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. Instead of just stating the horrific acts that the Germans did, Elie developed a book with a clever plot consisting of introspection, dialogue and dynamic characters to communicate his experience in a deeper level. Eliezer an observant Jewish youngster, …show more content…
One of the most noticeable change in Eliezer is that his perspective and beliefs in God has changed dramatically. Eliezer started off as a Jewish youngster who wanted to delve and dig more deeply into his religion. Eliezer even asked his father to find him a master to guide Eliezer in his studies of Kabbalah, which is an esoteric method or discipline that originated in Judaism. This can be found on page 4 when he says, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah” Instead of just describing Eliezer as a determined Jewish child, Wiesel shows the reader that Eliezer wanted to learn more about his religion. However, as Eliezer is stripped from his identity and abused by the Germans, he starts to blame God for not helping the Jews. This is illustrated on page 33 when Eliezer states, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” Not only does this show that Eliezer is agitated by God’s actions, it shows that he is blaming God rather than the Germans for the malicious and abusive acts in the concentration camp. Elie moved from being deeply devoted to abandoning all belief in God. He refused to accept that God was deserved of any praise, blessing, or thanks; his faith was destroyed by the horrors he was experiencing. Altogether, Eliezer changes from a Jewish
Elies experiences transformed his relationship with God and his father. Elie's relationship with God changed greatly while he was in the concentration camps. Early in the story, he was devoted to God's word. He studied religion in the day and go to temple night. He wanted to be a rabbi and study the Kabbalah as a 13 year old .
He is much more involved in religion than the rest of his family. When his father asks “why do you pray?” Eliezer’s response is shocked at first, as if it was a ridiculous question to ask. To him, religion and prayer is so innate and important that it’s simply second nature. His decline in religious faith is a direct consequence of the inhumane circumstances of concentration camps.
However during Eliezer’s first departures end, In the text Eliezer prays to God in his head and thinks "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us ... " (PG 20) but sadly in this story his calls will go unheard and shall be acquitted with years of torture and no help from his lord. Nevertheless later during the line that Eliezer and his father were taken he questions to himself why should he praise the name of the almighty master of the universe as they had not done anything to be thankful for. Moreover after the initial transportation and encounter with the angel of death Eliezer shall never forget the day his god was killed and his dreams turned to ashes.
The holocaust makes physical and mental alterations to Elie’s life, and this tells the reader that the people who did this are effective and impacting, also it shows that Elie’s mind is controlled by what he was experiencing. Way back at the start of the book the readers see an adolescent boy who is studying Kabbalah, but when suddenly German officers come to ship the Jewish citizens out of his town, Elie wants to run away. By
Eliezer questioned his faith in God, he never understood how such a fatality could happen and why. The one person Eliezer trusted was Hitler because everything Hitler said he made happen. Eliezer said the holocaust “murdered his God” Eliezer had always had faith the holocaust challenged his faith and connection with God. Elizer witnessed major horrors in the camp that was forever burned into his memory. Eliezer's faith in God came and went, but his faith to live stayed with him.
He still believed in his god despite of all the circumstances. Eliezer still believed that somehow God will still stay and help him despite how small his faith was diminished to. At the end of the story, Eliezer has lost
The most important reason to study the Holocaust is to prevent history from repeating itself and to show the importance of preserving as much peace and faith in humanity as possible. The senseless murder of five to six million innocent people is something that society can never allow. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and the author of the book Night. In his book Wiesel gives an inside view of what it was like to live through that horrific time by vividly describing the killing, pain, and suffering the he witnessed and experienced himself. Wiesel convinces the readers to preserve any peace and faith that there is in the world.
The Holocaust was a genocide that disposed of many Jews, of the survivors there was Elie Wiesel who held God high above him but later looked down upon him. Like others, Elie started to develop a feeling of hatred against God because of all the hardships they had to go through while God did nothing for them. Elie Wiesel relationship with God transforms during the years he left Sighet, his home, till the time he was liberated in Buchenwald. His feelings do vary but begin with his devotion, leading to doubt, and ending with a loss. Elie Wiesel was only a young boy at the time living in Sighet, who would cry while praying to god without a known reason.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
The severely cruel conditions of concentration camps had a profound impact on everyone who had the misfortune of experiencing them. For Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a survivor of Auschwitz, one aspect of himself that was greatly impacted was his view of humanity. During his time before, during, and after the holocaust, Elie changed from being a boy with a relatively average outlook on mankind, to a shadow of a man with no faith in the goodness of society, before regaining confidence in humanity once again later in his life. For the first 13 years of his life, Elie seemed to have a normal outlook on humanity.
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.
Eliezer has not only lost faith in god but he has begun to feel hatred towards him for letting innocent men and women be slaughtered and burned. Elie now feels strong hatred towards god for not protecting the Jews. Elie’s view of god changed for the worse. He was very religious and close to god in many ways. He slowly began to lose faith and hope in god.
First, by simply being a book, it holds a multitude of information and details that otherwise wouldn’t be able to be shared through a different medium. Elie’s harrowing way of describing the emotionally traumatic events he experienced leaves out nothing, shocking a reader into realizing just how incredibly evil the Holocaust was, and how much pain Elie and millions other Jews endured before most of
Elie Wiesel, author and victim of the Holocaust wrote the novel Night which portrays his experiences in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the Nazis dehumanized many groups of people, but primarily the Jewish people. Elie writes about his personal journey through the Holocaust, and how he narrowly escaped death. In Elie’s novel he also provides detailed descriptions of what the victims of the Holocaust had to suffer through, and the different ways the Nazis made them feel like nothing more than animals that are meant to be used for work and slaughtered. One of the first things that Elie and the other Jewish people from his village have to suffer through is riding in a cramped cattle car, as if they were animals.
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.