What Was The Purpose Of The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

In the preface of “Night” a book and memoir about the holocaust, by Elie Wiesel, he writes that he doesn’t know or no longer knows what he meant to achieve by writing the memoir. Earlier in the preface we are informed that the reason he began writing “night” was because he believed that he left the camps alive by chance, and that he didn’t deserve it more than anybody else thrown into German concentration camps. After realizing this he didn’t want to waste what he had and because of that he immediately set pen to paper and began writing a book that would bring its writer the nobel peace prize. But what did he achieve in this book?

“Granted, our task is to inform. But information must be transformed into knowledge, knowledge into sensitivity and sensitivity into commitment”. This quote was written and told by Elie Wiesel to show the transformation of which Elie Wiesel went through as being a jew and during the holocaust. The quote states that “information must be transformed into knowledge knowledge into sensitivity and sensitivity into commitment all the words have something in common. Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the holocaust which back then was the worst experience in life.

However, Wiesel did not just witness these appalling events he was a part of some as well. One of the most heartbreaking things he witnessed was what the Nazis were doing to infants. Wiesel went on the write about the horrors he witnessed while at Auschwitz on page 6 of the book Night: “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns.” Although this was a horrendous scene Wiesel mentioned many more throughout the book. Wiesel had experienced a beating of his own also: “He leapt on me, throwing me down and pulling me up again, his blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered with blood” (Wiesel 50).

(Wiesel, p 34). The Nazi’s attempted destruction of the Jews led to millions of people being murdered. Wiesel speaks of “children thrown into the flames.” (Wiesel, p 32) by the

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.

In his award winning book “Night” Elie Wiesel gives his first hand account of the terrors of the holocaust and Nazi Germany. He goes through to explain the injustices that happened to him and the rest of the jewish people living in europe at this time, telling of the horrid dehumanization of a whole race and others targeted by the Nazi regime. Many of the horrors perpetuated by this group are in direct violation of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. One instance of violation shows up when the prisoners are explaining how buna used to be to Elie.

I feel like the book “night” is similar to the other books I have read about the holocaust. So far, the mood is very depressing in the book it’s constantly talking about death and everyone in the camp sound very depressed. I mean, I would be too if I was in a concentration camp but I think the author is over exaggerating it and focussing on that mood too much. The feelings the character Elie has are hopeful like he expects something to suddenly happen and he's free.

What do you base your morals off of? That source may be the Quran, a philosopher, your mother, or the law. Most sources share the same belief in helping one another. As Elie Wiesel said, all humans must work together to take the responsibility to protect one another when acts of genocide occur. Protection is providing people with food, water, clothing, shelter, jobs, and education.

From the small town of Sighet in Transylvania to the huge concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, the author and victim of the book Night, the horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel is a 15 year old Jewish boy who was captured by the Germans or “Nazis” during WWII. He went through an overwhelming amount of trauma, like when he got separated from his mother and sisters and watching his father suffer an unbearable amount of pain that eventually killed him. The fact is, power is a tool that can corrupt itself and others, it can ruin people’s lives and it can do that without people even realizing it.

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.

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.

The memoir written by Elie Wiesel, Night, is illustrating the Holocaust, the even which caused the death of over 6 million Jews. Auschwitz, the concentration camps, is responsible for over 1 million of the deaths. In the memoir Night, Wiesel uses the symbolism of fire, and silence to clearly communicate to the readers that the Holocaust was a catastrophic and calamitous event, and that children should never be involved in warfare. Elie Wiesel enters Auschwitz at the age of 15, and witnesses’ horrific events as a prisoner in Auschwitz, including the deaths of numerous children, and the beating and death of his own father. All these inhumane things were done just because Adolf Hitler wanted to cleanse the German society of the Jews.

In which millions of Jews were innocently killed and persecuted because of their religion. As a student who is familiar with the years of the holocaust that will forever live in infamy, Wiesel’s memoir has undoubtedly changed my perspective. Throughout the text, I have been emotionally touched by the topics of dehumanization, the young life of Elie Wiesel, and gained a better understanding of the Holocaust. With how dehumanization was portrayed through words, pondering my mind the most.

In a span of 10 years, the Holocaust killed over 7 million people, that’s just as much as the population of Hong Kong. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his experience on how he survived the Holocaust and what he went through. How he dealt with the horrors and even to how he felt of his dad’s death and how he saw himself after it was all over. As he tried to publish it he was constantly turned down due to the fact of how horrid and truful it was. He still tried and tried until it was finally published.

The quote “Let us not forget that there is always a moment when the moral choice is made. Often because of one story or one book or one person, we are able to make a different choice for humanity, for life.” by Elie Wiesel relates directly to our study of the Holocaust in school. Personally, I believe this quote refers to the vast amount of stories and information we have about the Holocaust which helps us improve the future. By examining the horrors of the Holocaust in the past, we can learn from our mistakes to make sure something like this never happens again.