...stronger growing faith and untouched humanity ideas during an evil historic event like the Holocaust? Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, will answer this question. Throughout history humanity has faced numerous tragic event caused either by nature or human beings, both of God’s creations. The Holocaust, which means “sacrifice by fire”, began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. During the Holocaust the Jews were the most affected. The Nazis killed eleven million Jews, almost two-thirds of all the Jewish population living in Europe. Jews were not the only ones the Holocaust targeted; Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also victims of Hitler’s plan. In recent years, events like The Twin Towers terrorist attack in 2001 and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami have brought enormous suffering to the world, suffering that can somehow be compared to the one lived during the Holocaust. Continuing is the analysis of Elie Wiesel’s horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Did these experiences affect his faith? Was his perception of humanity ideas impacted? The book Night starts describing Elie’s faith as one indestructible. As young as he was he had deep knowledge of Jewish mysticism studies. Elie believed in God; a God of love and unlimited power. He was told that God is the master creator of all world’s wonders and that these wonders where the emanation of the divine world. Elie concluded that if God was the creator of everything in the physical world and God is a God of love...
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...In Wiesel's detailed and devastating book Night. Wiesel describes his horrible experience during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany when his family suffered in a concentration camp. The things he experienced are unbelievable as he describes the violence, starvation, torture, and humiliation that he endured. The part where Elie questions God’s existence and then the death march that follows was especially striking to me, because it shows the extent of his hopelessness but also his enduring love for his father. Prior to going into the infirmary , Elie is living in a state of constant fear of being selected to die or being separated from his father. He is tired of hearing that the camp was even worse two years ago because he freezing, sleeping...
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...losing grasp of it can greatly influence them. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, he relives his experiences in which he’s compiled during the Holocaust that the German Nazis were held accountable for. On May 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, he at the age of fifteen, his family, and other Jews are forced by the Nazis to detach from their homes to attend their first concentration camp called Auschwitz. It was situated in Poland and his mother and youngest sister will die there while he and his father carry on their lives with the only priority of survival in their minds; little do they know, a dark future awaits them. It is in camp Buchenwald, located in Germany, to where Elie and his father transfer in the progressing years, that Nazi brutality becomes more conspicuous. This leaves him the last motive to remain alive, his father. As Elie continues to inhabit the surreal and agonizing environment with tortuous occurrences at every step, he finds it difficult to survive as an adolescent which leads to his quick transition into adulthood; thus leaving his state of innocence. Because of Elie’s loss of innocence, he is impacted by having his relationship with God suffer, being desensitized to deaths and atrocities, and reversing roles with his father. One way that Elie is impacted by his loss of innocence is his relationship with God suffers. God, though present, is prejudicial in Elie’s perspective. It appears to Elie as if God’s protection fails to liberate the Jews...
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...The sparkle that once gleamed in my father’s eyes had transformed into a black endless pits of despair. Every ounce of fat and strength had fled the once lively body as my father slowly approached death. His eyes sealed shut and his breathing became labored as officers continually beat him to death. Life at concentration camps were a living hell. Elie Wiesel describes these horrific events through his marvelous biography, Night. As a young Jewish boy, Wiesel was taken from his lifelong home and dumped into the Aushwitz concentration camp. Later in Wiesel’s journey, he was transported to the Buchenwald work camp. Elie Wiesel experienced indescribable terror as he saw the worth of his life be downgraded to absolutely nothing. The Jews...
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...Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania. His parents were Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. Wiesel's family spoke Yiddish, German, Hungarian, and Romanian. Wiesel's parents encouraged him to learn Hebrew, to read literature and to study the Torah. He had two older sisters named Beatrice and Hilda, and a younger sister named Tzipora. In 1944, when he was 15, Wiesel's family was placed in a ghetto. On May 6th of the same year the German army to took Wiesel's family and the rest of his community to Auschwitz. "A-7713" was tattooed onto his left arm. Weisel was separated from everyone but his father. They were together for about eight months as they were forced to work at a labor camp under awful conditions. His father was sent to the crematorium...
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...In 1986, Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights activism and campaigns against worldwide genocide and violence. In his acceptance speech, Wiesel said “When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe”. Wiesel found himself a target of the Nazi “Final Solution” while still only a teenager. Confined first to ghettos, Wiesel along with his whole family were then deported to the death camps at Auschwitz in 1944. The tough labor, the gruesome beatings along with the terrible conditions of Auschwitz...
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...Schindler’s List was released in 1993 and directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on historical events it’s set during the Holocaust and about Oskar Schindler, a man who saved many Jews from death. Night was written by Elie Wiesel about his life when going through the Holocaust as a Jew. These two forms of art about the Holocaust are similar when looking at the big picture, with self conflict, violence, and optimism, but once you get down to the details they definitely have their differences. Schindler, the main character of Schindler’s List, has a conflict within himself when it comes to saving the Jews and having money, girls, and alcohol. While Elie’s obviously in a different situation because he’s the oppressed, not the oppressor, so he doesn’t have enough power to actually be able to save anyone. But his conflict also lies within him. Throughout the entire book he’s moving back and forth in his belief of God....
