Examples Of Evil In Night By Elie Wiesel

Before going to the camps Elie and his father was not very close. For example Elie father is unsentimental towards his own kids but very sentimental towards the community and its people. Elie said”My father was cultured man rather unsentimental. ”(Pg.4) This shows that Elie his father

In the camps, Elie and his father only had each other, and that changed the way they felt about each other from the very beginning. Elie had almost no relationship with his father prior to the holocaust. Back in his hometown of Sighet, Elie's father was a busy community leader, and his work gave him little time for his family. Elie recalls that his father "rarely displayed his feelings... and was more involved with the well welfare of others than with that of his own kin" (Wiesel

Silence towards injustice, is perhaps the most ignorant way to prevent dehumanization from repeating again. In the story Night, this action is repeated without thought or question and has resulted in pain and agony. To prevent this, humanity must be able to protect itself before protecting others, otherwise there is no point in continuing a pointless battle without any motivation. In the documentation of Elie Wiesel, a clear description of Elie Wiesel’s beliefs is that once a witnesses has seen a key event in a crime or timeline, that they have full obligation to come forward and admit they have seen that right in front of the authorities.

On page 48, it says “he dealt with my father with such a clout that he fell to the ground”. Elie explains the hurt he felt as they beat his father, no matter if he tried to help 2 doesn’t beat over 100 soldiers. Elie was too afraid to stand up for his father because he didn’t want to get hurt as

Although he slowly gave faith away, one reason would be to discourage Wiesel by injustice. For example, Violence, to kill, disadvantage, to anger, would impact the Jews with misery. In Night, the book Elie Wiesel wrote, he admits,”Whenever I dreamed of a better world, I could only imagine a universe with no bells”(69-70). Anyone can dream dearly about the true, genuine contentment in their hearts, but one must face reality when conditions get vigorous.

Eliezer, at the time a young Jewish boy, lived in his hometown of Sighet with his father Shlomo, his mother and three sisters Hilda, Bea and the youngest Tzipora. Shlomo was a very busy community leader who was well respected among the Jewish. Shlomo was so involved in the community his duties left little time for interaction with his son. Eliezer recalls “ He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin.” (Wiesel, 4).

In, Night there are several instances where God-fearing men were turned into selfish monsters. The cruelty shown to the Jews forced them to become cold and heartless towards one another. Elie was no exception because he had to fight for his life, lie and ultimately leave his father for dead to escape the grueling wrath of the S.S officers upon himself. Every single day alive was a blessing for Elie and all the other Jews at the concentration camp. Death was a daily occurrence, and a primary reason why the Jews became insensitive.

“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me,” Wiesel 109. This quote relates to the thesis by proving if something traumatic happens it's very emotionally draining as well as physically draining. The novel Night, by Elie Wiesel tells us how inhumanity affects people by being forever traumatized and losing their own humanity. Eternal traumatization is caused by inhumanity. For instance,”The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine has never left me,” Wiesel 109.

How could anyone enslave and murder millions of innocent people and not be driven by evil? Arguably, Hitler and the Holocaust was pure evil. When Elie is thrown into cattle cars, packed in with others like sardines in the dead of winter with no food or water, he thinks “We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.” (p. 100).

But because his dad stayed by his side almost the whole time Elie stayed strong and lived to tell the tale. In a dystopian society, there are a lot of evil, bad people. Whether it is the people who actually started the dystopian society or like in the book Night, the people who stood by and watched what happened happen. In his dystopian society, everything that happened there became the “norm.”

From the small town of Sighet in Transylvania to the huge concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, the author and victim of the book Night, the horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel is a 15 year old Jewish boy who was captured by the Germans or “Nazis” during WWII. He went through an overwhelming amount of trauma, like when he got separated from his mother and sisters and watching his father suffer an unbearable amount of pain that eventually killed him. The fact is, power is a tool that can corrupt itself and others, it can ruin people’s lives and it can do that without people even realizing it.

In the span of a lifetime one often faces many adversities that stand within their path.  While some challenges will be overcome easily, others will take a lot more tenacity. When in the face of adversity it is key not to give up. One should always strive to persevere through their hardships, no matter how severe they seem to be. The author of the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel, vividly describes his experiences in the concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Elie grew up with an innocent mind; he didn’t believe that such a terrible thing would be allowed to happen….and he certainly didn’t think that it would be humanity that allowed it. Elie’s dad on the other hand,

Imagine knowing your fate ahead of time. That single moment would be stuck in your head, replayed every second to prevent it. This would obstruct your feeling of morals, making you only focus on your own survival. Nothing would get in your way of trying to survive. During the Holocaust, many people were faced with this moment when they stepped in a concentration camp.

He was contemplating leaving his dad for dead in order to save himself. This thought would have never occurred to him before, but the tragic events he went through made him that way. Elie had become a savage who thought about killing his father, but he was able to get in touch with his humanity