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Elie Wiesel Loss Of Identity In Night
Elie Wiesel's memoir Night displays how the traumatic effects of the Holocaust shaped his identity,
as it caused him to lose hope in humanity and goodness in the world due to loss of faith. An
individual is greatly impacted by their identity as it can shape how others view them, their moral
beliefs and how they reflect upon themselves. Those perceptions of Elie are altered by the intense
punishments and orders the Nazi officers have on the captured Jewish. Wiesel is stripped of his
rights and punished for his Jewish faith, which triggers the changes in his identity and turns into a
lifeless prisoner. After seeing many of his fellow prisoners be killed or beaten, Elie undergoes a
crisis of faith and God because seeing those events often causes mental stress. It has been founded
that forms both emotional trauma and disorders such as PTSD have a quite effect on human's ...
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Wiesel's lack of hope leads to depression, hopelessness and frustration. These emotional traits can be
seen at times when he talks to himself about how he is internally crying and was very angry with his
situation. His loss of faith hurts his process of understanding and undergoing life, causing extensive
emotional issues. The Nazi's took his identity by stripping Elie of his culture and heritage. He now
ignores the holidays like Hanukkah that he had celebrated, and no longer is able to do many of the
things he did in Hungary. Following World War II, cultural destructiveness is prevented from
occuring again as a number of groups, such as UNESCO, help pass international heritage protection
treaties. The death of his father takes away even more meaning in his life, as they were a very
connected family, and it breaks Wiesel's heart. A demonstration of those feelings is when Elie
shares, "I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It
no longer
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Loss Of Morality And Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel
Elie's loss of morality and faith
Why does Elie go against his own morality? In Night by Elie Wiesel? Elie is a teenager wanting to
better himself by learning Kabhalla. Later the town he lived in got invaded by german soldiers. Elie
and his family were taken and later got separated from his mother and sister. All Elie had left was
his father. Elie and his father grew a strong bond in order to keep eachother alive through all the
concentration camps. Elie survives through all the pain and and torment of camps but his father died
of dysentery in the camps. Elie gave up on his own morality because he lost his faith and he allows
violence to occur for his own survival.
First Elie gave up on his own morality because he started to blame god.
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Symbols In Night By Elie Wiesel
Night is a novel written by Eliezer Wiesel. Throughout the novel, Wiesel recreates the horrific
experiences that he had endured in the time period of the Holocaust. You can see how the
unbearable experiences in Auschwitz had changed Elie. His mindset had completely transformed
over time. The reenactment of many events depicts many themes/symbols. One main symbol is
night itself. In the novel Night, nighttime symbolizes a time of sufferance in a world where God
does not exist. Elie Wiesel had lived the regular life of a Jewish boy in his early childhood. Elie was
a very kind person who wanted to succeed. He had been very religious and was focused deeply of
learning everything there was to know about God. That had all came to change once Wiesel had
entered Auschwitz. "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" (Dougherty). This shows us how
Elie's first night, when he had arrived in Birkenau, would set the stage for all the nights that he
would experience in the camps. The night the worldness ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
"The last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the
ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would our
lives be lived from one 'last night' to the next" (Wiesel 83). This recalls all of the "last" nights which
never really turned out to be the actual end of Eliezer's bad times. In addition, it shows his
faithlessness in God. Wiesel just wishes the never–ending sufferance would come to an end. This
quote provides another example of how nighttime represents times of suffering. It also shows its
representation of a world without God. Elie believes God would not allow him to suffer throughout
all these nights, which causes him to lose all of his faith that there is a God in the world that he lives
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Discuss The Importance Of Family In Night By Elie Wiesel
The importance of family in Night Family is one of the most important things in most people's lives.
No one would know what to do without their family by their side, there would be no point in living.
Night is a book about a young boy named Elie Wiesel who was taken away, sent to concentration
camps, and was automatically separated from his mother and sisters. He spent his childhood
growing up through the Holocaust with his father. He was one of the lucky ones who survived while
many others didn't. By examining the novel Night we can see that family is the key to survival,
which is important because those who do not have family often cannot survive. Elie's Father being
with him through his journey played a big part in him surviving the Holocaust. All Elie wanted to do
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He never wanted to be separated from his father and he feared this happening. When Elie was in the
hospital all he wanted to do was go be with his father. Every time there was a selection Elie was
worried about sticking by Chlomo's side more than anything. Up till the very end Elie's only reason
to stay alive was his father. Most people in the camp didn't have a reason to live like Elie and his
father did. They depended on each other in the concentration camp. Chlomo gave Elie his knife and
spoon because he thought he would need it more than him. This shows how selfless Chlomo was
and how he wanted more than anything for Elie to make it out alive. When Chlomo thought he was
dying Elie told him that it wasn't happening and to get up. Elie looked up to his father and tried to be
brave when his dad told him he was dying. He made it with his father this far and he couldn't bear
him being gone because his father was his reason to live. Along with Chlomo, Elie's hopes that he
would one day see his mother and sister helped to keep him alive. A quote from the book says "My
father's presence was the only thing that
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How Does Elie Wiesel Use Dark Imagery In Night
In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, it shows the things that Elie went through in the concentration
camp. Elie uses dark imagery to show how physically miserable it was for them. Also, we are able
to see his perspective on how they were treated to the point all they felt was pain, and mostly what
he went through mentally and physically. In Night, the most crucial external conflict revolves
around the Nazi party which is shown through the perspective of Elie Wiesel and his use of dark
imagery. The way it impacted the life of Elie because the Nazi party caused him more personal
problems like questioning if his father is worth being with, his relationship with God, if he should
still live, and in the end the way he saw himself was different. One way the conflict develops is by
Wiesel's use of dark imagery. In the text it states "I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the
whip" (Wiesel 57). This quote gives you an image of torture, shows how they were treated by the
Nazi party. By him saying "I no longer felt anything" it indicates that they treat them at a lesser
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For example he was questioning his belief, will to live, and if his father was worth sticking with.
The text states "Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for
himself and you cannot think of others. Not even your father" (Wiesel 110). This quote shows that it
doesn't matter if it is your father, so Elie should only care for himself. This impacts Elie because he
loves his father, you should love your father. For many people to tell him to abandon his father and
just not stick with him it can really break down someone emotionally especially if they have been
there since the day you were born,and Elie loves his father. They have been through a lot ever since
they have been in the concentration
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Discuss The Examples Of Figurative Language In Night By...
Night contains a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to
analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text.
(How does it affect the reader? How does it affect the reading experience? Why did Wiesel make
that specific choice?) Please use a different type of figurative language for each example.
The first example is a metaphor, from page 59 when two pots of soup were left out during the air
raid. Wiesel describes the prisoners reactions to their discovery, "Hundreds of eyes were looking at
them, shining with desire. Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them" (Wiesel, 59).
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"The Perils of Indifference" is more a warning, which tells the readers/listeners that we cannot turn a
blind eye and we must help those in need. Wiesel says that that is one of the reasons the Holocaust
was so disastrous, is because many countries knew what was going on, but they did not help, "And
now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew. And
the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader [Franklin Delano
Roosevelt]" ("The Perils of Indifference"). He does not talk much about his own experiences, but
mostly uses questions and other examples to get his point across. Night is a different story, one that
is true and not meant to be a direct warning, like "The Perils of Indifference" was. Night was meant
to show the true story of the things the the author had to endure behind the gates of the camps. This
particular piece of writing was meant to make the reader think about the effects that were caused
through the real stories about his imprisonment, the torture and little care he was given and the loss
of his family members. The real stories made the readers feel as though they lived through it with
him and created a mood of sadness around this topic, more than there was already. The writing
styles he used were different too, and this had an effect upon the
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How Does Elie Wiesel Use Motifs In Night
Eyes are said to be the window into someone's soul. Through eyes, one can see the depths of strong
emotion and deepest fears. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, Eliezer lived in Sighetu Marmației,
originally referred to as Sighet, located in Northwestern Romania with his parents and three sisters.
They were forced into a ghetto and ultimately ended up separated in Auschwitz. In the memoir
Night, Elie Wiesel uses the motif eyes to show the ways that the Holocaust impacted people's
humanity. Elie uses the motif eyes to reveal emotion and thoughts of people throughout the book.
Madame Schachter was a woman on the train heading for Auschwitz with Elie and his family. Her
husband and two eldest sons were deported by mistake onto the first transport.
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Brutalization Of Prisoners In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
In this scene from Night, Elie Weisel writes about the ways the Germans treat the prisoners when
they arrive at Auschwitz. In this scene, Weisel teaches his reader how the Germans brutalize their
prisoners. Weisel describes the Germans as "beating" the prisoners repeatedly and forcing them into
"disinfection," this is similar to how one wouuld treat an object or animal, not a human being. This
reflects the brutalizing of the prisoners. Elie writes about how as the prisoners were running they
"threw" clothes at them and in that moment they had "ceased to be men". Weisel also writes about
how Meir Katz, "wore a child's pants" and how Stern, was "floundering in a huge jacket." The Nazis
did not give the prisoners the proper clothes and threw the
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Two Examples Of Situational Irony In Night By Elie Wiesel
In the novel ''Night'' Eliezer survives from Auschwitz and surprisingly almost dies from food
poisoning.The irony in this is that he could of died many ways at Auschwitz but ultimately almost
dies from food poisoning.That is also a form of situational irony meaning that the situation turns
opposite of what you expect.Another example of situational irony in''Night'' is when Chlomo Wiesel
makes a remark about the yellow Jewish star,mocking it by asking if its lethal,but wearing the
yellow star is what kills him in the story.In this essay I'll be giving you more three more examples of
irony throughout the novel ''Night''. In the first chapter of the novel,the setting takes place in
Sighet,Transylvania and Moshe the Beadle teaches Eliezer on Jewish mysticism.And then one day
all the foreign Jews along with Moshe get expelled by a Hungarian police officer.Life is calm in
Sighet for awhile until Moshe the Beadle comes and tells Eliezer and the Jews of crazy stories of his
near–death experience.He warns the Jews that Nazis will soon threaten their way of life but no one
believes him.They only think of him as crazy or a man who wants their pity.The Jews continue to
disbelieve that Hitler will do any harm to them until Nazis actually come to their small town and
arrest them.This is ironic since the Jews had been given many warnings and continued to stay close
minded until that following event.
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Adversity In Night By Elie Wiesel
Have you ever experienced adversity in losing everything you once believed in? In the book Night,
Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who suffers through the hardships of religious discrimination in the
concentration camps during the holocaust. The theme I plan to talk about is Eliezer's loss of faith
throughout the war and his journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and
Buchenwald. Religion is a stronghold for most people during times of struggle; the story begins with
Eliezer believing God was the most important thing in his life, to struggling with the thought of God
letting all the suffering happen in Germany. The life of Eliezer Wiesel revolved around family,
religion, and love. I believe his loss of faith impacted his identity, family, and morality throughout
the narrative. "During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over
the destruction of the Temple" (Wiesel, 1) This quote showed how sincerely involved he was
religiously; weeping at the destruction of the Temple shows a clear emotional connection to his
faith. As the story progresses, and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Here He is–He is hanging here on this gallows...." That night the soup tasted of corpses (Wiesel, 42).
The death of the servant boy created a truth for him; that He was no longer present in Eliezer's life.
