What Does Elie Wiesel Show Inhumanity In Night

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, it shows the things that Elie went through in the concentration camp. Elie uses dark imagery to show how physically miserable it was for them. Also, we are able to see his perspective on how they were treated to the point all they felt was pain, and mostly what he went through mentally and physically. In Night, the most crucial external conflict revolves around the Nazi party which is shown through the perspective of Elie Wiesel and his use of dark imagery. The way it impacted the life of Elie because the Nazi party caused him more personal problems like questioning if his father is worth being with, his relationship with God, if he should still live, and in the end the way he saw himself was different.

Wiesel made the appeal pathos noticeable to the audience in Night; using this strategy in his writing gives the audience the emotional feeling felt by Eliezer as the story progressed. The first example of pathos was the appearance of German troops on the streets of Sighet, “The race toward death had begun.” (Wiesel 2006, 10). This is how Elie Wiesel used the appeal of pathos to help the audience understand how frightened and shocked everyone in the town was after the German officers appeared on their streets. Elie continued to use this appeal throughout the book;

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.

(26) Rather than comfort her, or investigate the danger she seemed to warn them of, the people with her in the car resorted to denying the issue and quieting her–turning to violence in the end. The people didn’t want to hear her, or the possibility that the danger she told of was real. That the fire was coming for them. This time, when the foreshadowing came true, the people were met with death or concentration camps. Their denial brought them nothing, even though they tried using it as a shield to deflect their

This was after the death march elie’s father was sick and the block wanted him to stop worrying about his father“I listened to him without interrupting. He Was right i thought deep down not daring to admit it to myself”lastly, the fear of him dying scares him and he sees his father as someone holding him back so he is kind of trying to get rid of him. This was when his father was sick after the death march, and his father was dying, his reaction was not what was expected. “When i woke up it was daylight that is when i remembered that i had a father during the alert i had followed the mob not taking care of him i knew he was running of strength close to death and yet i had abandoned him”(wiesel

The holocaust is the most deadly genocide in the world that impacted millions of life by controlling and running life because of one mean man. In Elie Wiesel memoir, The Night is describing his own experience before, during and after the holocaust. He describes in meticulous details his experience in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buna with is father. Wiesel depicts how the Nazi slowly destructs every interpersonal relationship in the Jews community. Within the autobiography, Wiesel shows how the interpersonal relationships are important within the population in general, in the concentration camp and in more precisely with is own relationship with his family.

Not far from us, flames, huge flames were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes . . . children thrown into the flames. (Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?) (Wiesel 92)

The holocaust is one of the world's most tragic events, approximately 6 million Jews died and the concentration camp Auschwitz is the world's largest human cemetery, yet it has no graves. In Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir Night, he writes about his dehumanizing journey in the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Firstly, Elie experiences the loss of love and belonging when he is separated from his mother, sisters, and eventually his father. Also, the lack of respect that the Nazis showed the prisoners which lead to the men, including Elie to feel a sense of worthlessness in the camp. Finally, the lack of basic necessities in the camp leads to the men physically experiencing dehumanization. As a result, all these factors contribute to the

The quote “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn” is very relevant in the Holocaust texts Night by Elie Wiesel and The Last Days directed by James Moll because it really sums up the Holocaust. Both these texts give insight to what happened inside the camps and how the survivors were changed forever. These texts both show that in times of extreme inhumanity, one can lose his faith, which leads to a loss of innocence.

The silence from the world as well as the presumed absence of God had embedded a significance in the novel that Wiesel had started to accept muteness as a standard part of his life. He no longer expected anything from anyone but impartialness and has reached the point where he has submitted to the painful realization that his God had also chosen to spectate without action to their grief. While Elie is in the midst of perceiving this unjust reality he believes he is “Terribly alone in a world without God and without man” (65). The impassiveness from what seems to be everyone, has caused to Elie to feel that he is isolated in this camp and will continue to simply be ruled by the Nazis. Wiesel isn’t sure why God has chosen to turn a deaf ear to him and the other Jews as he wants to “Pray to the God within [him] for the strength to ask Him the real questions” (3). He wants the strength to ask God these questions because know why He and the world could be so cruel as to ignore the situation of the people in the concentration camps. Their neutrality only helping the

