Lies are mentioned for bountiful reasons; lies can be invaluable to others or used for a greedy, egoistical reason. No matter the motive, lies are frequently told everyday. Even in the concentration camps of World War II, there were no exceptions. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel is caught naturally lying to mislead his relative, Stein even though Wiesel has a chance to tell the truth, he decides against it. Even though he lied, I believe that Wiesel's lie was morally right.
Stein approaches Wiesel and his father requesting on any information of his family's whereabouts. Although, Wiesel "knew nothing about them...Since 1940, my mother had not received a single letter from them. But I lied" (Wiesel 44). So, he took the initiative and decided that he would rather deceive Stein than tell him the truth; so he told him, "Yes, my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine. So are the children..." (Wiesel 44). Stein started to weep from joy. Wiesel decided to lie because he felt like it was the better option and he believed that giving Stein hope was better than destroying him. Wiesel had no evidence of what had happened to Reizel and
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The truth always comes out no matter what, but Stein might have a new perspective over his family's death at a different point in time. If Stein were to find out when he asked Wiesel, then he would have lost all hope. A considerable part of him was only living to see his family again. A while later, after Wiesel has told them that his family is well, Stein cheerfully declares, "The only thing that keeps me alive is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up" (Wiesel 45). If not for Wiesel's lie, Stein would not have survived for another day. So, Wiesel did a friendly deed lying; he was able to protect Stein from the horrors of the truth for a limited
Although Elie did not want to hurt Stein’s feelings even more than they were already he should have not lied to him. Many people believe that lying is okay. Lying is never okay. It hurts the ones a person's loved one and can actually hurt the person’s health in ways too. The truth will eventually always come out; therefore, why lie about anything?
I had the idea of pretending to be ill.” Provided the quotes above, Wiesel lies about his age and illness in order for
After being in Auschwitz Eliezer and his father crash into a relative Stein. Stein has a wife Reizel and two little boys. Stein is worried about his family and is wondering how there doing. Eliezer lies and tells him, his family is doing just fine when in reality Elie hasn’t received any letters from Reizel since 1940. I believe Elie was morally right for lying to Stein about his family because it gave Stein hope and a reason to live.
Yet he was so thin himself, so dried up, so weak… “The only thing that keeps me alive,” he used to say, “is that Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn't for them, i couldn't keep going.” (Wiesel
If it weren’t for his positivity, he would’ve been dead from the shock of the barbed wire. On page 33, Wiesel said “If I was going to kill myself, this was the time,” but he soon is called to turn left, and he never gets the
The Holocaust is a destruction on a massive scale, it was significant part of today’s history because it teaches people how and where genocide can take place in. Although, the violence was targeted towards the Jewish people, non-Jewish people were also killed during this traumatizing event of world history. The memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the story about Elie’s Holocaust experiences. In his story, Elie experiences and encounters several relationships involving himself and other characters. The theme relationships are essential for physical and psychological survival are shown throughout the book when situations involving Mrs. Schächter, Stein, and Elie occur.
Rosenblatt explains that it was important for Wiesel to make people understand that you have to help one another in times of difficulty. Humanity is the key to ending inhumanity. He didn’t want history to repeat itself, more importantly he wanted humans beings to be there for one another in times difficulty. Though cruelty breed cruelty, and we all born with inhumanity and humanity; we can’t the evil outshine the
This example demonstrate how lying saved the little girl’s life, which proves that certain circumstances allow dishonesty to be justifiable. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel
Wiesel’s speech shows how he worked to keep the memory of those people alive because he knows that people will continue to be guilty, to be accomplices if they forget. Furthermore, Wiesel knows that keeping the memory of those poor, innocent will avoid the repetition of the atrocity done in the future. The stories and experiences of Wiesel allowed for people to see the true horrors of what occurs when people who keep silence become “accomplices” of those who inflict pain towards humans. To conclude, Wiesel chose to use parallelism in his speech to emphasize the fault people had for keeping silence and allowing the torture of innocent
When Wiesel makes it clear that he has suffered personal loss, he is evoking an emotional response from his audience. By stating that he senses their presence “The presence of my parents, that of my little sister.” the audience empathizes with him and the horror of the Holocaust is made more clear for them. They cannot only understand his feelings; they can connect to them which strengthens their understanding of the need to act whenever they witness inhumanity.
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?
Dictionary.com defines the word decision as “the act or process of deciding...by making a judgement.” Deciding is something we do on a daily basis. Right now, you decided to read this essay. The Wiesel family is a prime example of having to make decisions; especially making tough ones. The Wiesel family had to make decisions which both positively and negatively affected them such as deciding not to escape, lying about their ages, and Elie deciding to not be by his dying father’s side.
Wiesel, along with a French girl both portray how both of them couldn 't express how they feel and what they want to say due to their silence caused by fear. As shown in the novel, Wiesel writes “I knew she wanted to talk to me but that she was paralyzed with fear” (53). Based on what Wiesel describes the French girl, shows how the French girl was traumatized after what she saw what
answering the first question: In the book "Night" Eliezer Wiesel suffer from pain, injustice and death, these experiences changed his believes. In the beginning of the book his faith was strong, his God was beloved by him and time was devoted to serve his God. He went against his fathers will and found a Kabbalah master for himself. Even in the begging when he first got in the hands of the Hungarian police, he used to thank God when he reaches his destination and ask Him for mercy, "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us…".
The entire world was so ignorant to such a massacre of horrific events that were right under their noses, so Elie Wiesel persuades and expresses his viewpoint of neutrality to an audience. Wiesel uses the ignorance of the countries during World War II to express the effects of their involvement on the civilians, “And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent when and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Weisel). To persuade the audience, Elie uses facts to make the people become sentimental toward the victims of the Holocaust. Also, when Weisel shares his opinion with the audience, he gains people onto his side because of his authority and good reputation.