Optimism In Night By Elie Wiesel

In Elie Wiesel's book “ Night” he reveals his experiences and memories during the Holocaust of 1941-1945. Elie Wiesel’s experience was dull, filled with violence and darkness. Elie changes not only emotionally but physically, and spiritually.

In beginning, he was a devout follower of Judaism as can be seen on page 3 where Elie admitted, “By day I studied Talmud (Jewish oral tradition), by night I would run to the synagogue to cry over the weep over the destruction of the temple.” This text evidence divulges to us what Elie was like before the Holocaust. However, by page 33, when after arriving at Auschwitz, he questions “The Almighty lord, the eternal and terrible master of the universe… What was there to thank him for?” This means that Elie is starting to question/stray away from his religion.

Another change Elie went through was his religion. Before he was captured he prayed, he sang to god and even celebrated Passover. Than when he was in the Nazi concentration camps he started losing his faith in god and got to a point where he was mad at god. He did not celebrate the holidays anymore and barely even believed in god if at all. An example of this is in the book he said he is mad at god. This proves that Elie Wiesel has just given up on his religion

Imagine a world where people are treated like dogs, what they are given to eat can barely be described as food, and they live in constant fear of their future. This is what Elie Wiesel and millions of other innocent people were faced with during the Holocaust. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he expressed to his readers the terrorizing events that occurred through his time as he moved from one concentration camp to the next. Wiesel detailed the struggle to maintain faith through various Jewish people such as Moishe the Beadle, Akiba Drumer, and himself.

He witnessed people being thrown into fiery pits. He describes this change, “The student of Talmud, the child I was had been consumed by the flames” (Wiesel 37). This shows that he no longer had time to study his religious texts nor did he care about them because he thought that this was what his God wanted. Elie was once eager to dedicate his knowledge to God. Now, after spending one day in the notorious death camps he loses confidence.

Stress and change have a strong relation because with one, comes the other. Elie Wiesel; the author of Night and Jonathan Marc Feldman; the screenwriter of Swing Kids, let readers witness characters reactions to the stress’ they encounter as the Nazi’s take over in World War II. The relationship between stress and change relates to these characters because as they experience stress throughout these stories, they undergo spiritual, emotional and interpersonal changes.

Throughout a lifetime, people undergo many different identities to discover their true self. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, suffered a major event that changed his identity forever. In his experience at the concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie had to fight to stay alive even during the most resilient moments. This event shaped his life and brought Elie to endure different perspectives in his time in the camps. Eliezer’s identity changed throughout the memoir from faithful, to fearful, to hopeless.

The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, is a tragic memoir of a young Hungarian Jew who survives the concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie shares every moment from the short time before they are taken down to the end of the tyranny that was the camp itself. Elie shares his journey of how prisoners transforms; daily witness of Hitler’s objective clearly diminishes any hope the jews held on to of surviving. Elie Wiesel's story conveys the emotional distress that the Jews experience during the Holocaust. As Elie shares his story, fear is quickly instilled upon the Jews as they live in an atmosphere of uncertainty. From the fortified windows of the Ghettos, to the frantic warnings of Mrs. Schachter, it is evident that the

As said by Audrey Hepburn; “Living is like tearing through a museum, not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it in all at once.” In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the Holocaust took place in an order of layers. As time passed, the extremity was increased each chapter he succumbed to. Elie expresses raw emotion in his memoir, Night, and leaves you in a complete, utter state of wonder and sadness. Not only this, but remembering and cherishing the importance of all the emotions from this time in history. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the theme of remembering is present before the Holocaust and in today’s society.

Elie is an innocent child, he dedicated his life to learning Jewish bible to get closer with his God, but after the incident that happens in the concentration camp, he turns into atheist. He starts to doubt the God existence. That was makes Elie characterization as a dynamic or rounded because he is changing from religious to irreligious. Elie is an admirable character, he loves his father and put full loyalty to his father, he take care of his father when he sick and defend him from bullying. Unlike other children who will to kill his father in order to keep alive. Several times he also cited about his father was the reason to stay alive. After the death of his father Elie loses his desire to live, nothing matter him anymore so he does not written about his experience clearly in Buchenwald.

The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” These finishing lines present the idea that the experience has, in a sense, “killed” Wiesel. This changed Elie’s behaviors because his death is primarily spiritual. Before his imprisonment, Wiesel, as a teenager, lived for his spiritual beliefs. His only goal for the future was to become more and more involved in the higher aspects of Judaism. During his time at the concentration camps, it causes him to feel as he died. Everything thing he knew and loved was destroyed because of the religion and for being the person he was meant to be. He was so surprised by how his God could let people kill innocent people and just sit there and listen to their prayers without doing anything to help them. This changed Elie’s behaviors because he no longer believes in God's mercy just his existence. Another way his behavior has changed is that Elie is a young and healthy boy at the story's beginning. He has so much of life before him. However, by the end of the story when the Allies liberate him and the rest of the camp, he tries to adjust to being free, clean and fed. It is all very difficult for him. After living in the dark all the time, it is hard for Elie to adjust to having his freedom

The Holocaust appeared to be a time of darkness and it seemed like on Earth and in heaven, each doorway of humanity, empathy, and kindness had been closed down. Those who did not encounter the Holocaust cannot begin to comprehend what it was like, however, those who did cannot begin to express it. Torture, genocide, and cruel acts started to fill brains and souls. The Holocaust was an event where millions of people were being murdered during World War II. The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is based on Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps, in order to give readers an insight of someone who was a victim of the Holocaust. The young narrator, Elie Wiesel, faces countless struggles for survival among the horrors of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Eliezer, the passionately, devoted boy with a benevolent family, is taken from his home and sent to a concentration camp. Through their unstable and dangerous journey, Elie is detached from his mother and sisters but lingers on with his father, only to be relocated from camp to camp. Elie mentions the death of numerous family members, the death of his own identity and innocence, to an extent in which living or dying did not matter anymore. In Night, Wiesel reveals that the exposure to an unsympathetic, bitter world generates to the destruction of the three main themes throughout the memoir which are; religious faith, identity, and family.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Elie will soon completely lose his humanity and innocence. His perception of the world is shaken because of the Holocaust. He challenges his old belief and faith, for he no longer believes God exists. The Jewish tradition is very important to Elie, but his experience in the concentration camp started to lose his morality and becomes

As the story progressed, so did Elie as a character. For example, On page 54 Wiesel states, “What’s more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath? That was life in a concentration camp had made me…” Instead of pointing the finger at the Kapo, who is truly at fault, Elie lames his father for getting beat up. He knows that the anger should be flipped around, but can’t help but to feel this way because of what the camp has made of him. This is surprising because earlier in the book he had always showed a caring tone to his father. However, as life gets harder, his anger/resentment towards his dad grows. This trait is noticeable from the fact that Elie was constantly angry and blaming someone for something. This piece of evidence helps show that the concentration camp has turned Elie into an angry person. As times get ever worse Elie begins to questions why he would bless God