In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel writes about the trauma he endured at the Auschwitz concentration camp to spread awareness about the Holocaust. Due to the mass homicide of the Jewish population, the Holocaust was immense because of the amount of people that passed away in the Holocaust, which almost wiped out all Jewish population. Wiesel went through the trauma of the Holocaust throughout this memoir. He was sent to Auschwitz, which is a concentration camp where he was tortured and starved. He was being fed less than the minimum amount of food to survive.
"They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions" (Wiesel). In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a victim of the Holocaust, shares his gut-wrenching experiences and how he survived one of the worst death camps, Auschwitz-Burkenau. While some may argue that topics surrounding Night and the Holocaust are too heavy, it is vital to learn about Adolf Hitler's manipulative control of people, about the Jewish race, the torturous living conditions of the concentration camps, and what happened to the victims after the camps were finally liberated. At the start of the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler used manipulative control to
Losing a family member, a dog, or even getting into drama. Everyone always finds a way to get strength through hard times. Elie Wisel found strength in his dad because he was the only person he could look up to in the camps. The book Night taught Elie Wisel to find strength during hard times. Elie Wisel and his family were sent to concentration camps.
James Williams Elie’s Religious Journey 4/3/2024 Throughout Eliezer Wiesel’s captivating memoir, Night, Elie’s view of God and religion shifts constantly going from being incredibly religious and faithful to doubting God, and back to believing again.. This shift affects his identity and personality in a major way. Early in the memoir, Elie is highly religious and is trying to learn more about Judaism, specifically, the Kabbalah. Many excerpts show his devotion to learning the Kabbalah, for example, “There are no Kabbalists in Sighet," my father would often tell me. He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind.
The tragedy of the Holocaust should never be repeated. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel wanted to leave behind a legacy of words, and of memories, to help prevent history from repeating itself. He elaborates on many struggles and how they affected his ability to live. After experiencing these hardships, Wesiel writes the story of Night for the world to remember and learn from the Holocaust. Elie goes through a significant conflict with his will to live, which causes him to go from innocent and optimistic to mature and dehumanized.
In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, a common theme throughout the book is loss of identity. In this memoir, Elie Wiesel goes into detail about his experiences during the Holocaust and what it was like in Auschwitz. The book truly captures how the Nazi goal was to dehumanize Jews and by doing this the Jews lost their sense of self and identity. In the end, Wiesel doesn’t even recognize himself anymore. By taking away all of their belongings, their religion, and even their name, the Jews did not know who they were anymore and couldn’t recognize themselves.
“[But] if we forget them, they will be killed a second time. And this time, it will be our responsibility.]”(Wiesel.) Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, explains how important it is to remember the past of the Holocaust after “It Happened” to ensure that those who died can never be forgotten, to prevent history from repeating itself. Elie, in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, expressed his emotions and concerns for the remembrance of the Holocaust. He explains how important it is to not forget those who died or they will be “killed a second time.”
“I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man” (Weisel). In his memoir, Night, Elie Weisel describes the atrocities of the Holocaust he lived through as a Jewish teenager in Auschwitz. As the prisoners were pushed beyond the imaginable, to the point where all that remained was the raw, human instinct to survive, people still fought against it and treated others with compassion and respect even as others around them were forced beyond the point of rational decisions to the point of pure cruelty. This exemplifies the idea that human beings truly are good at heart, as amidst the horrors of the concentration camps, the violent desperation of the prisoners and the brutal cruelty
A memoir: “A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources” (Oxford Dictionary). But, what does it do? It inspires, educates, and changes. According to Elie, it creates witnesses. In his case, it creates witnesses of the tragedy, the holocaust, that he experienced during his adolescence.
Whether humans are naturally kind or cruel is something that has been debated for many years, and is still being debated. In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who goes through many horrible things. Even though there are so many bad people, there are many kind people as well that help him survive and make it. Although many people believe that humankind is inherently cruel, people are actually inherently kind because even among those in power, individuals care for each other and want to help, and even in horrible situations, people can remain kind. Even people with higher positions or power still have concern for others in a lower position than themselves.
Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.
The Holocaust was a horrible time for the Jewish people. Many innocent lives were lost, and Jewish people were tortured and held hostages and murdered by the Nazis. Many Jewish people were treated like dogs being slashed and they had everything ripped away from them. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel goes over the struggles and the loss of innocents and that loss of faith in God.
Imagine believing so strongly in something and then being let down, or thinking that you were wrong even to believe. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie felt as though he had lost his religion and belief in God. We learned how strong his beliefs were when he says,“I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep of the destruction of the Temple,” (Wiesel, 14).
The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, which was first published in 1958, tells a great first-hand account of a terrible event named the Holocaust. In this story, it gives a detailed memoir of a young kid named Eliezar who has to endure this appalling crisis. As the Holocaust continues to go on around them, he and his family remain optimistic about their future. Even though they were optimistic, the Holocaust finally closes in on them. Once this occurs they were pulled away from their homeland and relocated to their designated site where they were split by gender.
To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.
