“There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate”. But what if you have to get lost before you find your true gate? Fourteen and Jewish, Elie Weisel comes face to face with death as he gets taken away from his home and thrown into the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His relationship with God fluctuates throughout the story due to many things such as his departure from people dear to him, his silence from God, and the things he denied that later affected him greatly. While reading this, you will see Elie’s faith oscillate as he fights to survive the torture and persecution of the Holocaust. In the book “Night”, Elie Wiesel will be exposed to the abysmal side of the world …show more content…
When things start to get tough, humans will naturally either run, fight or hide, but it only takes so long before someone can’t fight anymore. On page 13, the author says “Tell us. Tell us what’s happening! Say something… At that moment we were so anxious to hear something encouraging, a few words telling us that there was nothing to worry about”. In this section, Elie was talking to his father after the council meeting. The repetition of “Tell us” helps the reader infer that Elie is sensitive to silence. When you’re eager to hear something, it can defeat you when all you hear is silence. On page 33 Elie really starts to question his God. He says “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”. Elie no longer wanted to sanctify his God because he felt that God was no longer listening. He felt that God no longer cared for …show more content…
Moishe the Beadle told all the Jews of Sighet about the horrors he saw in the Galician forest, but no one believed him. They were in denial of the fact that the Germans were coming.... they were nothing to mess around with. They denied the truth not knowing that later, they would face it. Once the Jews were actually taken away, they couldn’t understand it. They were questioning God asking “Why us!”, “How could this happen?”, “What God would do this!” The author made sure to add this detail because it foreshadows the Jews later lose of religion. Horror. Some people will fight against pressure. But others may crack against pressure. In “Night”, the main character Elie cracks against pressure. He let it run over him like a pickup truck. When Elie arrived at Auschwitz that's when he began to lose faith. He saw the smoke and the big gaping holes in the ground. He smelled the horrendous stench of the camp. And saw the miserable, despondent faces of his fellow Jews. Everyone was horrified and most didn’t even know something like this could happen. From the killing of the babies, to the Jewish men being led to their death cage. On page 33, as they stood in the middle of the camp, Eliezer says, “My forehead was covered in sweat. Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes.” The world has seen a lot of horrible things, but
During world War II Germany’s goal was to annihilate the Jewish population and in doing that the Nazis dehumanized the Jews by stripping them of their belongings and whatever made them unique and treating and working them like animals or robots just like Robots the Nazis would work the Jews until they couldn't work them anymore then they would get rid of them by killing them. Elie Wiesel a boy at that time went through this horrific part of history and decries these horrors in his book night using repetition and Imagery in order shows how the Nazis attempted to dehumanized the Jews during world War II. Elie wiesel uses Repetition through the book to show the horrible treatments the Jews had to endure and Man's inhumanity towards man. Elie Wiesel uses repetition on page 45 when their relative Stein from Antwerp visited them in their part of the camp and he told Eliezer’s dad to take of himself and take care of
It was very common to constantly get deported and transferred to other concentration camps. Jews were constantly getting moved around from camp to camp, not knowing where they were being taken, and where their family would be going. When the Germans finally arrive in Jewish towns, they were not as bad as they expected, although they were strict, they were following their duties. When Elie and his father arrived at the concentration camp, they spoke with a prisoner who helped them. He told them to lie about their age so they can try to stay together.
I think this passage has a very powerful meaning, and is represented very well. The use of repetition throughout the passage that shows how Elie feels so strongly about how his life was put on hold, and tortured. Everytime he repeats the word ‘never’ it shows how passionate he is about what he is writing, and that he wants to show the reader that he will truly never forget. I also feel he personifies the word ‘night’, he uses the word night almost like it is a person who has taken everything away from him, ‘night’ is torturing him so that he will never forget the pain he had to endure. The imagery he painted in my head as he described his life being changed forever showed emotion, and a personal connection with the words he is writing.
It is a common assumption among numerous people in the world that the Holocaust never existed. In fact about half of the world’s population never even heard of the Holocaust. Through the creation of a book called “Night”, Elie Wiesel successfully helped people around the world learn about the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel wanted to show the courage, bravery and guilt of the Jews through this book. Night graphically portrays the malicious and horrific acts in German concentration camps during the Holocaust.
What can a person do if their language is tainted with malevolent intentions towards others, how about after sixty millions of their own people are inhumanly slaughtered with little to no respect? Nothing can ease a person’s trauma and torment, attempting to explain an event of such horrific context is extremely for a survivor of said event. However, another problem arises, how one thoroughly explains an event that they desperately do not want to relive. Many Holocaust survivors, who are literary geniuses, use a variety of methods in order to express their opinions and experiences to the reader. Elie Wiesel’s use of repetition, Art Spiegelman’s use of a bizarre genre to create symbolism while explaining euphemisms, and many survivors opening up to the younger generation at Holocaust themed museums.
This existential conflict of Elie losing his faith in God and overall losing his identity can be seen from his behavior with Jewish rituals, his change in moral code, and
Elie Wiesel is an influential character in the novel Night, because of the inhumane acts he to had to encounter. This essay has demonstrated how drastically one’s faith could shatter in a matter of days. Looking detail at all 4 paragraphs above, we can see how certain situations can change a normal human being. The most significant evidence is, Wiesel starting to question God, just because of an event that he never imagined he would have to face. Elie Wiesel reminds—violence, repression and racism still continues to characterise
The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father
“I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him.” (Page 69) This means that Elie is irritated of God not doing anything
The characterization of Moshie and Mrs. Shachter shows the indifference and denial of the Jews of Sighet. The chilling juxtaposition of a beautiful landscape containing a camp of death illustrates how the world not only was indifferent to the inhumane suffering, but also continued to shine brightly as if nothing really mattered. This timeless theme of denial and its consequences during the Holocaust echoes the struggles of those in our time who are persecuted solely due to their beliefs. The reader takes away the important lesson of never turning away from those who need it greatest, each time one reads Elie Wiesel’s memoir,
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
Imagine believing so strongly in something and then being let down, or thinking that you were wrong to believe. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie felt as though he had lost his religion and beliefs. “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). This quote shows how strongly he believed before experiencing the hardships of the Holocaust
During the Holocaust, about 6 million Jews died from various ways such as, starvation and dehydration, getting shot, being cremated, gas chamber, and different forms of torture. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, Eliezer is a highly religious Jew that is captured by the Germans. Along with his family and other Jews, they were taken to concentration camps. In the camps, he witnesses people die while suffering mentally and physically. Although Eliezer survives, he lost his family and becomes a totally different person by the end of the story.
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 Paper Assignment Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a tragic memoir that details the heinous reality that many persecuted Jews and minorities faced during the dark times of the Holocaust. Not only does Elie face physical deprivation and harsh living conditions, but also the innocence and piety that once defined him starts to change throughout the events of his imprisonment in concentration camp. From a boy yearning to study the cabbala, to witnessing the hanging of a young child at Buna, and ultimately the lack of emotion felt at the time of his father 's death, Elie 's change from his holy, sensitive personality to an agnostic and broken soul could not be more evident. This psychological change, although a personal journey for Elie, is one that illustrates the reality of the wounds and mental scars that can be gained through enduring humanity 's darkest times.