Elie Wiesel has experienced unthinkable atrocities throughout his lifetime. These atrocities have shaped him into a very different person than he was in his younger years. When he was young, he was really religious and had a happy family. He lived with his parents and sisters. Because of the Nazis, he lost his family, he lost his faith in Auschwitz, he felt hopeless. After he was rescued, he writes down the book “Night” to let people in the world know that horrible history. He spends his lifetime to help those people who died in Auschwitz talk about their anguish experiments. When Wiesel first discusses his perspective at the start of the novel he says he is deeply observant. He even cries for the destruction of the Temple. Although his father doesn’t allow him to learn Kabbalah, he found himself a master for teaching him Kabbalah. He discusses religious with Moishe the Beadle. He was really believed with God. …show more content…
When he first saw children thrown into the flames, he started pinching himself, “ Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (32) He was confused why the world doesn’t care about them, care about the Nazis rascality. He felt anger about the god, he thought the god abandoned them. Wiesel publishes this book in his early twenties when he is possibly feeling anguished. He writes down his experience and thoughts in Auschwitz before his father died. He wants everyone in the world know this history, know the anguish that Jews had experienced. There are two sentences in his speech for the Nobel Peace Prize that shocked me, “ That I have tried to keep the memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget who the guilty are, we are
Elie Wiesel lived through the most horrifying period in recorded history. He is a survivor of the Holocaust, a German political movement that ripped apart families and slaughtered over 11 million innocent people. As soon as he was liberated, Wiesel began to write and speak publicly about the horrors he witnessed. Night is his memoir about what he saw first hand on his journey and the cruelties committed by officers and even his fellow prisoners. Perils of Indifference was his speech to the White House in 1999, discussing one factor that not only fueled the Holocaust, but also demoralised prisoners even more.
Amaan Alam Ms. Trag Honors 9th Lit 8 August 2023 Night The captivating tale of "Night " written by Elie Wiesel delves into the journey of its main protagonist, Eliezer as he navigates the harrowing ordeals of the Holocaust. This essay aims to delve into Eliezers persona depicted in the book – his passions and his perspective on life in Sighet.
Hitler’s Nazi Party commited many horrible atrocities that affected millions, killing six million Jews and five million Gentiles. Celebrated Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, writes about his experiences at Auschwitz in the memoir, Night. Wiesel underwent beating, whipping, forced labor, and starvation and witnessed many other inhumane acts at the hands of the Nazis, all while he was between the ages thirteen and seventeen. The many traumatic events that Elie experienced during his time in a concentration camp altered both his physical appearance and his spiritual relationship with God.
He came upon so many experiences that it made him come from being very religious to doubting if God even existed. I talk about his faith because, to me, this is the most impacting way of losing his humanity. He starts to lose it when he first saw the hanging of the young boy, in front of all the other Jews who also questioned God’s existence. “What are you my God? I thought angrily…
Night Many times as Christians or Jews, we find ourselves or others to be in rough situations that make us question God. When it comes to this topic, one event in human history stands clearly above the rest: the Holocaust. From an outsider’s perspective, believers understandably question why God would allow something so terrible to happen, but seeing the perspective of someone who experienced these horrors is a whole other level. Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” shows the world how the Holocaust caused him and others to question God.
Religion has always been controversial, throughout history there have been hundreds of wars fought over religion. World War II may not have been solely based off of religion, but it had a major part in the war. During World War II Jews and other ethnic groups throughout Europe were harshly persecuted by Nazi Germany. Elie Wiesel, a Hungarian Jew and holocaust survivor recount the tragedy, he endured during the holocaust in his memoir, Night. With only 109 pages, Wiesel manages to write about almost every horror he faced, one of the worst being his loss of faith.
The sight of the bodies sent streaks of horror through the prisoners at the camps but yet the Nazis continued. Wiesel wrote in his book, “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it-saw it with my own eyes… those children in the flames.” (page 30, Night).
Imagine having to witness baby’s being used as practice targets for guns. Think about losing all of your rights, and imagine being ripped away from your family and never seeing them again. So many victims of the Holocaust had to go through all of this, they had to go through so much back then; Elie Wiesel was one of the victims that had to go through this. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night so people can witness all the things he has gone through, he explained everything he saw, everything he did, and what the people did to them. He told the story to make everyone know how wrong it was, he made everyone see that the Holocaust should never happen again.
Throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, the narrator, Wiesel, was subjected to changes within his ideals and religious beliefs. When Wiesel was first introduced to the book, he was a devout Jewish boy who loved his father and had his total faith in God. Over time, Wiesel began to change as a result of being beaten down almost every day and witnessing his fellow Jews being worked to death or simply killed for not being fit enough. "I watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.
To begin with, Wiesel could not believe what was happening. He didn’t believe how cruel the Germans were. Wiesel was living a nightmare and couldn’t escape it. For instance, Wiesel stated, “I pinched myself; was I still alive? Was I awake?
Wiesel uses a lot of very detailed descriptions and expresses his feelings in a way that we easily start to trust him. He knows that this is one of the most terrible periods in the history and he tries “to help prevent history from repeating itself” (Wiesel VII). “He does not want his past to become [the children’s] future” and that is why he writes his book to be seen by the people who do not realize how poorly people were treated (Wiesel XV). These two quotes from Night show that the holocaust shouldn’t be repeated. The author shows this with all of the feelings, facts and descriptions he uses.
Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, follows a teenage boy through various concentration camps as he fights to live during the horrific Holocaust of World War II. Many people are apathetic to the Jews' plight, and the Jews are forced to quietly endure the atrocities of the Holocaust. Silence is a major issue that pervades throughout the entire duration of the Jewish Holocaust. The recurrent theme of silence is best portrayed in Wiesel's Night through the silence of humanity and of the Jews throughout the horrendous Holocaust.