Elie Wiesel’s Night, unfolds the lurid tale of a 15-year-old Jewish boy’s imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. Wiesel’s title, merely a single word, embodies the hidden horrors found in the novel. In the concentration camp night signified the time when Wiesel was forced to separate from his father, the only family member he had left. It was during night when Wiesel reached his nadirs of suffering, the loss of his father accompanied by his soul. Night proved to be an inevitable darkness, captivating each person, only satisfied when leaving each to stand alone.…
Night is a memoir by Eliezer Wiesel about his experiences during the holocaust. Even though the Wiesle’s were warned about the imminent Nazi invasion of their home town, Sighet, they stayed, resulting in the Jewish population being sent to concentration camps. Here Elie’s family is split up and the memoir truly begins, you hear the story of Elie and his father's struggle for survival in the concentration camps. Through their struggles Elie and his father change dramatically, but in opposite ways. Elie, growing darker transitioning from being a bright boy- comparable to that of the day- to being cold and harsh like night, and his father growing softer and weaker resembling the soft, eerie, sadness of dusk by the end of the novel.…
One central idea in the text of "Elie Wiesel" is the "Circle of Life." Circle of life, meaning, the natural process of life. In this article the Circle of Life is represented by one's memory, power, and friendship. For example the Besht tried interfering with history, so he was banished along with his servant. There he lost his memory as well as his servant. Although, the servant still somewhat remembered the alphabet. In addition, the servant tells the Besht to use his powers so they can get out of the island. This does not work as well either, as the Besht lost his memory, which led to losing his powers. Furthermore, with the help of the servant, which remembered the alphabet, Him and the Besht started practicing the alphabet. As this friendly…
In 1943 a psychologist named Abraham Maslow had created the hierarchy of needs theory which describes the needs that motivate human behavior. According to his theory there are 5 human needs physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization. Some of these needs could be found in Elie Wiesel’s Night. For example, before even going to the concentration camps Elie had made his religion almost seem like a physiological need. Although as soon as he began live in the concentrations camps witnessing horrifying treatment of his people,…
In the beginning of the story life is going on normally, the Jews were not afraid of the Nazi party yet. They describe a poor beadle named Moishe. He was soon sent to a “work” camp by the germans. When he came back he described the morbid events that happened the camp. This quote is one of the descriptions of what they did to the Jews.…
Throughout his two years of research in Figel, Schlegel described many Teduray cultural practices; among them include their elaborate legal system, gender and sexuality, marriage and customs as well as their beliefs. Some of the practices he did not understand, but throughout his book he portrays the Tedurays as being spiritual, tolerant, peaceful and noncompetitive group of people. Compared to his upbringing, Schlegel starts to question his own way of life and he starts to change it by being tolerant socially and morally. One aspect of custom that he had a hard time understanding was the first marriage procedures the Tedurays had. He observed that the young people were not given a choice to choose who they wanted to marry or when they wanted…
When Wiesel says, "I know your choice transcends my person," he means that he is grateful for being chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, Wiesel indicates that he is thankful that the committee surpassed himself and recognized people who sacrificed from the Holocaust. Wiesel refers himself in the first person and the third person during paragraphs four through six to help the reader better understand his piece. With the use of two different narratives, Wiesel gives the reader a better understanding and it also creates an image in the reader's head of what has happened from his point of view. When Wiesel says, “if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices,” he means that if people ignore that something could occur once more, people are…
Throughout the book, Eli losses strong relationships and close connection with his family. First Eli losses connection with his mother and little sister. Not only did Eli family loss connection but other Jewish families did too. All the clueless Jewish families lost connection right as they got to the camp and off the train. That day the Jewish community is when women are going one way and the men are going the other way. A family is suppose to stay together through bad and good times but when “Eight words were spoken... without emotion..I left my mother (and) my sister”(29). That is when the families separate and this is the day when many families were separated. When those eight words were said a lot of emotions flow throughout the camp. Some people had a really hard time disembodying from the family which they had never left behind before.…
What if the president of the United states decided to kill all of one religion. The World War ll Holocaust began with Hitler wanting to kill all the jews. One of the jew was Elie Wiesel’s who later wrote a book about his experiences. At the beginning of the story Elie did not believe he was real he thought it was all a lie. Throughout the story he slowly started seeing that god was real. Elie talked to more and more people who believed in God. Elie spoke to Moishe the Beatle who helped him learn more about his religion. Elie Wiesel’s changed his view on God throughout the memoir and how it affected his identity.…
“I have learned two lessons in my life… Second, just as despair can come to one and other only from other human beings, hope too, can be given only by other human beings” Elie Wiesel. Many lessons can be drawn from the events Eliezer Wiesel witnesses in the months of his confinement. A life shattering event shows Eliezer that life is fragile. Regretted decisions convince him that it is worth it to take risks. Numerous accounts of hatred and abuse cause Eliezer to discover and ugly truth: people can be cruel. Between the spring of 1944 and the summer of 1945 Eliezer Wiesel learns three life changing lessons: life is fragile, some risks are worth taking, and people can be cruel.…
How often have you walked by a person ringing a bell for the Salvation Army without even taking a second look? Many people choose to be indifferent to certain situations on a day-to-day basis without realizing it. Whether you ignore a homeless person begging for food or simply walk by a person collecting change for the Salvation Army, you are being somewhat indifferent. To be indifferent means you have no feelings or emotion towards a certain subject at all. When it comes to indifference, the negative outcomes heavily outweigh the positive outcomes. By choosing to be indifferent to a situation some people believe that they are not doing anything wrong.…
Elie has changed as a result of his imprisonment. He has changed emotionally, spiritually, and physically.…
Equally important, Wiesel’s form of parallel structure and comparisons to deliver a well-balance phrase that pleases the audience so they can comprehend the concept of indifference in a different perspective. Furthermore, Wiesel declares his questioning towards the audience about the definition of indifference as well as adding several contradicting comparisons of how indifference initially affects society, “What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil” (2) In this case, this quote states how indifference can be viewed in society. Therefore, Wiesel arranges his…
Judging and saying something about someone is only a natural aspect of life people love to talk and feed off of other people consisting of their sex, orientation, race, culture, family, education, clothing, social groups, money, values, goals etc.…
During my preteen years I slowly began noticing my different views on other religions by watching the world news or how most of my friends are converted to different view religion, and that made myself wonder why we as a nation judge other about religions. Let’s be honest here some…