Morals In Night By Elie Wiesel

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Elie had to make several decisions which had a severe impact on his life.. If he failed to make the correct decision it could have resulted in a darker outcome. Elie's decision to lie about his age,not fast during Yom Kippur,and him not fight for food and instead he decides to eat the scraps that were left in any. Those decisions had a significant impact on his life and his identity. As Mr.Wisel once said “Action is the only remedy to indifference:the most insidious danger of all”.

A human is not capable of discerning the right from the wrong while going through an extreme struggle such as the Holocaust. Their sense of morality is overpowered by their need of survival. This is seen is Elie Wiesel’s book, “Night”. Wiesel states, “She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal. Her son was clinging desperately to her, not uttering a word” (26).

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

The Jews constantly smelled flesh being burned and heard the cries of millions of their own friends and family. This kind of violence and cruelty caused Elie to fight for his life everyday. Although Elie never completely

His descent to atheism also made him grow a sense of despair alongside it, he lost hope and rebelled against it. During Yom Kippur Elizer believed in no other reason to fast, his choice was to eat his rations in the spirit of rebellion, and because of God's silence(Wiesel 69). A deep hatred had developed between Elizer and his view of

Trapped Choices They were given so many choices, only to be led down a path that conjoined at the end regardless of how long it took or how they got there, and one of the millions who walked that path was Elie Wiesel. The path was an intricate structure, perfected by the Nazi party during the period of WWII from 1933 to 1945. It was used as a way of mental, physical, psychological, and even generational torture as the lasting effects of it have lived through the families of those who walked this path. After the manipulation of not only the German population but the Jewish as well, the Nazi party, with the Axis Powers, moved Jewish, Polish, gypsy, and other groups through the process of the Holocaust, using it as a systematic way for mass execution

Elie has every reason to believe his father would be taken. Elie is becoming much weaker and is unable to work as effectively, yet he no longer regards his own safety as his utmost priority. This is the same Elie who had disobeyed his father’s orders in the past, the same Elie who felt that his father cared more about the community than him. Even after all this, he grows to have his father as such a massive priority for him, that he no longer thinks of his own survival as his number one priority. Elie desperately clings to his father as the last vestige of his former life.

Those that did not choose to fast kept about the same amount of energy they had before, but the ones that did fast lost their energy. When they lost their energy, they could not do as much, which led to death. Some died from starvation, while others died in a crematorium. Elie survived the fasting period because he decided against fasting. He kept his strength and got to live through

Imagine you were living at the time of the holocaust and you were selected to be killed whether by your age, gender, or beliefs. Well, this actually happened to a survivor who gone through a difficult life. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel quoted, “A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast.

He rejected the idea that Jews are God's chosen people, trying to claim that they were only chosen to be tortured. Elie added, “Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?” Elie also refused to fast on the day of Yom Kippur not only because he needed every bite of food and his father forbade him from doing so, but also because he believed that there was no longer any reason for him to fast. He turned the act as a symbol of rebellion against God. At this point, survival was Elie’s main focus and not God.

During World War II, many people remained neutral or indifferent to the atrocities that were happening around them. However, the words of Elie Wiesel serve as a powerful reminder of the importance of taking action in the face of injustice. In his quote, Wiesel swears never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, emphasizing the importance of taking sides and never remaining neutral. As an American citizen, I reflect on what I would have done during the war and what different life choices I would make in the future. It's easy to say that I would have resisted the Nazi regime, but it would have taken immense bravery to do so.

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

The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father

Near the beginning of the novel, Elie wanted to be in the same camp with his father more than anything else. The work given to both his father and himself was bearable, but as time passed by, “. . . his father was getting weaker” (107). The weaker Elie’s father got, the more sacrifices Elie made. After realizing the many treatments Elie was giving his father compared to himself, each additional sacrifice made Elie feel as if his “. . .

Although it is not outwardly stated, it can be assumed that Elie was not the only Jew to eat during this particular Yom Kippur; whether their actions were due to practicality or anger will remain unknown. Other Jews hold on to their last pieces of hope. Even when surrounded by death, they praise God’s name and fast in His honor. But even the most religious of Jews are not immune to the world around them. Even the rabbi begins to