Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.” - Elie Wiesel. This quote is from the author of the book Night, Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, in 1928. He was a victim of the WWII’s persecution toward Jews and for remembrance and to inform others of it he wrote the Night. Elie Wiesel died recently in the year of 2016. Night is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel going through the hardships of WWII. The plot shows how Elie and his father have gone through the terrifying times of the concentration camp and how their faith are tested each day. The author have used unfathomable symbols and themes in this book, such as silence relating to night, faith relating
The story thoroughly shows how the Jews lose their identity and how they try to get their reputation and their true existence back while going through the sufferings of concentrations camps and pressured situations. First of all, Elie’s first identity was a Jewish boy that wanted to be educated like his father about the Kabbalah, the Jewish Bible, and other Jewish customs. While he is in Auschwitz, concentration camp, his identity changes into a prisoner and is called A-7713 instead of his name. The story continues on and shows his father getting weaker which changes his identity into a son to a “father”. After he is freed, his identity is given back. He begins to live in America and changes his identity into an “American”. One person that stood out throughout the story was Juliek. Juliek was a boy who played the violin for the band in the concentration camp. He was taken his identity of loving to play the violin freely and with different music. The Germans treated him like a robot playing one music continuously only for them. When they were running with the Jews to a new concentration camp, Juliek ran with his violin case, which shows his passion and how much he cares for his violin. Juliek dies with all his might playing the song he was banned to play in Auschwitz. Elie describes the scene, “Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound. In such silence….and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his
It coincides silence with night, faith with fire, the loss and retrievement of identities, and the inhumanity of humans. Elie states in the Nobel Prize speech that the purpose of this book is to inform others about what actually happened during the persecution of WWII. The readers should read this book when they are old enough and mature to understand many different subjects without many bias opinions. For there is a lot of expressions that are complicated and might seem like racism in this book. One of the complex topic that have to discussed is injustice. We should pray firstly to God and cast our most afraid ideas to Him. Next, we should help others if we can. Then someday a good day will