Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, is about a young boy and his experience in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. This young boy, Elie Wiesel, starts of as a religiously devout Jew that lives in a small community of Sighet, Hungarian Transylvania. In the spring of 1944, his close knit family of his parents and three sisters are deported to Birkenau. Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters at the arrival of the concentration camps. After a short stay, Elie and his father are transported to Auschwitz, Buna, and eventually Birkenau. They meet many others in the concentration camps. Idek, a Kapo, was very violent to the Jews although he was also a victim in the Holocaust; Elie feels his wrath at one point in the book. Throughout the course of Chlomo (Elie's father) and Elie's journey, they are dehumanized by being branded, beaten, starved, and forced to work past their limit. They watch many others die through the work of Germans, Kapos, and even other Jews. Ultimately, they were stripped of all their pride. Elie managed to survive it all, however, and was liberated on April 11, 1945.…
Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night”. This novel was based on his experiences as a Jewish child during the holocaust. Wiesel was one of four children, he had 2 older sisters and 1 younger sister. They grew up in Romania with their mother and father. In 1940 during the war his father was invited to a meeting where they discovered the Germany army was transporting everyone in his town to ghettos. In may of 1944 the German authorities deported most of the Jewish community to Aushwitz concentration camp.In this concentration camp he was separated from his mother and three sisters,but he did remain with his father for a majority or his time spent in the concentration camps.When they arrived at aushwitz they were taken to a shower to strip of all clothing and disinfect, then they were sent to the barber and then sent to get their number tattooed on their arm . Their identity was completely confiscated from them.Elie worked hard and remained as healthy as he possibly could or could seem so him and his father would last the constant checks. Elies father was nearly dead at the end but could only manage to keep him alive for so long before the guards realize he was not useful. Elies father was killed two weeks before American troops invaded aushwitz and slowly saved the remaining Jewish prisoners. When out Elie found out that his father, his mother, and his youngest sister did not survive.…
Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a book narrating the harsh conditions Elie and his father went through in concentration camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, during the Holocaust. After reading and viewing many texts, I find Night to be of the most valuable based on it being historically important, Wiesel’s strong use of pathos, as well as making the audience see something that they haven’t considered before.…
The autobiographical novel ‘Night’ which was first published in 1958 is a story of the real traumatic experiences that those of a Jewish descent encountered during the Holocaust in 1944. The author, Elie Wiesel conveys a powerful memoir of inhumanity, death and loss of faith to the reader. Throughout the novel the protagonist endures extreme and brutal circumstances which causes him to lose faith in god. The inhumanity and dehumanization acts Elie experiences causes him to feel mentally dead inside…
In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Hitler’s main goal was to make the Jews feel inhuman; he was very successful in this. The Jews were tortured everyday for no reason at all other than for the SS officers’ own amusement. The SS officers treated the men as if they were animals, making them fight for food. Women, babies, old, sick, and handicapped were put into the crematoriums as soon as they arrived at the camps. They killed people for no reason, with no remorse whatsoever. Torture, being treated like animals, and being burned alive or killed were all things that led to the Jews feeling as if they were not human.…
The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.…
Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, is crucial in the understanding of human nature. Night represents the best and the worst of the human experience in many ways. Wiesel explains his horrible journey through the Holocaust, but tells about how it expanded his compassion, brought him closer to his father, forced him to mature quickly, and ultimately made him grow as a person. There were countless physical and emotional demands that the Holocaust insisted he go through, including hard labor, hypothermia, and watching his loved ones pass away. Through all of these atrocities, Wiesel found that every cloud has a silver lining.…
In this scene from Night by Elie Wiesel, Jewish people are being forced from their barrack for the disinfection process where they were soaked in a nasty liquid. Once this humiliating process is done, an ill-fitting assortment of clothes is thrown at them, making them feel sub-human. This scene illustrates the effects of the horrific mistreatment of Jews, they lose their spirit and feel like empty corpses, which shows that the violation of human rights can crush a soul. Elie and his fellow prisoners were being “expelled from the barrack.” The Nazi’s force them to “Run!” through the freezing wind, while naked. This made the prisoners feel like they “ceased to be men” because of this barbaric treatment. Even through all of this pain a “star shone…
Millions upon millions of Jews died during World War II in an era called the Holocaust; Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, is just one story from one man’s perspective of the horrifying event. Wiesel sets the dark and depressing tone with great word choices of the heartbreaking sights he has been forced to see and encounter. This holocaust survivor has been through so much and he is trying to set in stone what Hitler and the Nazis did before it is wiped away like most of the history people do not like to face. Night is a great memoir which tests the readers on if they still will have a faith in humanity after they pass through the last page.…
In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy during the time of the Holocaust talks about all of his experiences during these horrific events and everything that he has gone through, being stripped from everything but his father and barely managing to survive everyday in the harsh conditions. He was separated from his family and from his friends too, most of whom he will not see after the first separation of men and women, ever. Elie, through all that he faces, changes from a sensitive young boy to a callous young man from before the holocaust to after his experiences in all the concentration camps.…
Human beings react and cope with difficult and oppressive environments in different ways. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie has to survive the ever present dangers of life in Jewish concentration camps while trying to keep his father alive who is imprisoned along with him.…
In Auschwitz, it is killed or be killed and for most, killing comes without a second thought. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. Night is a story of Elie, one of the jews in the camp of Auschwitz and how he and his father survived. Wiesel discusses all of the people he met, the dangerous places he survived though, and the horrible acts he saw while in Auschwitz. Each of the examples demonstrate how survival acts as the dominant instinct. Wiesel utilizes characterization, setting, and mood to show that when survival is at stake, all else is forgotten.…
Human rights are our natural born acts, something we know that we have as a person. This is what the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights define. Even though it is our freedom, many of the actions in the memoir “Night”, a book about Elie Wiesel’s experiences at different concentration camps, violated these liberties. Article 3, 5 and 9 are infringed in this book of terrors.…
In the memoir, “Night”, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw body parts used as gun targets,” Without passion or haste they shot prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns”(Wiesel6). Humans were killing their kind without mercy. As the author describes his experiences, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed.…
Human rights… When thought of most assume everyone has rights and they can’t be taken. Little do they know about the Holocaust? In the 1940’s they Holocaust began. In the book Night it is a true story about a young boy’s life while having to live through the Holocaust. It explains the horrible acts done by the German, the camps he had to travel too, and the things he had to witness, and much more. There have been many problems in the world but one of the most horrific is the Holocaust. The Jewish people lost almost all rights that every human should have. Some of the rights are the unthinkable freedom from discrimination sadly the right to not be tortured and of course the right to not have these violated.…