Loss Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel

I could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm. "Fifteen." "No. You're eighteen." "But I'm not," I said.

‘No. You’re eighteen.’ … Then he asked my father, who answered: ‘I’m fifty.’ ‘No… Not fifty. You’re forty.

Night In Night by Elie Wiesel the Jews suffer greatly because of the Holocaust. The Germans show great prejudice against the Jews. This unfounded hatred causes the Jews to experience a loss of innocence once at Auschwitz. The Germans forced them to become people they aren’t.

Night is a mournful, bitter, heartbreaking memoir of Elie Wiesel during the Holocaust. Holocaust was the attempted execution of the Jewish race under the leadership of Adolf Hitler during the second world war. Hitler blamed the Jews for the cause of the Great Depression in Germany and so he promised to annihilate the Jewish race by leading the Nazi soldiers. Jews all around Europe were gathered in concentration camps and were starved to death, burned and overworked. Many Jewish children were left orphans and killed.

”No.” The man now sounded angry. “...Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.” (Wiesel 30).

During Eliezer's captivity, many parts of him died and new parts developed in their place. In confinement, Eliezer's innocence and positive outlook towards life was diminished. In their place grew apathy and indifference. His innocence was stripped away when he was subjected to cruel punishment for doing nothing wrong. He quickly learned that not everything in life was fair.

The man interrogating me was an inmate. I could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm. ‘Fifteen.’

‘I’m eighteen.’ My voice was trembling. ‘In good health?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Your

‘No. You’re eighteen.’ ‘But I’m not,’ I said. ‘I’m fifteen.’ ‘Fool.

No mercy. No pity. Just listen to me!"(Night, Elie Wiesel). His warning was ignored, Everyone was blinded by how unpleasant he was.

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is forced to make many hard decisions, from deciding if he should trade his shoes to determining if he should give his dying father his food. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel and his father are separated from their family and have to survive each other and face the challenges of being prisoners at the concentration camps. Some decisions that Elie makes in Night benefited his survival and some did not, we’re going to analyze his choices and see how they either benefited or worsened his chances of survival and how they affected others. Near the start of the story, a prisoner tells Elie and his father to lie about their age, Elie decides to listen to the prisoner and lies about his age. Because Elie makes this

Elie and his family arrive at Auschwitz, and they are immediately divided by gender, Elie is left with his father and commits to staying with him. A prisoner tells them to lie about their age, when a SS officer asks Elie how old he is, he quickly says, “I’m eighteen”(32 Wiesel). Then the officer unexpectedly asks him his profession, Elie confidently states “Farmer”(32 Wiesel). While saying farmer saved his life, Elie is still worried about his father’s and when he is sent to the same line as Elie, he is greatly relieved, “The baton pointed to the left. I took a half step forward.

I could feel so many of my firm beliefs erode, like the crumbling cliff below my unsteady and trembling feet. My enjoyment of him, his countenance, and our conversation did not irritate me as it should have given that he was only 21. At this stage of my life, I find people in their early 20s, especially male, irritating. He neither annoyed or caused

He figured that his family and the rest of the Jews were just being transferred to somewhere else - that was in fact what the officers were telling them. Wiesel, along with other Jews recited the prayer that was among their religion - the Kaddish, while entering the camps and realizing the pain, struggle, and even death that was ahead of them. Wiesel demonstrates how people were so desperate for answers from their God that they even went against their religion rules. For example, “He didn’t answer. He was weeping.

He told me to guess his age and without thinking about it for even a moment, I looked into his face, trying not to get lost in his eager green eyes, and replied 32. He was baffled, not because I guest i right, but because he was 21, less than half my age and if I had had children he could have been my son. It was obvious that I had reached the edge of the cliff and the ground was eroding under the weight of my stance. I could fight or give way to gravity, but either way I was