Night By Elie Wiesel Research Paper

Elie gives many examples of why this happened to him, one example being forced to watch the public execution of a young boy along with two other men. The three had been convicted of stealing weapons during a raid, Elie describes this event in horrifying detail. “The three condemned prisoners together stepped onto the chairs. In unison the nooses were placed around their necks.” After the hanging the prisoners were commanded to march around the bodies.

In the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel readers are taken through the incredibly tragic journey of Elie fighting for his life while in several concentration camps under Nazi control. Elie does a very good job at describing the fear and ignorance that everyone shared during this time. People thought that this was war and tragic things were going to happen, but they did not understand the severity. When people finally opened their eyes and understood it was too late to stand up, Hitler was too powerful. The perspective of a young teenage boy who had barely had a chance to live his life before it was taken away is humbling.

The holocaust specifically the Auschwitz concentration camp, was the reason Elie had a scuffle with his faith. Why many Jewish people have difficulty with their faith. Auschwitz was a camp of death. The treatment that the Nazi party had developed during the holocaust but specifically Auschwitz was a factory of people that did the dirty work of the oppressor. When Elie first makes it to Auschwitz it is midnight and he notices that this place is not a hotel or a temporary stay.

Elie had a first hand experience of seeing this happen in the work camp Buna. One day the gallows had been set up in the middle of the camp,and all the prisoners were called there. There were many hangings, but Elie described the worst as the hanging of a young boy who is involved in resistance activities. Because he is very light, the hanging doesn’t result in instant death, the prisoners watch the boy as he struggles for some time before he

In the course of a few minutes, two people had been killed over a piece of bread. This exchange demonstrates the loss of humanity among the prisoners. A son, who probably had a close relationship with his father like and Elie and his dad did, was willing to kill him over food. All of the prisoners have been forced to become killers, shedding what was left of their former humanity. Like Elie, they have lost their identities as human beings, becoming bodies without a soul, all trained to do whatever it takes to survive, no matter the

Elie’s placid life changes quickly as the Germans begin to persecute Jews in other towns around his hometown. Many people around Elie continue to deny that these horrific events are reality, which certainly leads to confusion and shock when German officers appear in town and begin to organize the formation and construction of

At this point in his life, Elie had all of his needs and was sincerely loyal to his religion. While Elie was in Auschwitz, some of the other Jews began praying and saying that God is testing them, to see how much they are able to handle. Elie did not agree with praying to the person who was supposedly responsible for all of this. “As for me, I had ceased to pray... I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”

On page 65 Elie remembers a hanging, “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.” This statement implies that Nazis did not care if they were cruel or inhumane even to children. Also the Nazis made prisoners watch the boy struggle for life until he finally died, these hangings happened almost every day. It is hard to realise how cruel the Nazis truly were, but with the violations of Article Five, people can see just how inhumane they

One of the actions that caused Elie to drastically change his identity was when they made everyone strip and get naked: “For us it meant true equality: nakedness”(pg35 Wiesel). This affected Elie tremendously because it showed how they weren’t being treated as human, and through them making everyone look the same by stripping them of their clothing it showed a loss of identity throughout the jews. Among the many dehumanizing actions the Germans invoked there was one that was superior to the rest and often used throughout many concentration camps, it was public hangings. Elie Weisel was among the many who experienced these horrible scenes. He writes about how watching them slowly die tore at his heart: “I watched other hangings…

When the Germans attacked children, women , and the elderly, it fueled his anger. "I began to hate them." (Night, 18). When Elie gets to Auschwitz he realizes how evil the Nazi 's really are. Traumatized Elis sees children being dumped into the crematories and bursting into flames.

The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.

“I felt no pity for him. In fact I was pleased with what was happening to him” (Wiesel 52). Elie Wiesel’s character became a brute, because he witnessed children being killed, death everywhere and his loss of faith. Wiesel watched people get hung with no phase of tears. Wiesel writes in his book after the war, “watched others hangings.”

The Holocaust was one of the most important and tragic events of the last century, leaving a lasting effect on the victims. Elie Wiesel, a Jewish teenager who survived the Holocaust tells his story in his memoir, Night He describes his experience at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps revealing the physical and emotional pain he underwent as well as his changing perspective on faith and identity. Throughout the memoir Wiesel goes through significant changes in his faith, identity and religious views. A pivotal moment in Elie’s journey is when he and his father arrive at Birkenau, and witness the persecution of the Jews.

Elie was faithful and did what he was supposed to do. He wonders why God would punish him and so many others by letting them suffer and be killed. In class we talked about people losing their faith in the Holocaust and that if you lose your faith you have nothing to hold on to and

During roll call Elie was told to lay on the crate, “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip”(Wiesel 57). This shows how even the kids were treated horrifically. It didn’t even matter what age the children were, if they disobeyed orders or did something they were not supposed to do they would be beaten or even killed. When the child's rope got cut to be hanged, “The third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing”(Wiesel 65). A child hanging, a poor innocent child?