Questions On Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

Diction refers to Wiesel’s distinctive style of expression. He uses the words “murder” and “consumed” to describe how he feels. This accurately portrays how the camp had changed him. He no longer looked to God for answers. He felt alone from his first day in captivity. There was no freedom or happiness in his life anymore. Death became imminent and insignificant. He was surrounded by men and watched each one become nothing more than bone and flesh. But liberation came only with strength and endurance. Even those who were physically prepared didn’t necessarily make it. He repeats throughout the entire memoir the phrase “never shall I forget…” to emphasize the horror of the Holocaust.

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

This book interested me because it is a great example of what so many people went through in concentration camps throughout Europe in World War II. So many books have been written about personal accounts of war hardships suffered by the Jews but so few capture the true problems faced by prisoners. The impossible decision between survival and family was a difficult one faced by many during this time. Elie had an unfaltering will to live when his father was alive with him but once his father died the reason for living disappeared. But he once was faced with the decision of helping to keep his father alive or let him die and have an extra ration of food. How can one be stuck with a decision like this and not choose survival? Only true unselfishness can cause you to help someone

In this terrible prison camp, Jews were only given a small portion of soup and some bread, and they had to do exhausting labor. They lived in a disease-infested environment and the SS officers killed them in gas chambers when they no longer needed them. The theme betrayal is crucial in this book because Elie witnesses it in many forms while he is in the camp. While on a cattle car, he watches in horror as a boy murders his father for a slice of bread. Similarly, he notices when Rabbi Eliahu's son runs ahead of him, leaving him in the dust. Elie promised himself that he would never betray his own father, but when an SS Officer tells him that it is in his best interest to stop giving him bread, he knows it's the truth. A prisoner sharing his rations and looking after others would not have survived for

“Quote goes here” Night is a book about Elie Wiesel and his experience in the Holocaust. It starts from right before it happened and takes you through his life, up until he was liberated by Americans. He was taken through many traumatic events, and watched his fellow Jews succumb to the terrors and reduce themselves to a more primitive state. There are many times where Elie experienced traumatic events, including the entirety of the holocaust. However, while he should have become, and in fact came dangerously close to becoming, a “brute”, he managed to escape this tragic fate. This resulted in his own, sane, survival.

Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.

When Elie first arrives at Auschwitz, he is completely overwhelmed. He meets another inmate and the three are all very optimistic about their futures. This is not the case for all inmates, though. The very next person Elie meets has adopted an indifferent attitude about his situation, and has become so tauntrimized by the hardships of life in a concentration camp that he does not care if he lives or dies. When he approaches Elie and his father, his only advice is, “You should have hanged yourselves rather than come here” (30). Because of his traumatic experiences, the inmate has become so numb even death seems better than the life he is being forced to live.

The author Veronica Roth says “Desperation can make a person do surprising things”. In Night by Elie Wiesel, you see this quote come to life. Night is about a teenage boy, Elie, who survives the Holocaust. As he experiences the concentration camps he and his father fight for their survival. Elie Wiesel witnesses a son kill his father for a piece of bread. Through imagery and motifs, Wiesel shows the desperation for survival. After the prisoners experience the horrors of the concentration camp they lose all sense of morality because of their will to survive.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, imagery is employed to show the dehumanization of the Jewish people by the Nazis as the Jews develop the “survival of the fittest” mentality, and as Eliezer looses the ability to express emotions. Wiesel uses imagery of the Jews’ “survival of the fittest” mentality to show the dehumanization of the Jews who are forced to endure treacherous conditions in the concentration camps. The enslaved Jews experience the worst forms of inhumane treatment. Pushed beyond their ability to deal with the oppressing starvation, cold, disease, exhaustion, and cruelty, the Jews lose their sanity and morality. Thus, Wiesel refers to the Jews as, “wild beasts of prey with animal hatred

In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.

Every man, woman, or child has his or her breaking point, no matter how hard they try to hold it back. In Night by Elie Wiesel the main theme of the entire book is the human living condition. The quality of human life is overwhelming because humans have the potential to make amazing discoveries that help all humans. Elie Wiesel endures some of the most cruel living conditions known to mankind. This essay explains the themes of chapter one, chapter four, chapter eight in Night by Elie Wiesel.

Eliezer while being detained at the camp endured disturbing strategies used by the Nazis such as Death Marches, unrelenting Jobs , starvation, the occasional whoopings. The narrator in the story often received blows from the Kapos. As mentioned in the memoir,”The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain”( Wiesel 36).Normally the effect of a beating would have erupted emotions in Eliezer but the physical dehumanization that re occurs in the camp allows Eliezer to become numb to the pain, and this speaks to many other campers inside of the camp. On top of this, alongside the brutal beatings was the starvation that stretched a great length in time. In the memoi, the campers were fed miniscule portions of soup, bread and water and had minimal sleep and were forced to run hard long hours in any type of weather . I'm used to eating 3 meals a day regularly while Eliezer and the other concentration campers were lucky if they even had one. This reminds me how much I take for granted.I can give complete props to Eliezer because I could not withstand half the blows the narrator received, ru half the amount of miles he runs or be starved for that duration of time, and I truthfully wonder wonder his body was

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.

Eliezer's faith fades away by seeing horrible conditions of his surroundings. Many Jews were forced out of their homes without their belongings, and without knowing where they were being transferred to. This can be seen when Eliezer says, “The next morning, we marched to

begin to lose his faith in humanity and his God. Eliezer has a tough time understanding how the