Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

In this passage, my mother and I listened to a discussion Eliezer and Moishe the Beadle had together. Moishe the Beadle asks Eliezer why does he pray. Eliezer is dumbfounded by the question as he his used to praying regularly. He replies to Moishe he does not know why prays. Moishe later tells him that people should ask God questions even though people won’t understand His reply.

Elie’s experiences within Auschwitz turned him into his own fear. Elie feared many different parts of his experiences at the concentration camp, but the fear of mistreating the only thing he had left in life, his father, was something that left Elie truly broken. The examples used previously demonstrate that Auschwitz did more than just make Elie see a son kill his own father for bread, it did more than just make Elie see people abandon each other (e.g. when Meir abandoned his father), it did more than just make Elie want to never find his father again, it did more than just make Elie see his own father die, and it did more than just make Elie selfish and cruel (e.i. when Elie grudgingly shared his meal with his dying father); his experiences

Eliezer or “Elie” Wisel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. Elie was also the narrator in the novel Night. A major point discussed by Elie was how we as the future generation should remember the victims of the Holocaust. Wisel points out that “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” In other words, if we don’t learn from history it is bound to repeat itself.

In chapter five of the Holocaust memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s relationship with his father grew stronger while his relationship with his God became weaker. After being faced with the horrors in the concentration camp, Elie’s belief in an intangible God is replaced by the immediate urge to tend to his father’s needs. The love shared between them is the only drive he has to stay alive. Due to these circumstances, Elie slowly begins to lose hope in the god he once adored, but gains an inseperable bond with his father.

Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.

The decline in faith of Elie Wiesel The novel “Night” is a very moving story by Elie Wiesel about his experiences as a Jew teenager in the Holocaust. There are many topics in the book but one of the most powerful themes in my opinion in the book is Elie's decline in faith. At the beginning of the book, Elie is a deeply religious boy who studies the Torah and is devoted to God. However, as he lives through the holocaust he begins to question god's existence.

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (Wiesel XV). In the novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, this quote shows how the world should not forget about the Holocaust and that we should recognize the reality of genocide of the past and the present to stop it from happening it again in the future. I think Elie Wiesel quote is the reason why we should remember the Holocaust because if we do not recognize what the Holocaust is about or pass our knowledge or understanding to our future generations, it has the potential to be repeated. There are three reasons why I believe it is important to remember the Holocaust and why our future generations should never forget it as well. The first reason is remembering the Holocaust

Eli’s story started when he was a young very religious teenage boy who was apart of the unfavorable group during the Holocaust, and unlike Eli, Paul was an adult and he was apart of the prefered group during the genocide he experienced. Obviously Eli and Paul didn't have the exact same experiences. because they were apart of two different genocides. Eli went through the Holocaust during World War II as a Jew so he didn't have much if any control at all when it came to loved ones. Paul experienced the genocide in Rwanda, and he was Hutu which was the more favorable group

When responding to situations in life, people must consider if what they are doing will benefit themselves or the people around them. In circumstances that demand quick thinking, people often can not form a concrete decision based on how little information and time they are given. In life, people must frequently try to do so through their daily battles with the people around them, in addition to themselves. People's hardships often affect what will compel them to respond, in many areas of a person's environment they are tied to certain deprivations in life, either privately or through another person. With those ties, come the understanding and compassion, these setbacks can help others gain a better insight into another person's difficulties.

Hitler was a horrible person for the things he did to the Jews and it shouldn’t be forgotten. Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. (page 62 and 63) This is crazy Hitler made young innocent teens and older men stare at the young teen being hanged. Then they had to go back to work like it wasn’t that big of a deal and just acted like nothing really happened.

To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.

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.

Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.

Imagine believing so strongly in something and then being let down, or thinking that you were wrong even to believe. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie felt as though he had lost his religion and belief in God. We learned how strong his beliefs were when he says,“I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep of the destruction of the Temple,” (Wiesel, 14).

It taught me that strength and perseverance can make a significant impact in life. I also learned that forgiveness and the ability to forgive is much more powerful than I ever realized. This novel sucked me into the story and its characters and took me on an emotional ride of highs and lows. Finally, it forced me to reevaluate my previous judgement of the homeless.