...Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel of post-Holocaust literature. It is a story about a Jewish man and his family and of the unspeakable horrors that they endured during World War II. Night is a retelling of a terrible story, everything that leads to Wiesel and his family entering Auschwitz, the most notorious death camp to this day, and the aftermath of liberation. Night is an incredibly well written novel. It twines together the power of fear and the loss of faith. It touches on how humanity changes in the face of power and oppression. This novel is able to not only testify, but discuss the atrocities of events that are not easily spoken about. Wiesel manages to takes many difficult subjects like murder, religion, and false hope and force people...
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...“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it” (Wiesel). In other words, experiencing something bad or even good and to not share it with someone is as if it never happened. This is an appropriate statement for Elie Wiesel to use because it was his experience through the holocaust that caused him to become a successful writer with such works as Night. Eliezer Wiesel, known as Elie, was named after his grandfather who was killed while working as a stretcher-bearer during World War I. He was born on September 30, 1928 in the countryside of Seigh, Romania. Wiesel was a middle child and the only son to Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel, a shopkeeper and a leader in his community. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger one named Judith. Elie was a shy, thin thoughtful boy who never learned how to swim, preferred books to sports, and enjoyed playing chess. At an early age he was intimidated by classmates, so often he faked being sick so he could stay home. “Being an insecure youngster, Elie tried to bribe his classmates with...
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...Following the journey of Elie was very devastating. I could not believe how people could be so cruel. The officers at the camps had no mercy whatsoever on the Jews. “Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames.” This was the first sight of death Elie saw at the camp. I could not believe they did that to little children and babies. What they did was so cruel to the poor and innocent children. I consider Elie Wiesel as a lucky yet unfortunate person. I believe he was very lucky because he managed to pass the selections and survive the whole Holocaust. On the other hand, he was very unfortunate because he lost...
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...in a world full of these sinful beings, it's impossible to live a picture perfect life free of suffering. Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to display the unavoidable nature of pain and suffering. Symbolism was used throughout the novella to prove that suffering is inevitable. Elie's suffering starts to intensify once he reaches the concentration camp, and his suffering Is accompanied with a change in character; after a single night in the camp, Elie claims that his old, religious self "had been consumed by the flames," (Wiesel 37) which was likely to happen to him at some point with him being a victim of the holocaust. After the dentist's office was shut down, elie was glad that his gold crown was safe; he begins to think about what he could do with it, like buy food one say, and he describes his desire for food, specifically bread, as "all that mattered to [him]," (Wiesel 52) which shows...
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...In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the narrator describes how he struggled to survive in numerous concentration camps during the Holocaust. Eliezer changes throughout the text from a religious to an unemotional, lifeless being; the dehumanization he endured in the camps caused him to lose his childhood. Elie Wiesel uses simile, personification, and metaphor to demonstrate the effects of dehumanization. Wiesel uses simile to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to act like animals. For example, Eliezer states how inhumanly his actions are: “ A man appeared, crawling like a worm in the direction of the cauldrons”(Wiesel 66). This quote demonstrates that people would do anything for the survival of themselves. Even if they were shot down, they would want to help themselves first before others. This quote is animal-like because, in the story, Eliezer is describing this prisoner to a worm. Elie dehumanizes others because he is jealous and wants what others have. The use of the word worm implies to an animal who slithers on the ground. In conclusion, Wiesel uses simile to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to act like animals. Wiesel uses personification to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to go crazy. For example, Eliezer states, “We...
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...Imagine for a minute: you are a teenager that is dedicated to your religion and just a loving person in general. Now, you get ripped from your home and everything you know and are subjected to horrors that you can't even begin to believe are real. This is what happened to the author, Elie Wiesel, in his memoir, Night. Elie faces traumas that make him debate his religion throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, he is spiritual and hopeful, he begins to lose his faith as time passes, and at the end he is silent of his beliefs. As a young boy, Elie wanted to learn about his religion and have a deep spiritual life. He is persistent and strives to keep a close connection with God. According to Wiesel, his father “wanted to drive the...
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...Horrifying. Terrible. Scary. Elie Wiesel in Night was a young Jewish boy. He was taken out of his own home by a german because his family was Jewish. They were sent to a concentration camp and were treated like animals. Before arriving at camp Elie had a very strong faith, but later on he began to question god about his beliefs and lost his entire faith while there. While living in Sighet Elie had a very strong faith in God. Faith is believing in something you strongly agree with. Eli believed that God would always be there to help him out. He wouldn't go a day without praying wheather it was day or night he would always pray. Before being evacuated by the German soldiers to move out of the Ghetto to go to the concentration camps Elie was up and early. "I was up by dawn. I wanted to have time to pray before leaving"(18). Elie knew it was there last day in their home. He wanted to take one last prayer in...
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...Have you ever wondered how different your life might be if you were deported to a concentration camp, but managed to escape and survive? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family were deported to a concentration camp. Elie eventually lost his mother, father, and sisters, and struggled to survive throughout the book. After going through many horrible things, he was freed when American tanks came to the concentration camp Elie was at. Elie had been affected by many events in the book, such as the loss of his humanity, the harsh conditions in the camps, and the loss of his father. One event that clearly changed him was the loss of his humanity. In short, he lost everything that made Elie himself, such as his clothes and even his own name. For example, Elie said “A Kapo came in to check if somebody had new shoes… I had new shoes. But, as they were covered in mud, they weren’t noticed. I thanked God for creating mud” (Page 38). It is very evident that Elie did not want to lose his shoes, because the Germans had already taken everything he owned that made Elie unique. Another example can be found just a few pages later. Elie notes “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Page 42). He was no longer identified as a living human being with a name, but...
