Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

During the book, Elie becomes numb to the horror around him and becomes a different person. From the first time he stepped into a concentration camp he saw terrible things, like children being thrown into pits. He saw many people be killed by officers or by other causes. The

When the concentration camps were found, stories began to flood from them and the tales of the survivors were used to help understand the events that had occurred. Elie Wiesel was just 15-years-old when he was sent to Auschwitz, facing a daily struggle to survive and preserve his identity. Wiesel’s account of his experiences as a 15-year-old boy during the Holocaust were written in his memoir entitled Night. The memoir Night is the story about a Elie, who lived in a Jewish village and was then sent to the concentration camps. The concentration camps had changed his emotional outlook on life forever.

Further in the book it talks more about the unimaginable horrors. In chapter 3 Elie and his family had arrived in Birkenau a camp site. He and his father were able to stay together, while Elie’s mother and sister went the opposite way. Without knowing that was the last time that he would see his mother.

In Elie Wiesel's novel Night, there are details of his experiences as a young Jewish child during the Holocaust. Like the vast majority of Jews, Wiesel underwent painful physical and sentimental experiences. The novel functions as a potent reminder of both the atrocities executed during World War II and the endurance of the human spirit under terrible misfortune. Wiesel explores symbolism using a variety of symbols, such as bread, darkness, and others. Therefore, in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, fire symbolizes inhumanity, death, and fear.

The author of Night, Elie Wiesel wrote his novel to inform his readers of the gruesome experiences that he witnessed during the Holocaust. Throughout his novel, Wiesel reenacted many different events that took place to illustrate the main themes of this novel and exhibit his emotions. During the course of the novel, the reader is witnessing Elie's personal experiences in the Holocaust, seeing not only what he had to go through, but how he had felt while it was taking place. In Night, Elie Wiesel includes the struggle between a father and his son. While Elie spent his life in the concentration camps, he not only had to ensure his own safety, but his father’s too.

Night the novel that I read is a memoir of the author Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel writes this story as a protest to the death and unfairness that happened to the prisoners of war held by the Nazi leaders. Elie Wiesel uses detailed and vivid images to tell his and other Jews stories during the holocaust. My essay will show the themes of dehumanization, the loss of innocence, and struggle to maintain faith from the book night One of the most shown themes throughout the book, dehumanization.

Elie Wiesel, a young and naive Jewish boy in the novel Night, is unfortunately entangled in the dark, inhumane atrocities of the Holocaust during the period of World War II, losing his family in the process. To his demise, he turns the last of his hope to God in search of any sign of progress in the favor of the Jewish prisoners, gaining nothing in return for his once undying fidelity. Throughout his experience in various camps, Elie encounters both individuals akin to himself and those with vastly different perceptions of society. Due to these clashing ideologies, his mindset began to diverge in two: questioning higher powers and self-preservation. His people were in a forced regression of dehumanization as the Nazi Germans enact a policy

When his father is taken to the crematorium and he finds out about this, he feels both guilty and relieved by his father's passing, knowing he no longer has to worry about anyone but himself. Elie struggles with an internal conflict that he could

In Night, Elie Wiesel also uses his constant struggle of survival to convey the theme that, in inhumane circumstances, people tend to lose track of their morals and sense of self. This theme is important because it causes people in Elie’s situation to change in a negative aspect. Like Wiesel, people tend to disconnect from relationships and practice behaviors they do not believe in order to

Elie begins to think about what would happen if his father died. He realizes that if he no longer had to look after his father he could focus more on his own survival. Afterward he instantly, “felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever” (Wiesel 106). In the following days, his father's health deteriorated further. Elie describes his state by using soul-crushing imagery, comparing him to a, “wounded animal” (Wiesel 106).

Elie felt at that moment that God had died with that young boy. To the prisoners of the camp he no longer existed. The way they were treated caused them to lose faith in the God that had previously consumed most of their lives. Losing their faith made them even more prone to break away from everything they had formally known and what had earlier seemed to be normal. Therefore further distancing themselves from people they had loved, and making them lose sight of their original thoughts to work

Elie couldn’t see the light anymore. He lost all his innocence being faced by a violent world outside of his home. He was surrounded by darkness and death. Elie was waiting for death to eventually consume him. He often questioned God why he would do this to the people he loved and were special to him, to where he became an atheist.

In the beginning of chapter 3, He says “If I was going to kill myself, this was the time.”(33). This young boy, with very little hope right now, wanted to take his own life. He had a feeling that they were going to face a slow death on the flames, so if he wanted to die, he wanted it to be quick. His dad, Schlomo, said to him that they have to stick together, and then they will get out of this mess together and alive. Elie witnessed many things that made him lose his inner happy self.

Have you ever thought about what certain words mean to you, what meaning they have to and what meaning the word has for someone else? When Elie was writing this book, originally it was a 862 page manuscript but of course, no one would want to read a book that was that long so it was shrunken into the book it is now. It has taught you and me the real meaning behind night. The extended metaphor and meaning of night is represented by the horrors they experienced, which then led to inhumanity normalizing which then finally left the lack of hope to survive. Night represents the horrors that come with going to the concentration camps, which then led to inhumanity normalizing which then finally led to the lack of hope to survive being consistent

Each and every person in this world has been faced with depressing events and just overall negative emotions. “Night” by Elie Wiesel, shows of those who were affected in the Holocaust and his life story in the book. How he was faced with everything you can think of that was terrible in the Holocaust, and probably even more such as those depressing events and negative emotions. Elie uses techniques to help the reader understand his life and the Holocaust. And uses symbolism, to show how “Night” can describe mostly everything that happened in the story.