This causes realization that all Eliezer has is his father (who grows older and weaker each day) and
himself. That year he did not fast because he felt there was no longer a reason, and he no longer
accepted God's silence. (Wiesel, 46) Eliezer had directed all his frustration, anger, and fear towards
his God because their was no one else to blame for the suffering and pain. The story continues with
a "selection" taking place and the movement to another
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Examples Of Fear In Night By Elie Wiesel
Many people fear things like darkness, especially at night, where fear spreads relentlessly in the
minds of society. In the book Night, the memoir of the author Elie Wiezel and his experiences
during the holocaust, he expresses his fear in several unique yet frightening situations. From his
hometown of Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie struggles to survive while keeping close to his family. He
may have been a young boy, but he was smart and resourceful as well, which is how he survived,
even with scars not only on his frail body, but his mind and soul as well. The book shows fear with
the mysterious window knocker, after Elie finds Idek with a young Polish girl and is warned that he
will pay for snooping around, and when Elie's father is getting beaten up. ... Show more content on
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To quote Elie's relative Batia, "'There's someone knocking on the blocked–up window, the one that
faces outside!'"(Wiezel,12). An unknown person who wouldn't even use the door is definitely a
cause for suspicion and worry. Not only that, but when they knocked, "...it was too late. There was
no one outside"(Wiezel,12). Seeing as the person who knocked was too afraid to even stay, that
made more fear in the hearts of Elie's family, even if Elie would later learn that the knocker was
trying to warn his family. To conclude, having a mysterious person knocking on one's door, or in this
case, their window, and later disappearing before they open up, will without a doubt create fear in
the people who are getting knocked
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How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night
The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is about him as a young boy when he spent time in a
concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout the book it's easy to see that Elie is slowly
changing as a person as the holocaust progresses. At the beginning of the book Elie was just an
innocent boy who went to school and had a regular schedule just like any other child. Until one day
he fell into the hands of fate and everything changed. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi army hated the
Jewish race with a passion and was attempting to wipe them all out and create the "perfect race" of
Germans and blonde haired blue eyed North Western Europeans, also called Aryans. Hitler believed
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His hair was shaved and he wore the same striped jumpsuit as every other prisoner. His child–like
innocence was gone. He was no longer a devout jew. He wasn't even called by a name anymore. He
had a number just like everyone else. They were no longer individual beings, but walking corpses
waiting to die. They were denied the dignity a human being deserves. Bodies deprived of the
nutrients needed to survive. Many went insane. But Elie stayed stayed sane throughout the torture.
He was becoming weaker by the day. His father was in worse condition. Elie was beginning to think
what he feared he would eventually think. His father was becoming more of a nuisance than a
companion. Elie became independent and helped his father more than his father helped him. In
chapter 5 Elie was sent to the infirmary. His foot was swollen and the doctors had to drain pus from
it. At this time, rumors began to spread through the camp that the Russian Army was coming so all
prisoners would be moved. At first, Elie, his father and the other prisoners planned to stay behind,
but once they hear that those who remain behind will be executed before the army arrives. This
caused Elie and his dad to evacuate with the rest of the prisoners. Elie bravely walked and ran for
days in the cold snow with an infected foot. It is easy to see that Elie is getting stronger throughout
the book. When they arrived at the camp Elie's father was growing much weaker and collapsed onto
the snow in exhaustion. He had contracted dysentery. Elie went to sleep that night with his father
alive in the bed underneath him and woke up the next day to see that his father was not there
anymore. "After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." With his father dead Elie had
nothing to hold onto anymore. He was broken inside. He had built an immunity to things affecting
him. And to his deep shame he did not cry, he felt
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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel
Just from reading the first sentence of 'Night', which said "If in my lifetime I was to write only one
book, this would be the one." I knew this book shouldn't be read carelessly. 'The night' is written by
"Elie Wiesel" and narrated by "Eliezer" (a representation of Elie Wiesel, but a fictional character) a
Jewish teenager who lives in Sighet, in Hungry Transylvania. Studying the 'Torah' and 'Cabbola', it
was clear that Eliezer had a love of Jewish scripture and a love of God. However, his study was cut
short, when his teacher 'Moshe the Beadle' was deported. After a couple of months, Moshe returned
and he expresses the horrifying story of the Gestapo (the German secret police force). Subsequently
the Nazi's invaded Hungry and after arriving
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Examples Of Survival In Night By Elie Wiesel
In "Night", Elie Wiesel develops the idea that survival was the main component to the escape of the
horrifying and life taking holocaust. In the novel, Wiesel states "God knows what i would have
given to be able to sleep a few moments. But deep inside, I know that sleep meant to die. And
something in me rebelled against that death." This shows that in order to survive there was no room
for mistakes, to sleep meant to die and that meant his only option was to survive the tiredness.
Another quote later on in the book is, "My whole desire to live began concentrated on my nails. I
scratched, I fought for a breath of air. I tore at decaying flesh that did not respond. I could not free
myself of the mess weighing down on my chest. Who knows?
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Symbols In Night By Elie Wiesel
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel continues to repeat the word "night," throughout the book.
This word represents how Wiesel feels about the war and how he is in a never–ending realm of
sadness and darkness. "So many events have taken place in just a few hours I had completely lost
the notion of all time. When had we left our homes?And the ghetto? And the train? Only a week
ago? One night? One single night (37)? In the previous quote stated, it shows how quickly, just after
leaving the ghettos, Wiesel understood how in a single night, everything was taken away so quickly.
The word "night" in the book is repetitive and so powerful, and especially in this quote, it shows
how "night" is used in order to symbolize death, a darkness of people,
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Analytical Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the
tormentor, never the tormented." (Elie Wiesel) The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story of
trying to survive in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Family is an important part of the
story because it shows us that family can be what keeps some people alive, family becomes
important when things get rough, and that once you lose your humanity family means nothing.
First and foremost, family is important when things get rough. In the beginning of the book the
Nazis were rounding up Jews in the Ghettos. The families in the Ghettos did their best to stick
together but some families were broken apart. When Elie and his father get to the concentration
camp they do their best to stay together. Elie says he's 18 and his dad says that he is 40. It keeps
them alive and together. Elie does everything he can to keep his dad going. He makes sure he keeps
walking and that he stays awake. He takes beatings for his dad, and he even tried to keep him alive
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Elie stayed strong by trying to keep his father alive. Elie did anything for his dad while they were in
the concentration camps. They weren't as close before all the bad things happened but they knew
they were in danger and became closer. Elie stayed with his father until basically the very end. He
went to great heights trying to keep him going which essentially helped himself in the long run. He
made sure his father was walking, and when they stopped to rest in the snow Elie made sure he
would not fall asleep. Elie even tried to keep his dad going when he was very sick. He gave his soup
to his dad even though he needed it more. Trying to keep his dad alive mad them grow a stronger
bond and helps his dad want to
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Night Elie Wiesel Conflict Analysis
Throughout Wiesel's novel, many different types of conflict are mentioned. Whether through Elie's
thoughts or the external difficulties of life in concentration camps, the discussion of such topics
elicits an emotional response from many readers. Wiesel is able to discuss his struggle within
himself, with others, with his faith, and with the environment around him to create poignant
descriptions of the horrors of the Holocaust. Wiesel is in a constant battle with his inner self
throughout different points of the book. He questions his faith, and whether God is really the
omnipotent being that he once studied. He also struggles with guilt from thoughts of wishing to
leave his father behind. These are some of the main man–versus–self conflicts within the book,
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The other conflicts are mainly external as Eliezer deals with the extreme cruelty of both the people
around him and the environment. He combats the harsh climate and work conditions daily when he
is forced to work in the building unit; however, the climate continues to affect them daily as they
stand for many hours while they are counted and as they sleep in the hard, cold bunks at night. The
leaders of the camps, mainly the Gestapo and the Kapos, are increasingly cruel to the innocent
prisoners for no reason but pleasure. Wiesel continues to attempt to stay under the radar, but he often
ends up getting the brunt of someone's anger. Finally, Eliezer faces the biggest conflict: man versus
society. Being a Jew and categorized as an undesirable, Eliezer is constantly ridiculed and at the
forefront of the punishment from society members and other
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Night Father Son Relationship Analysis
"Take care of your son. He is very weak" is advice given by his cousin, Stein, to Eliezer and his
father (Wiesel, 45). In Night by Elie Wiesel he illustrates his experience in the holocaust. He is put
in a life or death situation with his father that puts an extreme strain on the bond, but they weren't
the only father–son relationship put to the test. The advice given to him was followed by him and by
some other characters. In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the author displays how times of
hardship can have a positive effect on the father–son relationships, which shows how people in
times of hardship care more than those not. The greatest example of a father–son relationship that
stayed close together, Eliezer and his father. Throughout the whole book, they display a large
connection and strong bond. In almost all of the book Elie cared for his father and did all he could to
make sure he survived. Even when he was told by his Blockästle told him to give up on his father,
he never did. He continued to help feed him and give him his coffee. When transporting to yet
another camp the had to throw out corpses and people tried to throw out his dad. Even though His
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In the beginning Eliezer's father gave him advice to not eat so fast so that he wouldn't starve to
much, to keep him as healthy as possible. And when Stein gave the both of them advice by telling
Eliezer's father to take care of Elie. When they were still in the camps and his father would get extra
food he would give it to Elie. In page 73 his father gave him half of a ration of bread, which he
traded for with a rubber band. Even when his father thought he was going to die at selection, he tried
his hardest to get to his son to give him a knife and spoon. In his possible last few moments; He
immediately wanted to look out for his son. People in dire situations tend to give and care more
because they know the same
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How Does Elie Wiesel Use Irony In Night
Will hope always prevail? In Night, a memoir by Eliezer Wiesel, young Elie grows up as a devoted
Jew. He studies the religion so often that he cannot find someone in his hometown of Sighet that can
teach him anymore than he already knows. His friend, Moishe the Beadle escapes from a camp that
he was taken to, and says that he witnessed all sorts of violence, like shooting innocent children with
machine guns, but Elie does not believe Moishe. He is blinded by his tremendous hope and faith,
even when the Nazis take over Sighet. In this book, Elie uses dark and evil–minded words to
describe his experience in the concentration camps through various literary devices. Wiesel uses
irony at early points in the book to set a mood that there is a sense of relaxation and hope. While in
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Wiesel says, "At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription:
Warning! Danger of death. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of
death?" (40). His experiences trigger his mind to think this way. So far, he has been threatened to
either work or be burned to death, his father has been hit with such strength by a Gypsy inmate that
he has to crawl back to his spot, and they were forced to march all the way to Auschwitz through
barbed wire and other obstacles. But, even though his experiences reflect this way of thinking, he
still has not lost hope or faith in this scenario. The use of irony in this setting portrays the idea that
the belief of hope is obvious among the group, and especially obvious to Elie. Still, this type of
language induces images of violence and brutality brought on by the Nazis onto innocent people
pleading
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Commentary On The Book Night By Elie Wiesel
After reading the book "Night" the Nazi treated the people like nothing. When families arrives at
Auschwitz, the men and women are separated, and Elie sees his mother and sisters vanishing in the
distance. He holds onto his father and is determined not to lose him. A fellow prisoner tells Elie to
say that he is eighteen (though he is really fifteen) and that his father is forty (though he is fifty).
The prisoners who have been at Auschwitz for a while are brutal and cruel to the new arrivals, and
one of them tells them about the crematory. Some of the young men talk about revolting, but are
silenced by their elders. Thereafter, everyone is forced to march past SS officer, who uses a baton to
pick out who will remain alive and who will go to
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Symbolism Of Fire In Night By Elie Wiesel
In the book night by Elie Wiesel one symbol that stood out to me the most is fire. Fire in the book is
a symbol of the power the Nazis had over the jews. On the way to Auschwitz Mrs schacher alludes
to the fact that there is going to be horrible fire and when they get there Elie see babies burning in a
hole. These are all example as to why fire is used by the Nazis as a way to punish the innocent Jews.
