Have you ever thought about what certain words mean to you, what meaning they have to and what meaning the word has for someone else? When Elie was writing this book, originally it was a 862 page manuscript but of course, no one would want to read a book that was that long so it was shrunken into the book it is now. It has taught you and me the real meaning behind night. The extended metaphor and meaning of night is represented by the horrors they experienced, which then led to inhumanity normalizing which then finally left the lack of hope to survive. Night represents the horrors that come with going to the concentration camps, which then led to inhumanity normalizing which then finally led to the lack of hope to survive being consistent …show more content…
As Elie became older and went through going to the camps, he realized that writing the book represents the horrors of what he went through to get to the point of liberation. In Night, Elie says “NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed” (Wiesel, 34). .This connects back to the horrors he experienced because in this quote, Elie is saying that he will never forget how awful it was to experience that for the first time. How would it feel for you to experience what he did and how do you think it would affect you? No one in today’s time could ever relate to Elie and what he went through but we can try and think about what it would be like to go through what he did and how it would affect our maturity levels and mental well being. In the book Night Elie says the famous quote which is “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.” This connects back to the horrors he experienced and how it affected him because he was never the same afterwards. In that very moment was when he went from a boy who worshiped his God to a man who had to fight for survival. It is important to know about how this book’s meaning and representation is the horrors he went through and how it affected him but it’s also important to realize that there are more reasons and meanings to the book NIght. One …show more content…
The lack of survival was huge in the camps because they were work/death camps for the weak and “useless” prisoners. No one had hope they were gonna make it out alive and that killed everyone’s mental well being. In Night, Elie is talking about their instincts and how they no longer exist in the camp, he said “The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us.” (Wiesel, 34). Their normal human instincts and emotions don’t exist anymore because they lost hope in everything, getting out, surviving the Nazis. They lost their hope to survive but they also lost their hope to live, to keep going. Many could argue that the hope of surviving and the hope to live, to keep going, is the same thing but it’s not. You can survive and not be “alive”. You keep going to live where their will to live was taken away from them at the beginning, like arriving at Birkenau. Once again in his famous quote, Never Shall I, Elie talks about losing his will to live and specifically says “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.”(Wiesel, 34). These quotes show that their will and their hope to live was taken straight from the beginning, when seeing those babies and seeing “the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.”( Wiesel, 34). Elie in that moment, was completely changed and lost everything he had ever
Imagine everything that keeps you human being quickly stripped away from you, turning your importance into a number on a chart. This is what Elie Wiesel experiences in the Holocaust and is what he wants to express to the reader in Night. His character changes drastically throughout the memoir, changing him from a happy, carefree religious boy to a desensitized husk of his former self, broken by his experiences in Auschwitz. When the memoir begins, Elie’s biggest concern was his belief that he should study Kabbalah, while his father believes he is too young. Then he shifts the tone of the memoir with the line “
“Never shall I forget that night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel tells the true and terrifying story of life inside the concentration camps during War II. As the author and main character in his book Night, Elie gives a first hand account of many of his experiences, some of which change him and some which do not. Overall, Elie is a dynamic character because Elie begins to question his faith in God, Elie’s attitude towards his father changes for the worse, and Elie starts to get more used to violent acts since he witnessed so much of it. First and foremost Elie begins to question his faith in God.
In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.
Throughout the memoir, he struggles with the question of how God could allow such evil to exist, and he grapples with the loss of his own faith in the face of such overwhelming suffering. When Elie sees the burning of innocent children on (pg 33) he says “father if this is how it is then i'm just going to run into the electrical barbed wire fence.” He's giving up; he has nothing to believe in and nothing to live for. The title Night is therefore an extension of this inner darkness, symbolizing the loss of hope and meaning that many Jews experienced as they struggled to make sense of the horrors they
Despite talking about a significant historical landmark for the Jewish people and the entire world, Night takes a memoir-like form and focuses on the life of Eliezer. Variations in the real life of the author and the main protagonist in the events of the writing exist. However, the differences are either too minimal or analogous to each other such that any reader who has a clue about the writer’s experiences will discern the personal approach Wiesel Elie takes as he produces the book. In other words, there are a number of connections, which call for a consideration of a subjective nature of the delivery of contents of the events of the Holocaust, albeit at a smaller niche. Speaking about the relationship between Eliezer and his father, Chlomo
The author of Night, Elie Wiesel wrote his novel to inform his readers of the gruesome experiences that he witnessed during the Holocaust. Throughout his novel, Wiesel reenacted many different events that took place to illustrate the main themes of this novel and exhibit his emotions. During the course of the novel, the reader is witnessing Elie's personal experiences in the Holocaust, seeing not only what he had to go through, but how he had felt while it was taking place. In Night, Elie Wiesel includes the struggle between a father and his son. While Elie spent his life in the concentration camps, he not only had to ensure his own safety, but his father’s too.
For Wiesel, he would never see his mother and young sister again, he and his father would ender harsh days and weeks within the camp walls. In the end Elie’s father died of dysentery, and Elie was liberated by Allies. In Night, Elie emphasize the important history of the Holocaust and the significance of remembering all that the Jewish people encountered. One of Elie’s main focuses in the novel Night is on the history of the Holocaust. By giving us clear details, we, as the reader, are able to see the events that took place during this time.
The brutality and inhumanity of the Nazi regime became apparent to Elie as he witnessed the cruel treatment of his fellow Jews. The memoir describes in vivid detail the inhumane conditions and the constant fear and terror that the prisoners experienced. Elie's personal experience of losing his family and being subjected to the horrors of the concentration camp left a lasting emotional scar on him.
What Elie went through, to me, is completely and utterly unimaginable. While reading the book, I kept thinking how I wouldn’t have been able to do or witness what Elie did to survive. Some parts shocked me that some people are so capable of inflicting that level of pain on others with no
This was not the moment to separate…” (#82). They both were supporting each other, they enforced themselves to live for one another, and that’s when Elie was gaining faith. But, after a while his father died: “They must have taken him away before day break and taken him to the crematorium…” (#112). It’s the most hurtful moment in a life and the most difficult thing to write about because when Wiesel saw his father were taken to crematorium. Surprisingly, Elie didn’t lose his faith, he thought that his father is “free at last” when he died.
On top of that, he had trouble falling asleep. After Elie was done talking with his Father, he overheard him praising the Almighty father. Elie felt angry at God. He believed there was no reason to praise him with everything that was happening around him. This is one of the most tragic parts of the Holocaust, and demonstrated how inhumane the Germans
The camp changes Elie, it breaks the link he used to have to his father. Even though they seem inseparable, they are alone when it comes to survival and endurance. Elie’s only wish upon seeing the beating is to get away in case the supervisor attacks him. This moment demonstrates that in the camp survival comes before anything else, even one’s family.
This shows that Elie had been beaten so many times that he could barely feel the hit anymore. It is so horrible to think about how much pain people went through at such a young age. Reading Night helps the reader understand from a teenager's point of view, how awful the Holocaust
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 was only fifteen when he was forced into concentration camps with his family, at such a young age he had to experience things that forced him to grow up. The theme of Night is brokenness and shattered character. On page 5, Moshe the Beadle a jewish leader at the synagogue had been taken into a camp, by the hungarian police. After several months later, Moshe the Beadle had returned to Sighet, and shared his story with the other jewish people. “To live?