Themes Of Night By Elie Wiesel

There were many “selections'”, where they would take the weak to kill them, held during the time they were there. In the camp the jews would be beaten and humiliated and they would do this for fun and just for a laugh. Eliezer went through many odd things like a man making him pry out his gold tooth with a rusty spoon. They were forced to watch other prisoners being hung in the courtyard. They had to watch a young boy get hung because he was associated with some rebels in the buna.

Wiesel wrote about the concentration camps and the hardships people involved in them og through. Wiesel wrote about a personal experience he had in the concentration camp. Elie Wiesel included many different tones in the story and took you through an emotional rollercoaster. In the beginning of the book, it was sad and gloomy because they mentioned the test they had to go through and if they didn’t pass they would be executed. Wiesel was worried about his father and whether or not his father would pass the test because he was old.

Another major challenge Ben and the many other Jews faced was the Nazi’s aggressive ways of murdering them. According to the text, it states, “Nazi troops and their collaborators shot them, starved them, worked them to death, and systematically murdered them in gas chambers of death camps. ”(7) This shows that the Nazis did everything to kill and sweep out the Jewish.

Elie Wiesel’s relationship with God changes during his time in Auschwitz. He becomes angry with God for letting His own creations starve, torture, and mercilessly murder His devout worshippers. Wiesel cannot understand why his creator would open “six crematoria working day and night” to slaughter human beings (Wiesel 67). He does not trust God to be just any longer, for “every fiber in [him rebels]” (67). Wiesel feels he is stronger than the God whom he was bound to for so long, and he “no longer [accepts] God’s silence” (69).

As Molching recovers from its first air raid, Liesel witnesses the parade of the enslaved Jews for the first time as they pass through the town on their march to a labour camp in Dachau. Markus Zusak’s bleak depiction of the scene is emphasised by the confronting imagery, muted by the overall absence of speech and the normalised degradation of the Jews. Presented without inner thoughts, the traumas of reality are illustrated plainly on their bodies and rendered all the more devastating in its overarching theme of loss. Throughout the passage, the Jewish fate of endless dehumanisation is perpetuated by the silence of the audience in response to the soldiers’ cruelty. The passage opens on a dictionary definition for ‘misery’, establishing a

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed," Elie Wiesel wrote of his experience in a Jewish concentration camp. There are many misconceptions about what happens inside concentration camps therefore, much has been written on the subject. Night by Eliezer Wiesel, In My Hands by Jennifer Armstrong, and "German Concentration Camps" by the CIA are three texts written about concentration camps during WWII. Each discusses what happened to prisoners during the war as well as ways prisoners survived these dehumanizing institutions. Prisoners who lived in concentration camps during the Holocaust used perseverance and faith to survive the violence

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).

In this article, people were granted freedom from torture or degrading torment. Yet, none of the Jews were given this freedom, they received the complete opposite. An example of such tortures acts done by the Nazis can be found on page 41 where it states, “Not far from us flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic-flames. They were burning something. A van drew up at the pit and delivered its cargo, little children.

Then, the Nazis forbid the Jews to leave their homes for three days. Next, the Jews were “henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry, or valuables” (Wiesel 10-11). Within a week, “ every Jew had to wear the yellow star” (Wiesel 11). Finally, the Jews could no longer ride trains, attend restaurants, attend church, or walk on the streets after 6 pm. All of this proves the Nazi's inhumane treatment of the Jews in Society.

European Jews lived normal lives up until the brink of World War II, when the Nazis came into power. They cruelly

This happened when the Germans first came, this was just the beginning of taking everything from them. “ everything had to be handed over to the authorities, under penalty of death. ”(Wiesel 11) when the Germans came they ordered all the Jews to hand over all their gold and other valuable things. They couldn 't go to the synagogue, cafes, restaurants they couldn 't even leave after 6. They were moved into the ghettos, where they were starved.

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.

Also, they tried to resist by using their beliefs, in order to maintain their humanity, personal integrity, and dignity. If the resisters were found and caught, they would be shot. Next, there were a lot of prisoners trying to escape the torture. Some Jews escaped by running into forests near the ghettos and hiding there until they knew they could go somewhere else. Prisoners would try to escape by digging an underground tunnel that led right outside the camps.

Some were put in gas chambers others were shot. This happened to mostly the weak elderly or the young kids, babies were thrown and shot at in the air with no compassion. Cruelty ended up becoming nothing to the Jewish victims, they worried more about eating than the pain they felt.

Many were also shot and killed as they entered the camps based on their strength and how fit they looked. Germans looked for strong men who could last a long time doing hard work. As the prisoners would travel from camp to camp on carts, many would end up dead from either starvation, body temperature, or both. The Germans would leave the dead bodies lying around for days upon days eventually they were picked up and put into the oven to burn. Many people living in the camps not only saw death everywhere they also could smell death in the air from all the ashes and smoke coming from the ovens.