The fire for the crematorium is a symbol of the power the Nazis used to abuse and kill the Jews. All
in all, fire is a very powerful symbol in the book night because of all the event that happened in the
book. The most important symbol in the play romeo and juliet is poison. Poison is a very important
symbol in the play even though it's
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Father Son Relationship In Night By Elie Wiesel
Night by Elie Wiesel describes his time in the concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel's
time there was a very difficult part of his life. His father was the main reason he was able to make it
through all that he witnessed and suffered during his time there. He witnessed many father son
relationships throughout his time in the concentration camps while some were helpful others were
very harmful. Wiesel and his father's relationship was helpful in many ways. While Wiesel was in
the camps they had many Jewish holidays, one holiday celebrated during his time there was Yom
Kippur also known as the Day of Atonement. On this day they were meant to fast. While many said
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One harmful moment between Wiesel and his father was while Wiesel had watched his father being
beat by a gypsy because he had asked where the bathroom was. Wiesel felt so helpless and guilty
that he couldn't help his father in any way. This was very harmful to Wiesel because of how helpless
it made him feel. There were also other father son relationships that were harmful such as a young
man Meir and his father. Wiesel and his father were being transported in a wagon to Buchenwald
with many other Jews. During the transport some bread was being thrown in these wagons full of
starving men and it had caused many fights amongst these men. They fought and killed each other
for what little bread they could get. During all the fighting a piece of bread had fallen into the wagon
Wiesel and his father were being kept in. Amongst the other Jews were Meir and his father. Meir's
father was one of the few who had gotten a small piece of bread. Once Meir saw this he began to
attack his father. His father cried out "Meir. Meir, my boy! Don't you recognize me? I'm your father .
. . you're hurting me . . . you're killing your father! I've got some bread for you too . . . for you too . .
." (QTD Wiesel, 106). After Meir's father had collapsed the bread was taken from him and he died.
After the son had devoured the bread he'd taken from his father two
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The Blind Side Vs Night Analysis
One of they ways The Blind Side and Night are similar is that they share a common theme. The
theme is people make it threw obsetcles more easily when other people help them with it. One main
excample of this in both of the storys is that both of the characters face major obstcles throught the
story. An excample in The Blind Side, if that the main character Micheal Oher has to face a diffulect
situtation when he is a black kid and he has to go to a all white school.
Another excample from the book night is when Elie and all of the jews get everything taken away
from them when the holocaust starts. Some text evdience from the book is " the same day, the
hungarian police burst into every Jewish home in the town." ( Wiesel 10 ). Elie and the ... Show
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In The Blind Side it takes place in Memphis and the 20th century. Some evdience is " his wandering
out of black memphis into rich white memphis..." ( lewis 334). It says he moved from poor to rich
because he got adopted by a rich white family and he wa poor before he got adopted by them. My
excample from the book Night is that it takes places in 1941–1945 in Germany and Translyvania,
and in concentration camps. Evdience to prve that this is true is, " The jews of Sighet– the little town
in Translyvana where i spent my childhood." (Wiesal 34). It says he grew up in Translyvania. Which
he still lived during the start of the holocaust. Another main point is that the characters are different
in the story. In The Blind Side it says Micheal Oher is a Black student that is big and he is older then
Elie. To support that, " He's the biggest player anyone ever seen." (Lewis 131). When Micheal
walked into the all white school everyone looked at him differently even the teacher. The teacher
described him as big and black. In the book Night Elie is different from MIcheal. In the book Night
it said that Elie was 15 years old which is younger then Micheal. I also came to a conclusion that
Elie in not as big as Micheal and that he is white. Evdience to support that is " No your eighteen, but
im not. Im fifteen." (Wiesal 30). To help explain this evdience, Elie had to say he was eighteen to
stay with his
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Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel
The informative and interesting book Night by Elie Wiesel depicts a young boy struggling to survive
in a time of great horror. Through reading the memoir, I have been able to learn many new ideas and
concepts about time back then, as well as my life right now. Moreover, through reading this book I
have not only developed an understanding of the struggles of life at that horrible time, but I have
also learned crucial attributes of my life that will later shape the way I perceive everything around
me. First, I have learned that extensive pressure and no results can lead somebody to lose faith in
everything they believe. An exemplary example of this thought is described in the memoir as the
once religious and positive Elie, loses faith in God
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Examples Of Personification In Night By Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's mesmerizing book, Night, is a retelling of his own teenage experience of the Jewish
holocaust. As Wiesel recounts these chilling events, a thread of darkness runs throughout the story. A
central question of doubt versus hope arises as the young boy questions his faith, the goodness of
people, and the justice of God. Wiesel uses many literary devices to take the reader on an emotional
journey. His use of personification and metaphor make this book nothing short of gripping causing
the reader to experience brief hopes so quickly destroyed by the unthinkable. In the end, we see that
experiencing events such as those described by Elie Wiesel will shake the foundation of any human.
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On page 34 there is a captivating segment of poetry that causes the reader to stop and read it again
just to fully grasp its emotion and gravity. Wiesel begins each line in the poem by stating, "Never
shall I forget..." Then each line contains powerful personification like, "Those flames that consumed
my faith...", or "those moments that murdered my God." The reader cannot escape the devastating
effects of these events which occur so early in the story. The reader can hardly bear to think what
further devastation to this young boy can
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Analytical Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel
Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences as a
prisoner during the Holocaust. The guy who wrote "Night" named Eliezer. He grew up in Sighet. As
Eliezer relates in Night, the SS forced Jews to break dietary laws, and deliberately shaved their
heads and tattooed them in violation of Jewish Scripture and forced to stay in ghetto or
concentration camp. Eliezer's descriptions of his behavior toward his father seem to invalidate his
guilty feelings. He depends on his father for support, and his love for his father allows him to
endure. Eliezer's father, Shlomo, is the only other constant presence in the work. However, whereas
Eliezer develops throughout the work, experiencing horrible revelations and changes, Eliezer's
father remains a fairly static character, an older man who loves his son and depends upon him for
support. He mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers. Elie and his father Shlomo switches roles,
Elie saw other fathers and sons. Elie doesn't want to same their choices. Fathers and sons' choices
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They weren't eaten during in concentration camp. They are in working their jobs all day. Jewish
people were so skinny and beaten by SS. Elie has injured on his foot after surgery and Shlomo has
dysentery. Jewish people were so suffer from the pain and starving. SS forced them to work their
jobs. Some they killed by SS. Also SS have to check up every Jewish people if they aren't healthy
they will taken to crematorium. Elie's father were taken to crematorium while he was very sick. "On
my father's cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before daybreak and
taken him to the crematorium. Perhaps he was still breathing..." His last word was "Eliezer" Elie felt
guilty because when his father called his name and he hadn't answered to him. "He had called out to
me and I had not
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Elie Wiesel Character Analysis
Throughout the memoir, Wiesel experienced a great deal of emotional trauma that led to change in
character. One main instance of emotional trauma Weisel endured was with his father's death. Early
on in Night Wiesel promises himself, he will never leave his father and will do anything to keep him
alive. You see his ideas begin to change at Buna. When his father was beaten by Idek and Franek,
Elie could only watch in disbelief as he saw his father be beaten. However, he was not angry at the
Kapos but at his father. He felt that his father was showing his weakness and in turn, that such
weakness could put their chance of survival at risk. During the run to Gleiwitz, Eliezer saw Rabbi
Eliahou's son abandon his father. When Elie's father died, crying out Elie's name, he did not
respond. Weisel later blamed himself for being too weak; "just like Rabbi Eliahou's son," he had
"not passed the test." Another form of change experienced by Wiesel ... Show more content on
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In the beginning of Night readers see young Wiesel who devotes his time to studying the Talmud
and Kaballah. He was innocent and had so much faith in his God. At Auschwitz, Wiesel began to
feel as though striving to live was useless. Wiesel, who once had great faith in God, changed his
way of believing in Him. He questioned his God's existence and often asked Him why he would
allow the things that were going on to happen. He even asked himself: "Why should I bless His
name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All–Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to
thank Him for?" He stated early on in the memoir: "Never shall I forget those moments which
murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust." Many people are quick to dismiss
Eliezer's faith as "lost," but Wiesel himself stated: "I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his
absolute justice," on page forty two. Elie did not lose his faith completely in the existence of God,
but in God's justice and
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Elie Wiesel Lose Humanity
Night Essay Over ten million people died during the Holocaust, and over six million of them were
Jewish. The book Night, is about Elie Wiesel, a Romanian child that was taken to a concentration
camp. In the camp, Wiesel and his dad are separated from his mom and sister. In the book, many
themes are used such as humanity. The prisoners slowly lose humanity in the camp and it is
necessary for them to survive incidents such as fighting for bread, risking their lives for soup, and
beating up people. On the train ride that the prisoners all take, some workers throw small pieces of
bread into the train car. The prisoners fight each other for some of it. An elderly man goes and gets
some but then gets attacked by his son. The elderly man says, "I've got... some bread for you." The
son is losing humanity because he is willing to attack his father for some bread. When the son is
crushing his father, he says, "You're killing your father!"(106). The son is even willing to kill his
own father for a scrap of bread. In the beginning of the book all Wiesel wants to do is to stay with
his father and not let him die, but during the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
There were two cauldrons of soup left out, that were each half full. Wiesel states that "We saw the
door of Block 37 open imperceptibly"(66). A man came out of the block and went to the cauldrons.
When the man is at the foot of the cauldron, Wiesel says that "Jealousy consumed us, burned us up
like straw" and "In our thoughts we were murdering him" (67). These quotes are proof that the
prisoners have lost some humanity because they envy the man getting soup even though they know
he is going to die. After the man that tried to get the soup died, the author says "In the afternoon we
went cheerfully to clear away the ruins"(68). He says that because they have lost humanity because
they don't feel sorry for the man that died because it doesn't affect the prisoners if the man lived or
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Examples Of Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel
A Different type of Human Humans are evil, within each individual there is side of darkens and
cruelty. In the book Night written by Elie Wiesel, he tells his story of when the Nazis took over
Europe and sent the Jews to concentration camps. In his tear dropping book, the author writes about
his experience in full detail of when he was taken from his home to when he was liberated by the
American soldiers. In Night written by Elie Wiesel the argument presented is inhumanity, the
behavior that the Nazis acted upon was inhumane. In the event when Moishe the beadle returned
home after escaping the gestapo, he told Elie and the town people his experience, he told them
this,"Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns"(Wiesel 6). Moishe
told the people of the town his story, so that they would be aware of what he had gone through and
warning them to flee before it was to late, although people "said he had gone mad"(Wiesel 7), he
was telling the truth. It is understandable to think why the people speculated he had gone mad, they
didn't believe the things that Moishe was saying in in his story, they didn't believe him because it is
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In the process of being taken from their homes, the Jews were ordered to run by the Hungarian
police, they screamed "Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good–for–nothings!" That is when Elie said
that he "began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first
oppressors.They were the faces of hell and death"(Wiesel 19). This was the beginning of there
torturous experience, when Elie and the other jews grasp to reality, the inhumane act of taking their
belongings, and forcing them to obey all their commands as if they were
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How Does Elie Wiesel's Identity Change Throughout The Book...
In this memoir Night, Elie Wiesel retells his story of surviving in one of Hitler's concentration
camps. Wiesel survived the Holocaust, while unfortunately his parents and youngest sister do not.
