Examples Of Hope In Night By Elie Wiesel

As soon as he is sent to the Concentration Camps he losses this part of his life and starts blaming God for not doing anything. Eliezer also starts caring more about himself and only about food rather than for his family. Eliezer multiple times thinks about not sharing his food rations with his very weak old father and he even thought about a way to leave his father so he does not have to care for him. This shows how a “hellish” experience like the Holocaust can completely change a person's means of living.

When Eliezer was incarcerated at Auschwitz, he was constantly in fear. One example of fear in Night is Eliezer’s initial fear of death. For example, when Eliezer has to lie about his age and profession to the officer, his voice shakes as he does so. Not much longer after, he believes he is going to die in the pit of fire. He is sweating and starts praying. The SS ultimately direct him to the left towards the barracks. Eliezer is also very fearful of being separated from his father. When he was assigned his first job, he desperately asked the foreman to work alongside Shlomo. Another example was at Gleiwitz

In Elie Wiesel's book, Night, the overlap of optimism and will for survival and faith kept many people in the Holocaust alive, including Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust was an agonizing time for many people. It was a mass persecution and murder of 6 million jews and 5 million non-jewish people. Some people targeted in the Holocaust were Jewish People, Homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, Communists, and Socialists. They were sent to camps most of the time. Those who were deemed fit to work normally would be anybody over the age of 14 and appearing to be healthy, anybody else was sent to be executed. The Elderly and Women with Children had no chance of being deemed fit to work.

In this scene they are marching through the German forests surrounding Auschwitz to leave the concentration camp, it is chilling for the marchers, and unsuitable conditions to walk for hours. Elie is trying to help his father move on and stay with the crowd, yet the guards try to take and kill him because he is visibly dead inside. The author uses dialogue for this scene to show the urgency in Eliezer’s voice to make sure his father stays alive because the only thing he cares about is his father staying with him and surviving the march. Elie throughout the whole of chapters 3 and 4 was trying to aid his father and make sure he survives, but he eventually got frustrated because his father would not listen to him. In this scene, he insists that his father should drink the water because he is severely dehydrated, but the father is ignorant.

The very first night he arrived at Auschwitz Eliezer began to lose his faith in God. He knew what was coming his way at the camp. His first night was full of dreadful memories that he says he will never forget. One of those memories was “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). This quote displays the early stages of Eliezer lack of faith in God. The moments he references to in the quote are scary and horrifying experiences he had went through in his first night at the camp. He had to accept the hardships he was about to undergo and the dreams and hopes he had in life that he had just lost. With those hopes and dreams he also lost faith in God.

Early in the book Elie worked for years trying to find his God but no one would help him except for a man named Moishe the Beadle. This man taught Eliezer how to find his god, over many years. For example, the text states, “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my god, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah” (Wiesel 19). In this quote, Eliezer is showing how determined he was to find his god and the Messiah through his early years. He ended up doing all of that hard work for nothing since they had to leave their homes and go to the concentration camps. Unfortunately, after all that hard work and time spent trying to find his god, it was all wasted because he had to turn around and was taken away to the concentration

At the start of the memoir, Eliezer is described as a religious boy who attends synagogue frequently and listens to Moshe the Beadle, his pedagogue of Jewish mysticism. When Eliezer arrives at the concentration camps he is shocked by what goes on and does not understand how God could let his followers be mass murdered by the Nazis. An anger then begins to build in Eliezer as more and more horrible events happen in the concentration camps, making him believe that the germans murdered his God and the God now does not care at all about the suffering and deaths of the jewish people in the camps. Eliezer’s view on God then changes again toward the end of the book where he gives up all hope in God. Eliezer blatantly rejects God at this point stating that “It’s over.

He lost in his faith in life, and God as stating, “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live (Wiesel 32).” Eliezer has been broken and scarred for life. He has seen events that are inhumane and will never be the same. On page 63 he continues his apostasy,“‘What are you my God?... Why do You still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?’” Someone that he used to praise and worship he is now shaming and questioning. Although the reader follows Eliezer while he loses his faith, we also see a strong father-son relationship rise. During these disgusting times, Eliezer's only motive to stay alive was his father,“My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me…. I had no right to let myself die (Wiesel 82).”He pushed through despicable conditions and situations and managed to survive the concentration camp. Finally Eliezer's senses sharpened and his self awareness and preservation became noticeable. He had to do this if he wanted to survive as it says, “He was going to be hanged…. I did not feel any pity for him. I was even pleased about what had happened I had saved my gold crown (Wiesel 50).” He was selfish and even pleased about a life being lost because it meant he could keep something valuable. Elie was a humble, faithful person at

At this point I was convince Eliezer wasn’t Elie anymore. That his nickname ringed in his ears with emptiness and not a trace of sweet or aching reminiscing. He already lost his foundation at first - everything he grew up to know and everyone he grew to love. If that wasn’t enough his faith in God was stomped on and all of of his passion and love, along with nearly every other emotion, was forgotten and he could no longer remember all of the happiness he felt before. His heart was hollow. All he was now was a soulless boy who was forced to be a man too

emotionally scarred while at the concentration camps. Eliezer had to experience death, pain, and cruelty. Eliezer had to be emotionally and physically strong for his father. When he was reunited with two of his sisters he had to be strong, and take the lead since his father had died. In the end Eliezer lost his faith in God. He could not understand why God let all those horrible things

Eliezer was only 15 when it all began, when he basically lost everything that he was living for. He was held in captivity for his beliefs and tortured. Although he knew the world was cruel, he didn't know the fullness of it all until he lost his father. "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears" (Wiesel 112). Eliezer began to realize the gravity of his current difficulty, the torments of the Nazis and his loss of his faith. That moment of realization shows that he lost all of his innocence. In the loss of his father, he realized he lives in a cruel world, and not everything can go according. Eliezer was still 15 when he crossed the threshold of the death

Eliezer had been set up in the situation where he had to act fast about the path that he was going to take since it would’ve caused a great disruption towards himself. He was put into the situation where he had to choose to have his father become thrown off a wagon or have him be kept with Elie and the rest of the prisoners. Elie soon made his decision and called out “Father! Father! Wake up.

That would be easier than a slow death in the flames.” (Pg.33) this is what tells the reader that Elie can't have hope when he thinks that it is nonexistent. He sees it as inescapable. Hope and motivation are things that need to stay high.

In the concentration camp Eliezer can’t understand why God allows so much death and destruction, and even though he is angry and questions God he never loses his faith. Although Eliezer never has his questions answered he never loses his faith. Eliezers evolving relationship with God is a major source of character development for himself.

the horrific events in the concentration camp and the ever-present risk of death does Eliezer