Desmond Tutu once said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” (qtd. in "Desmond Tutu Quotes.") . Yes, despite all the evil Eliezer encountered during his time, he still found hope and a light at the end of the tunnel. He was only the age of fourteen when he was taken from his home by the Germans. Wiesel’s strength shines through in his novel of immorality and opens the eyes of many readers. Elie Wiesel encounters several instances of darkness but also everlasting love throughout his grueling experience with concentration camps and attempted genocide of the Jewish community in his book, Night. One of the main themes of Night, facing darkness, is shown through multiple literary elements. However, Eliezer and his father are the crucial piece of the puzzle all the way through the novel. Elie Wiesel shares his darkest experience with readers. By doing so, he opens the minds of many reader of how life was turned into such evil. Eliezer pours his feelings …show more content…
The strength Elie had, was what made him able to stay with and help his aging father. That was all that mattered to Elie Wiesel. While time began to slip away from Eliezer and his father, love was still present. Although the road to the end began its biggest downfall, Elie’s father showed his faith. “I shall always remember that smile. From which world did it come?” (Wiesel 86) . This breathtaking moment is the biggest mystery to Elie Wiesel. His father was becoming weaker but still managed to show a smile. One can not forget that they once started with everything and ended with nothing. This was Elie Wiesel’s father. He was the head of the Jewish Community and everyone knew his name, but in the end, was considered nothing but a number on his arm. In the end, nothing was more important than his father and their everlasting bond and love for one another. Never can Elie Wiesel’s memories fade to
By undergoing the torture,they are pushed to the limits. Elie and his father shared a distant relationship and lacked of support. Their relationship went from an imperfect relationship to a strong bond. Their bond strengthen when they had to rely on each other for comfort. The father and son relationship displayed, “Elie Wiesel Night” symbolizes the need for human contact, a strong reliable faith and the important family bond.
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
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“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
As Elie gets used to his new life in such a hellish state, he realizes that the trusting and faithful child that he once had been had been taken away along with his family and all else that he had ever known. While so many others around him still implore the God of their past to bring them through their suffering, Wiesel reveals to the reader that although he still believes that there is a God, he no longer sees Him as a just and compassionate leader but a cruel and testing spectator.
Over the course of Elie Wiesel's novel Night, the protagonist Eliezer gradually begins to lose his faith in God. He sinks deeper and deeper into the evils of the Holocaust, first in the ghetto, then in the Nazi concentration camp. As Eliezer's views on religion begin to change, so does his relationship with his father. He begins the novel still a young boy, and regards his father as powerful and full of strength. Gradually, he is stripped of his boyhood illusions as well as his faith, and comes to regard his father as an ordinary mortal. He grows frustrated with his father's physical weakness, and assumes the role of occasionally reluctant protector of the older man, rather than the adolescent he was before. The relationship betwee Eliezer and God, and his loss of faith in God parallels that of the loss of faith in his father. [Thesis]
I would recommend this memoir to others for several reasons. I believe that many people don’t know as much about the holocaust as they should, even people whose ancestors had to experience it. Before we read the saw section from Night, I had never actually read a real story from the holocaust, i had only seen movies and read realistic fiction stories that depicted stories that were similar to real events in one way or another. The first person point of view and literary elements that Wiesel uses really helps the reader understand how terrifying being in a concentration camp was, especially during selection. Throughout the passage Wiesel uses several literary elements, such as verbal irony, repetition, and parallelism. On page 310 Wiesel uses
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie begins to lose his faith through internal conflict. After debating the merit and value of his faith, he finally concludes that he and the other prisoners are stronger than God. This newfound belief is born out out of his idea of God’s intentions and his lack of faith. To begin, Elie believes that he is stronger than God because it is God who allowed for the Jewish people to be put into concentration. He questions God’s intentions until he finally concludes that he should no bless one who has witnessed all of the horrible events of the concentration camps failed to take action. Elie once thinks to himself, “Because of His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?”
Night, by Elie Wiesel, showed the devastation of Eliezer’s childhood and illustrated the loss of innocence through the evil of others. Elie Wiesel expressed to us that one’s own faith and beliefs can be challenged through torture and ongoing suffering. The novel, Night, allowed the reader to witness the change in Eliezer from one of an innocent child who strongly adhered to his faith in God into a person who questioned not only his faith and God but of himself as well. The cruelty is shown to him while in the concentration camp forced him to wonder if there was a God and if so why would he put him and the others through such torture. Through his suffering, Eliezer’s beliefs dramatically and negatively changed his faith in God and compelled him to experience a transformative relationship with his father.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway. People in this world are so cruel to the point that others give up and don’t care what happens in the future, because they think it no longer matters and that, that is the end of their life. But it’s not always “just the end”, there’s always a brand new story awaiting nothing just stops.
In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.
I chose to use a photo and a poem for this task. A key narrative that surrounds the Holocaust is that of remembering. There are museums, memorial sites, novels and numerous other forms of commemorating the Holocaust in order to ensure that as a society we do not forget, through the preservation of this narrative. This is to both show our respect for those who suffered during that time and to ensure it does not happen again. The poem is taken from Elie Wiesel’s novel Night which is set during the Holocaust and follows the experiences of a young man, from his home in a small town to his emancipation by Allied soldiers from a concentration camp (Wiesel, 2006). The image was created by satirist and artist Shahak Shapira by superimposing selfies taken by visitors to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with actual photos taken during the Holocaust, to highlight the disrespectful nature ‘selfies’ at a site such as this (Demilked, 2017).
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.
In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel spoke about his experience as a young Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps. During this turbulent time period, Elie described the horrifying events that he lived through and how that affected the relationship with his father. Throughout the book, Elie and his father’s relationship faced many obstacles. In the beginning, Elie and his father have much respect for one another and at the end of the book, that relationship became a burden and a feeling of guilt. Their relationship took a great toll on them throughout their journey in the concentration camps.
There are many vices that are taken up exclusively by Humans. Other animals don’t think about wiping out entire races or species just for kicks, most species don’t have the urge to attempt genocide or even turning on their own kin, but humans do. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor whose ghastly year at the Auschwitz death camp was shared with the world by way of his book, “Night.”