Wiesel's identity changed completely throughout the Holocaust; he lost his faith in God and the
events he was exposed to changed his persona.
Elie's identity is changed immensely by his loss of faith. In the beginning of this novel, Wiesel's
faith is so powerful that he shows great emotion when he prays , "He watched me one day as I
prayed at dusk. 'Why do you cry when you pray' he asked... 'I cried because...because something
inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew." (4) From a young age Eliezer was interested in
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In the last five pages, Wiesel addresses his life after his father's death until he gets freed by the
Americans. Elie had only one desire in his life right now and it was food, "I spent my days in total
idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother. From time to
time, I would dream. But only about soup, an extra ration of soup." (113) Elie's only desire was food
because he lost everything else that was important to him and food was his only source of happiness,
even though he barely got a ration. A year in the concentration camp brainwashed Elie and most
people, this was shown when people killed their relatives for food and didn't show emotion toward
death and harm like Eliezer did. In last few lines of the book, Eliezer informs his audience about his
mirror image a few weeks after he was freed from the concentration camp, "I had not seen myself
since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes
as he gazed has never left me." While Elie was in the camps and weeks later, he was a corpse, not a
real person who was full of emotion and passionate about his religion. Eliezer isn't the same person
from before the holocaust and he probably will never be the same
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Night Quotes About Night
According to The Houghton Mifflin dictionary, night is defined as "the period between sunset and
sunrise, especially, the hours of darkness" (p.887). Everything terrible happens at night. Every death,
every tragedy, anything for that matter, happens at night. The significance that Elie Wiesel was
trying to imply about night was a form of darkness. Darkness, as in danger. Darkness as in
loneliness; loneliness as in sadness; sadness as in death. The symbol of death is expressed by the
main character of the novel, Eliezer. Eliezer might not have died, but he experiences darkness,
darkness of the soul, and loss of faith.
Eliezer's character changes over the course of the story, therefore, this change can be seen clearly in
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This is seen when Eliezer's soul turns to darkness. He feels abandoned by God, he feels alone and
suffers from depression. Eliezer also loses faith in everything. No faith is restored. His family, in
humanity, and in his own beliefs, gone. All is lost. Eliezer is an excellent example to express the
significance of "night" in the novel Night since he expresses both, darkness of the soul and the loss
of all faiths. All of the above is a sigh of what can happen in only one night. Did your life ever
change in only one
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Examples Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel
How is it possible to keep your innocence after you have been through so much? Especially
something so life changing, a holocaust. In the novel, Night a young boy describes his experiences
that forever changed his life. Ellie Wiesel's innocence was ripped away when he was only twelve
years old. Ellie Wiesel began his journey as a normal twelve year old Jewish boy who devoted his
life to praying and worshiping God. His life was perfect until the Germans decided to take all of that
away. The Germans invaded their homes, and took them all to concentration camps. Elie had not
realized how cruel people could possibly be, and the drastic measures people will take in order to
survive. He saw horrendous things that seemed so unreal. Babies were ... Show more content on
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He is only fifteen years old and he undergoes the experience of a grown old man. Death is all around
him, it's unavoidable. But the one that was more significant and life changing was the death of God
for him, at the beginning at the novel, his whole life revolved around God, he always prayed and he
had faith in God. Even when he was on his way to Aushiwitz he had given thanks to God because he
was going to be assigned to a concentration camp, but when he found out what really was going to
happen when they got to the camps, he started to slowly lose faith. When He learned that the Nazis
were killing the young, the weak, and the old in a crematory, that was when he experienced his first
crisis of
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Book Of Eli Themes
The Book of Eli is a Hollywood post–apocalyptic, action and more of a Western movie
tremendously directed by the Hughes brothers. This movie is a popcorn flick full of action and
drama. It is more attention seeking, stimulating thoughts with minimal adrenaline rush. Denzel
Washington performing the role of Eli is basically a solitary nomad wayfaring in the wastelands of
America which were probably destructed by a nuclear war about 30 years ago. The unembellished
and plain background is littered with reckless cars, blown–up highways, and decomposing
buildings. There is a shortage of water and food which are obtained through trading of anything you
are carrying with yourself and among the most demanding things there was wet wipes. The movie
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Not until the end of the movie does the viewer learn that Eli is at least partially blind, if not
completely without sight. He is unable to see the world. It is at this moment that his earlier
statement, "walk by faith, not by sight," becomes more powerful. During the movie only two
characters are able to read from the Bible–Eli and Solara's mother. The imagery is gripping–in a
world desperate for the water of life only those who are blind can truly read from the book that
quenches that thirst. The Book of Eli is a powerful movie for those who can perceive its message.
Many will reject it for its religious themes, and others will reject it because it challenges their
religion. Some Christian's may reject the movie for it brutality and profanity. But for those with eyes
to see, the movie reminds us that the religious often contribute to the ugliness of this world along
with the secular. The film ends on a hopeful note encouraging religious tolerance – and the love and
honor for the printed word. Though some may interpret this closing scene as all religions being
equal, I saw it more as a statement that the only way we can have peace and resources to live is to
understand and respect one another's
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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel is a 14 Jewish boy living in hungary at the worst possible time for Jewish people. The
time when Hitler ruled Germany, the Holocaust. In the book Night, Elie tells his story of how his
family was moved from their home in Hungary, to the terrible ghettos, and then to prison camps.
During this book there are many different times when its is shown how inhuman the holocaust was.
An example of Inhuman behavior in the book Night, is when Elie explains the sight of a little boy
being hanged. It's never right for someone to be hung. In this book they were even having little boys
hung. This event stuck with Elie from the time he witinessed it untill he wrote the book so it must
have been a pretty significant event. After the boy was hanged, It was made even more inhuman by
the Kapos. "The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face" (Wiesel 63). This show
how sick minded the Kapos were making everyone not only witness the hanging but look the little
hanged boy in his cold dead eyes after.
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In the camps they were treated very poorly, worse than animals. With barely any food they were all
emaciated, with many very sick. At times they would go a week without even a taste of bread.
"Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs" (Wiesel 100). This shows just how
hungry they all were. They were so hungry they fought over little crumbs of stale bread. Prisoners
were ever whipped and beaten to death. Like the time Elie was whipped almost to death for coming
up on Idek and the polish girl. "It was over. I had not realized it, but I had fainted. I came to when
they doused me with cold water" (Wiesel 58). Elie was whipped so many times that he passed out
from the pain. Many had lost loved ones and were Bereaved. The SS officers didn't care about the
prisoners one bit. They are the ones who treated the prisoners so
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Death And Release In Night By Elie Wiesel
For most of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was determined to remain with his father. During
the early years of the Holocaust, Elie was separated from his mother and sisters, and the fear of
losing his father as well motivated him to keep them together at all costs. That grit very well may
have been what kept him alive. Eventually, his father's willpower deteriorated along with his health,
making him more of a burden than a tether by the end of the book. That being said, this situation
demonstrates the idea of death and release, a recurring theme present in the conclusion of Night. In
the final chapters, prisoners from Buna on their way to a liberation camp struggled to survive the
grueling journey. Many found death as a sort of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything,
neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road... My
father's presence was the only thing that stopped me... What would he do without me? I was his sole
support (86–87). This quote demonstrates how Elie didn't want to live because of the harrowing
pains he suffered from. However, his father inspired him to continue fighting. Without Elie, how
would his father live? This question pushed Elie to continue running throughout the entirety of the
night until the SS Soldiers determined he could stop. He ran so that he and his father could survive.
Together. As Elie ran with his father, he witnessed someone running away from theirs. Following the
events of that night, another prisoner, Rabbi Eliahu, had asked everyone around him if they had seen
his son. After answering "no," Elie recalled not only spotting the rabbi's son but watching him
distance himself from his father. When considering the betrayal, Elie thought, "[Rabbi Eliahu's son]
had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this
separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival" (91). This
quote presents another situation exemplifying the aforementioned idea of a loved one becoming a
burden. The heartbreaking reality of what the rabbi's son had done prompted Elie to pray to a god he
no longer believed in. He asked for the strength to never abandon his father like
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Elie Wiesel Night Quotes
This tragic event in history created many famous quotes and poems, such as "night" and "at first
they came for the communist"
After being put through many life and death situations, watching his family and every
thing he has ever owned be taken from him, and staring in the face of true evil. Elie Wiesel is finally
losing faith in god and everything he has ever learned about the Jewish religion. Night is a tragic
story
of a young boy going through the holocaust with his dying father and fighting the struggle to keep
his faith.
On page 4 Elie Wiesel talks about looking for a master to teach him in the studies of Kabbalah.
Elies dad believes Elie is way to young to comprehend the studies of mysticism according to elies
dad
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Elie wants to deeply understand all the Jewish verses and wants to go deeper into his
religion, Elie is found praying one day and that is how he finds a master to teach him about the
questions he desperately wants to know.
Elie is mad about the solemn service and thinks that after seeing all the things he has seen, such
as the hanging of the poor Jewish boy that was hung, that god is just letting this happen to them. On
page 67 Elie Wiesel describes thousands of jews all repeating verses of god and this is a key part of
the
story because Elie finally loses it and speakes his mind. "but why would I bless him? Every fiber in
me
rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because he kept six
crematoria working day and night, including sabbath and the holy days? Because in His great might
,
he created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and so many other factories of death? How could I say to him
blessed thou, almighty, master of the universe, who chose to watch as our fathers,our mothers, our
brothers end up in furnaces?" This quote shows how truly mad Elie is at god. He isnt blaming
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How Does Elie Wiesel Use Metaphors In Night
Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night (1958), follows a young Elie who discovers that there are detrimental
consequences to standing by inequity and beneficial effects to taking action to the subjugation of an
individual. While integrating anaphor and metaphor, Wiesel reinforces his theme by illustrating the
environment of detestable concentration camps in Poland to initiate the conflict of the struggle
between protecting others over personal interests. His objective is to disseminate his unjust
experience to ensure society never loses knowledge of the atrocity and to prevent repeated history.
Through unveiling his arduous journey, Wiesel creates an atmosphere of despondency and regret for
readers to encourage standing up to injustice. In addition, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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For example, in his testimony, Night, he states, " One more stab to the heart, one more reason to
hate, One less reason to live" while watching his father tortured ( Wiesel 109). Due to witnessing
this repeated violence and doing nothing to stop the offense, he is emotionally and physically
damaged. Moreover, his broken down personality is sending him into dark state of self–
condemnation and a lost will to live. Self–preservation can appear to be the safer option in the
moment, but eventually it leads to a feeling of guilt–riddance knowing you had the power to make a
good difference. Next, he expresses, "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating
me..." when he is recounting his experience from the Holocaust (Wiesel 115). His identity is dead,
most of his family is dead, his values are dead and it is engrained in him, forever. Despite being
liberated, he is filled with so much anguish because of the things he saw and especially did not do.
All the horrors, all the persecution, all the beatings his father had to endure, and all the times he just
sat there and watched. His world has been turned upside down from all times he impeded himself
from intervening and preventing the horrible transgressions. There is always a
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Research Papers On Night By Elie Wiesel
Unbelievable, unimaginable, uncivilized. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the main character in
the memoir is trying to survive in the concentration camps during World War II. He slowly loses his
faith in the camps which one thing he needed to get him through the persecution of his friends and
family. Elie's attitude and beliefs in relationship to faith was strong at home, then it got weaker
while in the camps and was totally gone when he was liberated. His faith was strong before he was
captured. Elie has a strong faith when he is living in Sighet. He prays daily and then prays at night.
while living in Sighet Elie has a good friend Moshe the beadle and Elie told him that "I continued to
devote myself to my studies."(Wiesel 8). Elie was
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Changing Experiences In Elie Wiesel's Night
Elie Wiesel's had many experiences in chapters seven through nine of Nnight. His experiences from
chapter seven to chapter nine had changed dramatically, with the relationship of Elie and his father .