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...He witnessed over thousands die and more suffer. He survived one of the worst events in human history and is now sharing his unbelievable journey with millions across the world. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel discusses the theme of Race. Through his use of diction, imagery, and dialogue Wiesel powerfully expresses to the reader that the Holocaust was an extremely painful journey with many struggles along the way. Wiesel’s use of diction specifically demonstrates the dehumanization and racist effects shown toward the Jews everyday. In chapter 6, one of the SS officers addresses the Jews as “Filthy dogs!” (Wiesel 63). This use of diction shows that the SS officers did not even view the Jews as Jew or as any race at all. Instead they viewed them as dogs, filthy dogs. The word filthy implies the meaning of disgust or unsanitary. As if it is their own fault that they are dirty. Another use of diction was in chapter 5, “I had ceased myself to be anything but ashes.” (Wiesel 50). “Ceased myself to be anything,” means nothing. He has become nothing but ashes. It is very straight to the point, short and brief....
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...Elie Wiesel in his memoir recounts about one of the most horrendous and dreadful event in the world history. Anti-Semitism which is the discrimination or prejudice against Jewish people that has been present in world history since the crucifixion of Christ is shown well and clearly in Wiesel’s Night. The first organized campaign against Jewish people had occurred in 1096 during the First Crusade, also known as the First Holocaust. The Holocaust, which was the organized terror and genocide of Jewish people, took place between 1933 and 1945. Hitler's release of his autobiography, Mein Kampf, in the mid-1920s told about his intentions of ridding Germany of its Jewish population. In the beginning, it was proposed that they had to simply leave...
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... May 1, 2011 Major Works Data Sheet- Night Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Date of Publication: 1958 Genre: autobiography, memoir Historical information about period of publication: World War II, and the Holocaust, ended in April 1945 when the liberating Allied armies came through the conquered territories in Nazi Europe. Night describes 16 year old Elie’s loss of faith in God, humanity, family and morality in general. Elie, therefore, vowed to not speak of his experience in Auschwitz, Buna or Buchenwald (or any event between 1943 and 1945, from the beginning of the occupation of Hungary to Germany’s liberation in 1945) for ten years, until he had time to internalize this dramatic loss, and regain his faith and possession of his memory and life. In 1954, after realizing that even less than ten years after the end of the Holocaust, the world was already forgetting and Jews were abandoning their roots, the time had come to testify and justify to the world that Hitler had not succeeded. Biographical Information about the author: Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet Romania, where his memoir Night begins. In his childhood (up to the Nazi occupation of Romania) his father encouraged his study of the Torah, other Judaic texts and other literary works. As described in the beginning of Night, Elie was also curious about the realm of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. From 1944 to 1945, Elie and his family were subjected to the Nazi terror...
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...The Psychology of Evil: Night "Nobody is ever just a refugee. Nobody is ever just a single thing. We dehumanize people when we reduce them to a single thing and this dehumanization is insidious and unconscious," said Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, and former refugee. As Adichie said, dehumanizing, being treated like animals, is a horrendous thing and it has happened in the past and continues to happen today. History is full of situations where victimizers abused their power resulting in deindividualized and dehumanized victims. Such as Elie Wiesel was not just prisoner A-7713, he was a human being as were others put into concentration camps and many who have been oppressed and dehumanized. In Philip Zimbardo’s experiment the guards dehumanized and deindividualized the prisoners (Zimbardo). In Night the prisoners were dehumanized when Dr. Mengele made them...
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...attained from a human being, their outlook on life becomes devious. Having a positive on life conceives comfort in many people’s lives. When an outside fury comes along and changes someone’s life, his or her attitude is going to change drastically. In three books I’ve read, “Night”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, each struggle with the society they are dealt with. To be more specific, each main character has to struggle for freedom in the society that is surrounding them. When someone is enforced to go against his or her accustomed state of life, a negative state of mind is most likely going to be perceived through that person’s actions. In Elie Wiesel’s novel “Night”, a gloomy conduct is shown towards freedom, faith, and life. One of the most important rights as a human being is the capability to live willingly. Freedom gives people the right...
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...In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, Elie’s resilient attitude opposes his father’s unadaptable attitude. Elie is constantly dealing with demoralizing situations, but continues to push through and find the little hope he needs to keep going. On the other hand, Elie’s father’s weak mentality causes him to give up whenever life throws him a curveball. These two conflicting attitudes between Elie and his father help him develop a sense of resiliency and mature into a young adult. Elie uses his attitude as fuel to stay alive and learns how to fend for himself. Throughout the story, Elie displays his ability to bounce back from tough situations, when he could have given up. He constantly has to see inhumane things happen to his innocent father and the...
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...particularly the Jews. Initially, those who did not match the “perfect” identity were forced from their homes with a small amount of personal documents and other belongings and were compelled to live in overcrowded and filthy conditions in ghettos. Their towns were destroyed, the houses of worship were burned, and the businesses were looted. Later, families were separated and sent to concentration camps where individuals were divided into groups. The people who were younger and stronger were sent to slave labor camps while the older and weaker ones were sent to gas chambers where they were murdered. Often, dying was viewed as the better alternative because those who survived were starved, harassed, beaten, obliged to view hangings and other violence, forced to be in the freezing cold with inadequate clothing, penned and loaded onto trucks like animals, and raped. Those who were not killed were threatened constantly and faced many “choiceless choices” which forced them to decide between alternatives that were equally impossible. Some had to choose between not eating or being beaten, forfeiting their teeth or denying their faith, giving up their shoes or having their father added to the “selection list” to go to the gas...
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...in this world that are so uniquely awful that they resist our attempts to put them into language. With Night, Elie Wiesel is doing one of the hardest things any writer can ever do: put the worst human experiences into words. It's a terrifically difficult job that he's got on his hands. In part, that difficulty helps to explain one of the calling cards of the book's writing style: sparseness. The sentences here are short, choppy, and relatively straightforward. You won't be getting lost in elaborate constructions or fancy metaphors. The horrors that Eliezer witnesses are instead told at an angle....
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