This shows Elie’s change in his thoughts on God and having faith. At the beginning of the story, Elie strives to be a spiritual kid and is fascinated by learning about God. He goes behind his father's back to learn about God with Moishe the Beadle, and has intense prayers everyday which he cries during. However, he becomes bitter towards God, angry about all the pain he has inflicted on the Jewish race. This change in perspective was brought on by the torture, abuse, and inhumane treatment by the Nazis. It causes Elie to question how God, who is supposed to be helpful and good, could ever allow such horror. This connects to loss, and how the traumatic

Elie has adapted to his environment and adjusted to how others act around him. At the beginning of the book Elie is unaware of the horrors of the Holocaust and was in denial of the Nazi’s coming to Sighet. The author shows his further optimism when he states, “... optimism soon revived: The Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest” (page 9). He drifts away from these early beliefs as his journey continues. He soon starts to realize that this experience is a terrible one, and after fighting for so long he wants to quit and he even considers suicide, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot” (page 86). Based on this quote from the book, we see that Elie was in extreme pain and was ready to give up. Towards the end of the book, Elie gets tired of trying to save himself and his father all of the time therefore he becomes selfish and is somewhat relieved of his father’s death, the author admits this when he says, “I did not weep… I was out of tears… And deep inside of me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (page 112). As the books states, Elie was very impassive by the end of his journey. This demonstrates his feelings from the beginning to the end of the book and Elie’s overall self

Another theme that elie shows in the book is in a terrible or even horrible situation you always need your humanity at side. Elie meets a french girl when he was at one of his terrible times she showed that the humanity was still in her no matter what happened. “I dragged myself to my corner. I ached all over. I felt a cool hand wiping my blood-stained forehead. It was the French girl. She gave me her mournful smile and slipped a bit of bread into my hand. She looked into my eyes. I felt that she wanted to say something but was choked by fear. For a long moment she stayed like that, then her face cleared and she said to me in almost perfect german: ‘Bite your lip, little brother. . . . Don't cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on. The day will come, but not now. . . . Wait. grit your teeth and wait. . . .’ ” (Wiesel #51). The significance of this quote is how she had the humanity to help someone and make them feel better after all of it. She put him first before anyone. Her kindness and her words showed that she still had her humanity to be there for him. She even put her life on the line for him. She never spoke so they thought she was french but as said “...In almost perfect German...” she spoke kind words that even if a kapo heard her she would have died. For they would have punished her. Later in the book elie would have been punished or even killed for what he had done to be with his father. “The SS officers were doing the selection: the weak, to the left; those who walked well, to the right. My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back: "Come back!" I inched my way through the crowd. Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right—among them my father and I. Still, there were gunshots and some dead. The importance of

Imagine, a world where nothing looks as it should. The amount of hate so high, it’s practically unbearable. Everyday you wake up with this feeling that you’re going to die; sometimes you don’t even fear this happening. In the book Night the author Elie Wiesel takes the reader to a place in time that they wouldn‘t ever want to be; a place with terrifying experiences were the usually. All of these awful experiences, during the Holocaust, truly changed Elie as a character.

Firstly, the words of characters are essential in displaying this theme through the quotes of two characters, a young French woman, and also Elie himself. The first compassionate quote occurs after Elie is maliciously assaulted by Idek, a Kapo who has episodic outbursts of fury. After the onslaught subsides, the French woman acknowledges a distraught Elie, and attempts to console Elie by saying, “Bite your lips, little brother... Don 't cry” (Wiesel, 53). In this statement, the French woman utilizes empathy for Elie to overcome her fear of speaking to Elie, visibly shown through the quote “I knew she wanted to talk to me but that she was paralyzed with fear” (Wiesel, 53), through compassion, consequently enabling her to feel an urge to ease Elie 's suffering and calms Elie