Deterioration In Night

In the novel, “Night”, Elie Wiesel is ripped from his childhood and thrown into the horrors of the Holocaust. Elie’s perspective gives us a view into the horrendous truths of the Jew’s treatment in the concentration camp. Throughout his journey from his house, to Auschwitz, to eventually a work camp, Buna; he begins to change mentally. One of the most heartbreaking and disturbing transition is his change in faith and the way he sees a benevolent God.

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel gives an account about his life in a concentration camp. His focus is of course on his obstacles and challenges while in the camp, but his behavior is an example of how human beings respond to life in a concentration camp. The mood, personality, behavior, and obviously physical changes that occur are well documented in this novel. He also shows, as time wears on, how these changes become more profound and all the more appalling. As the reader follows Elie Wiesel’s story, from his home in the ghetto, to his internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to his transfer and eventual release at Buchenwald, one can see the impact of these changes first hand.

During the holocaust, six million men, women and children were murdered by the nazi regime, a notoriously cruel enemy to the Jewish people. However, the ultimate conflict for Jews was not with the racist political party but instead with themselves and their personal thoughts and feelings. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader is introduced to Elie’s younger self and follows him through the horrors of the holocaust. Though it is easy to assume that the greatest struggle for Elie was to physically survive Auschwitz, it was instead the inner struggle to remain human against Nazi dehumanization. After the Nazis caused Elie to lose the necessary human components of faith, health, dignity and relationship, he found it very difficult to be

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

Throughout history, many terrible things have happened that have put people in terrible conditions. During the Holocaust, millions of people died, and the few that survived were very lucky. Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, endured many horrible things in the Holocaust that shaped him as a person today. In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz.

Elie is in a time period when everything was going bad for the jews. Throughout the book we see Elie trying to survive the Holocaust. His life starts off by strongly believing in God and wanting to practice the Cabbala. He talks about how he studied the Talmud during the day and attends the synagogue at night. As the story continues, he starts to lose faith in God in which Elie is questioning who can allow such immense and suffering. During the hanging of a young boy, somebody behind Elie was questioning where God was: “Where is the merciful God, where is he? ”(Wiesel 64). The guy continued to ask where God was when the three chairs were tipped over and the third rope

Faith is like a little seed, if you think about the positive aspects of the situation, then it will grow like how a seed grows when you water it. But if the seed does not receive water anymore, it will die like how the horrors and negativity of the concentration camps killed Elie’s faith. After the analyzation of the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the reader can visualize the horrors and slaughtering of millions of innocent people that occurred in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Elie explains how his faith in God was tested, as he was forced to leave his home, separated from his family, observe how much was being killed all around him, and witness children being thrown into huge ditches of fire, alive! Elie felt abandoned, betrayed, and deceived, the God that he knew was a loving and giving God, it was then he started to doubt his existence. Elie tries to hold on to his faith but the childhood innocence has disappeared from within him and he loses his faith completely in God, whom he thought would rescue him from his suffering.

Elie Wiesel’s book Night presents certain aspects of Jewish history, culture and practice through the story of Wiesel’s experience with his father in the concentration camps. Wiesel witnessed many horribly tragic things throughout his days in the concentration camps. It is these experiences that cause him to struggle with his faith. He grew up as a devote Jew who enjoyed studying and devoting himself to his religion.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

While they’re being separated from one another, he and his father continue through the process and finally get settled. Eventually the are presented with some pretty horrific events like hangings and other things. As this happens Elie once asked himself, “Where is merciful god, where is he?” This shows Elie second guessing his faith in God as he is questioning God himself. Near the end of the book Elie becomes quite used to this sights and starts to completely deny the presence of

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize men and cause them to revert to basic instincts. Wiesel and his peers devolve from civilized human beings to savage animals during the course of Night.

Strangely enough, things got worse. In both the camps and Elie's faith. In what is the most scarring scene of this novel, Elie has to witness a child being hanged. To add to the matter, the little boy is not heavy enough for the rope to break his neck so Elie and his fellow prisoners are forced to watch the boy slowly dangle and suffocate for almost a half an hour. After this someone cries out asking where God is and Elie replies, “Where is he? This is where-hanging here from the gallows.” (p65). In this quote it is obvious and heartbreaking what Elie believes, he believes God is

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, “Night”, readers see a dramatic change from the young, sensitive and spiritual individual to a, boy with the mindset of an adult that is spiritually dead and is unemotional. Elie shows this in his memoir by rewriting what he saw, thought, or what he heard while in concentration camps, this occurs, in the three sections of the memoir.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.