Elie Wiesel, only survivor from his family from the holocaust and his treasures experience in the concentration camp. He was send to the forced to go to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Even before forced to labor his nightmare began, the bodies of children and mothers being burned alive with no mercy. After time challenges became harder, questioning this God that he believed in so much, asking why he let such horrid things happen. To endue so much abuse and to see his only family go through unbearable pain, his only reason for survival is his father but only even he wants to go on. Wanting to be free form all the cruelty that Adolf Hitler has caused not only him but from all the refugees at he camp. Every day was opening their eyes to a new unknown nightmare, this reviled ones evil inner human and the struggle to have faith or believe in a benevolent God. One of the most powerful moments is when Juliek played his violin. All the people where quickly put into the barrack by the Kapos. With not much space everyone was crunched together hurting each other, Elie had difficulty breathing because of all the people in top of him. Biting way …show more content…
When things got heard he first question why his god would let this happen, how cold he see this and not do anything about it. After conflict within himself asking himself if he should still believe or do what he must to survive, to eat what they were given in “The Day of Atonement” Elie ate that was his second sign of rebellion against his God. In the end his only motivation to survive was his father but when he also left him he had nothing left to have faith in. He wondered what was the point of surviving if is father ,his only family, was not their with him. In the last moment of conflict juliek’s song helped have a bit of faith in God. Even after all the horrible things that have happened he wanted a reason to still be
During this time period of the Holocaust Elie lost his father, causing him to lose all feeling except to rejoice that he now has no one else to care for. This just represents that during this time of cruelty that everyone one thought in their mind was the word survival. At the end of Elies cruel experience is when he ends up on
World War II was a dark and cruel period that normal people sadly had to go through. "Night" is an amazing novel that really explains some of the things that people went through during the Holocaust. As a young boy Elie witnessed many traumatizing things. Over the course of the novel Elie developed different conflicts and themes that go with one another; one main theme is humanity. Elie wrote this novel to show everyone the darkest period of his life.
Elie: Throughout the book we see Elie change from a relatively normal teenage school boy and into a emotionally hardened young man who has become so accustomed to death that he rarely gives it a second thought, even if the person dying was a friend . This change took place because of the tortuous conditions that the Nazi´s subjected him to and that he lost so many family members and friends along the way. My passage shows Elie at a time when he is just starting his journey, yet you can tell that the concentration camps and the Nazi´s have already had a very serious effect on him. ¨He must have died, trampled under the feet if the thousands of men who followed us.
Elie Wiesel has experienced unthinkable atrocities throughout his lifetime. These atrocities have shaped him into a very different person than he was in his younger years. When he was young, he was really religious and had a happy family. He lived with his parents and sisters. Because of the Nazis, he lost his family, he lost his faith in Auschwitz, he felt hopeless.
“ You don 't need religion to have morals. If you can 't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy not religion. ”- unknown. Night by Elie Wiesel, during World War II, in Germany and Poland, Jewish people taken to concentration camps and forced to do labor.
The Ones We Love? Family; a blessing, or a curse? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel offers many significant themes, but the question, “is family a blessing or a curse,” is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the novel, Wiesel often questions if he should try and keep his father around, or if life would just be better without him in the picture. “‘Don’t let me find him!
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
Elie prays to God that, God “will [him] the strength to never do what Rabbi Eliahou's son(pg.91).” Elie actually saw that the Rabbi’s son left him. He felt bad because Rabbi Eliahou’s son left him because he was weak. Elie hates this because his father is the only thing of his family he has left and he knows his father is getting weaker. Elie and his father are closer because Elie knows that his father is the only thing he can live for and also his father is only fighting to stay alive because he has son left to live
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
NIGHT Elie Wiesel Hundreds of bodies being thrown like a sack of potatoes and nobody caring about who they might be or who their family is. Father and sons wouldn't even look at each other, some even killed one another for food or they are delusional. That was the Holocaust, over 1 million jews killed. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie wrote his life story by using symbolism, tone, and irony to explain and tell the readers about his traumatic memories of his teen years.
Theme Analysis Essay: Having and Losing Faith In God Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right that protects all people. Religions faith can be tested under certain circumstances, which can falter the relationship one can have with their God. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author creates the universal theme that religious faith is questioned and challenged during traumatic events. Throughout the story, we see many relationships with God scarcely survive, and some completely fail entirely. For the duration of the memoir, Wiesel uses plenty of narrative elements to help convey this theme.
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.
‘Isnt it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back. Everything is different’ Quote by C.S Lewis Night by Elie Wiesel, gives out more of a gruesome setting while Elie himself describes his whole horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Do we know how that big of a darkening impact can change a normal human being to someone we all won 't even recognize? Page by page of this novel Elie adjusted differently emotionally, physically, and spiritually from beginning, middle and end.
Family “Father! Father! Wake up. They’re going to throw you outside… No!
Elie was held captive in concentration camps from 1944-1945. During his time in the concentration camps, he became grateful for what he had, overcame countless obstacles, and more importantly kept fighting until he was free. [The Holocaust is very important to learn about because it can teach you some important life lessons.] You should always be grateful for what you have, no matter what the circumstances are. This lesson can be learned when Elie says, “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more”(109).