Through the hardships he faces and the dramatic changes in his life that is brought to him, it is
showing how he sticks with his dad through whatever happens. Elie has gone through so much
through out the book. In chapters 7–9 the relationship between Elie and his father has grown greatly.
They have grown together so much from the beginning of the book. They went from not talking to
each other, to being the only reason they would survive and fight off what has happened. They relied
on each other to survive because they had no one else but themselves.
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Elie Wiesel Loss Of Identity In Night

  • 1. Elie Wiesel Loss Of Identity In Night Elie Wiesel's memoir Night displays how the traumatic effects of the Holocaust shaped his identity, as it caused him to lose hope in humanity and goodness in the world due to loss of faith. An individual is greatly impacted by their identity as it can shape how others view them, their moral beliefs and how they reflect upon themselves. Those perceptions of Elie are altered by the intense punishments and orders the Nazi officers have on the captured Jewish. Wiesel is stripped of his rights and punished for his Jewish faith, which triggers the changes in his identity and turns into a lifeless prisoner. After seeing many of his fellow prisoners be killed or beaten, Elie undergoes a crisis of faith and God because seeing those events often causes mental stress. It has been founded that forms both emotional trauma and disorders such as PTSD have a quite effect on human's ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Wiesel's lack of hope leads to depression, hopelessness and frustration. These emotional traits can be seen at times when he talks to himself about how he is internally crying and was very angry with his situation. His loss of faith hurts his process of understanding and undergoing life, causing extensive emotional issues. The Nazi's took his identity by stripping Elie of his culture and heritage. He now ignores the holidays like Hanukkah that he had celebrated, and no longer is able to do many of the things he did in Hungary. Following World War II, cultural destructiveness is prevented from occuring again as a number of groups, such as UNESCO, help pass international heritage protection treaties. The death of his father takes away even more meaning in his life, as they were a very connected family, and it breaks Wiesel's heart. A demonstration of those feelings is when Elie shares, "I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 5. Loss Of Morality And Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel Elie's loss of morality and faith Why does Elie go against his own morality? In Night by Elie Wiesel? Elie is a teenager wanting to better himself by learning Kabhalla. Later the town he lived in got invaded by german soldiers. Elie and his family were taken and later got separated from his mother and sister. All Elie had left was his father. Elie and his father grew a strong bond in order to keep eachother alive through all the concentration camps. Elie survives through all the pain and and torment of camps but his father died of dysentery in the camps. Elie gave up on his own morality because he lost his faith and he allows violence to occur for his own survival. First Elie gave up on his own morality because he started to blame god. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 9. Symbols In Night By Elie Wiesel Night is a novel written by Eliezer Wiesel. Throughout the novel, Wiesel recreates the horrific experiences that he had endured in the time period of the Holocaust. You can see how the unbearable experiences in Auschwitz had changed Elie. His mindset had completely transformed over time. The reenactment of many events depicts many themes/symbols. One main symbol is night itself. In the novel Night, nighttime symbolizes a time of sufferance in a world where God does not exist. Elie Wiesel had lived the regular life of a Jewish boy in his early childhood. Elie was a very kind person who wanted to succeed. He had been very religious and was focused deeply of learning everything there was to know about God. That had all came to change once Wiesel had entered Auschwitz. "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" (Dougherty). This shows us how Elie's first night, when he had arrived in Birkenau, would set the stage for all the nights that he would experience in the camps. The night the worldness ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... "The last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would our lives be lived from one 'last night' to the next" (Wiesel 83). This recalls all of the "last" nights which never really turned out to be the actual end of Eliezer's bad times. In addition, it shows his faithlessness in God. Wiesel just wishes the never–ending sufferance would come to an end. This quote provides another example of how nighttime represents times of suffering. It also shows its representation of a world without God. Elie believes God would not allow him to suffer throughout all these nights, which causes him to lose all of his faith that there is a God in the world that he lives ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 13. Discuss The Importance Of Family In Night By Elie Wiesel The importance of family in Night Family is one of the most important things in most people's lives. No one would know what to do without their family by their side, there would be no point in living. Night is a book about a young boy named Elie Wiesel who was taken away, sent to concentration camps, and was automatically separated from his mother and sisters. He spent his childhood growing up through the Holocaust with his father. He was one of the lucky ones who survived while many others didn't. By examining the novel Night we can see that family is the key to survival, which is important because those who do not have family often cannot survive. Elie's Father being with him through his journey played a big part in him surviving the Holocaust. All Elie wanted to do throughout the whole book was stay by his father's ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... He never wanted to be separated from his father and he feared this happening. When Elie was in the hospital all he wanted to do was go be with his father. Every time there was a selection Elie was worried about sticking by Chlomo's side more than anything. Up till the very end Elie's only reason to stay alive was his father. Most people in the camp didn't have a reason to live like Elie and his father did. They depended on each other in the concentration camp. Chlomo gave Elie his knife and spoon because he thought he would need it more than him. This shows how selfless Chlomo was and how he wanted more than anything for Elie to make it out alive. When Chlomo thought he was dying Elie told him that it wasn't happening and to get up. Elie looked up to his father and tried to be brave when his dad told him he was dying. He made it with his father this far and he couldn't bear him being gone because his father was his reason to live. Along with Chlomo, Elie's hopes that he would one day see his mother and sister helped to keep him alive. A quote from the book says "My father's presence was the only thing that ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 17. How Does Elie Wiesel Use Dark Imagery In Night In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, it shows the things that Elie went through in the concentration camp. Elie uses dark imagery to show how physically miserable it was for them. Also, we are able to see his perspective on how they were treated to the point all they felt was pain, and mostly what he went through mentally and physically. In Night, the most crucial external conflict revolves around the Nazi party which is shown through the perspective of Elie Wiesel and his use of dark imagery. The way it impacted the life of Elie because the Nazi party caused him more personal problems like questioning if his father is worth being with, his relationship with God, if he should still live, and in the end the way he saw himself was different. One way the conflict develops is by Wiesel's use of dark imagery. In the text it states "I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip" (Wiesel 57). This quote gives you an image of torture, shows how they were treated by the Nazi party. By him saying "I no longer felt anything" it indicates that they treat them at a lesser value to the point that Elie really had no emotions ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... For example he was questioning his belief, will to live, and if his father was worth sticking with. The text states "Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself and you cannot think of others. Not even your father" (Wiesel 110). This quote shows that it doesn't matter if it is your father, so Elie should only care for himself. This impacts Elie because he loves his father, you should love your father. For many people to tell him to abandon his father and just not stick with him it can really break down someone emotionally especially if they have been there since the day you were born,and Elie loves his father. They have been through a lot ever since they have been in the concentration ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 21. Discuss The Examples Of Figurative Language In Night By... Night contains a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? How does it affect the reading experience? Why did Wiesel make that specific choice?) Please use a different type of figurative language for each example. The first example is a metaphor, from page 59 when two pots of soup were left out during the air raid. Wiesel describes the prisoners reactions to their discovery, "Hundreds of eyes were looking at them, shining with desire. Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them" (Wiesel, 59). This is a great metaphor to use, by comparing the prisoners to a pack of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... "The Perils of Indifference" is more a warning, which tells the readers/listeners that we cannot turn a blind eye and we must help those in need. Wiesel says that that is one of the reasons the Holocaust was so disastrous, is because many countries knew what was going on, but they did not help, "And now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew. And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]" ("The Perils of Indifference"). He does not talk much about his own experiences, but mostly uses questions and other examples to get his point across. Night is a different story, one that is true and not meant to be a direct warning, like "The Perils of Indifference" was. Night was meant to show the true story of the things the the author had to endure behind the gates of the camps. This particular piece of writing was meant to make the reader think about the effects that were caused through the real stories about his imprisonment, the torture and little care he was given and the loss of his family members. The real stories made the readers feel as though they lived through it with him and created a mood of sadness around this topic, more than there was already. The writing styles he used were different too, and this had an effect upon the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 25. How Does Elie Wiesel Use Motifs In Night Eyes are said to be the window into someone's soul. Through eyes, one can see the depths of strong emotion and deepest fears. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, Eliezer lived in Sighetu Marmației, originally referred to as Sighet, located in Northwestern Romania with his parents and three sisters. They were forced into a ghetto and ultimately ended up separated in Auschwitz. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses the motif eyes to show the ways that the Holocaust impacted people's humanity. Elie uses the motif eyes to reveal emotion and thoughts of people throughout the book. Madame Schachter was a woman on the train heading for Auschwitz with Elie and his family. Her husband and two eldest sons were deported by mistake onto the first transport. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 29. Brutalization Of Prisoners In Elie Wiesel's 'Night' In this scene from Night, Elie Weisel writes about the ways the Germans treat the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz. In this scene, Weisel teaches his reader how the Germans brutalize their prisoners. Weisel describes the Germans as "beating" the prisoners repeatedly and forcing them into "disinfection," this is similar to how one wouuld treat an object or animal, not a human being. This reflects the brutalizing of the prisoners. Elie writes about how as the prisoners were running they "threw" clothes at them and in that moment they had "ceased to be men". Weisel also writes about how Meir Katz, "wore a child's pants" and how Stern, was "floundering in a huge jacket." The Nazis did not give the prisoners the proper clothes and threw the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 33. Two Examples Of Situational Irony In Night By Elie Wiesel In the novel ''Night'' Eliezer survives from Auschwitz and surprisingly almost dies from food poisoning.The irony in this is that he could of died many ways at Auschwitz but ultimately almost dies from food poisoning.That is also a form of situational irony meaning that the situation turns opposite of what you expect.Another example of situational irony in''Night'' is when Chlomo Wiesel makes a remark about the yellow Jewish star,mocking it by asking if its lethal,but wearing the yellow star is what kills him in the story.In this essay I'll be giving you more three more examples of irony throughout the novel ''Night''. In the first chapter of the novel,the setting takes place in Sighet,Transylvania and Moshe the Beadle teaches Eliezer on Jewish mysticism.And then one day all the foreign Jews along with Moshe get expelled by a Hungarian police officer.Life is calm in Sighet for awhile until Moshe the Beadle comes and tells Eliezer and the Jews of crazy stories of his near–death experience.He warns the Jews that Nazis will soon threaten their way of life but no one believes him.They only think of him as crazy or a man who wants their pity.The Jews continue to disbelieve that Hitler will do any harm to them until Nazis actually come to their small town and arrest them.This is ironic since the Jews had been given many warnings and continued to stay close minded until that following event. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 37. Adversity In Night By Elie Wiesel Have you ever experienced adversity in losing everything you once believed in? In the book Night, Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who suffers through the hardships of religious discrimination in the concentration camps during the holocaust. The theme I plan to talk about is Eliezer's loss of faith throughout the war and his journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Religion is a stronghold for most people during times of struggle; the story begins with Eliezer believing God was the most important thing in his life, to struggling with the thought of God letting all the suffering happen in Germany. The life of Eliezer Wiesel revolved around family, religion, and love. I believe his loss of faith impacted his identity, family, and morality throughout the narrative. "During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple" (Wiesel, 1) This quote showed how sincerely involved he was religiously; weeping at the destruction of the Temple shows a clear emotional connection to his faith. As the story progresses, and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Here He is–He is hanging here on this gallows...." That night the soup tasted of corpses (Wiesel, 42). The death of the servant boy created a truth for him; that He was no longer present in Eliezer's life. This causes realization that all Eliezer has is his father (who grows older and weaker each day) and himself. That year he did not fast because he felt there was no longer a reason, and he no longer accepted God's silence. (Wiesel, 46) Eliezer had directed all his frustration, anger, and fear towards his God because their was no one else to blame for the suffering and pain. The story continues with a "selection" taking place and the movement to another ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 41. Examples Of Fear In Night By Elie Wiesel Many people fear things like darkness, especially at night, where fear spreads relentlessly in the minds of society. In the book Night, the memoir of the author Elie Wiezel and his experiences during the holocaust, he expresses his fear in several unique yet frightening situations. From his hometown of Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie struggles to survive while keeping close to his family. He may have been a young boy, but he was smart and resourceful as well, which is how he survived, even with scars not only on his frail body, but his mind and soul as well. The book shows fear with the mysterious window knocker, after Elie finds Idek with a young Polish girl and is warned that he will pay for snooping around, and when Elie's father is getting beaten up. