Essay Questions For Night By Elie Wiesel

I think the purpose for Wiesel writing Night was to tell others about what actually happened during the Holocaust and how he survived. It's important for future generations to be informed about what happened during the Holocaust. If the Holocaust happened again, we could use the information we read in Night and learn from his experience. For example, when Elie said "Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days," (page 114) we now know to try not eating all of your bread and soup at once because there might be times when you go days without eating.

1944: German Army vehicles come into Sighet. Rules and regulations for all Jews came into effect.

I chose essay question number 3. I chose this question in particular because there is a couple parts of the book Night that really stand out to me because they seem very emotional and very challenging. And just because I thought it was a very good part of the book. The parts I really liked were the big run the Jews had to run on, the time Elie and his father were in the cart for a couple of days and when Shlomo (Elie’s father) was very ill and Elie had to take care of him.

Document-Based Question: The Camps In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, he recalls an incident when Elie and his family were in the cattle cars being transported to their first three concentration camps after being unreasonably taken from their homes. There was barely any food or water, they were forced to stand the whole time because there wasn't enough room for sitting, and they were cramped up for hours on end in the concentration camp (pages 22-24). Elie Wiesel was a little boy with his family. Nazis transferred them to the Ghettos and eventually put them on a train to concentration camps where most of the families would end up passing away.

Humans are born with freedom and rights. Every human being should be treated fair and equal. They should have their rights and their rights should be protected.In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Jews were treated cruel and their rights were taken away as a human. They were treated like animals. The Jew’s rights were violated by the Nazi’s. Article two states that “everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion.” , which has been violated,in the story it states , “We no longer had the right to frequent restaurants… to travel by rail, to attend synagogue, to be on the streets after six.”(11). Humans should not be limited to be free. In article five it states that “No

The book “Night”, is an incredible story of one young man’s journey between himself and his God under Jewish religion. Elie Wiesel is the main character, and author of the book. He reveals things within himself, that a child should never have to question. During war there are many questions that can never be answered by child, or adult. Wiesel starts his journey wanting to learn the word of Kabbalah, but his dad felt that he was too young. Wiesel’s father thought there were no Kabbalah in Sighet and that his son was too young, Wiesel’s journey started in the book at the age of thirteen. He had originally wanted his father to teach him the words, but would start by learning them from a man called Moishe. Moishe was the Beadle, a jack of all trades in a Hasidic house of prayer. Wiesel studied Talmud, and by night would weep of the destruction of the synagogue. Moishe was among the poorest of the poor in Sighet. He met with Wiesel, and begin the read the same page of the Zohar over and over. Wiesel did not want to learn the word of Zohar, just to know the word. He wanted to learn and discover within his heart, the very essence of divinity. One day all of the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, and Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner. Wiesel was distraught to see his friend and mentor be taken from Signet, but unknowingly would face more torment in days to come. The Germans came to town, and broke the town into two ghettos. No one had the right to frequent restaurant or cafes ,

“If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one.” These words were stated by Elie Wiesel, main character and author of the book Night. He uses these words to describe the horrifying and traumatic experiences he survived during the Holocaust. Through the book, Elie’s innocence is taken from him and he is a completely different person by the end of the book. As a result, Elie is a dynamic character because he questions his faith in God, changes his attitude towards his father, and loses his will to live after his father’s death.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, there is an underlying theme of anger. Anger not directed where it seems most appropriate- at the Nazis- but rather a deeper, inbred anger directed towards God. Having once been a role model of everything a “good Jew” should be, Wiesel slowly transforms into a faithless human being. He cannot comprehend why the God who is supposed to love and care for His people would refuse to protect them from the Germans. This anger grows as Wiesel does and is a constant theme throughout the book.

“The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway. People in this world are so cruel to the point that others give up and don’t care what happens in the future, because they think it no longer matters and that, that is the end of their life. But it’s not always “just the end”, there’s always a brand new story awaiting nothing just stops.

Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.

“The choice was in our hands. For once we could decide our fate for ourselves.” (78). This was a quote from the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. In this book Elie and his father had to make many choices and this quote said by Elie right before he and his dad made the worst choice in this entire book, besides the beginning where Elie's father decides not to leave the country. There was so many choices in this novel. This quote from the book was only one out of many more. Another choice Elie and his father had to make on their journey, was when Elie chose to listen to the guy right before Elie and his father would be separated into different train cars, so Elie chose to lie about his age. Elie and his father also had a choice when they could move out of the country twice but Elie's father refused both times. These are just a few choices they had to make through the entire book. Choices are what make up our lives and some are bad and some are good. We just all have to remember that no matter how bad our choices are we all make them for a reason, just like Elie and his father had to make quick and not thought

The Holocaust changed the lives of many. Those that survived have many terrifying stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too shocking to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust. "Night", his powerful and moving story, touches the hearts of many and teaches his readers a great lesson. He teaches that in a short span of time, the ways of the world can change for the worst. He wants to make sure that if the world didn't learn anything from hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust, maybe they'll be able to learn something from Elie's own personal experience. Usually, a person can internalize a situation better