Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel

Life in a Hopeless Place The Holocaust was a very dark and tragic period in history, and if you were a prisoner you may wonder, Why am I here? Why don’t I give up already? Or maybe even what is the meaning of life? Elie Wiesel’s memoir shows the meaning of life, through personal experiences of extreme tragedy, complete brutality, and terrifying torment by the hands of German Nazis, in his literary piece Night. Elie Wiesel is just one of millions, yes millions, of Jews who suffered through unreal travesties brought by Hitler’s evil regime and carried out by his henchmen. Wiesel and his family one of the countless families caught in the devastating Nazi warpath, a path that would tear families apart and change the world forever. It is a shame

There was just constant torment. this Torment may not only be physical pain, it could also be a mental pain. These mental pains could be from something awful a prisoner may have witnessed that affects them forever. Something, I’m sure, the prisoners were sadly exposed to. Wiesel shows his experiences with true torment when he writes, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold; small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames. (is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?)” This passage proves the point of a mental pain, in which this case Wiesel would lose sleep. Now, Elie would not only lose sleep because of this moment, that was not Wiesel’s point in adding that final part of losing sleep over such an abominable action. Wiesel's point is that there were ghastly experiences, maybe even worse than this, on a daily basis. He is explaining how it would be extremely easy to lose sleep and be mentally scarred after witnessing disgusting human acts such as this. Ultimately, what is at stake here is the mental state of innocent people forever being changed from sinister war crimes such as

Ultimately, what this all shows is what people should never have to go through. Nobody should have to live through life in such a manner. No one should ever have to question the meaning of life because of the savageness imposed on them. “For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.” The quote explains how the meaning of life can be measured at any given moment, so you must fight to make every moment be your best because you may not have another moment to improve