Night Hope Analysis
Visualize running miles and miles on end in the cold, only getting a ration of soup and a ration of bread once a day, and getting forced to see people dying left and right. The main character in the book Night by Elie Wiesel had to go through these exact circumstances. The book Night shows Ellie loses hope throughout the book because of these circumstances, in the beginning, he has not much to worry about, and then when he does, he stays hopeful for a while, and then in the middle he starts to question his faith and starts to lose hope, and after the liberation at the end of the book he still has no hope all though it's all over. In the beginning, Elie doesn’t have much to worry about. He is at home with his family and his only worry
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Elie starts to question his faith and starts to lose hope. The moment it hit Elie what was going on and the moment he started to lose hope was when an S.S officer said “Remember this, he went on. Remember it forever, engrave it into your minds. You are at Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It’s a concentration camp. Here you have got to work. If not, you will go straight to the furnace.” (Wiesel, 47) This was the moment, Elie realized what was going on and this is the moment he started to lose hope. He hadn’t lost it all at once. On page 58 it says “Our comrades had been right; the work was not difficult…, There’s nothing to be scared of…” (Wiesel, 58)This shows how they thought it was going to be ok they still had hope and they still had the strength. He then starts to get mad and lose hope. “You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before you. They praise Your name.” (Wiesel, 75) In this phrase Elie uses a hyperbole when he says “You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur.” (Wiesel,75) He uses this to convey how in the middle of the book to show Elie starts to show, the theme of the book, losing hope. He starts to lose hope, but not
Elie starts to question his faith and starts to lose hope. The moment it hit Elie what was going on and the moment he started to lose hope was when an S.S officer said “Remember this, he went on. Remember it forever, engrave it into your minds. You are at Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It’s a concentration camp. Here you have got to work. If not, you will go straight to the furnace.” (Wiesel, 47) This was the moment, Elie realized what was going on and this is the moment he started to lose hope. He hadn’t lost it all at once. On page 58 it says “Our comrades had been right; the work was not difficult…, There’s nothing to be scared of…” (Wiesel, 58)This shows how they thought it was going to be ok they still had hope and they still had the strength. He then starts to get mad and lose hope. “You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before you. They praise Your name.” (Wiesel, 75) In this phrase Elie uses a hyperbole when he says “You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur.” (Wiesel,75) He uses this to convey how in the middle of the book to show Elie starts to show, the theme of the book, losing hope. He starts to lose hope, but not