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... To quote Elie's relative Batia, "'There's someone knocking on the blocked–up window, the one that faces outside!'"(Wiezel,12). An unknown person who wouldn't even use the door is definitely a cause for suspicion and worry. Not only that, but when they knocked, "...it was too late. There was no one outside"(Wiezel,12). Seeing as the person who knocked was too afraid to even stay, that made more fear in the hearts of Elie's family, even if Elie would later learn that the knocker was trying to warn his family. To conclude, having a mysterious person knocking on one's door, or in this case, their window, and later disappearing before they open up, will without a doubt create fear in the people who are getting knocked ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 45. How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is about him as a young boy when he spent time in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout the book it's easy to see that Elie is slowly changing as a person as the holocaust progresses. At the beginning of the book Elie was just an innocent boy who went to school and had a regular schedule just like any other child. Until one day he fell into the hands of fate and everything changed. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi army hated the Jewish race with a passion and was attempting to wipe them all out and create the "perfect race" of Germans and blonde haired blue eyed North Western Europeans, also called Aryans. Hitler believed that the Aryan people and Germany was destined to rule the world. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... His hair was shaved and he wore the same striped jumpsuit as every other prisoner. His child–like innocence was gone. He was no longer a devout jew. He wasn't even called by a name anymore. He had a number just like everyone else. They were no longer individual beings, but walking corpses waiting to die. They were denied the dignity a human being deserves. Bodies deprived of the nutrients needed to survive. Many went insane. But Elie stayed stayed sane throughout the torture. He was becoming weaker by the day. His father was in worse condition. Elie was beginning to think what he feared he would eventually think. His father was becoming more of a nuisance than a companion. Elie became independent and helped his father more than his father helped him. In chapter 5 Elie was sent to the infirmary. His foot was swollen and the doctors had to drain pus from it. At this time, rumors began to spread through the camp that the Russian Army was coming so all prisoners would be moved. At first, Elie, his father and the other prisoners planned to stay behind, but once they hear that those who remain behind will be executed before the army arrives. This caused Elie and his dad to evacuate with the rest of the prisoners. Elie bravely walked and ran for days in the cold snow with an infected foot. It is easy to see that Elie is getting stronger throughout the book. When they arrived at the camp Elie's father was growing much weaker and collapsed onto the snow in exhaustion. He had contracted dysentery. Elie went to sleep that night with his father alive in the bed underneath him and woke up the next day to see that his father was not there anymore. "After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." With his father dead Elie had nothing to hold onto anymore. He was broken inside. He had built an immunity to things affecting him. And to his deep shame he did not cry, he felt ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 49. Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel Just from reading the first sentence of 'Night', which said "If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one." I knew this book shouldn't be read carelessly. 'The night' is written by "Elie Wiesel" and narrated by "Eliezer" (a representation of Elie Wiesel, but a fictional character) a Jewish teenager who lives in Sighet, in Hungry Transylvania. Studying the 'Torah' and 'Cabbola', it was clear that Eliezer had a love of Jewish scripture and a love of God. However, his study was cut short, when his teacher 'Moshe the Beadle' was deported. After a couple of months, Moshe returned and he expresses the horrifying story of the Gestapo (the German secret police force). Subsequently the Nazi's invaded Hungry and after arriving ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 53. Examples Of Survival In Night By Elie Wiesel In "Night", Elie Wiesel develops the idea that survival was the main component to the escape of the horrifying and life taking holocaust. In the novel, Wiesel states "God knows what i would have given to be able to sleep a few moments. But deep inside, I know that sleep meant to die. And something in me rebelled against that death." This shows that in order to survive there was no room for mistakes, to sleep meant to die and that meant his only option was to survive the tiredness. Another quote later on in the book is, "My whole desire to live began concentrated on my nails. I scratched, I fought for a breath of air. I tore at decaying flesh that did not respond. I could not free myself of the mess weighing down on my chest. Who knows? ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 57. Symbols In Night By Elie Wiesel In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel continues to repeat the word "night," throughout the book. This word represents how Wiesel feels about the war and how he is in a never–ending realm of sadness and darkness. "So many events have taken place in just a few hours I had completely lost the notion of all time. When had we left our homes?And the ghetto? And the train? Only a week ago? One night? One single night (37)? In the previous quote stated, it shows how quickly, just after leaving the ghettos, Wiesel understood how in a single night, everything was taken away so quickly. The word "night" in the book is repetitive and so powerful, and especially in this quote, it shows how "night" is used in order to symbolize death, a darkness of people, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 61. Analytical Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." (Elie Wiesel) The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story of trying to survive in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Family is an important part of the story because it shows us that family can be what keeps some people alive, family becomes important when things get rough, and that once you lose your humanity family means nothing. First and foremost, family is important when things get rough. In the beginning of the book the Nazis were rounding up Jews in the Ghettos. The families in the Ghettos did their best to stick together but some families were broken apart. When Elie and his father get to the concentration camp they do their best to stay together. Elie says he's 18 and his dad says that he is 40. It keeps them alive and together. Elie does everything he can to keep his dad going. He makes sure he keeps walking and that he stays awake. He takes beatings for his dad, and he even tried to keep him alive when ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Elie stayed strong by trying to keep his father alive. Elie did anything for his dad while they were in the concentration camps. They weren't as close before all the bad things happened but they knew they were in danger and became closer. Elie stayed with his father until basically the very end. He went to great heights trying to keep him going which essentially helped himself in the long run. He made sure his father was walking, and when they stopped to rest in the snow Elie made sure he would not fall asleep. Elie even tried to keep his dad going when he was very sick. He gave his soup to his dad even though he needed it more. Trying to keep his dad alive mad them grow a stronger bond and helps his dad want to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 65. Night Elie Wiesel Conflict Analysis Throughout Wiesel's novel, many different types of conflict are mentioned. Whether through Elie's thoughts or the external difficulties of life in concentration camps, the discussion of such topics elicits an emotional response from many readers. Wiesel is able to discuss his struggle within himself, with others, with his faith, and with the environment around him to create poignant descriptions of the horrors of the Holocaust. Wiesel is in a constant battle with his inner self throughout different points of the book. He questions his faith, and whether God is really the omnipotent being that he once studied. He also struggles with guilt from thoughts of wishing to leave his father behind. These are some of the main man–versus–self conflicts within the book, although there are other instances where Eliezer considers rebelling ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The other conflicts are mainly external as Eliezer deals with the extreme cruelty of both the people around him and the environment. He combats the harsh climate and work conditions daily when he is forced to work in the building unit; however, the climate continues to affect them daily as they stand for many hours while they are counted and as they sleep in the hard, cold bunks at night. The leaders of the camps, mainly the Gestapo and the Kapos, are increasingly cruel to the innocent prisoners for no reason but pleasure. Wiesel continues to attempt to stay under the radar, but he often ends up getting the brunt of someone's anger. Finally, Eliezer faces the biggest conflict: man versus society. Being a Jew and categorized as an undesirable, Eliezer is constantly ridiculed and at the forefront of the punishment from society members and other ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 69. Night Father Son Relationship Analysis "Take care of your son. He is very weak" is advice given by his cousin, Stein, to Eliezer and his father (Wiesel, 45). In Night by Elie Wiesel he illustrates his experience in the holocaust. He is put in a life or death situation with his father that puts an extreme strain on the bond, but they weren't the only father–son relationship put to the test. The advice given to him was followed by him and by some other characters. In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the author displays how times of hardship can have a positive effect on the father–son relationships, which shows how people in times of hardship care more than those not. The greatest example of a father–son relationship that stayed close together, Eliezer and his father. Throughout the whole book, they display a large connection and strong bond. In almost all of the book Elie cared for his father and did all he could to make sure he survived. Even when he was told by his Blockästle told him to give up on his father, he never did. He continued to help feed him and give him his coffee. When transporting to yet another camp the had to throw out corpses and people tried to throw out his dad. Even though His father wanted to be thrown ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the beginning Eliezer's father gave him advice to not eat so fast so that he wouldn't starve to much, to keep him as healthy as possible. And when Stein gave the both of them advice by telling Eliezer's father to take care of Elie. When they were still in the camps and his father would get extra food he would give it to Elie. In page 73 his father gave him half of a ration of bread, which he traded for with a rubber band. Even when his father thought he was going to die at selection, he tried his hardest to get to his son to give him a knife and spoon. In his possible last few moments; He immediately wanted to look out for his son. People in dire situations tend to give and care more because they know the same ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 73. How Does Elie Wiesel Use Irony In Night Will hope always prevail? In Night, a memoir by Eliezer Wiesel, young Elie grows up as a devoted Jew. He studies the religion so often that he cannot find someone in his hometown of Sighet that can teach him anymore than he already knows. His friend, Moishe the Beadle escapes from a camp that he was taken to, and says that he witnessed all sorts of violence, like shooting innocent children with machine guns, but Elie does not believe Moishe. He is blinded by his tremendous hope and faith, even when the Nazis take over Sighet. In this book, Elie uses dark and evil–minded words to describe his experience in the concentration camps through various literary devices. Wiesel uses irony at early points in the book to set a mood that there is a sense of relaxation and hope. While in Birkenau, Elie is ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Wiesel says, "At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: Warning! Danger of death. