Night By Elie Wiesel: Book Analysis

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times scaled. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly”. Throughout the book, Elie’s faith slowly fades away until it’s gone. His experiences during the Holocaust severely affected the way he views God and his faith.

6 million lives, all of those perished in the holocaust for nothing but their religion; So many died but some survived and one survivor in particular Elie Wiesel author of Night tells his story of how at the age 16 he was deported to a concentration camp with his father and saw what took to survive. In those moments where Wiesel is describing what happened is where we decide is hope really the reason he survived or was it is fear?

Night is a very meaningful novel written by a Holocaust survivor. This novel is about the experiences Elizer Wiesel went through and how he grew his resilience. Family impacts resilience because lots of people rely on their family/ loved ones as a form of strength and support, in this case Elie is a person who relies on his father. Throughout the story, while Elies father was alive, Elies relied on him as a reason to live and a reason to keep fighting during this rough time and without his dad he would have just given up and committed suicide because there was no point in living without his form of support, his dad.

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” (P. Levi) Hitler was a monster but would be powerless without the Nazis who followed him without questioning his authority. In the Novella Night Elie Wiesel tell the horrific story of the intrinsically unjust events that occured within the concentration camps, that evokes a feeling of disgust and sorrow in the person reading it. His ability to elude danger fills the reader with hope; his vivid vocabulary and astounding use of literary devices makes the words seem as if they were literally jumping off the page. In the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic Robert

Hope drives courage, people need to have hope in order to have courage. Elie also says that you need to have faith in life, and that you will see the day of liberation. This means that people in the Holocaust needed to have hope in their lives and hope that they would make it through this terrible

He was forced into one of the worst labor concentration camps and through it all he found and held on to the slightest bit of hope. For example, “ I no longer felt anything except for the lashes of the whip….He took his time with the lashes. Only the first one really hurt.” Even though the lashes hurt really bad all he could think about was his father, “ I was thinking of my father. He would be suffering more than I,” He wasn’t really focused on the fact that he just got beat. He had lost his faith and belief in God through this traumatic event; and even through this time, when he had little faith, he was resilient and pushed through. He pushed through even though he had no idea of the future. Even though he could have give up and died at any point during his time there, he decided to be resilient and to keep

In Night by Elie Weisel, his father fails to give an account of what he heard at the council meeting so therefore nobody knows what’s going on. Secondly, the sighet residents aren’t listening to Moishe the Beadle who has already experienced a concentration camp. All the Jews are relying on Elie’s Father to give them information because they think what Moishe said was false.Once everyone steps of the train, they find out that what Moishe said wasn’t false. It’s ironic that people believed Elie’s father instead of Moishe the Beadle because Elie’s father was a respected leader of the community and Moishe was not a prominent figure in the town of sighet.

Hope In The Holocaust The Holocaust was a horrible part of World War II. It remains a bad part of history, started by Adolf Hitler, the Nazis killed millions of innocent people, most importantly Jews, in camps all over Europe. These victims were forced to be taken from their homes, treated terribly, and many lost their lives in gas chambers. The Holocaust teaches us an important lesson about fighting against hate and harm. In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, hope is one of the important themes, showing up in stories of loss, holding on to hope, and false hope.

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.

As days went by in the concentration camp, many begin to lose their faith in religion just like Elie. The book, Night is written by Elie Wiesel, a winner of the Nobel Peace prize. In the book Night, Elie is the main character who is very religious at first. It begins with his family and him traveling to Auschwitz which his little sister and mother die. With only his father and him, they went through many hardships and moving from camp to camp. Unfortunately, Elie father did not survive the Holocaust but Elie did. By the end of the story, Elie did entirely lose his faith in God because he did not celebrate the important holidays, questioned God and his justice, and tries to forget his existence.

“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.

The absence of hope is shown through the mother's death and the dull setting of the novel. The mother is an example of how her absents of hope caused her death. “As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and i hope it with all my heart“(57). The mother said this in a flashback the man had after the boy said he wanted to be with her. This show that she knows that if they stay, they will be raped, killed, and perhaps eaten and she would rather commit suicide than let that happen to her. This matters because humans need to have something to live for in something in order to achieve a goal. Another example of an absenceof hope is the setting

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -President Snow in The Hunger Games. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a true story about the holocaust. In the story the main character, Elie, experiences terrible things. He is so hopeful that things are going to get better (after all how could they get any worse) and he is so fearful that his last bit of hope will be taken away and he will give up on life. Elie experiences the worst things that we can imagine. How could anyone have hope in such darkness? What could anyone fear when they have lost everything?

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.