Theme Of Night By Elie Wiesel

His first day at the concentration camp, he receives his first extreme shock of death. “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Near him was an SS man, putting his revolver back in his holster.” (22) After this, Wiesel realizes how important life is. Not only his, but

A fellow prisoner tells Wiesel the harsh reality that he is "... in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father." (pg 110) These words stick with Wiesel as, for a moment, he entertains the idea of prioritising his own survival over his father’s, even thinking to himself

In this paper I will argue that through the use of diction, tone, and symbolism both authors convey the emotional toll and psychic impact of traumatic events, such as witnessing a hanging and having someone close to them die, which deeply influences the readers interpretation of the memoirs. In Wiesel’s Night the build-up of trauma is correlated with his gradual loss of faith in God, especially when he witnesses the hanging of a child. The author explains that he had grown accustom to watching the hanging of prisoners in the concentration camp, in fact he mentions being unaffected by these occurrences. This is not the case when he witnesses the hanging of a young pipel who has been commended to death for keeping his silence over the crimes of his commanding Oberkapo. Wiesel’s diction in Night is emotional for the most part; this is particularly true for the passage where he describes witnessing the hanging of the pipel.

Throughout the text, Wiesel creates a sense of routine in the camps when he presents what the daily life of Elie is like to establish the struggle they go through in their new daily life. To present this, Wiesel writes about Elie’s life and his experience during his time in Auschwitz. He states, “In the mornings: black coffee. At midday: soup. By the third day, I was eagerly eating any kind of s o u p ...

The book Night is written by a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel. He shows us what it was like to live through such horror. Sometimes I think that he made stuff up, but unfortunately it was all true. There were many themes in the book like family, silence, and self-preservation, but there are three main themes all throughout the book - inhumanity, denial, and religion/faith.

Since the boy being hanged was so young, the prisoners were in a state of grief and shock when it was time for his execution. Elie claimed during the execution that the “SS seemed more preoccupied, more worried, than usual. To hang a child in front of thousands of onlookers was not a small matter.” (Wiesel 64.) This proved that the people running the camp were also disturbed about hanging a child.

There are many themes shown throughout the book Night. However, I chose to focus on the theme," The silence of God and the world empowers evil. " This theme is represented multiple times in the story. For example on page 65 it says, "For God's sake, where is God?" (Wiesel 65).

Wiesel and his father were sent to several different camps and suffered a great deal before their nightmare was ended. In the novel, many people living in the concentration camps suffered from emotional death because they had to watch innocent people die, were forced to use every ounce of their energy to endure horrific conditions, and had begun to question whether it was better to live or die. First,

Once the Jewish people reached the concentration camps, they were typically immediately separated by gender. Women and girls were almost always immediately executed, and boys and men would then go through a “selection” process, where the old, sick, and disabled–those who would be unable to work–were separated from their peers (“Auschwitz”). Wiesel had left his mother and sisters soon after arriving in Auschwitz “in a fraction of a second” with “no time to think” and continued onward with his father in disarray and confusion (29). Those selected to be unfit for work would be killed by being gassed, shot, or thrown into a crematorium to be burned. After witnessing human beings, notably babies, being sent to the crematorium, Wiesel “felt anger rising within”

In just one night the whole Wiesel family was separated without goodbyes, or any hope that they would see each other again. They became objects of the Natzi’s , and anything that they said, did, or thought didn't matter

Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.

It was a new low for the German soldiers to kill a child, and it was this execution that made many of the Jews’ question the presence of God. Wiesel says, “That night, the soup tasted of corpses” (62). They felt remorse at the hanging of the pipel because he had been kind to them and was “loved by all” (Wiesel 60). So even though the prisoners had to watch similar hangings in Wiesel’s

Wiesel’s speech shows how he worked to keep the memory of those people alive because he knows that people will continue to be guilty, to be accomplices if they forget. Furthermore, Wiesel knows that keeping the memory of those poor, innocent will avoid the repetition of the atrocity done in the future. The stories and experiences of Wiesel allowed for people to see the true horrors of what occurs when people who keep silence become “accomplices” of those who inflict pain towards humans. To conclude, Wiesel chose to use parallelism in his speech to emphasize the fault people had for keeping silence and allowing the torture of innocent

When Wiesel makes it clear that he has suffered personal loss, he is evoking an emotional response from his audience. By stating that he senses their presence “The presence of my parents, that of my little sister.” the audience empathizes with him and the horror of the Holocaust is made more clear for them. They cannot only understand his feelings; they can connect to them which strengthens their understanding of the need to act whenever they witness inhumanity.

The relationship between a father and his son is an breakable bond, strong enough to withstand the test of time. The only question is if this bond can withstand all of the trials that come during the test of time? To some the thought of ever breaking the sacred bond with their father sounds horrible, but for others the bond has already been broken. Elie Wiesel's relationship with his father and many others’ were put to the ultimate test during the world’s most horrific event in history, the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is taken to a concentration camp where he is separated from his whole family except his father.