Night Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute. In Night, he informs his reader of many examples on how a myriad of good people turn into brutes. They see horrific actions, therefore, they cannot help by becoming a brute. They experience their innocent family members being burned alive, innocent people dieing from starvation due to a minuscule proportion of food, and innocent people going to take a shower and not coming out because truly, it is a gas chamber and all f...
Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said, “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.” Inhumanity is mankind’s worse attribute. Every so often, ordinary humans are driven to the point were they have no choice but to think of themselves. One of the most famous example used today is the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night demonstrates how fear is a debilitating force that causes people to lose sight of who they once were. After being forced into concentration camps, Elie was rudely awakened into reality. Traumatizing incidents such as Nazi persecution or even the mistreatment among fellow prisoners pushed Elie to realize the cruelty around him; Or even the wickedness Elie himself is capable of doing. This resulted in the loss of faith, innocence, and the close bonds with others.
Night by Elie Wiesel and First They Came for the Jew by Martin Niemoller both show two perspectives of people throughout the Holocaust. The poem by Niemoller is about him staying silent to survive because the people they were coming for where not his people he shows this by saying “I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.” The book by Wiesel talks about just staying alive because he knew his chances of living were not great but pushing through as he says in this quote “I could have gathered all my strength to break rank and throw myself into the barbed wire.” As stated in both quotes both Night and First They Came for the Jews share the theme of survival. Even though what they had to do to survive is different Niemoller has to stay quiet to survive, but Wiesel has to do much more then just stay silent even though he must do that too.
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden. Elie Wiesel shows that the relationship with his father was the strength that kept the young boy alive, but was also the major weakness.
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The best teachers have the capabilities to teach from first hand experience. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel conveys his grueling childhood experiences of survival to an audience that would otherwise be left unknown to the full terrors of the Holocaust. Night discloses mental and physical torture of the concentration camps; this harsh treatment forced Elie to survive rather than live. His expert use of literary devices allowed Wiesel to grasp readers by the hand and theatrically display to what extent the stress of survival can change an individual’s morals. Through foreshadowing, symbolism, and repetition, Wiesel’s tale proves that the innate dark quality of survival can take over an individual.
Elie Wiesel exhibits several tools of survival during his life of becoming a victim of the Holocaust. Elie explains that he is fascinated with the concept of being dead and how it would take away all the pains that he must endure while running through the snow, such as being hungry, cold, and dealing with a swollen throbbing foot.
Chapter 1 Analysis In times of trouble, man’s inhumanity towards man grows. Throughout chapter one in the book Night by Elie Wiesel and in the Oprah Winfrey interview with Elie Wiesel, the reader can see the inhumanity of others. In chapter one, Moishe, a foreign Jew, tells others about how the German Soldiers shot babies and adults. The fact that the German soldiers think that shooting people and babies is considered “right for the new people” because they are Jews shows how pitiless they were.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a famous Memoir on Elie’s experience in concentration camps during world war 2. This book is contained with many valid themes that represent his experience. One theme that is present is a father and sons bond because of Elie’s love and determination to try and keep his father alive throughout their imprisonment and his fathers love and determination in return. The second theme present is Tradition, tradition in the camps are being kept alive by reciting the Talmud, prayers, and celebrating holidays. The final theme in Night is Inhumanity towards others. World War II is commonly known for how Hitler put all the people he did not view as his perfect image (mostly jews) to be in his empire into concentration camps where most
Lasting from 1933 until 1945, the Holocaust was a time period where more than 11 million people lost their lives due to their religion, political views, or way of life. In the memoir, “Night” by Elie Wiesel the unimaginable experiences were talked about. Wiesel was only fifteen when he was put into ghettos and concentration camps, so he had to play the role as someone older, stronger, and more responsible to avoid the cruel acts by the nazis. Some cruel acts were hanging, whippings, not allowing food and water, and tearing apart families.
The horrific events in Europe, from 1933 to 1945, produced a ruthless dictator who initiated nazism, the German form of Fascism, Hitler tried to create what he believed to be a “perfect race” in Germany. He was responsible for imprisoning and murdering those who did not fit his cookie cutter mold, which involved disabled people, homosexuals, and mainly the Jews. As a result, this dictator only deemed the people within the strict confines of the Aryan race. While Hitler was constructing this genocide, the average German citizens, who were not already in the SS (Schutzstaffel) or were military officials, knew that Jews were stripped of their rights and sent to camps. Because of this mentality created by Hitler, it gave the impression that
Elie Wiesel was a writer who wrote his memoir.He used a memoir to address the events that have occured and told memories about the subject.If it were to be a diary or a journal, they wouldn't be told through memories, but written after the events that have recently took place.Elie Wiesel had written, "Night", which is about his history in the holocaust.The book is a memoir to his past experience in the holocaust.He had written the book for those who couldn't live with it for themselves.By reading, "Night", it can give the readers a sense of how they lived in the concentration camps and how they survived.Wiesel's purpose was to share his experience through the concentration camps and the entire holocaust.Sharing the inhumanity of it all.
Throughout his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable story of survival and resilience during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes the deplorable conditions imposed by the Nazi regime, which impacted millions of captives by instilling fear and violence in their daily struggle to survive. In his extraordinary account of his experience, Wiesel demonstrates the Nazi’s inhumanity towards other humans with specific examples of their mistreatment in ghettos, transport trains and concentration camps.
Night, the Holocaust memoir written by Elie Wiesel, portrays the “choiceless choices” name by the prisoners as they attempted to hold onto their humanity in the face of dehumanization. Elie Wiesel, who is on the verge of his Jewish faith, is present while the holiday Yom Kippur is celebrated in the camp Buna; he is fickle as to whether he should fast or eat the food he is given, as it is a principle of Yom Kippur to fast. Due to extremely cold weather, Wiesel’s foot freezes and he must be sent to the hospital; Russians marauders are about to raid the camp where Elie is held captive and Wiesel has to decide whether to stay at the camp in the hospital block or go with the rest of the prisoners to another camp. During the last few week of Wiesel’s
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
Through segregation, loss of identity, and abuse, Wiesel and the prisoners around him devolve from civilized human beings into savage animals. The yellow stars begin separation from society, followed by ghettos and transports. Nakedness and haircuts, then new names, remove each prisoner’s identity, and physical abuse in the form of malnourishment, night marches, and physical beatings wear down prisoners. By the end of Night, the prisoners are ferocious from the experiences under German rule and, as Avni puts it, “a living dead, unfit for life” (Avni 129). The prisoners not only revert to animal instincts, but experience such mental trauma that normal life with other people may be years away. Night dramatically illustrates the severe dehumanization that occurred under Hitler’s rule.