Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Nearing the end of their arduous journey, the mutual dependence was slowly dwindling as Elie began to have to take care of his father. One example of this is when his father was sick and in the camp infirmary and had not been fed so Elie “gave him what was left of [his] soup. But [his] heart was heavy. [He] was aware that [he] was doing it grudgingly,’ (107). Being that he did this grudgingly, the reader is shown that, to Elie, taking care of his father had become more of an unwanted task rather than a kind action coming from his heart. Elie begins to see his own father as a thorn in his side much rather than his source support. His father is no longer there as a person who will provide motivation to survive but now instead a burden. In another instance, still in the infirmary, when his father pleaded for water and the officer came to silence him, Elie states, “ I didn’t move.

Elie Wiesal's memoir Night tells the tragic story of his time spent in the concentration camps along with his father during World War 2. Elie faces and witnesses numerous acts of dehumanization by the Nazis when forced into the camps. The dehumanization of Elie is demonstrated through the stripping away of his humanity, physical abuse, and the stripping away of his innocence.

This demonstrates how prominent his loss of faith was to his disappearance of identity. The Nazis endlessly proved how they treated the Jews, stripping them of their faith and slowly leaving the prisoners unrecognizable — even to themselves. During the evacuation of Poland to Germany, Elie and his fellow prisoners were forced to run fifty miles without a stop. They had no access to shelter or food and were in terrible condition — to the point where they were barely alive. Elie mentions, "We have transcended everything – death, fatigue, and our natural needs" (Wiesel 87).

A little over 70 years ago, Elie Wiesel survived a situation that many people could not even fathom. In 1944, Elie and his family were brought to Auschwitz where he nearly experienced death many times.

On page 32 of Night, Eliezer says, “Babies! Yes, I did see this with my own eyes thrown into the flames.” Jews were selected to be burned to death in the crematorium if they looked weak and were unable to please the Nazis. The Nazis also killed Jews by hanging them, and even worse, making other fellow prisoners walk by and look them in the eyes while they were in the midst of dying. They made sure to be very strict, going to the point of replacing the head of Eliezer and his father’s block for being too nice. Eliezer and many other Jews at the concentration camps lost faith in God because of the harsh actions of the Nazis. While Eliezer was in the infirmary, another patient said he had more faith in Hitler because “He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people,” (page 81). The Jews were beaten, whipped, and killed for doing nothing

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

In Night, Elie Wiesel does a phenomenal job by mirroring the characters’ feelings though setting. When the author uses nighttime as the setting, it can make the reader feel scared, or perhaps uneasy. An example of this is when the author writes “Night had fallen” (18). When night is used as a setting, it often lead or hints towards bad or dangerous things happening. Daytime used as setting tends to make you have a better sense of security.This is shown when the wiesel says “At daybreak, the gloom had lifted” (21). Even in this example, it shows things have gotten better to some extent. During the day horrendous events usually don’t occur, so their spirits may be uplifted or optimistic. The author can use “familiar” places to the characters

15 years old. Summer. You should be tanning in the bright summer sun or riding your newly bought bike around the path by the lake. Insted, your role has flipped and you are caring for your sick father who is dying, something someone at this age should never have to experience. The Holocaust based texts Night by Elie Wiesel and the film the Last Days produced by Steven Spielberg, are well thought out examples of the young struggling while turning their backs on their youth. All of these examples showcase the struggle teens and young children faced during their time in ghettos and camps. In dire circumstances, these texts argue that Holocaust children are forced to abandon their youth.

Would you lose all faith if you went through the Holocaust? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel signifies the theme, loss of faith. Throughout the book, he supplied many was to notice the theme. And from foreshadowing, repetition and also tone, Elie was able to show this in great detail. All while only giving the main points of his terrible journey. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, repetition, and tone to illustrate loss of faith.

How were the Jews dehumanized by the Nazis? The Nazis dehumanized the Jews through depriving them of basic human needs, individuality, and by treating them like animals. Elie Wiesel, surviver of the Holocaust, explains dehumanization in his autobiography Night. Night takes its reader through an amazing realization of how the people changed from civilized humans to vicious and animal-like. Each event that happens to Elie and the Jews, strips away pieces of their humanity. The Nazis dehumanize the Jews by robing them of their beloved possessions.

The murder of thousands can not only impact the universe, but the ones that live in it. For instance, victims of the Happiest had to deal with, not only losing all of their loved ones but the deaths of others around them. In “Night”, Elie is expiring death, of not only his loved ones, also other Jews who were taken by Hitler. The loss of your family is petrifying. But watching others have their lives slipped away from their fingertips, is indubitably scary. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes drastically throughout the book, because of the time he spent in Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.

Elie Wiesel says, "I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions"(5). Questioning God is essential to building a relationship with Him. As one finds the answers to the questions they become closer to God. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie grows up questioning God and when he is put in the concentration camp he questions God in ways that test his faith. Despite having grown up so strong in his faith, Elie questions his faith as he is put through the trials and tribulations of the concentration camp.

“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.” (Wiesel 32). The previous sentence is a quote from Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. Wiesel’s memoir is a first person account of a survivor of the Holocaust that occurred between 1933-1945. Over six million Jews were placed in concentration camps and murdered during this time period. Less than one percent of the Jews in the holocaust survived, but Elie Wiesel was one of the very few survivors. He lived on to tell his story of the pain and suffering the Jews were put through during this time. Wiesel does a great job of showing the readers the horrific tragedies he and his fellow Jews had to endure by

    Instantly, the brute force is the Nazis main method of dehumanization. Violence increased greatly at the end of the war because the Nazis wanted to rid evidence of the Jews. Taking out as many Jews as they can before they are stopped, because,“In the Spring of 1944, with the end in sight, the Nazis deported and eventually wiped out 450 000 Jews” (Fine, 38). The end of the war is in sight, but that is when it became horrific. 450 000 Jews wiped out in a matter of months. Pride goes out to the Germans for great efficiency their destruction. Repetition of physical abuse weakens the victims. Elie, a boy in one of the many concentration camps remembers getting up at,“Around five o’clock in the morning we were expelled from the barrack. The Kapo’s were beating us again” (Wiesel, 36). Elie was getting beaten again. Later on, he no longer feels the pain. The beginning of his morality starts to fade with the hope that it never returns. Threatening prisoners with harsh, vicious words can suppress them from the inside. The German officer told the victims that,“If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot like dogs” (Wiesel, 24). The bluntness of his words can send shivers down a spine knowing full well that they will

If God is so loving and good, how can He allow so much evil and bad things to happen in this world? One of the biggest stumbling block for millions of people in the world, commonly this is the question that I have heard, keep people from believing in God at all. In reflection of reading Night, by Elie Wiesel, I think that this is an important question to tackle. One of the themes of the memoir Night is, “the silence of God in all the atrocities and evil of this world.” Eliezer becomes hopeless, we see this when he says, “And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” (pg. 69, Night). When investigating such a heavy topic, it is important to focus on a few different areas. The idea of a loving and perfect God, but an evil and corrupt world. On page 76 of Night, Eliezer cries, “"It's over. God is no longer with us." And as though he regretted having uttered such words so coldly, so dryly, he added in his broken voice, "I know. No one has the right to say things like that. I know that very well. Man is too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways...I suffer hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and I see what is being done here. Where is God's mercy? Where's God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?"” To explain such a claim, let’s look at where evil comes from (what is the root of all evil), and, what the bible says about God being faithful/good. When it comes