow who stayed out of people’s way but was very wise when it came to faith or anything about his God. In the beginning, we get to see a blossoming relationship between Moishe and Elie, with Moishe serving as a mentor to Elie in his study of the Kabbalah and God. However, we see a twist in their relationship when a transport comes to take all foreign jews away, and Moishe being one caused him to have to leave on the transport. This transport caused much distress in Sighet for a short while but “the deportees were quickly forgotten,” (Wiesel 6). All of the citizens of Sighet returned to their usual doings and rumored about what they thought had happened to the deportees. Meanwhile, Moishe had seen sights that he never expected to see in his lifetime. For example, Jews were told to dig holes not knowing that they would soon be shot and put in those graves they dug for themselves, and babies were being thrown up and shot in the air, something that seemed like a game to the Gestapo and S.S. men. Moishe happened to get shot in the leg and received the blessing of being able to sneak away from the Galician forest, where they were taken, and return to Sighet to warn the jews about what he had seen, yet no jew believed him and he ended up changing and not for the

One day, Moishe was observing Eliezer pray, and proceeded to ask him “Why do you cry when you pray?”(4). Elie just replied with “I don’t know”, Moishe then asked him why he prayed. This sparked a million thoughts through Ellie's head, “Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”. All he could say is “I don’t know”. This was the first time Elie really got his faith questioned by someone, it was so taboo to him he didn’t know how to react. Faith engulfs Elie’s life, he prays and studies his religion. Moishe is Elie's mentor, showing him and teaching him the Kabbalah revelations, Elie really expected Moishe to help him reach eternity. One day Hungarian police forced all foreign Jews out of their homes and into cattle cars, Moishe was a foreign Jew. Days passed, and one day Elie was in the synagogue and saw Moishe sitting there, he had escaped. Moishe told Elie his horrific experiences of witnessing Jew dig mass trenches only to be their graves. For days he had gone to every Jewish household to warn them about what was coming, no one wanted to believe him, it was

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells the dark story of his time during the Holocaust as a Jew. Eliezer, a fifteen year old boy who narrates the book, devotes his time and attention to his father, Chlomo, as much as possible. His father was a highly respected man by the majority of the Jewish community in Sighet. Eliezer and his father were almost inseparable throughout their journey in the camps. Despite being father and son, they had many differences.

Moishe the Beadle’s story of captivity in Poland is very similar to what had happend to Elie. He and other prisoners were taken from their home and brought to a concentration camp. From there they had to do forced labor, and when they were done somepeoples heads were shot off, and babies were thrown into the air as targets. But then Moishe escped, and came to warn everyone. Also, Moshe the Beadle was given the knowlege to help and save the people in his town and he tried to but everybody jusdged him and thought that he was crazy.

Moishe the Beadle helped Eliezer guide him on his spiritual path. Their relationship is highly spiritual, elevated and is enhanced through each other. This is important because Moishe tries to warn the others and Elie is forced to see his guru, this made his experience and that his religious elements are

Wiesel faces personal trials, and tribulations within this story. He also observes other characters facing internal conflict. Wiesel writes about Moishe’s internal conflict here, “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah”(Wiesel

Elie Wiesel, the author of the literary memoir Night, illustrates the impact of notable events on his destiny. Eliezer Wiesel grows up in Sighet, Transylvania. A devout Jew, his entire

After 3 weeks at Auschwitz, they get deported to Buna, which is a turning point for the relationship between Elie and Chlomo. The camps influence Elie and give him a crooked mind focused on staying alive and nothing else. This leads to him disregarding his father. This twisted way of thinking, due to the camps, is making Elie cheer during bomb raids at Buna. He states his thoughts “But we were no longer afraid of death, at any rate, not of that death” (57). This shows that he is willing to die to see the camps destroyed. The most horrifying event that demonstrates his twisted mind is when Eliezer pays no heed to his father while he was being repeatedly beat with an iron bar. Eliezer, rather than acting indifferent and showing nothing, actually feels angry with his father. “I was angry at him for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (52). The new lifestyle of the camps affected Elie and his relationship with his father for the worse.

In the book, our narrator, Elie, is constantly going through changes, and almost all of them are due to his time spent in Auschwitz. Prior to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie was a very different boy, he had a more optimistic outlook on life. During the first few pages of the book, Elie tells us a bit about how he viewed the world before deportation, “ I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” ( 3). Elie was, as he says himself, deeply observant and devoted most of his time to his faith. He spent almost all of his time studying and worshiping. At this point, Elie’s faith is the center of his life. Elie is also shown to do a few other things and has a few more early character traits aside from being dedicated to what he believes in. Elie also sees the best of people, a few pages later he says, “The news is terrible,’ he said at last. And then one word: ‘transports’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely… ‘Where will they take us?” (Wiesel 14). This is one of the only time we hear about Elie being worried or scared because of the Germans before Auschwitz, and still, despite the warnings that were given and the rumors circulating, Elie doesn’t think that the Germans are actually going to do all of those terrible things. Around this time in the book, Wiesel starts to become more emotionally weighted, but none of what has happened takes full effect until much later. There are multiple instances in the book where Elie is given reason to distrust or even hate the Germans, he talks about how the Gestapo treated him and his family on page 19 “‘Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!’ the Hungarian police were screaming.”. Yet he then goes on to say, on that very same page, that “Still our first

The book opens with Elie’s life before him and his family were taken away. The story continues talking about how when they arrived in Auschwitz his mother and sister were taken to the crematorium with other women and children who were not strong enough to work in the camps. The only people left from Elie’s family were him and his father. Throughout the whole book Elie talks about how his father was his only motivation to keep going. When Elie’s father dies he contemplates to keep going or just to give in. In the end he is liberated and is freed.