Throughout reading Night by Elie Wiesel, I recognized that there was not a specified theme, instead there were several different ones, some overlapping with one another and some that were very similar to eachother. In this paper, I will discuss and inform about what some of these themes are, and how they relate to the book. The themes that I have chosen to talk about include the importance of Family, Religion, and Survival. One of the most prominent themes is family. The most important goals for the prisoners of the concentration camp was to try to stay with their family as long as they could, and to cling to the hope that they too have survived. For some of the inmates, the only thing that was keeping them alive was the knowledge that their …show more content…
Going into the first nights in the ghettos and the first nights they heard they were going to be removed from their homes, the Jews all stayed faithful to God and continued to extol him. Even during the first year or so of the concentration camp, despite everything, most of their faiths stayed strong. Although as the suffering continues, you see many of the Jews start to lose faith in God or question his reasoning. Elie himself never stops believing in God, but does start to doubt that he is clement and just a God who is also indifferent to suffering, and that he is not someone that he wants to praise. “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”(45). In the book you see other Jews experience a similar loss of faith. Akiba Drumer actually gives up and dies once he loses his faith in God, and a Rabbi feels guilty for doubting God and his mercy. In Night, Elie exclaims, “I knew a rabbi, from a small town in Poland… He was always praying, in the block, at work, in the ranks…One day, he said to me: "It’s over. God is no longer with
In this essay I am going to show evidence that he lost his faith, not only in his God, but in his leaders and his father. Elie lost faith in his leaders. The cruel actions the Nazis performed in the concentration camps says plenty about why. But when Elie's leg was still recovering in the infirmary, his neighbor said this, “ I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone has
They could no longer see Him and the light He was supposed to bring. To begin, Akiba Drumer, a fellow Jew and friend of Wiesel at the camp, lost to the selection that determined life or death. After having been told he was not chosen to live, he said sorrowfully, “God is no longer with us,” (76). He did not think that God was with him and the other prisoners because if He were there, Drumer would not be going through the pain. Drumer felt as if God had deserted him, leaving him to fend for himself.
Elies experiences transformed his relationship with God and his father. Elie's relationship with God changed greatly while he was in the concentration camps. Early in the story, he was devoted to God's word. He studied religion in the day and go to temple night. He wanted to be a rabbi and study the Kabbalah as a 13 year old .
The book Night by Elie Wiesel, offers a depressing tone and reminds us that silence is destructive. The reader confronts this, desolation from Elie when he talks about becoming the son of the Rabbi. Elie promised himself that he would always be there for his father even during this horrendous time. As time progress, he inevitable breaks his promise and says nothing when the guards beat his delirious father on his deathbed. Sorrow is witnessed multiple times throughout the book, the pipel being hanged from the gallows and the inmates cry on the final train.
In the book ‘Night’, about Elie Wiesel's experience with the holocaust, his connection with God changes through the hardships he faces, and he loses his connection and identity associated with God. The change in Elie's relationship with God is shown by his first devotion, his gained defiance, to his finally concluding that God is dead. When the story started he was a young boy, wanting to know more about God, and increase his devotion. “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.”
As the well-known 20th century Indian peacemaker Mahatma Gandhi had once said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Although, Gandhi was probably rebuking his fellow Indians as they longed for revenge against the oppressive British, this civil rights leader could have been scolding the Germans under Hitler’s dictatorship during the 2nd World War in Night, an autobiography by Eliezer Wiesel. During the teenage lives of young Eliezer, he experiences numerous inhuman horrors. In addition, his entire family is deported from Sighet, Hungary to the Auschwitz concentration camp with thousands of other Jews. Many more of these deportations happened at about the same time, changing the entire Jewish culture and history for years to come.
The book Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel, he was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camps, and then to Buchenwald. Night is a terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, and the death of his own innocence. In this memoir Wiesel describes different events that’s he experiences in the concentration camps. For example, there is one scene that sticks out to me in this whole book.
Night/Theme Elie Wiesels memoir is called Night because night is associated with fear, loneliness, and darkness. Elie felt all of these thing through the holocaust. Elie compared himself to the religious story of Job, Elie feels like God let atrocities and persecution happen to good men who did nothing wrong. They did not deserve any part of what was happening to them. In this quote Elie is saying I did not deserve this horrible matter to happen to me, I practiced my religion and had lots of faith and you still let this horrible stuff happen to me.
Hardships, Relationships, and a Harbour of Issues Often in stories and in real life the environments of a situation can affect people's experience and how they relate to other people. Positive experiences usually affect relationships in a positive manner. Likewise, bad experiences affect relationships in a negative manner. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, the setting creates significant hardship for the characters which changes their relationship with others. The concentration camps, the physical man-made setting of Night, are dark and muddy.
Living inside a concentration camp came with meager rations of bread and poor soup that could barely sustain a person, and terrible treatment from both guards and other prisoners alike. These conditions changed people, drastically, as show from exerts of Night. “My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve”” (Wiesel 76 )
“ You don 't need religion to have morals. If you can 't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy not religion. ”- unknown. Night by Elie Wiesel, during World War II, in Germany and Poland, Jewish people taken to concentration camps and forced to do labor.
The road to a relationship with God is not straight, it is ever changing with challenges and curves and ups and downs. This is a main theme in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, where Elie has a struggling relationship with God. He thinks that God has abandoned him and his dad so he does not feel the need to continue his relationship with God. Elie was excited about his faith but the holocaust makes him feel angry and confused with God. Elie 's faith excites him from a young age and he wants to learn more about God.
“I continued to devote myself to my studies, Talmud during the day and Kabbalah by night.” “ But now I know longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God was the accused.”
Others remain faithful and retain the hope that He is on their side, explaining these happenstances as an example of God’s mysterious ways. While this may as well be the case, Elie stops praying, believing that he has been abandoned. He finds no hope of redemption in the Talmud like
Where is God 's mercy? Where 's God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy? (77). " Elie was losing his faith in God.