Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

Although he was not physically fit to do the deeds that he was assigned to, he had no choice but to do so. They were treated as if they weren’t humans; as if they were toys to play with and to boss around. Eliezer wanted to rebel and try to escape but later grasped the fact that he was trapped; that his only way of getting out of the camp alive is to comply with the

Father son bonds are arguably the most important and influential things on a child’s life. In Night by Elie Wiesel Eliezer’s father harms his chances of surviving. Eliezer and his father get put into a concentration camp. There surviving is hard enough, let alone caring for and giving your food to your father when it should be the other way around. Although some would argue that eliezer’s father helps him through the camp, his father ultimately weighs him down and harms eliezer’s chance of survival through him becoming increasingly frail and weak, his health deteriorating further, and his becoming increaingly dependant on Eliezer for survival.

Lucia Mantero Mrs. Eschmann World Literature October 7, 2014 Eliezer When the book begins, Eliezer is young and innocent. He studies Talmud by day and Kabbalah by night. When Eliezer enters the concentration camp, he loses his mother and little sister and witnesses people being killed in cruel ways. His childhood and innocence gone, his faith in God’s justice and mercy destroyed.

In the beginning of Elie Wiesel’s Night Elie is very faithful to God and eager to learn about God, the Kabbalah, and mysticism. When asked why does he pray Elie answered, “Why did I live? Why did I breathe?(4) ” After one of God’s Followers and Elie’s leader, Moishe the Beadle gets back from the forests everything changed. News about the Holocaust starts to spread.

"It's past the point where it is possible to spare your old father, I said to myself..."(pg 105). He felt remorseful in light of the fact that he couldn't help his dad, yet he knew the best way to live is to watch out for himself. " Here, every man needs to battle for himself and not consider any other person. Indeed of his father..."(pg 105). He considers himself, and Eliezer loses trust, trust, and his convictions.

As readers see the frequency of questions (which are all mostly related to religion) increase as we go through the book, it indicates the loss of trust and confidence in Eliezer’s religion, which is the basis of faith. Eliezer experiences an extreme loss of faith when he witnesses all the horrors of concentration camps. “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled.

Symbolism can be seen through both good and bad alike. Though when it comes to instances that have to do with the holocaust, it’s almost always, if not always, a painful connotation. The holocaust is one of if not the the largest instance of mass genocide in recorded history. Leaving each Jew that survived with a different story to tell. While their story’s remained different, the pain that they each experienced was not.

However, he questions the meaning of life and wonders how such a terrible thing could happen to innocent people. He struggles with his own feelings of guilt, as he is forced to make difficult choices in order to survive, such as stealing food and betraying his own father. For the sake of ensuring his own survival. the next morning, January 29, 1945, Eliezer wakes up to find that his father has been taken to the crematory because he has passed away. He felt shame but he does not cry or really have any emotions to his father passing away .

Eliezer is affected so badly that at times, he doesn’t care for his father. Something similar happens when his father is sick and dies. His father’s last words to him were calling for Eliezer, and he didn’t move. He ignored him on purpose. “Free at last!”

Eliezer and his father share a symbiotic relationship in which they support each other through the barbarities of life in the concentration camp. Eliezer feels an obligatory commitment to his father and to stay with him. This devotion that Eliezer displays is elucidated when he rebels against the alluring draw to kill himself when the opportunity arose while evacuating Birkenua (Wiesel, 2006). He wields the burdensome onus of living as an alternative to eternal peace, ceasing to exist, by rejecting to abandon his father in the hostile atmosphere of the camp. Otherwise, in "Life is Beautiful" Guido goes to substantial measures to guarantee that Joshua does not have to bear any of the tribulations of the camp.

You are still alive,” (Wiesel, 2006, pg.35). At the start, Eliezer’s father took over the role and did everything to assure that his son would survive. Shortly after though, the roles changed and Eliezer took the most care for his father because he understood he was older and needed more assistance in order to survive. “My father began to run, to try to catch up with us,” (Wiesel, 2006, pg.75). Although his father was not there

Eliezer breaks his narrative tone to tell the reader that his faith, which was previously the focal point of his life, is now in shambles. Thus, putting Eliezer into a crisis as he does not know where to turn after witnessing such atrocities. Although, he finishes the quote stating he will never forget the things he witnessed as long as God lives himself. Which, symbolizes the fact that he can never abandon his faith completely, even if he struggles to understand God at this time. Therefore, this passage holds such value in the memoir as it is the first time Eliezer openly struggles with his faith and devotion in God through the use of literary

Eliezer’s best traits come out and allow him to survive his terrible ordeal, which are adaptability, determination, patience, and perseverance. Elie uses his father as his reason to persevere and keep on going through. For example, whenever Eliezer’s father dies, Eliezer loses all function and does not even want to recount how empty and lonely he felt. On page 32, Eliezer describes how great his fear of

The symbol I chose was God for Eli because he does talk about God quite often during his days in the holocaust from the book Night. This picture I choose is a pile of dead bodies to represent death for the symbol God. The reason I choose this picture because Eli had witnessed a lot of cruel things at a young age. He had worshipped God so much and had trust and love for him.

As Eliezer begins to question God and lose faith, he seems to care less for his father, but as he sees the other sons’ treatment for their father’s he regains his care for his father and some of his faith in God as he prays for God to never let him do that to his