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...The destruction or slaughter of a mass race, well known as the Holocaust. For a young man named Elie Wiesel it meant pain ,Violents, & Suffering. Due to the Holocaust Elie lost everything. For 8 years, Elie Wiesel goes through bad situations deciding life or death. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the victims of the Holocaust were dehumanized & their human rights were violated when the Nazis attained their right to own their own things and no torture. What does it mean to have your most beloved items deprived? To the Jewish it meant losing hope " The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon"(pg. 29). Imagine your favorite item taken away, and not ever knowing...
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... Elie Wiesel’s existence begins in Hungary where he is born in a Jewish slum. Life takes a different lane when he lands in concentration camps under the Nazi regime. The period from when he becomes a teenager sees him face the harsh life where his father denies him the opportunity to pursue Cabbala. Elie gets his own master, Moishe the Beadle who significantly tells him to spend time pursuing God through questions and not trying to comprehend His answers. "I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions." (Wiesel 30). Moishe is among the first prisoners taken by Germans and when he manages to escape and tell people of what Germans were doing to prisoners, he is taken for insane. There then follows a trail of events where he undergoes a series of bizarre encounters including the loss of his sisters and mother. This was a very trying time for Elie in which life drives out the innocence from him completely. In the concentration camps, where they are taken to as Jews, they are subjected to incessant torture and Elie witnesses babies burning in furnaces. The aim of this essay is trying identifying various ideas in the book written by Wiesel, identifying their changes, and at last draft a conclusion from these ideas as well as marking a significant change in his life since it takes a toll on his personal relationship with God. Changes in ideas about God and Humanity by Elie Wiesel From an innocent religious boy, Wiesel was geared...
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... This is similar to the relationship between Elie Wiesel, his father and God. At first, Elie built a barrier between him and his father because he felt that his father did not care for their family as much as he cared for others: Eliezer, devoted to his religion, is not close with his father because he refuses that Elie read the Kabbalah, a religious text. After he and his father are separated from the rest of his family, Elie realizes that they are going to have to depend on each other to survive the Holocaust. Throughout Night, Elie grows closer to his father, whilst...
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...that happens to most people but the majority have not had it stripped away or been forced to question entire religious beliefs. Elie Wiesel did. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he discusses how Jews were stripped of their homes, titles, gold, and religion. He explains his story of being deported and taken to concentration camps, where he endured countless cruel acts. Elie once an extremely religious young man, tells the story of losing his faith during those horrific months. Eliezer’s loss of faith forever impacted him because seeing such horrible things made it hard for him to have faith how he previously did. Before being taken to any concentration camps, Elie is devoutly religious and is extremely faithful. Wiesel...
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...city of Sighet there was a kid by the name of Elie wiesel. At the time in the year 1944 Elie wiesel who was twelve years of age at the time, puts in some energy and feeling on the way of informing someone with good details which resembles (the assemblage of Jewish common and stately law and legend involving the Mishnah and the Gemara) and on Jewish ghost like quality. His teacher or mentor, Moshe the Beadle, comes back from a close passing and being involved with cautions that Nazi people or like attackers that will soon begin to eat away at the quietness of their lives. With whatever happens, notwithstanding when bad and dangerous to hating jews, measures force the Sighet Jews into administered ghettos, Elie's family just stays nice calm , cool , and collected. In the spring, many experts start shipping a bunch of whole trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex( the cabin they were staying in on the camp) . Elie and his family are part of the last bit of people left to be brought to the complex . In a cow's auto, eighty town people can barely move and need to get by on a not important nutriment and water. One of the expelled individuals, Madame Schächter, winds up plainly humorous with different views of blazes and heaters for his view....
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...Never Forget Darkness and sorrow thrived during the Holocaust as the world experienced events that had taken place when the power was given under false pretences to a cruel person. The tragic and terrifying event continually haunts the world today. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes his terrible sightings during the Holocaust. He was fifteen when his family, along with himself, arrived at Auschwitz, a death camp. Elie was separated from his mother and three sisters, but remained with his father. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and tone to portray the inhumane conditions that occurred during his experiences and the ripple effect of harm it caused. Elie uses foreshadowing to hint that something terrible is coming. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things” (7). Moishe has seen what was hurdling towards them. He had already lived through it. The...
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...“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”(Wiesel, 56). Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor who received the Nobel Peace Prize Award. He not only speaks to encourage you to raise your voice to conflict but to encourage you to do what it takes to stop conflict and never lose hope. Elie Wiesel was a 15-year-old Jew when his family and himself were deported to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. His younger 3 sisters and mother died at the camp in Auschwitz while his father and Wiesel were moved to another camp in Buchenwald. The claim he inflicted upon me was that the way to best solve conflict is to speak about it. Wiesel says that being silent or neutral is not the way to go. Not taking a side or not speaking up for the wrong...
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