Theme Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Prompt 1: During Mr. Wiesel’ stay in Buna he was posed with many internal conflicts, some of which include his faith in God and loyalty to his father. Both were equally haunting to Mr. Wiesel, but perhaps the most daunting and difficult was his deteriorating loyalty to his father. During the evacuation of Buna, Eliezer notices that Rabbi Eliahu’s son has abandoned him and states a prayer to God saying,’Oh God, Master Of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done. ”(Wiesel, 91) However, this was not to be, because after this experience the reader finds young Eliezer’s loyalty to his father decreasing until finally he does what he proclaimed he would never do, abandon his father when he needed him the most

How did the execrable setting, the concentration camps, alter those involved? Good people were manipulated and changed into performing heinous acts. “Night,” is written from the perspective of Eliezer, as he navigated through the survival of the Holocaust, with his father. Eli became aware that people who neglected their morals thrived, this revelation troubled him deeply. The inhumane atrocities that took place during the Holocaust resulted in corrupt mindsets among those involved: the German soldiers, the Jews and Eliezer himself.

In the midst of their average lives, Elie and his fellow Jews find their lives being turned upside down. Separated from his mother and sisters, Elie is left with only his father, along with many strangers. In this unfamiliar place, Elie faces both physical and emotional abuse each day. Just a slight drop in his determination could cost Eliezer his life. On the verge of giving up, Eliezer reminds himself that he is all that his father really has, his only support.

Chosen Bonds “Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb” - Common Proverb This proverb means the bonds one makes himself/herself are stronger than bonds one is made to have, but in Night by Elie Wiesel, the author shows that people can form stronger bonds with family, as to become that covenant. Night follows the author’s experience as a young Jewish boy in Sighet Romania during the Holocaust; at a mere 15 years, Wiesel had been subjected to living in ghettos, being separated from his mother and sisters, being beat and worked to death in concentration camps, and losing his father. Throughout this book, many of the people mentioned struggled with self preservation versus familial commitment and it has grown to be one of the major themes portrayed in Night. The theme of self preservation versus familial commitment is evident in the author’s family, other prisoners, and in Wiesel himself.

At the very beginning of Night, we do not see much of Elie and his father interacting, as Elie is always busy studying the Talmud and Kabbalah. His father seemed like a regular guy, until his family is moved out of the ghettos. After that, his father’s strength declines steadily through the book, and we watch as Elie struggles to stay with his father, his only link to his life of the past. The relationship between him and his father could not have developed the way it did if they had not gone through such horrible things side-by-side.

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.

There are themes that are seen throughout Night: man versus God, family, hunger and thirst. Elie Wiesel had God from the very beginning all the way to the end by questioning God and His existence for letting such horrific actions performed by the Nazis. His transformation of a resolute believe in God to being angry with God for making a child suffer a hanging to in the end when Elie is pleading with God to be able to stay with his father until the end. In a selection from Night, Elie is ranting to God, “what are You, my God? I thought angrily… why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies” (Wiesel 66).

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.

When Elie’s father realizes the SS officers selected him to be slaughtered, he could “fe[el] time was running out. ”(75). Knowing he will not live forever, he gives his inheritance, a knife and a spoon, to his son. He understands his mortality, so he uses the time available to make what he views as the best choice. Humanity requires a finite lifetime in which one must make hard decisions to best use their time.

“Never shall I forget those flame which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that Nocturnal Silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall i forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall i forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long God himself. Never.”

“ You don 't need religion to have morals. If you can 't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy not religion. ”- unknown. Night by Elie Wiesel, during World War II, in Germany and Poland, Jewish people taken to concentration camps and forced to do labor.

The road to a relationship with God is not straight, it is ever changing with challenges and curves and ups and downs. This is a main theme in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, where Elie has a struggling relationship with God. He thinks that God has abandoned him and his dad so he does not feel the need to continue his relationship with God. Elie was excited about his faith but the holocaust makes him feel angry and confused with God. Elie 's faith excites him from a young age and he wants to learn more about God.

He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” Eliezer finds the strength to keep going because of his

Life is full of good and bad experiences, but you don’t always have control of what happens. That can be scary sometimes and it depends on how you handle it as to whether you get out of that situation. In the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel, Eli, a teenager had been taken away from his home and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Night is the scary record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his own family and the death of his own innocence as he tries to fight his way out of the concentration camp. Over the course of the book, Eli changes from a believer in God living in bearable conditions to someone who has become profane because of the situation he’s been put in.

Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.