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?" (40). His experiences trigger his mind to think this way. So far, he has been threatened to either work or be burned to death, his father has been hit with such strength by a Gypsy inmate that he has to crawl back to his spot, and they were forced to march all the way to Auschwitz through barbed wire and other obstacles. But, even though his experiences reflect this way of thinking, he still has not lost hope or faith in this scenario. The use of irony in this setting portrays the idea that the belief of hope is obvious among the group, and especially obvious to Elie. Still, this type of language induces images of violence and brutality brought on by the Nazis onto innocent people pleading ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 77. Commentary On The Book Night By Elie Wiesel After reading the book "Night" the Nazi treated the people like nothing. When families arrives at Auschwitz, the men and women are separated, and Elie sees his mother and sisters vanishing in the distance. He holds onto his father and is determined not to lose him. A fellow prisoner tells Elie to say that he is eighteen (though he is really fifteen) and that his father is forty (though he is fifty). The prisoners who have been at Auschwitz for a while are brutal and cruel to the new arrivals, and one of them tells them about the crematory. Some of the young men talk about revolting, but are silenced by their elders. Thereafter, everyone is forced to march past SS officer, who uses a baton to pick out who will remain alive and who will go to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 81. Symbolism Of Fire In Night By Elie Wiesel In the book night by Elie Wiesel one symbol that stood out to me the most is fire. Fire in the book is a symbol of the power the Nazis had over the jews. On the way to Auschwitz Mrs schacher alludes to the fact that there is going to be horrible fire and when they get there Elie see babies burning in a hole. These are all example as to why fire is used by the Nazis as a way to punish the innocent Jews. The fire for the crematorium is a symbol of the power the Nazis used to abuse and kill the Jews. All in all, fire is a very powerful symbol in the book night because of all the event that happened in the book. The most important symbol in the play romeo and juliet is poison. Poison is a very important symbol in the play even though it's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 85. Father Son Relationship In Night By Elie Wiesel Night by Elie Wiesel describes his time in the concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel's time there was a very difficult part of his life. His father was the main reason he was able to make it through all that he witnessed and suffered during his time there. He witnessed many father son relationships throughout his time in the concentration camps while some were helpful others were very harmful. Wiesel and his father's relationship was helpful in many ways. While Wiesel was in the camps they had many Jewish holidays, one holiday celebrated during his time there was Yom Kippur also known as the Day of Atonement. On this day they were meant to fast. While many said they should fast to show God they were dedicated to him Wiesel's father ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... One harmful moment between Wiesel and his father was while Wiesel had watched his father being beat by a gypsy because he had asked where the bathroom was. Wiesel felt so helpless and guilty that he couldn't help his father in any way. This was very harmful to Wiesel because of how helpless it made him feel. There were also other father son relationships that were harmful such as a young man Meir and his father. Wiesel and his father were being transported in a wagon to Buchenwald with many other Jews. During the transport some bread was being thrown in these wagons full of starving men and it had caused many fights amongst these men. They fought and killed each other for what little bread they could get. During all the fighting a piece of bread had fallen into the wagon Wiesel and his father were being kept in. Amongst the other Jews were Meir and his father. Meir's father was one of the few who had gotten a small piece of bread. Once Meir saw this he began to attack his father. His father cried out "Meir. Meir, my boy! Don't you recognize me? I'm your father . . . you're hurting me . . . you're killing your father! I've got some bread for you too . . . for you too . . ." (QTD Wiesel, 106). After Meir's father had collapsed the bread was taken from him and he died. After the son had devoured the bread he'd taken from his father two ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 89. The Blind Side Vs Night Analysis One of they ways The Blind Side and Night are similar is that they share a common theme. The theme is people make it threw obsetcles more easily when other people help them with it. One main excample of this in both of the storys is that both of the characters face major obstcles throught the story. An excample in The Blind Side, if that the main character Micheal Oher has to face a diffulect situtation when he is a black kid and he has to go to a all white school. Another excample from the book night is when Elie and all of the jews get everything taken away from them when the holocaust starts. Some text evdience from the book is " the same day, the hungarian police burst into every Jewish home in the town." ( Wiesel 10 ). Elie and the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In The Blind Side it takes place in Memphis and the 20th century. Some evdience is " his wandering out of black memphis into rich white memphis..." ( lewis 334). It says he moved from poor to rich because he got adopted by a rich white family and he wa poor before he got adopted by them. My excample from the book Night is that it takes places in 1941–1945 in Germany and Translyvania, and in concentration camps. Evdience to prve that this is true is, " The jews of Sighet– the little town in Translyvana where i spent my childhood." (Wiesal 34). It says he grew up in Translyvania. Which he still lived during the start of the holocaust. Another main point is that the characters are different in the story. In The Blind Side it says Micheal Oher is a Black student that is big and he is older then Elie. To support that, " He's the biggest player anyone ever seen." (Lewis 131). When Micheal walked into the all white school everyone looked at him differently even the teacher. The teacher described him as big and black. In the book Night Elie is different from MIcheal. In the book Night it said that Elie was 15 years old which is younger then Micheal. I also came to a conclusion that Elie in not as big as Micheal and that he is white. Evdience to support that is " No your eighteen, but im not. Im fifteen." (Wiesal 30). To help explain this evdience, Elie had to say he was eighteen to stay with his ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 93. Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel The informative and interesting book Night by Elie Wiesel depicts a young boy struggling to survive in a time of great horror. Through reading the memoir, I have been able to learn many new ideas and concepts about time back then, as well as my life right now. Moreover, through reading this book I have not only developed an understanding of the struggles of life at that horrible time, but I have also learned crucial attributes of my life that will later shape the way I perceive everything around me. First, I have learned that extensive pressure and no results can lead somebody to lose faith in everything they believe. An exemplary example of this thought is described in the memoir as the once religious and positive Elie, loses faith in God ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 97. Examples Of Personification In Night By Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel's mesmerizing book, Night, is a retelling of his own teenage experience of the Jewish holocaust. As Wiesel recounts these chilling events, a thread of darkness runs throughout the story. A central question of doubt versus hope arises as the young boy questions his faith, the goodness of people, and the justice of God. Wiesel uses many literary devices to take the reader on an emotional journey. His use of personification and metaphor make this book nothing short of gripping causing the reader to experience brief hopes so quickly destroyed by the unthinkable. In the end, we see that experiencing events such as those described by Elie Wiesel will shake the foundation of any human. All that we believe about ourselves as humanity and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... On page 34 there is a captivating segment of poetry that causes the reader to stop and read it again just to fully grasp its emotion and gravity. Wiesel begins each line in the poem by stating, "Never shall I forget..." Then each line contains powerful personification like, "Those flames that consumed my faith...", or "those moments that murdered my God." The reader cannot escape the devastating effects of these events which occur so early in the story. The reader can hardly bear to think what further devastation to this young boy can ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 101. Analytical Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences as a prisoner during the Holocaust. The guy who wrote "Night" named Eliezer. He grew up in Sighet. As Eliezer relates in Night, the SS forced Jews to break dietary laws, and deliberately shaved their heads and tattooed them in violation of Jewish Scripture and forced to stay in ghetto or concentration camp. Eliezer's descriptions of his behavior toward his father seem to invalidate his guilty feelings. He depends on his father for support, and his love for his father allows him to endure. Eliezer's father, Shlomo, is the only other constant presence in the work. However, whereas Eliezer develops throughout the work, experiencing horrible revelations and changes, Eliezer's father remains a fairly static character, an older man who loves his son and depends upon him for support. He mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers. Elie and his father Shlomo switches roles, Elie saw other fathers and sons. Elie doesn't want to same their choices. Fathers and sons' choices were dangerous because it would led to ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They weren't eaten during in concentration camp. They are in working their jobs all day. Jewish people were so skinny and beaten by SS. Elie has injured on his foot after surgery and Shlomo has dysentery. Jewish people were so suffer from the pain and starving. SS forced them to work their jobs. Some they killed by SS. Also SS have to check up every Jewish people if they aren't healthy they will taken to crematorium. Elie's father were taken to crematorium while he was very sick. "On my father's cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before daybreak and taken him to the crematorium. Perhaps he was still breathing..." His last word was "Eliezer" Elie felt guilty because when his father called his name and he hadn't answered to him. "He had called out to me and I had not ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 105. Elie Wiesel Character Analysis Throughout the memoir, Wiesel experienced a great deal of emotional trauma that led to change in character. One main instance of emotional trauma Weisel endured was with his father's death. Early on in Night Wiesel promises himself, he will never leave his father and will do anything to keep him alive. You see his ideas begin to change at Buna. When his father was beaten by Idek and Franek, Elie could only watch in disbelief as he saw his father be beaten. However, he was not angry at the Kapos but at his father. He felt that his father was showing his weakness and in turn, that such weakness could put their chance of survival at risk. During the run to Gleiwitz, Eliezer saw Rabbi Eliahou's son abandon his father. When Elie's father died, crying out Elie's name, he did not respond. Weisel later blamed himself for being too weak; "just like Rabbi Eliahou's son," he had "not passed the test." Another form of change experienced by Wiesel ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the beginning of Night readers see young Wiesel who devotes his time to studying the Talmud and Kaballah. He was innocent and had so much faith in his God. At Auschwitz, Wiesel began to feel as though striving to live was useless. Wiesel, who once had great faith in God, changed his way of believing in Him. He questioned his God's existence and often asked Him why he would allow the things that were going on to happen. He even asked himself: "Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All–Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?" He stated early on in the memoir: "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust." Many people are quick to dismiss Eliezer's faith as "lost," but Wiesel himself stated: "I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice," on page forty two. Elie did not lose his faith completely in the existence of God, but in God's justice and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 109. Elie Wiesel Lose Humanity Night Essay Over ten million people died during the Holocaust, and over six million of them were Jewish. The book Night, is about Elie Wiesel, a Romanian child that was taken to a concentration camp. In the camp, Wiesel and his dad are separated from his mom and sister. In the book, many themes are used such as humanity. The prisoners slowly lose humanity in the camp and it is necessary for them to survive incidents such as fighting for bread, risking their lives for soup, and beating up people. On the train ride that the prisoners all take, some workers throw small pieces of bread into the train car. The prisoners fight each other for some of it. An elderly man goes and gets some but then gets attacked by his son. The elderly man says, "I've got... some bread for you." The son is losing humanity because he is willing to attack his father for some bread. When the son is crushing his father, he says, "You're killing your father!"(106). The son is even willing to kill his own father for a scrap of bread. In the beginning of the book all Wiesel wants to do is to stay with his father and not let him die, but during the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... There were two cauldrons of soup left out, that were each half full. Wiesel states that "We saw the door of Block 37 open imperceptibly"(66). A man came out of the block and went to the cauldrons. When the man is at the foot of the cauldron, Wiesel says that "Jealousy consumed us, burned us up like straw" and "In our thoughts we were murdering him" (67). These quotes are proof that the prisoners have lost some humanity because they envy the man getting soup even though they know he is going to die. After the man that tried to get the soup died, the author says "In the afternoon we went cheerfully to clear away the ruins"(68). He says that because they have lost humanity because they don't feel sorry for the man that died because it doesn't affect the prisoners if the man lived or ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 113. Examples Of Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel A Different type of Human Humans are evil, within each individual there is side of darkens and cruelty. In the book Night written by Elie Wiesel, he tells his story of when the Nazis took over Europe and sent the Jews to concentration camps. In his tear dropping book, the author writes about his experience in full detail of when he was taken from his home to when he was liberated by the American soldiers. In Night written by Elie Wiesel the argument presented is inhumanity, the behavior that the Nazis acted upon was inhumane. In the event when Moishe the beadle returned home after escaping the gestapo, he told Elie and the town people his experience, he told them this,"Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns"(Wiesel 6). Moishe told the people of the town his story, so that they would be aware of what he had gone through and warning them to flee before it was to late, although people "said he had gone mad"(Wiesel 7), he was telling the truth. It is understandable to think why the people speculated he had gone mad, they didn't believe the things that Moishe was saying in in his story, they didn't believe him because it is not something a reasonable human is capable of doing. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the process of being taken from their homes, the Jews were ordered to run by the Hungarian police, they screamed "Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good–for–nothings!" That is when Elie said that he "began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors.They were the faces of hell and death"(Wiesel 19). This was the beginning of there torturous experience, when Elie and the other jews grasp to reality, the inhumane act of taking their belongings, and forcing them to obey all their commands as if they were ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 117. How Does Elie Wiesel's Identity Change Throughout The Book... In this memoir Night, Elie Wiesel retells his story of surviving in one of Hitler's concentration camps. Wiesel survived the Holocaust, while unfortunately his parents and youngest sister do not. Wiesel's identity changed completely throughout the Holocaust; he lost his faith in God and the events he was exposed to changed his persona. Elie's identity is changed immensely by his loss of faith. In the beginning of this novel, Wiesel's faith is so powerful that he shows great emotion when he prays , "He watched me one day as I prayed at dusk. 'Why do you cry when you pray' he asked... 