Examples Of Ambiguity In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book, “Night”, Eliezer Wiesel talked about a boy named Elie from Sighet and he got deported to a concentration camp by the Nazis. They took Elie’s freedom, identity, family, dignity etc. The Nazis treated Jewish people badly and used any kind of way to dehumanize them. Moments of moral ambiguity helped Elie retain his humanity in the face of dehumanizing treatment by staying positive which helped him retain his good qualities as a human. Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how he can help others by giving them hope, how it can help him survive and if he is going to get in trouble if he gets involve. Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how he can help others by giving them hope. When Stein got deported to a concentration
When the Nazis put all the men together, and asking them how old they are, and what they do for a living, Elie said to himself, “Should I say that I was a student? “Farmer” I heard myself say.”(40-41) This helps prove that Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how it can help him survive because he didn’t know what to say, instead of saying that he was a student, Elie said he was a farmer because a farmer means that he is a capable of doing physical things meaning that he is strong and the Nazis were looking for weaklings that can’t work so they can kill them, this helped Elie survived and not to be killed. When the allies started to fight back, Elie said “Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence.”(67) This helps prove that Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how it can help him survive because Elie rejoices as allies bomb the camp, despite the possibilities that his father is killed, which would imply that he really wanted to have his freedom back and so bombs falling from the sky gave hope that he can get it back, he just wanted to survive and even the fact that his father could get hurt from the bombs didn’t stop his