Themes Of Night By Elie Wiesel

In most cases, people will do what they have to do in order to survive. The book Night is about a young boy named Elie, and how he survived in multiple concentration camps. By reading Night we can see that family is the key to survival, which is important because those who don’t have family can often die. The main reason that Elie survives is because he had his father there with him for almost the whole time.

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.

Kristyn Batkins Mrs. Lafferty English 11 April 24, 2023 Adapting to what we are giving In the book Night, I think the most important theme is survival, the basic needs and psychological needs he needs to survive that he is missing. Going with the Maslow hierarchy they kept moving down in the needs to the bottom where they were not even giving the basic needs needed to survive and keep going. Where they are struggling with themself on not having what they need in life as humans. With psychological needs, you need relationships and family and during this Ellie got separated from his family and only had his dad left, and he also encountered negative human interaction which he had to adapt to, to survive. ¨Men to the left!

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.

Since 1945, the word holocaust has been taken under a horrifying meaning, the mass murder of over 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi during World War II. Elie Wiesel, a global activist, recounts the setting of a portion of his timeline. From Sighet to Auschwitz, Wiesel and his fellow Jews experienced reduction in their personal freedom as if it were dehumanization. “the same day, the Hungarian police burst into every Jewish home in town: a Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry, or any valuables. Everything had to be handed over to the authorities, under penalty of death.”

Anne Frank/Night Theme Essay FINAL Draft The book Night is about Elie, a Jewish boy that was sent to a concentration camp, and how he manages to live in the concentration camp. In the book, the reader will notice there will be an extraordinary amount of reasons why and how Elie and his father have a close relationship within the 11-month period they are in buna (A section of Auschwitz Concentration camp). Despite this poor quality of living, he and his father maintained a close relationship. In Auschwitz, prisoners got around 100 calories to eat a day, and most of the prisoners were moving dirt or something related to labor for the whole day.

Carter Denbrock Mr. Haadsma English 10B 27 February 2023 TITLE In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, a primary theme of the book is that you must remain strong, while looking out for you and your families, even in the face of conflict and tragedy. Weisel recalls many points in time where he remained hopeful even when it seemed impossible. He and millions of other Jewish prisoners were at the hands of the merciless Nazi’s, Weisel recalls many events where he could have given up but would not allow himself to.

In Elie’s early teenage years he was an extremely religious person. Going to the Synagogue and wanting to study the Torah. As the Nazi’s captured Elie and his father and forced them into a concentration

A recurring theme that is frequently present throughout Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, is Eliezer's struggle with maintaining his faith in God. At the beginning of the memoir, Elizer was described as someone who is “deeply observant” (Wiesel 3) which means he is a profoundly religious person who devotes all his time to practicing his religion. He states, “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple” (Wiesel 3) proving his willing devotion to Judaism. The first time Elizer was questioned about why he practices his faith, he did not know how to answer because his belief in God and in his religion was so secure that it became second nature. However, it was not until he was sent to

The struggle for survival was a central theme in each of the week’s works. How does one survive in the face of horror? How does one survive in loneliness? How does one survive in the arms of the enemy? How does one survive with guilt?

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 showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. The hell Elie went through in the camps is something that he will never forget. In contrast the dehumanization the jews received was very harsh it was something that changed their lives forever. They lost their possession, family,morality and their identity. Because of the strength Elie had through this horrible experience he has gained a stronger

In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.

In many ways, Nazis had physically, mentally, and emotionally dehumanized their victims. The Jews were treated so badly by the Nazis that they felt as if they weren’t even humans; they felt like animals. For example, the Jewish prisoners were always being yelled at with harsh tones. Eliezer only remembers one time when a Polish

Elie was held captive in concentration camps from 1944-1945. During his time in the concentration camps, he became grateful for what he had, overcame countless obstacles, and more importantly kept fighting until he was free. [The Holocaust is very important to learn about because it can teach you some important life lessons.] You should always be grateful for what you have, no matter what the circumstances are. This lesson can be learned when Elie says, “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more”(109).