Death In Night By Elie Wiesel

The loss of humanity What does it mean to remember the holocaust? In Elie Wiesel's “Night,” we are shown a vivid description of the haunting experiences from the eyes of a young jewish boy’s point of view. Through Wiesel's experience, “Night” functions as a powerful reminder of the inhumane treatment and conditions of Jews during the Holocaust. Night is a memoir written by Elie wiesel, talks of the brutal regime of the nazi rule and genocide aganist jews and judasim. “Night” functions as a testament to the resilience and Humanity of Jewish people ensuring that the memory of their suffering and survival endures for generations to come “Night”, is a response to the Nazi regime's attempt to silence the voices of Jews.

While also making him cold, and almost unsympathetic. Elie was a smart and very religious boy. He believed God was the one thing he could count on. But soon he became a god-fearing man, who could not understand why something of such horror would happen to such an innocent family. In the beginning of the novel, the author

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is about his experience in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel gave a speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, at the white house in front of the president about “indifference” and its effect. Throughout his memoir and speech, Wiesel uses rhetorical devices to encourage his readers to speak out for victims and not be silent when others are in danger. In the book, Night, Elie is taken to a camp with his family, he then is separated from his mother and sisters.

Night by Elie Wiesel brings back the traumatic events of Holocaust. The true story Night begins with a twelve year old boy named Elie who lives in the small village of Sighet, Romania with his father and mother. His instructor returns from a near death experience and warns them of Nazi aggressors that will soon threaten the peacefulness of their lives. Elie and his father remain calm until they are shipped (with many other Jews) in the spring on a convoy headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, a concentration camp. Elie uses metaphors of “night” to convey darkness, death, and loss of faith used as a symbol for enduring the horrible conditions and traumatic events.

Furthermore, while living in a concentration camp named “Buna”, Elie bears witness to the heartless hanging of a young boy whose death left sadness in the eyes of many. Overhearing a man say “For God’s sake where is God ?” Elie’s innervoice said “Where He is ? This is where-- hanging here from this gallows...”(65). Wiesel, utilizing the cruelty of the Nazis, portrays that the killing of the young boy evokes such raw sadness and pain that it causes Elie to feel as if the Nazis had killed God himself.

Death of the soul is worse than the death of the body. Without your soul, you’re essentially nothing. According to the United Nations webpage, 6,775 people perish daily but that doesn’t exactly mean physically. Therefore, the death of the soul is far worse. Night is a book about Elie Wiesel and other Jews undergoing a traumatic time in history most commonly known as the Holocaust.

The prisoners were forced to do a two-night death march to Gleiwitz; they ran over 20 kilometers through poor and snowy weather conditions. After arriving they were packed into cattle cars and for 3 days they traveled with no food or water to Buchenwald. Elie’s father barely made it through the last stretch of the trip and has become deathly ill. Over the next few days, he barely makes it and finally passes away from a beating because a guard was angry. Elie is witness to this and his father calls out his name as he dies.

He had persevered through a great struggle and even then he does not make it to liberation. His death it not noble or honorable either, he dies in his own waste, possibly burned alive. It feels so gut wrenching to read about this death because of the bond we see throughout the memoir between Elie

Elie was on the brink of death like his father. Even though he wasn’t dead, he could still be dead on the inside. Just being another soul in a body. You can look at yourself and try to put the pieces together but you can’t. What one has witnessed can not be shared but it would be a pity to not share it.

Throughout the novel, Elie is subjected to the harsh conditions of the concentration camps, including starvation, disease, and brutal treatment from the guards. He is forced to watch as his fellow prisoners suffer and die, and is left to question how humanity could be capable of such atrocities. In one passage, Elie describes the brutal conditions of the camp, saying, "We were nothing but numbers, mere numbers. We had ceased to be men" (Wiesel 25). This passage illustrates the dehumanizing nature of the concentration camps and the physical struggles that Elie and his fellow prisoners faced.

Over the ages, philosophers have debated the meaning of humanity in pursuit of a way to differentiate between humans and animals, but each time the question arises a conclusion is never fully realized. Different religious beliefs have contrasting views on the meaning humanity. Likewise, scientists also have a plethora of ideas about what defines a human being. In Night, Elie Wiesel explores the idea of humanity and what it means to be human. Over the course of the anecdote, Wiesel compares and contrasts the actions of humans and animals, showing the similarities and differences between people and the other creatures on Earth with the goal of identifying elements that define what it means to be human, namely the recognition mortality and the

(Wiesel, 34). This is one of many firsts where his perception of God and his faith is being altered. If God was so merciful, where has he been, and what was he doing? These are some of many thoughts. Their faith in God has forever vanished, murdering their souls and turning dreams into ashes.

Elie, along with his family, is taken to a concentration camp, where they are separated and forced to endure brutal living conditions, starvation, and violence. Throughout the book, Elie struggles to come to terms with the terrible and terrific horrors that he witnesses

Victim of Isis are experiencing death, suffering, and with no hope in sight. But the horrific events was not happening in the middle east during present times, but during world war II in Germany. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel explains his experiences during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel wrote this book so he can inform people who weren’t there or didn’t know what happened to prevent this from happening again. Elie Wiesel assert this by show loss of faith, brutality and suffering Elie Wiesel, for a period of time of his life, experienced many things witnessing many deaths and malnourishment for years.

“What was there to thank [God] for?” (Wiesel 33). After just a few minutes of being placed into a concentration camp he was doubting God's existence. He was wondering how something so horrible could happen to him while he had been completely faithful and pure his whole life. At the same time he did not want to believe that God would have created something so terrible.