The travesty of Genocide has tragically claimed both his innocence and childhood prematurely. When the young child is hung for all the Jews to see he no longer tries to conjure or repeal god, Elie simply thinks to himself, “He [God] is hanging here in the gallows” (Wiesel 65).Elie
Eleven million people were murdered in the Holocaust, six million of which were Jews who were killed solely for their beliefs. This terrible genocide is recounted through the eyes of Elie Wiesel in his memoir, Night. As the novel progresses, Wiesel's faith in his God falters, due to the physical and emotional suffering he endured as a Jew in the Holocaust. During the first couple of chapters of Night, Wiesel’s faith and dedication to his religion are very strong.
Many try holding on to their faith awaiting an answer to their torment from God, however, such answers do not arrive for the Jews and the author demonstrates this through the use of juxtaposition. The Nazis order the death of a kid who tries sabotaging the camp. A fellow Jew, who witnesses the death of the child asks, “where is God?” in desperation to which Mr. Wiesel responds, “hanging in the gallows” (Wiesel, 65). Mr. Wiesel is juxtaposing the existence of God with that of the silent kid.
In Night, Wiesel uses metaphors to advance the theme that in times of suffering and cruelty, people lose faith. Moreover, after Akiba Drumer accepted his death in that he was in poor shape, “his eyes would suddenly go blank, leaving two gaping wounds, two wells of terror” (Wiesel 76). Wiesel uses the metaphor of comparing Drumer’s eyes to “wounds” and “wells of terror” to express the severity of Drumer’s loss of faith. This metaphor develops the theme by not only outlining Akiba’s loss of faith, but also indicates to the reader the volume of faith that can be lost to victims of suffering. The metaphor puts emphasis on the effects of suffering and cruelty, leading the reader to understand how and why victims lose faith.
I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves while there is still time... I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me... This was towards the end of 1942”(7). The pattern of faith and belief in Elie Wiesel’s Night is intertwined with the pattern of denial the Jews have throughout the book.
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God” (Ronald Reagan).When no faith remains, it makes one a soulless man. Elie Wiesel uses Night to comment on the effects of the unforgettable experiences and grisly events that he has encountered during the Holocaust. Though Elie Wiesel was once a devoted Jew, when he experienced the gruesome treatments and witnessed the undeserved suffering in the concentration camps, he ultimately succumbed to the destruction of his faith and the ruination of his identity. Religion had always been an indispensable part of Elie Wiesel’s life, but the Holocaust prompted the faltering of his faith. Before his days at the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel was a fervently devout child who, unlike most kids , preferred
In Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor E. Frankl, the author, experienced the events of the Holocaust camps first hand. He got to see how people survived, and how they didn’t. Frankl tells the tale of a man who believed that on March thirtieth, he would be saved. Frankl recalls that “When F---- told me about his dream, he was still full of hope and convinced” that it was true (Frankl 79) The man’s hope of this day kept him alive in a time when he might have given up.
1 Benjamin Marks Honors English II Night Essay Prompt Choice 3 Throughout the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel explains how he went from a devout Jew, who was proud of his religion, and in the matter of months became unexpressive, and beaten down to the point where he was questioning God himself. Through culture, physical, and geographic surroundings, Elie’s character drastically changed. In the beginning of this hell, his main goal was to stick with his father for as long as possible, always staying with him in order to protect each other. But as time went, Elie’s innocent mind was beginning to see things differently, he became emotionless and numb towards the violence around him, and without care to what happened to his father
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, composed around his experiences during the time of the infamous Holocaust, many choiceless choices were faced. Reading through the memoir, there were thousands of situations Wiesel faced that should have led to his death, but with the ambition to live a life out of the tragic camp, he survived. Wiesel unveils choices he battled daily that quietly kept him alive, while the same choices killed millions of Jews around him. Unfortunately, not all prisoners could not succeed with the same “luck” as Wiesel, as many of them were faced with the same options. Gradually, Wiesel describes the events of experiencing the choiceless choices within the holocaust.
During the time in which he reflects, he contemplates the reason he is alive, as “[he] did nothing to save [himself]. A miracle? Certainly not. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for [him], why not for others more deserving than [himself]?” (Wiesel 10).
In a time where a trauma, calamity, or another kind of unfortunate event is evident or even expected, it is often said that waiting is the hardest part. In a time where death is constantly just around the corner, the most difficult challenge one must brave is to know it will eventually happen, but never know precisely when. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he employs the motif of selection day in order to depict the constant primitivism and viciousness of the Holocaust as a whole, conveying a tone of desperation as Elie struggles to conserve the unbreakable bond he and his father share, with the fear of getting separated looming just behind. Wiesel employs the motif of the berating and relentless selection process to demonstrate the endless pattern
The Declaration is the most effective in terms of persuasive techniques. Governments are mostly created to keep certain unalienable rights, rights that are granted, not by the government or man but by God. This is called appeal to Natural Laws. It is apparent that the Founding Fathers felt that God should play an important role in the government of man, but they didn’t go into detail on the nature of that God. When the government takes away those rights, the governed just decide to overthrow or separate themselves from that government.
Elie Wiesel is not only a talented author but a survivor of the holocaust who documented his horrific experiences in his memoir “Night”. In the beginning of the book Elie Wiesel was one of the most religious people in his town of Saghet who had a dream of living a monastic life. However, as a result of the harrowing injustices he endured he continuously lost faith in his religion. Within the book the reader is reminded again and again that when extreme adversity is experienced, faith is often lost.
In these paragraphs we will be discussing Elie Wiesel and his time in the holocaust. Also poems and books such as "Night", "Little polish boy", and "Never shall I forget". These paragraphs will be about losing your faith and god through horrible and gruesome acts and how you can lose yourself or not know who you are. Night The author believes that cruel acts can challenge a persons faith. On page 34 when Wiesel was "face to face with the angel of death" this caused him to say " never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes" (Wiesel 34).
Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years, as a political prisoner is South Africa before becoming the country’s first black president, Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ANC in 1960. Mandela was captured and jailed in 1962. In 1964, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. Instead of disappearing from view, he became a prison-bound martyr and a worldwide symbol of resistance to racism.
