1) As Night begins, Eliezer is so moved by faith that he weeps when he prays. He is also searching for a deeper understanding of the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. How does Eliezer's relationship with his faith and with God change as the book progresses? At the beginning of the book, Eliezer is very strong in his faith, as shown by his weeping and his yearning for a teacher to teach him the Kabbalah. His strength doesn’t waver when his old teacher comes back and begs him to listen to the horrors he experienced. It still doesn’t waver when the Jews are separated from the citizens of their town in the ghettos. Until the point of the hanging of the pipel, I think he keeps his faith strong. At the end of the year celebration, a few days after the hanging, he questions why the Jews are still praising God after all the horrible things that have happened at the camp. I think that at the end of the book, he …show more content…
Of course, night is used literally in the book to mean a time of day. It is also used as a motif in the book to symbolize death, the Jews gradual loss of faith, and suffering. As an image, it comes up repeatedly. Many things happen at night in the book. The Jews of Sighet are loaded into the cattle carts; Eliezer arrives at Auschwitz; they are forced to march through the night; they're stacked on top of each other and suffocate each other, and Eliezer’s father dies during the night.
3) Early in the book, after Moche the Beadle escapes his execution, no one, not even Eliezer, believes his tales (p. 7). Even when the Germans arrive in Sighet and move all the Jews into ghettos, the Jewish townspeople seem to ignore or suppress their fears. "Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before" (p. 12). What might be the reasons for the townspeople's widespread denial of the evidence facing
Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a very dark and heavy book. The book is called night because the night is a dark, heavy, uncontrollable thing just like Elie’s life going through all the camps he did. The life in the first ghetto was good. They were allowed to practice their own religion and had a synagogue.
I think mental dehumanization actually changes Eliezer’s life. I will never lose faith in god, it doesn’t matter what the circumstances are. I think instead of losing faith in God, Eliezer should pray even more. When Eliezer and the prisoners are ready to have a meal at the end of the Jewish year, and the prisoners say a prayer, he says, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him?
In chapters 4 to 6 in the novel, “Night”, Elie Wiesel and his father continue to suffer in the grasp of the Germans. Eventually, all the Jews are moved to a new work camp, Buna, where they are overworked and undernourished, and resort to killing each other for pieces of bread. In his old home, Elie had never experienced brutality and inhumanity within it. Now, Elie and other Jews witness extreme violence and an absence of mercy that begins to erode their mental state; bringing most men to animalistic tendencies. In chapter 4, the Jews arrive in Buna.
Milos Kulina Elie’s faith towards God changes a lot as the story goes on. In the beginning of the work, his faith in God is complete. In chapter one when asked why he prays to God, he says, “Why did I pray? ... Why did I live?
The torturing and suffering caused is what widdles down the belief, and this present throughout the novel. Only the strong and the ones who have most faith would survive, yet at the same time, if they didn’t originally have faith, they could’ve avoided the concentration camps
The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.
This year in English, I had to read Night by Elie Wiesel during the time in class we were learning about Holocaust. The memoir was about a young teenager life in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp during the Holocaust. While reading this book, I learned many things like how some people did not give up, how Nazis dehumanized prisoners and how Eliezer and many people were changing throughout the Holocaust. While reading Night, I also learned how some people did not give up including Eliezer.
Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.
It is a common assumption among numerous people in the world that the Holocaust never existed. In fact, almost fifty percent of the world population never even heard of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel helped people around the world learn about the Holocaust through his book “Night.” He wanted people to see the bravery, courage, and guilt of the Jews through his book. “Night” shows the horrific and malicious acts in the German concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Eliezer couldn’t understand why God would let such horrible things that he faced during the holocaust happen. Eliezer would sometimes question God’s existence because he was taught God was everywhere, so good was everywhere as well. Eliezer loses his faith in God, but still believes there is one at the end of the book. Sources and Methods Elie Wiesel didn’t use any sources in his book Night, it was written about his own experience during the holocaust.