Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

“The greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference.”-Elie Wiesel.

Eliezer Wiesel. A Romanian-born, American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel published the book “Night” which was a non-fiction book that told about his experience through the Holocaust. His work won him the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Osla on December 10, 1986. On April 12, 1999; Elie gives his famous speech “The Perils of Indifference”. All of these have a sense of three categories: Ethos (Morals), Pathos (Emotion), and Logos (Logic). In Eliezer Wiesel’s book “Night” it shows evidence of Ethos and mentions many times throughout the book that there is a sense of humanity that is taken

In his book there is a plethora of emotional moments, whether it’s the loss of perception of there being any hope of freedom or hope of any existing humanity or even the slight possibility of surviving such a horrific event. In the beginning of the book there was hope of a happy life with his family, and when you look back at that after the end, you realize the Elie has truly lost it all; his family, his humanity, his faith. Their lives were full of darkness. For instance, “The days were like nights, and the days left the dregs of their darkness in our souls.” (Night, pg.67) or the chapter of Julik’s death, when he played Beethoven on the violin to the dying Jews. There was no way that he could ever forget that moment, Wiesel even states, “I shall never forget Julik. How could I forget that concert, given to an audience of dying and dead men.” (Night, pg.63). Although, he’s lost all of that it doesn’t mean that he can’t find it again. His mother and sister died inside of a gas chamber in Auschwitz, his father died inside the encampment from exhaustion and then a man came and took him the the crematorium and burned him, whether dead or alive. Eventually, though he was forced to endure the torment he would find himself and his faith again, he even created a family of his own. When they were in the encampments, they were given barely any food and clothes including during the winter, which is so heartbreaking because it’s already

He was only 15, he had endured so much loss and pain in one year, between trying to survive and dealing with the deaths of so many people that he knew and loved, even watching some of them enter their demise. Wiesel mentions near the end of the book that he feels that if he didn’t have to live with the burden of his father and just allowed him to die that maybe he will be more likely to survive. He knows as a fact that it’s true but he still has a part of him the holds back on giving up on him that shows that there is a hope of morality and humanity inside his heart. In May, 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz where he would be separated by his mother and sisters, his father became the only thing he had left. After months of enslavement him and his father are transferred to Buchenwald in January, where his father fell sick and passed away from dehydration and exhaustion as well as a possible fatal wound to the head that led him to bleed out. After his father's death, he is liberated by U.S. forces before his probable execution. Elie Wiesel was then sent to France where he spent his time recovering from intestinal issues that he almost died from. Decades later, he decided to write and publish his story. In his speech he exposes the use of indifference the Germans had used upon Jewish inmates, how they were treated like monsters and abused like them. They spent what felt to them like an