Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

The pungent stench was unbearable for Elie's father could no longer move. All that could be heard were the painful moans of the sick and dying. All the strength had faded from his old, wizened body. The end was upon him. This scene from Night by Elie Wiesel describes one of the many conflicts he faces as a Jewish prisoner in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

In the memoir, Night, Elie’s description about his arrival and selection in Auschwitz relates to the survivors in the videos because they all mentioned how as soon as they exited the train they were immediately separated from their families. In the very beginning Elie was separated from his mother and sister and he didn’t know it would be the last time he would ever see them. “Men to the left! Women to the right”(Wiesel 28). Just those eight words changed Elie’s life forever.

Life in concentration camps brought the struggle between life and death, so Wiesel writes Night to share about his experience in a life or death situation he encountered with his father during one of the selections they went through. Wiesel starts out by saying,“The roll call was shorter than usual. The evening soup was distributed at great speed, swallowed as quickly. We were anxious.” As time went on, the conditions in the concentration camps began to grow more dreadful.

When torment and fatality lingers closely around the corner, humanity's view of the world battles for pleasantry amidst the despair. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel and the ensnared Jews of his community struggle through the transition of leaving their tranquil town and entering a life of strenuous work inside Auschwitz. Throughout their transition, the Jews struggle to keep a jubilant view of the world surrounding them as they enter a life filled with dismay. Wiesel uses whimsical and despairing diction to contrast the Jew’s consoling denial of death and the impending shock and agony of the crematoriums. Showing the misery soon to come, Wiesel uses assuaging phrases that are quickly contrasted by foreboding ones.

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”(Yoda). Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel and published in 1956. The book is about a child named Elie and it details his experiences throughout the holocaust and how he survived the Nazi death camps.

This moment in the book provokes feelings of sadness and pity. The Jews had been so packed in these barracks after the marches, that men we piled on top of each other, dead or alive, it became so hard to breathe that many of the men suffocated to death. Elie was one of the men who was buried beneath all of the people. He was trying to get air when he heard the boy beneath him shouting “You’re crushing me… mercy! mercy!”. The boy was the violinist from Buna named Juliek.

In the memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel speaks of his experience as a Jew during World War ll. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish 13 year old boy who lives with his sister, dad, and mom. The Nazi’s come and his family is forced out. He and his father travel to many concentration camps and struggle to survive. Elie Wiesel shows that strength and resilience are essential to survive when encountering difficulties such as starvation, desperation, and being ridiculed.

A moment that presented the bond between Elie and his father was during the train ride at the end, when the gravediggers were removing dead bodies off the car to create space and Elie starts to yell at his father, “Father! Father! They’re going to throw you outside” (Wiesel 99). His father was close to dying on the cattle car since snow was piling on top of everyone and the cold killed people in their sleep, but his father opened his eyes so slightly at the last moment before he was to be thrown off the train. This was not the only traumatic event that Elie was put through on his journey, the selection that had taken place multiple times at the camp to reduce the population.

The memoir entitled “Night” is the story of the fight for survival. It’s Elie Wiesel’s story of his fight to survive along with his fellow Jews in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Elie’s personal account of this story is both heart wrenching and effective. Hearing Elie’s personal anguish brings the story to life. It’s the story of how people can survive with the barest of means.

This quote shows that Elie not responding to his fathers last words stayed with him after years. The guilt he felt for not responding to his fathers words never left him because part of him is angry he didn’t respond to his father that

In the nonfiction novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie battles an internal conflict of his actions whether he should help his family or not. Elie ultimately resolves this conflict by not taking part in helping his family at all in the end; however this choice illustrates his true character as both caring and stoic. Elie’s decision to care about his family before he also reveals the universal theme that he should help himself before others. Elie is willing to obey the concentration camp rules and discard his own thoughts and he has to an internal conflict that he has to overcome and obey the rules and not be scared.

The love between a father and his son is very prevalent throughout Night, Elie does anything in his power to be with his father, his only family left. When they arrived at their Kommandos, he requested to be placed near his father in the workroom when he was in no position to be making demands, especially in a concentration camp. His bond with his father grows throughout this terrible situation. When is father told him to disobey Yom Kippur and not fast, he did not fast. When his father told him to run as fast as he could during selection he obeyed even though he knew his father would not pass.

The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.

Naturally, we refused to be separated.” (20). His father tells him that he could go, but Elie refused to. At the end, it’s the opposite. After his father died he was happy to be rid of him.

Although he only did so in thought, Elie was aware and it made him question himself as his old mentor Moishe the Beadle taught him to do. Eliezer did not shed a tear for his father, and so he wouldn’t allow himself to dig deep into his feelings because he knew exactly what he would find; a sense of relief. The dehumanization that the Jews had experienced, threw all of their emotions out of place. Rather than feelings sad because his own father died, Elie was happy and relieved when his father had passed. Once dehumanized, the animal instinct to drop the load and keeping moving forward kicks