Examples Of External Conflict In Night By Elie Wiesel

Struggles. Something everyone has gone through like failing an exam, or maybe losing a family member. Those struggles would probably be the end of the word for some people. But what Elie Wiesel has gone through far worse at such a young age. He dealt with being in a holocaust camp. He had to go through being dehumanized, starved, over worked and he struggled with staying alive. Something in him made him persevere through this horrible time. Stamina. During Elie’s time at the holocaust he showed stamina. He shown it though physical stamina.

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

The Holocaust is one of the most well known historical events to this day. As many as 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazi soldiers, and many suspect that there were even more. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of Wiesel’s time in various concentration camps during the Holocaust. It begins in Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, and follow the journey of the main character Eliezer. A few main themes of this historic recount are silence, night, and inhumanity. Night has many examples of inhumanity, specifically violence toward the inmates. Wiesel’s memoir shines a light on the violence and the inhumanity of the Nazis, and this impacts Eliezer, the book’s theme of inhumanity, and the reader.

“The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us. In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either” (Wiesel,36). One of the most important keys to survival during the Holocaust was endurance and self-preservation. In order to ensure one would make it by, many focused on themselves. Some of the Holocaust victims took this mindset too far. There were many times when the Jews would kill each other, including their own family for food. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there were many times were Elie thought he would be better off without his father.

Mistrust can be defined as having no trust or confidence in someone or something (Webster's Dictionary). Elie Wiesel in Night shows that during his time at the concentration camps, he slowly lost his trust or confidence in God’s plan for him. When analyzing the memoir, suffering and traumatizing events are the reason for Elie losing his trust in God. Elie Wiesel’s Night gives a good visualization of how much of an affect suffering can have on a loved one. Elie’s father suffers the most out of the two, Elie is affected by this because of how much he loves his father and hates to see him suffer.

During World War ll, an infamous politician, Adolf Hitler, chose to kill himself when he was put in a crisis situation, leaving his country in ruins, as well as revealing that he was very much selfish, cowardly, and scared. As depicted in the novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, during the Jewish Holocaust, when put in testing situations, people react poorly towards the Jews, and the Jewish prisoners show hatred towards the Germans. Additionally, in the short story ¨The in Group¨ by Eve Shale, a young girl named Eve chooses popularity over rightfulness. In both Night and ¨The in Group¨ it is demonstrated that crisis brings out the worst in people because the increased pressure results in poorer choices and the unbearable strain leads to selfishness.

Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans.

Close your eyes and imagine this horrifying scene: a dark, dirty concentration camp, a huge pit of flames, a son holding his father firmly by the hand, and then throwing his father in the flames. As you read Elie’s horrifyingly inhumane description of the concentration camps, in which they were degraded and tortured in ways impossible to comprehend, you begin to see one major relationship in every key event: inhumanity. The inhumanity of a group of people will be brought out in deplorable conditions. When you look at a dog and you look at a human, you can see distinct differences. Many times the inmates of the concentration camps were referred to as animals and treated like them as well.

The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a young girl who goes into hiding during the Holocaust. In this play, Anne writes in her diary the details of what it’s like to go into hiding. In 1942, it was not only Anne who was struggling to survive, there was a boy, Elie Weisel, who was not in hiding, he was in a concentration camp. In this book that he wrote called Night, he talks about the details and struggles of being in the concentration camps. Although the play and Night have different settings, both works focus on the same conflicts and themes.

Earlier in Elie’s time in the concentration camps, he fought as hard as he could to keep him and his father alive and healthy. But after Elie’s father’s death, his will to stay alive and keep on fighting is questioned. As Elie talks about his remaining time in Auschwitz he says, “I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (Wiesel 113).

Imagine, people at your feet, doing everything you ask, raising you higher and better than everyone else. Does it feel good to live a life of luxury? Some would give up everything they have to achieve this fantasy, and the ones who finally have it never let it go. This is what it is like to have power and most abuse it. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, it follows a young boy named Elie, through a tragic event called the holocaust. Through so many traumatizing moments of fear and helplessness gives the ongoing theme of power, or the abuse of power. Power is something that an individual gains by asserting authority over others and can influence what they do or what happens. In this case many people that took part in the holocaust abused their power to accomplish extreme genocide. The abuse of power originated from Hitler, onto the people who ran the concentration camps, and to the people directly looking over the mistreated Jews.

Guns are used for protection, power, and sporting purposes. Guns are beneficial to society when used by trained professionals, such as the police and military. When in untrained hands, however, guns can cause death to friends, neighbors, family members and children. Due to their small size, weight and concealability, handguns pose some of the greatest risks to the public, ranging from accidental death in the home to mass shootings in public places. Consequently, private ownership of handguns should be banned by the US government due to their irresponsible use in murders and accidental deaths, the increased dangers to others caused by their concealability, and the availability of alternative, non-lethal self-defense weapons.

The Holocaust was a horrible event, one most people hate to think of much less speak of. This event however is the base of young Elie Wiesel’s life and story. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is all about his personal journey and place in the telling of the Holocaust. In the book he is sent to Auschwitz as a lamb is sent to the slaughter. He reiterates his transformation during this time, a transformation where he diverts from his Jewish roots and loses his faith in a merciful and Almighty God.

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories” (Wiesel 30).