Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel details that the Jews of his hometown Sighet Hungary, cling to an illusion of safety up until the moment of their arrival at Auschwitz. Mosche the Beadle provides the first evidence of potential danger; however the townspeople choose to ignore the warnings and instead condemn Mosche the Beadle as a lunatic. The Jews of Sighet choose to sacrifice the ”joy in[Mosche the Beadle’s] eyes”(7) to maintain a sense of security and isolation from the actions of the Hungarian police. Upon the seizure of power by a pro-nazi party the Jewish people merely view the change “in abstract”(9). They do not allow themselves to rationalize the event. German encroachment into Hungarian territory is not enough to shatter the

Night Elie loses his faith throughout the book, but it was not always like that. Elie used to be very religious and wanted to learn as much as possible about his faith. “One evening, I told him how unhappy I was not to be able to find in sighet to teach me the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secret of jewish mysticism” (Wiesel 5). Elie said to Moshe the Beadle. His father wasn’t supportive of his decision so he took things into his own hands.

In the beginning, Eliezer is a very strong follower of the Jewish Religion. In the early part of the book, before they are sent to the labor camps, Wiesel shows that he is strong with his faith when he says: “I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple (Wiesel 3).” This quote comes from the first page of the book, where Wiesel is talking about his life before the chaos started, circa. 1941.

Many immediately think to blame the Nazis, and only the Nazis for the Holocaust. This is not the case however, as many groups all share a portion of the blame. In Elie Wiesel's book, Night, it is evident that blame be passed to Elie’s God, the Jewish people themselves, and the non Jewish Europeans. Elie writes how his non Jewish neighbors watched, the Hungarian police force the Jews to march. When this was happening, the Jews were insulted, and beaten; it was clear the police had dark intentions.

Elie Wiesel of Sighet, was one of the “lucky” ones that survived. One could say it was lucky to survive, but some may put it as it was better off perish. Everyone in the camps, were always on the brink of death, from starvation, disease, and the brutality of everyone. Night by the author Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel depicts the situation he was brought into when his family was transported out of their home in Sighet, and packed into a cattle car, with the destination of Auschwitz. Elie shares his first-hand account as to what happened in the concentration camps

The motif that I chose from the book Night, by Elie Wiesel is “night”. This motif represents both physical and spiritual death, but it also represents death and despair. When Elie uses this word, it symbolizes when something in his life simply goes away, or when he enters a phase of darkness. For example, when Elie states, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed”, he is saying that the night that he entered the concentration camp, it of course changed his life forever, but it also was the night that he stopped trusting in God so much because he didn’t understand how God could be doing such horrible things to such innocent people. Now

There are many words that represent night here are the two common definitions. Number one is a Dawn of a new day. Number two is an end of a day, but to Elie Wiesel night represents the darkness and fear that everyone went through during the holocaust. The first time Elie Wiesel went in to the concentration camp it was pitch black outside in the middle of the night.

At the beginning of the book a little boy at the age of fifteen is name Elie Wiesel. Had to go through some difficult and challenging positions that he was in. And how he had to find a way to get out of these positions. And the name of the book is called (“NIGHT”) by Elie Wiesel. Now how the Germans and the cops are treating the Jews like dogs.

Symbolism a lot is shown in the novel and winner of the Nobel peace prize Night by Elie. Wiesel. In this book the author is Elie and he tells about his life in the holocaust with his family mostly his dad. His mom died his sister was not with him but after the years they found each other and his dad died with multiple ways the first one the water the second was a bonk to the head the last is fire. Anyways he escaped and he wrote this pretty good book I liked it and with that let’s get started with symbolism in Night.

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.

in the book “night” Eliezer Weisel says, “night fell, night had fallen, and night was falling. Eliezer Weisel means that by night people were dying and passing away. This has a reference to death because when people die they close their eyes, and its night forever. There were people dying left and right. Some people believed that if they died they would be with God.

​The victims of the Holocaust, as told by Elie Wiesel in his novel, Night, suffered a loss of indentify and struggled to maintain their humanity. After the Jews got evacuated from their ghettos, the German put them into the cattle trains and moved them to the concentration camp. While in the train, the Jews are tormented by the unbearable conditions, where there was no air to breath, no room to sit, everyone was hungry and thirsty and they began to lose their sense of public decorum. Some flirted openly, while others pretended not to notice. After several days, they arrived at the Czechoslovakian border.

“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” There he stands looking at himself in the mirror, unrecognisable after 1 year in Nazi concentration camps. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel horror takes on a whole new meaning, when a 15 year old Elie Wiesel is sent to Auschwitz, separated from his mother and sisters, and put through unimaginable horrors in the form of Nazi concentration camps. He is psychologically beaten and thrown down a horrible path.

While you are reading Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, you get to see the decline in Elie’s faith. In the beginning, Elie was very devout, he even went out and found himself a teacher on his own accord. Only when you get farther in the book do you get to see the decline. While Elie’s time in the Concentration camps goes on, his faith starts to dwindle. Nevertheless, Elie begins by finding himself a teacher.

Symbolism in Night Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In the book Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the narrator’s father doesn’t see a problem with wearing the yellow star on his coat because he says that “no one has died from it”, but he doesn’t know or understand that it’s a symbol for something with a hidden meaning. The yellow star made the Jews easy to identify when deporting them to the camps. A different and deeper interpretation is that the yellow star represents isolation and was intended to humiliate the Jews and mark them out for humiliation and discrimination. There are many examples of symbolism in Night.