Night Elie Wiesel Analysis

God challenges people in times of hardships, however, it depends on the person if they can take upon the challenge and keep faith in God. Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Night, is one of these people who have to take this test. Elie demonstrates faith is tested in times of trouble through the use of character relation, change in setting and the conflicts that he witnesses.

In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel depicts how he is exposed to cruelty everyday be it from the Nazis or from his fellow Jewish prisoners. Everyday the more cruelty and dehumanization he is exposed to the more he loses his faith. As he and everyone around him lose their faith focus more on self-preservation. Wiesel focused more on the survival of both him and his father. As you read throughout the book his faith dwindles more and more. Some of the best examples of this is when he is told of the crematoria(33) the next example is when the little pipel was hung (65) the biggest example was during the jewish day of Yom Kippur(69).

During World War II, the concentration camp prisoners were mentally and physically tortured causing them to lose faith in God. They believed that God would help them get through these tough times and help protect the inmates, but they soon came to the realization that he wasn't going to help and wasn't answering their endless amount of prayers. The Jews had to defend themselves and learn how to survive under these harsh conditions, especially since no one should ever have to face them. With this in mind, Elie Wiesel along with many others lost their faith. Although they should never be put into a situation terrible enough to forget the faith they once had, it was stripped from them in those concentration camps. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel, 34). The flames from the crematoriums consumed his faith forever because he witnessed so many deaths were God should have saved them. At that moment in time, he realized that God wasn't there with them and already clearly stated that Elie and other innocent Jews had to fight and defend themselves. On the contrary, some might say their faith and human spirit drove them to survive. In “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl,

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when they were transported to another concentration camp and forced to run, “the ss officers were running as well they had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace.’’ (wiesel 85). When they were running to another concentration camp a boy named zalman got a stomach cramp, felt and got trampled by everyone. As the author describes his experiences, many other examples of inhumanity and disbelief. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause loss of faith to begin with Elie wiesel sometimes had long discussions with his friend because he was really religious, he frequently asked him about his faith, “And why do you pray, Moishe?’’ I asked him. “I pray to the god within me for the strength to ask him the real question.

Sufferage. Loss. Tears. Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, explains what his father & himself went through as prisoners during the Holocaust. Elie describes everything his father and himself saw and experienced while in a concentration camp. Elie had great faith before the Holocaust, but questioned it due to his experiences at the camp.

Wiesel, his mother, and his sister were separated at the concentration camp and he did not have hope that he would see them ever again. For instance, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29). This demonstrates that Wiesel believed that he struggled to maintain faith by the loss of his family since numerous families and friends had been separated apart. A few cleared out alone to guard themselves. The reality that the German soldiers isolated friends and families and didn’t care displays of how the Nazi’s really were. The Nazis basically sent honest and good people to their awful deaths and didn’t have the courage to have feelings for them. Another example of what Wiesel said was, “...not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father…,” (111). So, therefore, Wiesel’s father was getting really weak and he realized that his father did not have the quality to outlive on his own and it was too late to save him. In addition, Wiesel felt guilty because he could not help his father survive, but he already knew the only way to live was to watch out for himself. In conclusion, this defines that Wiesel struggled to maintain faith by losing and the loss of his

Elie Wiesel vividly portrays a profound loss of faith in humanity among Jews as a result of the dehumanization inflicted by the Nazis, ultimately leading to an absence of faith in God. Initially, Elie had been a strong supporter of God and follower of faith, and he had worked hard to develop a stronger relationship with it. As Elie is put through numerous tragedies and loses many people, he recognizes the inhumane actions being committed by the Nazis, causing a loss of faith in

Subsequently, sometimes people can't control their emotions when they have to survive. In other cases, people want to die since they can't feel anymore, and they just lose hope. In "Night", Elie didn't want his father to rest and die, and his father couldn't control his emotions. "Father!" I howled. "Father! Get up! Right now! You will kill yourself..." And I grabbed his arm. he continued to moan:"Don't yell my son... Have pity on your old father... Let me rest here a little..." (Wiesel 105). Correspondingly, this quote indicates that Elie didn't want his father to die and his father wanted to die like those dead people in the corpses. Moreover, Auschwitz is a concentration camp and there is no helping one another to survive; it is a survival

Wiesel struggled a lot with his faith in Night. Before the Holocaust he had full faith in God. But his faith and trust in God started to slip throughout his time in the concentration camp. The breaking point in where Wiesel completely lost his faith in God was when the young pipel was hung. After witnessing

In the beginning of night we meet a 12 year old jewish boy named Elie. Elie lives in the town of Sighet he also lives with his parents and two older sisters, I actually find that quite ironic because I have two older sisters. He also has a cabbala teacher named moshe the beadle who is often described as awkward. Moshe is deported by the hungarians because he was a jew. After several months in captivity Moshe returns telling stories of how at the Polish border the jews were handed over to the Nazis and were forced to dig their own graves and were killed. But no one in the town believes his stories of mass killings. I can actually accept the fact that they did not believe him because what they were doing to the jews was inconceivable. Later once

Night by Elie Wiesel is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to know the hardships Jews experienced during the Holocaust. In the memoir, Wiesel goes over what Jews suffered from day by day. He also gets very descriptive when talking about the SS and how they treated the Jews. The novel has a unique view on the difference between the warrior and the noncombatant.The tone, details, and information make it a novel that people should read when wanting to know more about the Holocaust.

Kofi Atta Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations once said, “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.” (www.finestquotes.com). Just because someone may look or act different, there is no reason to treat that person entirely different when in reality, that person is just the same. Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel struggled to understand why only the Jews were being treated horribly in the world. He knew that deep down, everyone is the same. As the Nazis tortured the Jews, Elie tried his best to be strong and look on the brighter side. Elie and his family were taken by the Nazis to a

Faith is like a little seed; if you think about the positive aspects of a situation, then it will grow, like a seed grows when you water it. However, if the seed does not receive water anymore, it will die, which serves as a parallel to the horrors and antagonism of the concentration camps that killed Elie’s faith. After the analysis of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader can visualize the horrors and slaughter of millions of innocent people that occurred in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel explains how his faith in God was tested, as he was forced to leave his home, separated from his family, and observed the death all around him; he even witnessed children being thrown into huge ditches of fire alive. Elie felt abandoned, betrayed, and deceived by the God that he knew who was a loving and giving God. It was then he started to doubt His existence. Elie tried to hold on to his faith, but the childhood innocence had disappeared from within him, and he lost his faith in God completely.

Thesis Statement: The hardships that Elie Wiesel faced in the concentration camps lead him to lose faith, until after when realizing it was crucial to keep faith in God despite the horrendous events of the Holocaust.

Elie’s faith before being exposed to the concentration camps is apparent and he works hard to strengthen and grow his faith. All throughout Night, Wiesel shows the eminent effect faith has on individual’s actions and attitude. At the beginning of Night, Elie’s faith is a key feature of his lifestyle and attitude. Studying under the wisdom of Moishe the Beadle, Elie can put his faith in retrospect as he says, “In the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become one” (Wiesel 5). It is very clear that Elie is very emotionally and physically invested in his faith. Before camp Elie was so eager to expand and connect to his faith in which he becomes, “convinced” that he fully understands his faith proving him to be a devout Jewish boy. Thus because, Moishe the Beadle is helping him “enter eternity” and build his faith. Elie’s whole life revolves