Night By Elie Wiesel Research Paper

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

Elie cares about his father and does not him to just give up and die, he forces him to get up and take a shower. Later when his father was taken to the infirmary the nazi’s did not give him any food. Elie gives his father half of his soup instead of giving him all of it. This shows that Elie is more concerned with himself than his father. Like the son that killed his father on the way to Buchenwald.

In the final sections of the book “Night”,the narrator describes his life after his father's death as meaningless.In fact,Elie doesn’t mention that time in the book,instead he skips to the day he was liberated from the camps.A reason this he is affected so deeply could be that the bond between him and his father grew stronger in the camps.

Elie was realizing that these camps change people so fast. His father was hit and he didn’t even jump out to defend him like he would the day before. Instead he was concerned with his own survival and kept his distance. The pattern continues when Idek beats his father with a medal bad. Elie stood there motionless and watched. Instead of getting angry at Idek he was angry at his father for making himself a target. There is one time where the pattern seems to break. The part of the story where his father becomes very il, he offers a knife and a spoon to Elie because he feels as though he is on the brink of death. Elie doesn’t want to accept the offer. You can see a change in Elie’s feelings towards his father. He feels bad, he doesn’t want his father to die. He needs him for survival; he’s the only person keeping him alive. He tries his best to keep his father going, he offers him the rest pf his soup when he knew he wasn’t being fed because the sick don’t get fed since they figure it is a waste of

He is no longer anticipating Him to make a change or stop the atrocities taking place in the camp. For Elie this is “a protest against Him”, protesting the silence, proving that he can make it without the weight of waiting for righteousness. Ultimately, as the days continued, Elie appeared to be almost apathetic. He woke up that dawn on January 29 without a father. As it turned out, he had been taken to the crematoria.

Elie tells his story of the Ghetto in Sighet, the Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps, and the jarring moments in between. His story shows numerous ways in which the Nazis dehumanized inmates, and more importantly how it affected the Jews. The horrific circumstances Jews were in—where their lives were constantly at risk—put

Events such as his fathers and families deaths as well as the traumas he experienced in the concentration camps heavily influences his perspective on human nature towards the end of the memoir. During his entrance into the camp where Elie first witnesses the mass murdering of innocent Jewish civilians, he explains, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel, 32). The emphasis on Elie “never forgetting” these moments he has experienced highlights his loss of faith, innocence as well as the transformation of his dream in terms of what his future will look like as the camps progress. The reality faced by Elie permanently alters his perspective of how he will now continuously remember the traumas he experienced as well as honor the

(19) Near the end of the novel, Elie has little to no reaction reguarding others and their suffering. Elie grew self-centered because of the extreme conditions and lost his empathetic, compassionate personality. Elie desired food more than his, or others’ lives. Elie’s once strong faith in God began to decline because of the events of the Holocaust, leading to resentment towards

While his father is lying on his deathbed, as Elie needed relief and pitied himself, he starts to pray again, he starts to regain the faith that he once lost, ‘Please lord, take these horrible thoughts that I have had about leaving my

To begin, Can you image having to lose your family, friends and cousins and all your left with in this world is yourself and you no longer belief in God because of all the terrifying things that you seen and had to experiences and because you were taught that god is everywhere and God is good also his very forgiving but it all turns around when Elie’s and his family also their Jew’s get taken to concentration camp where dreams don’t exist only blood, flames, painful and most important were who survival only matters and trying to stay in the some spend of marching as the others pensioner so you won’t get shot. The only way a person survived is looking after themselves first and staying strong. Elie’s a 15 years old boy always has been a very

Elie and the people surrounding him were starting to believe that they were going to be killed and burned like the others. Elie mentioned that, “Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead...during the history of Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves,”(33). People were starting to panic about what was going to occur next and trying to grasp onto the situation they were in. A moment that Elie would never forget and what was a big impact on his self-change was when he witnessed his father being assaulted and didn’t even do anything. As evidence, “he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours...

Elie was a victim of dehumanization during the holocaust which caused him to feel no pain or sadness in these horrible times. Through the story, Elie has tried not to become dehumanized by the Nazis, but sadly he still does. At some points he wants to just get rid of his father, and gets angry at him for no reason. One day Ellie was working and his dad got in a kapos way. The man began to beat Elie's father but Ellie didn't care,he thought, “What is more, any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the kapo, but against my father”(Weisel 52). Elie thought that his father was smart enough to know not to get in the way of the kapo, sadly though Elie felt no grief for his poor father only anger. In another instance Elie was looking for his father hoping he was still alive, but he also didn't want to find him. He said, “Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of his dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about my self”(Weisel 101). Elie, like most of the other

Many families suffer from issues of hunger, money, addiction, and more. But not many family conflicts lead to a family member killing another family member. This although, was a common occurrence during the Holocaust. Many of the Jews killed each other for food and other needs that people now take for granted. In Elie Wiesel's novel, Night, Elie shows the digression of families throughout the beginning, middle and end of the book to demonstrate the inhumanity of the prisoners at the camps.

Some people lived the rest of their lives being in despair and horror, while others chose to embrace all that they went through. Elie went through life after the holocaust the same way that most of the other victims did. His walk through life after the Holocaust was filled with anger and guilt but he then had to learn how to cope with the thought of all the tragic events that he went through. His way of coping was writing his memoir “Night”, he writes about his thoughts on the Holocaust and tells the truth about what happened. Although he went through so much he decided later in life to be positive and not let this horrible thing that happened stop him from living life to the

To cope with the oppressive treatment from the concentration camps’ officials, Elie’s innate senses of compassion and altruism wane. Watching his father subject himself to the beating, Elie’s wishes that his father had not incurred the wrath of Idek, the Kapo. However instead rescuing his father from the blows, Elie “watche[s] it all happening without moving. [He] kept silent. In fact, [he] thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows” (54). In his fleeting thoughts of abandoning his father to deal with the beating alone, Elie is beginning to betray the bonds of family; he is losing the original compassion and willingness to sacrifice himself that he entered the camp with. Although there is a suggestion of worry and compassion left in Elie’s tone, this is not strong enough to for Elie to forgo his own safety and wellbeing. In this, Elie has