Morality In Elie Wiesel's Night

Wiesel uses descriptive scenes and his keen memory of the tragic events that took place inside the concentration camp to spread awareness to the world and make sure something like this will never happen again. In the early 1940’s many Jews in Poland were

The anchoring fear and pain that “Night” brought to me gave me chills as I spent my nights thinking about the traitorous ideals that plagued this world in the past. The pain that you and your family felt brought me to tears by the amount of loss that you had to endure. I believe that if I was put in your position years ago I couldn't handle it like you did and have the will to survive day in and day out for the allied forces to save me. Your story gave me a different mindset by teaching me wars need to stop and we all need to come together not as different races or religions but as human beings and as equals. By writing this book you have taught me and generations to come that we need to change this world for the better.

All throughout Night, we see the recurring theme of preservation of self above others. We see this often throughout Night because the prisoners’ basic rights were being taken from them and when that happens, our instincts kick in and cause us only to think of ourselves. This is true survival mode, which means nothing but you and your survival matters. The prisoners at the concentration camp were deprived of a life, their name, and even food most of the time.

In the story Night, Elie made the decision to lie to his relative, Stein, about the condition of his wife and children. With the limited choices Elie had, his decision to lie to Stein was morally right because the one thing keeping Stein alive was the thought that his wife and children were safe. For example, Stein cried tears of joy when he heard that his family was safe. “But I lied. ‘Yes, my mother’s had news from your family.

According to Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at Yale University, “...our judgements of good and evil are influenced by emotional reactions such as empathy and disgust.” In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Eliezer goes through an emotional journey that almost changes his personality completely. He does not just change out of the blue, but he changes because he needed to survive his new “home.” Some people may say that their morals and personality will never change, but Wiesel explains the dehumanizing effects that truly resonated with him to prove that his personality and morals were changed from the start of his experience to the end based on these events. To begin with Eliezer shows in the first part of the memoir that personality and morals are not that easy to alter, with just simply taking away valuables and personal belongings.

Compassion is an extremely powerful emotion. It’s when you help someone get through an awful time in their life. Usually if it’s someone or something you, love you can show compassion towards it, You’ll end up putting an extreme amount of love and compassion into something you care about. If your loved one is going through an event you’ve gone through, you can empathize with them and connect. Showing love and compassion can let other people know what kind of person you are.

Real World Reflection On February 14, 2018 a shooting occurred in a school in Florida, by one of the students. This unleashed anger throughout countless students and parents who wanted stricter gun control laws; this event started many protests and actions being made in order to have safe schools. However, the government is not making reforms to keep guns out of the hands of minors and dangerous people causing even more unrest. This event relates to British imperialism in India because the government was not listening to the needs of the population. Furthermore, the people started to peacefully protest under guidance of Gandhi, one of the greatest activists in history, eventually leading to social, economic, and political change.

It becomes clear that Elie Wiesel`s commentary on human nature is that, during extreme circumstances, people are selfish and would achieve anything for their own survival. Furthermore, In Wiesel’s novel people strived to survive this injustice. For example, the Holocaust caused countless amount of

Elie 's inaction or inability to help his father and his guilt for not doing so helped Elie to shape the person he has become now is because he kept on realizing his stand on the situation on the harsh behavior towards his father. As he starts to live more with his father he became started to realize how important he was to him and how important he is for him. In the book Night, Chapter 7, when Elie and his after were on the cattle car he said"My father had huddled near me, draped in his blanket, shoulders laden with snow. And what if he were dead as well? I called out to him.

Inhumanity and Cruelty in Night Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, conducted a genocide known as the Holocaust during World War II that was intended to exterminate the Jewish population. The Holocaust was responsible for the death of about 6 million Jews. Night is a nonfiction novel written by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience during the Holocaust. Many events in the novel convey a theme of “man’s inhumanity to man”. The prisoners of the concentration camps are constantly tortured and neglected by the German officers who run the camps.

In his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Elie Wiesel illustrates how to remain silent while injustice is happening is to support that injustice and people should never stand by while injustice is happening. In Elie Wiesel's Memoir Night, Elie depicts how he watched his father get slapped with “...such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.” Elie then describes how he reacted and felt, he says “My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.” (Wiesel 39). He then says that “remorse began to gnaw at me.”

In chapter one of Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, his purpose behind his use of excessive tragic irony is to display the astonishing amount of innocence and unawareness the Jews have about the Germans’ plans. For instance, Wiesel displays the Jews’ ignorance when he writes, ““There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk” (16). This exemplifies how the Jews truly believe that the situation was going to get better. This is tragically ironic because their situation was not going to get better, it was going to get much worse.

In Eliezer Wiesel’s book Night, Eli is incarcerated in a concentration camp and witnesses his fellow prisoners either die or transform into a brute, a person who cares only for his own survival, often at the expense of others. Many have debated as to whether or not Eli makes that transformation. Based on what I have read in Night, I have concluded that Eli has experienced both morality and brutishness during his imprisonment. Throughout Night, Eli has shown a deep love and concern for his father’s well-being, and would go to great measures to ensure his father’s safety.

1. The character the best exemplifies the theme of ‘prejudice’ in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel would have to be Eliezer himself. As evidence, Eliezer, knowing how strong the connection between a father and son is, told two lies in order to protect the spirit of innocence that was deep within each father. Knowing how horribly each boy had passed, telling the truth in such a situation would worsen it. Conclusively, only one of the men had found out what truly happened to his son, but never again would he share the gift of speech with Eliezer.

Justice is derived from the root word just, meaning agreeing to what is considered morally right or good; treating people in a way that is morally right; or reasonable or proper. However, society has become so entangled up in the power which certain individuals possess, they forget all about what is “just”. The justice theory is that justice is at the advantage of the stronger. When an individual is described or depicted as being “strong”, that individual is typically of a larger build, possesses some sort of weapon that causes them to be mighty, and is typically large in size. No matter what circumstances arise, these individuals are expected to be victorious in each battle they fight.