...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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...and 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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...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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...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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...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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...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… A witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory" (Wiesel ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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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 Darkest Night Some nights are created not by the absence of the sun, but the darkness conjured inside of man, himself. Ironically, some of the darkest of time periods that mankind will ever experience was created from inside from man. One of time periods was named the Holocaust. Considered one of the most horrific events in human history, one was to be found very lucky to have survived such torture and tragedy, if they survivored. One survivor of the Holocaust was a little 15 year old boy named Elie Wiesel, writer of the book Night, of which has to do with his experiences during the Holocaust. In Night, Elie describes just how dark and evil the Holocaust truly was using tragedy, symbolism and tone in his writing. Whomever you...
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...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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...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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...many influential quotes Elie Wiesel has stated. Elie Wiesel is a nobel peace prize winner and has written dozens of fiction and nonfiction, addressing and crusaded against abuse and intolerance around the world inspired by his dreadful times in the Holocaust, including “Night”. In the book, Elie was only 15 when he and his family were taken and separated in Auschwitz because they were Jews. Throughout Auschwitz Elie experiences many horrid events that forever changed and shaped him into who he is today. and In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, gave up on humanity, and was physiological changed. Throughout Elie’s experiences during his time spent at Auschwitz, he started to lose his faith in God. Elie started to rebel and question God. Elie Wiesel stated in the text “Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (Page 67). Elie clearly had lost his faith. The thought of rebelling occurred after so many people died having no power. “He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?...Kept six crematoria working day and night… had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?” Elie also implies on page 67. Elie had heart-provoking thoughts occuring on how people could never worship the Lord and believe...
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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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...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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...silent? In Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, irony, and imagery to illustrate how silence takes over when fear sets in. When Elie gets to the concentration camp there is an immediate change in his personality. The fear of the camp sets into Elie and he starts to lose his voice. Right away Elie’s father asks to use the bathroom and the officer slapped him. “What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh.”(p.39). Elie says that yesterday he would have stood up for his father. This quote is symbolizing just how much the fear of the concentration camp had changed Elie in just a short amount a time. His voice was dissipating along with his courage. By the end of the book Elie has lost his voice completely. When...
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