Conflict In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

The same day that Elie and his father arrived at Auschwitz Elie sees his father slapped by a Nazi. When Elie saw his father being hit and did nothing. He just stood there silently watching it happen. Elie thought “ I shall never forgive them for this” because his father was just slapped in the face front of him and he did nothing to stop it. Then his father whispered in his ear “Does it hurt”.

Elie was realizing that these camps change people so fast. His father was hit and he didn’t even jump out to defend him like he would the day before. Instead he was concerned with his own survival and kept his distance. The pattern continues when Idek beats his father with a medal bad. Elie stood there motionless and watched. Instead of getting angry at Idek he was angry at his father for making himself a target. There is one time where the pattern seems to break. The part of the story where his father becomes very il, he offers a knife and a spoon to Elie because he feels as though he is on the brink of death. Elie doesn’t want to accept the offer. You can see a change in Elie’s feelings towards his father. He feels bad, he doesn’t want his father to die. He needs him for survival; he’s the only person keeping him alive. He tries his best to keep his father going, he offers him the rest pf his soup when he knew he wasn’t being fed because the sick don’t get fed since they figure it is a waste of

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a 120 paged book about Mr. Wiesel’s experience with holocaust and in the concentration camps. The book is in his point of view Mr. Wiesel. He describes the events that had happened to him and his father while at the concentration camps. Like how the SS officers treated the hostages in the camps or the amount of food they got, which by the way was not very much. Night is a book that should be shared with everyone especially young high schoolers.

Elie Wiesel, the author of the novel Night, experienced a slew of changes to both his mental and physical state during the Holocaust. These changes included his religious beliefs, relationships with family and friends and his self-value, all which he documented in the book. Before his life-threatening experience, Elie was a hard working, religious teenager who cared about others. His relationship with his father was not the strongest yet it was not terrible either. The reason for this being, his father was a highly respected man in the community and was often sought out from other families to help them with their problems leaving him little time to forge a relationship with his son.

**AT THE END OF EACH PARAGRAPH, YOU NEED TO WRITE HOW THE PARAGRAPH CONNECTS BACK TO THE QUESTION** Part A Question: What does the author, Elie Wiesel, have to say about the theme suffering? Answer: In the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the author displays that one can only push through times of misfortune by staying determined.

Only 37 percent of Jews survived the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jews that survived, and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to his first camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” based on his journey in the holocaust. “Night” is about Elie and how he changed emotionally through beatings, starving, suffering, and much more in the concentration camps. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book which led to him losing his faith, him having no motivation whatsoever (with the exception of his father), and him giving up on humanity as a whole.

Wiesel and his father arrive at the camp, which appeared as if it “had been through an epidemic,” because of its deathly state (47). After “settling” into the camp, the inmates are told that Buna is decent, as far as camps go, but being assigned to the construction Kommando is unpleasant. Wiesel is offered the chance to join a good Kommando in exchange for his shoes, but he denies, as “they were all [he] had left” (48). He later meets the Buna orchestra members, and is reassured that he was assigned to a good Kommando. One day, he is called to the dentist, who ironically had a “ghastly vision of yellow, rotten teeth” (51). Wiesel is told that his gold crown is going to be removed, and he immediately pretends that he is sick,

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, tells the story of a young boy surviving through the Holocaust. The story conveys the effects of this barbaric event on the boy emotionally, physically, and mentally. This crude, genocidal imperial impacted millions of people. This story focuses mainly on Elie Wiesel's perspective on the Holocaust; considering his many years of labor, servitude, and transportation through multiple concentration camps. At such a young age, he was put through torturous anguish. Throughout this story, he explains the effect of the Holocaust on him as a boy along with how he handled it.

As they arrived at Auschwitz, a prisoner told Elie and his father to lie about their age in order to avoid the crematorium (Wiesel, 2008). Those deemed fit to work were sent to the labour barracks, whereas children and the elderly were sent to the gas chambers

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.

Elie Wiesel faces many conflicts throughout this memoir. In the memoir, Night, by Elie wiesel, Hitler works hard to eradicate the Jewish people. Fallaciously, he forces Jews into thinking they aren’t going to be harmed. Adolf Hitler houses all Jewish people in death camps for he is indignant and he needs revenge after the World War. Also, Hitler is being hypocritical because he says the only worthy people are Aryan people, but he isn’t even Aryan. He often instructs the Nazi Soldiers to make all Jewish people despondent about life. The Germans are to have no decorum with the Jews. They are told to starve, beat, and punish the prisoners. Throughout the story, Wiesel struggles with staying alive and with helping his father stay alive in aspiration

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 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.