'I cried because...because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew." (4) From a young age Eliezer was interested in learning about his faith ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the last five pages, Wiesel addresses his life after his father's death until he gets freed by the Americans. Elie had only one desire in his life right now and it was food, "I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother. From time to time, I would dream. But only about soup, an extra ration of soup." (113) Elie's only desire was food because he lost everything else that was important to him and food was his only source of happiness, even though he barely got a ration. A year in the concentration camp brainwashed Elie and most people, this was shown when people killed their relatives for food and didn't show emotion toward death and harm like Eliezer did. In last few lines of the book, Eliezer informs his audience about his mirror image a few weeks after he was freed from the concentration camp, "I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed has never left me." While Elie was in the camps and weeks later, he was a corpse, not a real person who was full of emotion and passionate about his religion. Eliezer isn't the same person from before the holocaust and he probably will never be the same ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 121. Night Quotes About Night According to The Houghton Mifflin dictionary, night is defined as "the period between sunset and sunrise, especially, the hours of darkness" (p.887). Everything terrible happens at night. Every death, every tragedy, anything for that matter, happens at night. The significance that Elie Wiesel was trying to imply about night was a form of darkness. Darkness, as in danger. Darkness as in loneliness; loneliness as in sadness; sadness as in death. The symbol of death is expressed by the main character of the novel, Eliezer. Eliezer might not have died, but he experiences darkness, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith. Eliezer's character changes over the course of the story, therefore, this change can be seen clearly in Elie Wiesel's description ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This is seen when Eliezer's soul turns to darkness. He feels abandoned by God, he feels alone and suffers from depression. Eliezer also loses faith in everything. No faith is restored. His family, in humanity, and in his own beliefs, gone. All is lost. Eliezer is an excellent example to express the significance of "night" in the novel Night since he expresses both, darkness of the soul and the loss of all faiths. All of the above is a sigh of what can happen in only one night. Did your life ever change in only one ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 125. Examples Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel How is it possible to keep your innocence after you have been through so much? Especially something so life changing, a holocaust. In the novel, Night a young boy describes his experiences that forever changed his life. Ellie Wiesel's innocence was ripped away when he was only twelve years old. Ellie Wiesel began his journey as a normal twelve year old Jewish boy who devoted his life to praying and worshiping God. His life was perfect until the Germans decided to take all of that away. The Germans invaded their homes, and took them all to concentration camps. Elie had not realized how cruel people could possibly be, and the drastic measures people will take in order to survive. He saw horrendous things that seemed so unreal. Babies were ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... He is only fifteen years old and he undergoes the experience of a grown old man. Death is all around him, it's unavoidable. But the one that was more significant and life changing was the death of God for him, at the beginning at the novel, his whole life revolved around God, he always prayed and he had faith in God. Even when he was on his way to Aushiwitz he had given thanks to God because he was going to be assigned to a concentration camp, but when he found out what really was going to happen when they got to the camps, he started to slowly lose faith. When He learned that the Nazis were killing the young, the weak, and the old in a crematory, that was when he experienced his first crisis of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 129. Book Of Eli Themes The Book of Eli is a Hollywood post–apocalyptic, action and more of a Western movie tremendously directed by the Hughes brothers. This movie is a popcorn flick full of action and drama. It is more attention seeking, stimulating thoughts with minimal adrenaline rush. Denzel Washington performing the role of Eli is basically a solitary nomad wayfaring in the wastelands of America which were probably destructed by a nuclear war about 30 years ago. The unembellished and plain background is littered with reckless cars, blown–up highways, and decomposing buildings. There is a shortage of water and food which are obtained through trading of anything you are carrying with yourself and among the most demanding things there was wet wipes. The movie shows ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Not until the end of the movie does the viewer learn that Eli is at least partially blind, if not completely without sight. He is unable to see the world. It is at this moment that his earlier statement, "walk by faith, not by sight," becomes more powerful. During the movie only two characters are able to read from the Bible–Eli and Solara's mother. The imagery is gripping–in a world desperate for the water of life only those who are blind can truly read from the book that quenches that thirst. The Book of Eli is a powerful movie for those who can perceive its message. Many will reject it for its religious themes, and others will reject it because it challenges their religion. Some Christian's may reject the movie for it brutality and profanity. But for those with eyes to see, the movie reminds us that the religious often contribute to the ugliness of this world along with the secular. The film ends on a hopeful note encouraging religious tolerance – and the love and honor for the printed word. Though some may interpret this closing scene as all religions being equal, I saw it more as a statement that the only way we can have peace and resources to live is to understand and respect one another's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 133. Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is a 14 Jewish boy living in hungary at the worst possible time for Jewish people. The time when Hitler ruled Germany, the Holocaust. In the book Night, Elie tells his story of how his family was moved from their home in Hungary, to the terrible ghettos, and then to prison camps. During this book there are many different times when its is shown how inhuman the holocaust was. An example of Inhuman behavior in the book Night, is when Elie explains the sight of a little boy being hanged. It's never right for someone to be hung. In this book they were even having little boys hung. This event stuck with Elie from the time he witinessed it untill he wrote the book so it must have been a pretty significant event. After the boy was hanged, It was made even more inhuman by the Kapos. "The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face" (Wiesel 63). This show how sick minded the Kapos were making everyone not only witness the hanging but look the little hanged boy in his cold dead eyes after. Another example of inhuman from ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the camps they were treated very poorly, worse than animals. With barely any food they were all emaciated, with many very sick. At times they would go a week without even a taste of bread. "Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs" (Wiesel 100). This shows just how hungry they all were. They were so hungry they fought over little crumbs of stale bread. Prisoners were ever whipped and beaten to death. Like the time Elie was whipped almost to death for coming up on Idek and the polish girl. "It was over. I had not realized it, but I had fainted. I came to when they doused me with cold water" (Wiesel 58). Elie was whipped so many times that he passed out from the pain. Many had lost loved ones and were Bereaved. The SS officers didn't care about the prisoners one bit. They are the ones who treated the prisoners so ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 137. Death And Release In Night By Elie Wiesel For most of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was determined to remain with his father. During the early years of the Holocaust, Elie was separated from his mother and sisters, and the fear of losing his father as well motivated him to keep them together at all costs. That grit very well may have been what kept him alive. Eventually, his father's willpower deteriorated along with his health, making him more of a burden than a tether by the end of the book. That being said, this situation demonstrates the idea of death and release, a recurring theme present in the conclusion of Night. In the final chapters, prisoners from Buna on their way to a liberation camp struggled to survive the grueling journey. Many found death as a sort of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road... My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me... What would he do without me? I was his sole support (86–87). This quote demonstrates how Elie didn't want to live because of the harrowing pains he suffered from. However, his father inspired him to continue fighting. Without Elie, how would his father live? This question pushed Elie to continue running throughout the entirety of the night until the SS Soldiers determined he could stop. He ran so that he and his father could survive. Together. As Elie ran with his father, he witnessed someone running away from theirs. Following the events of that night, another prisoner, Rabbi Eliahu, had asked everyone around him if they had seen his son. After answering "no," Elie recalled not only spotting the rabbi's son but watching him distance himself from his father. When considering the betrayal, Elie thought, "[Rabbi Eliahu's son] had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival" (91). This quote presents another situation exemplifying the aforementioned idea of a loved one becoming a burden. The heartbreaking reality of what the rabbi's son had done prompted Elie to pray to a god he no longer believed in. He asked for the strength to never abandon his father like ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 141. Elie Wiesel Night Quotes This tragic event in history created many famous quotes and poems, such as "night" and "at first they came for the communist" After being put through many life and death situations, watching his family and every thing he has ever owned be taken from him, and staring in the face of true evil. Elie Wiesel is finally losing faith in god and everything he has ever learned about the Jewish religion. Night is a tragic story of a young boy going through the holocaust with his dying father and fighting the struggle to keep his faith. On page 4 Elie Wiesel talks about looking for a master to teach him in the studies of Kabbalah. Elies dad believes Elie is way to young to comprehend the studies of mysticism according to elies dad the things Elie ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Elie wants to deeply understand all the Jewish verses and wants to go deeper into his religion, Elie is found praying one day and that is how he finds a master to teach him about the questions he desperately wants to know. Elie is mad about the solemn service and thinks that after seeing all the things he has seen, such as the hanging of the poor Jewish boy that was hung, that god is just letting this happen to them. On page 67 Elie Wiesel describes thousands of jews all repeating verses of god and this is a key part of the story because Elie finally loses it and speakes his mind. "but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me
  • 142. rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night, including sabbath and the holy days? Because in His great might , he created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and so many other factories of death? How could I say to him blessed thou, almighty, master of the universe, who chose to watch as our fathers,our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces?" This quote shows how truly mad Elie is at god. He isnt blaming ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 146. How Does Elie Wiesel Use Metaphors In Night Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night (1958), follows a young Elie who discovers that there are detrimental consequences to standing by inequity and beneficial effects to taking action to the subjugation of an individual. While integrating anaphor and metaphor, Wiesel reinforces his theme by illustrating the environment of detestable concentration camps in Poland to initiate the conflict of the struggle between protecting others over personal interests. His objective is to disseminate his unjust experience to ensure society never loses knowledge of the atrocity and to prevent repeated history. Through unveiling his arduous journey, Wiesel creates an atmosphere of despondency and regret for readers to encourage standing up to injustice. In addition, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... For example, in his testimony, Night, he states, " One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate, One less reason to live" while watching his father tortured ( Wiesel 109). Due to witnessing this repeated violence and doing nothing to stop the offense, he is emotionally and physically damaged. Moreover, his broken down personality is sending him into dark state of self– condemnation and a lost will to live. Self–preservation can appear to be the safer option in the moment, but eventually it leads to a feeling of guilt–riddance knowing you had the power to make a good difference. Next, he expresses, "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me..." when he is recounting his experience from the Holocaust (Wiesel 115). His identity is dead, most of his family is dead, his values are dead and it is engrained in him, forever. Despite being liberated, he is filled with so much anguish because of the things he saw and especially did not do. All the horrors, all the persecution, all the beatings his father had to endure, and all the times he just sat there and watched. His world has been turned upside down from all times he impeded himself from intervening and preventing the horrible transgressions. There is always a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 150. Research Papers On Night By Elie Wiesel Unbelievable, unimaginable, uncivilized. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the main character in the memoir is trying to survive in the concentration camps during World War II. He slowly loses his faith in the camps which one thing he needed to get him through the persecution of his friends and family. Elie's attitude and beliefs in relationship to faith was strong at home, then it got weaker while in the camps and was totally gone when he was liberated. His faith was strong before he was captured. Elie has a strong faith when he is living in Sighet. He prays daily and then prays at night. while living in Sighet Elie has a good friend Moshe the beadle and Elie told him that "I continued to devote myself to my studies."(Wiesel 8). Elie was ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 154. Changing Experiences In Elie Wiesel's Night Elie Wiesel's had many experiences in chapters seven through nine of Nnight. His experiences from chapter seven to chapter nine had changed dramatically, with the relationship of Elie and his father . Through the hardships he faces and the dramatic changes in his life that is brought to him, it is showing how he sticks with his dad through whatever happens. Elie has gone through so much through out the book. In chapters 7–9 the relationship between Elie and his father has grown greatly. They have grown together so much from the beginning of the book. They went from not talking to each other, to being the only reason they would survive and fight off what has happened. They relied on each other to survive because they had no one else but themselves. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...