Night Elie Wiesel Themes

The Jews turned into scavenging animals… In the book a son kills his father over a piece of bread. This is eye opening to Elie because it was as if the young man was possessed by a beast. The frail guy suddenly attacked and Elie knew then that this man’s morals and ethics vanished long ago. In the

Later on in the story he noticed that God wasn’t helping them and started to lose what he used to believe in. An example of syntax is when Elie says “I had never asked myself that question. I cried because . . . because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew.”

Once the Jews are of no use to the Germans, they are either shot in the spot, beaten to death, gassed, and or cremated, whether they are dead or alive. Another theme that was portrayed in the book was the importance of father-son bonds. In the beginning of the book, Elie was glad to not have been separated from his father, someone who he trust and knows. Readers can tell that throughout the book, both Elie and his father helped kept each other alive. Elie witnessed a son kill his own father for a slice of bread, hoping that he himself would never commit such a sin.

Death isnt always refering to a body even though we often times think of it that way. In the memoir Night by: Elie Wiesel there are many instances of non-physicals deaths thoughout out the events that occur. In this memoir the examples of figuritive death are non stop. Three main instances are the death of freedom,the death of identity, and the most important the death of faith. Death is not just physical but figurtive displayed by Elie Weisel in the memoir of Night.

A person’s faith is given to the one, that is most believed in, and for this Elie’s faith was given to God and so was many other’s faith. However, according to all of the those specific Jews their faith was placed in the wrong hands, so many of them lose their faith throughout the story. Elie at the start of the book “Night” was a Jew, in a family that deeply believed in God for a considerable amount of their life. For example, in the book “Night” Elie had much faith in God; however, after arriving at the concentration camp his entire view of the world changed. Consequently, he was becoming a different person, and he had lost faith in God.

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 did not understand why the suffering of his people who believe in God was put to this abuse as Gods plan. It was difficult for him to believe in God when he felt God was in control of everyone's life, Elie is left to question God and do nothing more to help. God's role in Elie and other faithful follower dropped, they no longer had faith and hope in the help God would give them. Those who remained faithful and who would continue to pray used it as a source of comfort for them to go to with all the hardships occurring. Unlike them Elie no longer cried while praying, it was no longer a source of comfort for him, it stayed with him but it was always on a tip of a scale ready to fall.

In Night. People in concentration camps tried to protect each other but struggled very hard to do so. Sometimes, they barely had a chance to begin with. For example, Elie witnessed someone kill himself because they already committed all he had left to taking care of a family member and was stuck. “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?

The book reveals thoughts and opinions that Elie has when placed into the concentration camps. Fear is shown in the beginning, but recedes toward the end. The Jews' faith in God quivers, and most believe that He is dead. Elie takes care of his weakened father, as he finds himself wishing for death. Night, in the book, is when the Jews were most fearful,

and it changed him. In the book, Night, the main theme, is religion and belief which is shown when Elie talks about the his strong religion and belief as a boy, his disconnection from religion, and the inhumane actions the Nazi 's caused. Having such a strong belief in something and then dramatically changing how you think, is a very significant event. During this time, many people questioned where God truly was. Even Elie was questioning where God was.

This sort of inhumanity is not just cruel but something that the Jewish people cannot help to fix because the fault is not amongst them, it is the situation that makes them helpless to do it and the current situation of war and discrimination. Elie is enraged when he realizes that sons betray their fathers for food and does not feel that even helpless situations should result in deaths of their dear ones. He fails to understand at times that many sons feel that their fathers are huge weights on their backs that they can only hold for a little while but not for long and he strives to rebel against that and protect his father to his full potential. Another example is when Elie is struggling to find food for himself and his father and is desperate that he relies on the scrap potato peels and grass to relieve from hunger. “We were tormented with hunger.

He feels almost anger that the others still put faith in God. He feels that God is lesser than man, that Man is stronger because they still worship God after all they have been through. He felt that he “was the accuser, God the accused.” This is the final stretch, and Elie no longer believes in God or religion.

Fire is often a symbol of pain and suffering and is particularly evident throughout different personal accounts of historical events. Throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel gives an accurate account of his life throughout the Holocaust while using different motifs to symbolize the horrors of the Holocaust. Wiesel uses motifs to show things without actually saying them directly. Throughout Night, the motif of fire is portrayed as a symbol of Hell on Earth and usually indicates that a bad thing will start to happen and is shown in multiple moments including Mrs. Schaechter, the Crematoriums, and the Death March.

Never shall [he] forget those things, even were [he] condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 75). This quote leads me to believe that the suffering endured in the camps lead Elie to become lost with who he was. Elie and the other members of the Jewish community try to keep their faith as much as they can even though it is being tested. As shown in Night enduring suffering forces people to become much different versions of themselves.

He saw Fathers and Sons turning their back on one another and even killing one another so one of them could survive, so not only did he experience the usual evils that come from corrupted people who held power, but he dealt with his own people who were willing to turn on one another if it meant a better chance at survival; Elie saw this not only in the camps but also in the box car as the were being transported the Buchenwald, Aryan German through bread crumbs into the train car and took pleasure in watching the Jews fight over the small morsel of food the Aryans were able to spare. Basically Elie saw that if you want to dehumanize a human being and break them all you need to do was give them a reason to despise all other people, in short you a making it so people are no longer people and turning them into undomesticated animals and undomesticated animals can be slaughtered without any feeling of cruelty or