Differences In Night By Elie Wiesel

The book Night is a memoir about Eliezer Wiesel’s greuling holocaust experience. This book discusses the the grim conditions and treatment that Mr. Weisel endured during this dark time period. Elie changed in many ways while in the camp because of the dreadful things he experienced. This essay will be focusing on the physical, spiritual, and mental changes that Eliezer went through.

Change. The Phenomenon that is feared, envied, and loved. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel includes many changes. All of them revolve around Elie and how his experience in Auschwitz changed him forever. In this heart wrenching story Elie is taken from his home, and put into a concentration camp. He falters in many things he once believed in, especially his misgivings when it came to family and god. Elie Wiesel was transformed religiously and socially, along with his moral character.

Elie really lost a great amount of faith from the beginning to the end of the book. In the story, on page 14, it says, “there was joy, yes, joy!” This shows that at one point, the people had joy in their lives. This is important because it helps show the transition from happiness to sadness throughout the book. Later in the book, on page 105, it says, “it’s too late to save your old father, I said to myself.” This shows a dramatic change in faith for Elie. This phrase helps prove that Elie lost a lot of faith. This loss changes Elie into a completely different person. It gave him a different identity, he was a kid with nothing.

“The child, too light, was still breathing… And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes”(Wiesel 65). This is when the child possessed weapons and got the death penalty with two other people. The book Night is a memoir about Elie Wiesel going to a concentration camp with his father and other Jews from his neighborhood during the Holocaust. He writes about what happened when he was in the camps under control of the Nazis. The Perils of Indifference speech that Elie Wiesel talked about how he was thanking the American soldiers saved him. He also talks about all of the people were indifferent in the 1900’s and how America knew what was going on but waited to free the Jews from the Nazis. Night delivered Elie Wiesel’s message better than Perils of Indifference because it explained more of what was going on.

“I don’t know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me, why not for others more deserving than myself? It was nothing more than chance.”

These were civilians, not Nazi soldiers. Their indifference led to the deaths of over 6 million people during the Holocaust. Indifference is the most ruthless accomplice of evil, carrying two main weapons and leaving evidence of its dangerous ways throughout

I believe that indifference is the cause of the many of the world’s problems. As Elie Wiesel once said,” The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference”. I think that means that, after the events of the infamous Holocaust he didn’t hate the Nazis, he just felt indifferent about their actions. Elie went down a very dark path though. His book Night is a depressing story full of much abhorrence, a very sad note. He thought there was no hope for the future he gave up on god and more importantly, himself.

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.

Child abuse is very similar to the book Night by Elie Wiesel. There is one main topic that sticks out when reading child abuse articles and Night. Both topics have delt with a certain pain. Elie Wiezel and child abuse victims have suffered, starved, and are mainly frightened of their surroundings. Not only did they deal with emotional abuse, but also physical abuse. The Jewish children in Night have been abused by the leaders of the camp and were forced to do work or else get punished. When it comes to Child abuse, the children also get punished, whipped, and punched like Elie and his father did. Both topics dealt with verbal abuse too. Many Jews in Night have been threatened and constantly picked on by the concentration camp leaders for being

Indifference is a peril. Indifference is a “blurred line” between good and evil. Indifference is “unnatural.” But most of all, indifference is an end. Famous author and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech, “Perils of Indifference,” argues that since indifference is the inability to tell the difference between good and evil, indifference is dangerous. He supports his claim by first expressing his thanks to America for saving him from a horrid fate during the Holocaust. From this point, Wiesel goes on to explain how indifference is the key to conflict and how ¨dangerous¨ and ¨seductive¨ indifference can be. Wiesel also asks his audience, which are a variety of politicians, law makers, ambassadors, and members of congress, why hadn't

After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.

Indifference is not a valid response to the suffering of people. “The Night of Broken Glass,“ also referred to as Kristallnacht occurred on the streets of Germany. Where hundreds of Jewish shops had been destroyed, synagogues were burned and thousands of people were put into concentration camps. The Jews possessions were also taken and many were beaten and murdered. The Germans revenge for trying to eliminate the Jews was strictly influenced by ignorance. If the German people had prevented the Jews from suffering than the events of the Holocaust would have been different. As Wiesel States, “Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies”(30). Demonstrates the terrifying reality of what emotions can represent. Once someone has

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

An important nonfiction book that I think everyone should read is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1960 by Hill and Wang. It has 116 pages and it is told by a man who survived the Holocaust. This was a very important moment in history that everyone needs knowledge on.

The Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in his speech, The Perils of Indifference, claims that indifference has multiple hazards. He supports his claim by first comparing indifference or lack of interest to it being “more dangerous than anger and hatred,” then comparing the meaning of indifference to “not only a sin,” but to a “punishment.” Wiesel’s purpose is to define indifference in order for us to be aware of its effects so that we can do something about it. He creates a serious, thankful,