Elie Wiesel details his experiences being deported to different concentrations camps in the book Night. He lived in Sighet, Transylvania and at the age of 15 he and his family were sent first to two different ghettos and then to the camps. His story is breathtaking and can really teach someone important lessons. In Wiesel's memoir one idea that is presented is that when one questions his faith in God, he begins to lose hope in life. Scary experiences can change a person in lots of ways. SS officers ordered everyone from the ghetto including Elie, his mom dad three sisters into cattle cars 80 per car. Mrs. Schachter in the dead of night screamed at the top of her lungs “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames Everywhere…” (26). People looked in every direction and saw nothing. After Mrs.Schachter screamed about fire a couple times, young men bound and gagged her. They started to strike her and people shouted their approval. Elie still had faith in God but that was before he got off the train and witnessed the fires Mrs.Schachter was talking about. In Auschwitz Elie witnessed kids being thrown into the fires and families being burned alive. “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul that turned my dreams to ashes”(34). When Elie thought he was going to walk into the fire himself this was the first real time he questioned his faith in god and humanity. This moment he began to question and lose hope, which is a bad thing if you are in a
Author Elie Wiesel writes about his experience as a Jew in concentration camps in his book Night. Elie includes similes, pathos and repetition in Chapter three to illustrate the inhumanity towards Jews while in the concentration camps.
At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.
Losing Hope: How Elie Wiesel Changes Throughout the Holocaust The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy named Elie. He is put into a concentration camp in Birkenau with his family. He goes from camp to camp with his father and faces the true horrors of the Holocaust firsthand. While the experience of reading the memoir Night can be hopeful because readers may see Elie’s strength and persistence, the author’s themes in the text are not hopeful; instead, using motifs and powerful diction, Wiesel develops the theme that being put into a constantly difficult situation changes one’s views and morals over time.
During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.
In the book Night, the author Elie Wiesel, talks about his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the beginning, he is a religious young man with very faithful morals. As the book goes on, he experiences situations where he questions his faith and belief in God but also gains maturity without realizing it. The setting of these situations will change his life. Throughout the whole book, Elie Wiesel’s faith gets tested as he endures extreme events within the camp. The three main concepts are; faith is a constant battle, it’s never lost just shaken, and maturity come from challenges.
Throughout the duration of the Holocaust, many Jews witnessed the worst of humanity. In concentration camps, over six million people were killed and tortured. Among the people imprisoned in these camps was Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. In his memoir Night, the many acts of dehumanization and cruelty that Wiesel witnesses ultimately leads to his loss of faith in both his god and humanity.
Kids tend to rebel against their parents as they grow older. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. His mother and sisters were taken away from him as soon as he arrived at Auschwitz, only his father remained. Elie Wiesel witnessed many terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that kept him in line was his father. Elie Wiesel’s father kept him from possibly killing himself. When Elie Wiesel lives in the concentration camp with his fellow Jews, he begins to question the fairness of God, who he had followed his entire life. Elie Wiesel lost faith in God, particularly the faith that He would use His divine power to help him, and he began to rely on his father instead, which gave him more reason to live.
I honestly agree to what Elie Wiesel has to say, “when human lives are endangered when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Where ever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that pace must at the moment become the center of the universe.”
In class we previously read the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. This book told the story of young Elis’s life as he suffered through the holocaust. As we all know the holocaust was a very dark period, where millions upon millions lost their lives. Prisoners from all over were taken and jailed in concentration camps where they were tortured endless with no boundaries. Along the way to liberation many lost hope and gave up completely. Certain traumatizing events affected the prisoner's hope along with the inner and outer forces.
The book Night opens in the town of Signet where Elie Wiesel, the author ,
Before Elie had been deported to the terrors of the Auschwitz, he was a completely different person. Some of the traits that he exhibited were hopeful, shielded, and religious. As Wiesel said in “Night” “There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under the blazing sun.” (16) The town was not concerned about what was going on. They didn't believe that anything else would get worse. Elie and the people of his town were unable to accept the fact that anyone would do such a horrible deed. Elie and his neighbors were ecstatic because they thought nothing could get worse than it was already; what Hitler would do to them in the future, did not even seen imaginable. The victims believed that God would
Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on 15 year old Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust. Elie endures circumstances which are so extreme to the point they are almost unbelievable. Elie’s account of his experiences during his life in the concentration camps has taught readers around the world about how to appreciate everything they take for granted, how desperation can make people do crazy things, and the importance of motivation in tough times.
Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.
It is hard for someone to imagine that a person he/she loves and praises would have the potential to betray him or her. Elie feels that way every single day when God betrays him in the novel Night, he then finds himself questioning his faith very often. Through this text, the Elie Wiesel begins to lose his faith as well as many other prisoners in the camp and he believes God is just watching him suffer and not helping him or anyone else. Elie was a strong believer of God, but Elie realizes God wouldn’t do this to the Jews and Elie felt is was best to stop believing in someone who isn’t helping him. He wonders if good things happen anymore. Therefore, Elie starts to lose his faith when God no longer loves him and doesn’t help him when he needs the most help.
Sensitivity is a trait that only fifteen to twenty percent of the population acquire (Aron 1996). Anthon Maarten (2012) stated “highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate”. Although some people are not as sensitive as others, one should not shame the other for high sensitivity. It is too often that one is looked down upon for carrying this trait. The trait is often not seen as valuable due to the misconceptions of what the trait means (Aron 1996). Despite the fact that there are multiple definitions for sensitivity, they often share the same bases in describing the trait.