Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night he compares two experiences of hanging through which the end result had been vastly different. The first hanging that he saw was of solely just a man and they were given soup afterwards; they were very hungry, their stomachs empty so once given that soup it had tasted as if he just won the lottery. Yes it was tragic but they had by then probably witnessed a lot of the hardships brought upon them by the Nazis’, so for them they only wanted soup. The second time was different, it was dark, inhumane, terribly horrifying. This time it was of three, two of which were adults; but that last one... that last one was a boy.

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 “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Hitler was not only trying to exterminate the Jews, but he was also trying to make them feel like they were less of a person than the people around them. He felt that the Jews were a bother to the Germans more than anything. He tortured them to the point that they wanted to pick on the person next to them so that person would look worse than themselves. Hitler’s job was to make the humans feel like they were nothing but a piece of dirt along the path that he would walk on to success. Hitler knows exactly how he will make the Jews feel like they are not humans.

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.

Strength of Love Scared and afraid wanting to die, but the only thing keeping you from giving up and dying is the love of your family. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is just a normal 15- year-old boy when him and his family are taken to Birkenau a concentration camp in Poland. When Elie and his family were taken to Birkenau Elie and his dad is separated from his mom and his sisters never to see them again. After Elie and his dad are separated from the girls Elie and his father find it very difficult to survive in the camp, they just want to give up and die but the their love for each other kept them going. In Night the author uses imagery to help convey the message of family bonds.

For this book report, I chose to read the book Night. Night was a book written by Elie Wiesel in 1960. The novel’s story is set in Germany during the holocaust which took place in April 1945. During the course of this story, the setting varies from the Transylvanian town of Sighet, to Auschwitz, then to Buna, and lastly Buchenwald.

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.

The quote from Elie Wiesel's "Night" paints a vivid picture of the physical toll that the Holocaust took on its victims. Wiesel describes the brutal conditions that he and his fellow prisoners endured, including forced marches through bitter cold and with little or no food, water, or rest. As he marches on, Wiesel realizes that his foot is no longer hurting, but rather frozen and detached from his body like a wheel fallen off a car. This powerful image conveys the sense of disconnection and dehumanization that many Holocaust survivors experienced, as they were treated like objects rather than human beings.

Mason Ables Mrs.Loy W3 26, May, 2023 Night Analysis Ever been through an experience that changed one life? Maybe it was a family member passing away or a terrible experience. Now imagine that living that terrible experience over and over again without being able to even feel sadness or remorse. During holocaust this is what a boy had to go through. In “Night” by Elie Weisel he reveals that staying connected to one's emotions through times of disparity can be very difficult.

If someone was at a point in their life where they had endless suffering and all they needed to have faith is one piece of perseverance. To think that glimmer of hope would be. I think that the Jews would do anything for a glimmer of hope to take their minds off of the death that was happening all around them. For most people, the sign of hope would be the cannons going off because that showed that the battlefield was growing closer to the Jews that gave hope that the Germans were being pushed back and that shows the desperation that the Jews were in. People find the perseverance to have the strength and believe that the end was near so that the Jews could be liberated and rescued.

When it comes to war, there are no winners. When people think of war the first thing that come to their minds is victory never death. In the book Night Elie wrote about his past in Auschwitz seeing men, women and children being burned in the crematorium (Wiesel 32) War is a battle with consequences people think that war is a way to show power and strength and it does but the people who are fighting it lose their lives. Elie saw what appeared to be the dance of death.

The events of the Holocaust remain responsible for the death of eleven million people. The very word represents grave sites, memories, speeches, trials, and torture. The survivors of the Holocaust recall memories of the concentration camps that operated like machines of death. Elie Wiesel, one of the survivors of the Holocaust, tells his story through his writing in Night. The Holocaust is documented as a horrific point in history that cost eleven million people their lives including six million Jews.

Within the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the author writes about his experience through the holocaust. The entire novel Elie’s goal was consistent, he wanted to stay untied with his father at all times. In the beginning of the novel Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sister. The author came to the realization that he would never meet his mother or sister again, so he decided that he would always be by his fathers side.

Thou Shall Not Kill; a commandment, a law and four words to protect those who cannot defend themselves. These four words did little to protect the millions of Jews, during the Holocaust; who were hunted down, herded into camps, brutally beaten both physically and mentally and marked for death. Since then and before our world has seen this played out again and again in places like Nanking, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Darfur and on farms and in slaughterhouses in every country of the world. This bloodshed will not be cease until those four words are truly embraced by every culture to include every living species on this earth. Every trial and tragic event Eli Wiesel endured and wrote about in his novel, Night has happened to an animal in the woods,

Night by Elie Wiesel tells about the struggles Elie goes to go through as a Jewish person during the Holocaust. While being sent to many different concentration camps, Elie experiences countless terrible situations and sees that some of the prisoners become cruel when given leadership roles within the camps. Many people had lost all civility they had in an effort to stay alive, sacrificing others for their own good. Elie manages to hold onto his decency through all of this, though, by helping out others within the camp occasionally and supporting his father whenever he could.