...Faith is what keeps humanity going. Once humanity lets go of faith, humanity will crumble. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author puts the reader in his of view where he is the Jew, and the Nazis have captured him. This all takes places during the Holocaust and the novel shows the harsh conditions that the Jews were put through. The camps that the Jews are put into are made to crush their desire for freedom and make them lose all hope. Faith, one of the main themes in this novel, is portrayed very well through the main protagonist. Elie Wiesel, a faithful person in the beginning of the novel, starts to decline his relationship with faith as he is put through more trials and tribulations. In Night, Elie, the main protagonist, is put...
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...horrendous as survivors explained. The book ‘“Night’” written by Elie Wiesel does just that as it describes in detail the events that unfolded. In ‘Night,’ Elie is continuously relies on his faith and beliefs to continue fighting. Being constantly surrounded by savages or men that lost faith and gave up causes Elie to question his faith from time to time. Humans in general have a repulsive nature, this is then magnified when pushed to the limit. Not even Elie can escape the evilness in human nature, however, he attempts to keep his innocence or sanity the best out of anyone he encounters. Both witnessing and...
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...In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the narrator describes how he struggled to survive in numerous concentration camps during the Holocaust. Eliezer changes throughout the text from a religious to an unemotional, lifeless being; the dehumanization he endured in the camps caused him to lose his childhood. Elie Wiesel uses simile, personification, and metaphor to demonstrate the effects of dehumanization. Wiesel uses simile to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to act like animals. For example, Eliezer states how inhumanly his actions are: “ A man appeared, crawling like a worm in the direction of the cauldrons”(Wiesel 66). This quote demonstrates that people would do anything for the survival of themselves. Even if they were shot down, they would want to help themselves first before others. This quote is animal-like because, in the story, Eliezer is describing this prisoner to a worm. Elie dehumanizes others because he is jealous and wants what others have. The use of the word worm implies to an animal who slithers on the ground. In conclusion, Wiesel uses simile to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to act like animals. Wiesel uses personification to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to go crazy. For example, Eliezer states, “We...
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...Questioning faith is something that happens to most people but the majority have not had it stripped away or been forced to question entire religious beliefs. Elie Wiesel did. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he discusses how Jews were stripped of their homes, titles, gold, and religion. He explains his story of being deported and taken to concentration camps, where he endured countless cruel acts. Elie once an extremely religious young man, tells the story of losing his faith during those horrific months. Eliezer’s loss of faith forever impacted him because seeing such horrible things made it hard for him to have faith how he previously did. Before being taken to any concentration camps, Elie is devoutly religious and is extremely faithful. Wiesel...
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...Night: By Eli Wiesel Essay Word Count:665 By: Carlos Guerrero Prof. Ted Johnston English 1301 TR 11:30 08 November 2014 We can know the end of the story just by knowing that Ellie Wiesel wrote the book. We know it because this book is about survival. Physically we know Ellie Wiesel survived the holocaust, but does any psychological or spiritual part of him died during the holocaust? Elie Wiesel wrote about all the horrible torture, brutality, degradation, lost, and inhumanities he suffered by the Nazis just because he’s Jewish. Considering Elie was just a teenager, all he had to go through could turn his faith, religion, humanity, or beliefs. Before the Nazis took Elie and his family we could notice that Elie was a strong, religious boy who wanted to learn the Cabbala. Moshe the Beadle taught him it, and answered all Elie’s questions. By the point of Elie learning the Cabbala his faith was very strong. Elie compared praying with breathing, it is something so important for him that he does it without thinking. He’s faith in god is unconditional, and he believes since God is good and its everywhere, then his world and everything in it must be good too. I believe Elie knowing the Cabbala took an important role in his spiritual survival. Elie Wiesel was devoted to his faith to God, humanity of others, and a sense of justice in the world; which eventually we know are beliefs challenged by the holocaust events. One of the first events occurred to Elie was his mother...
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...of the Jewish faith. The Holocaust is a systematic genocide of Jewish people and other groups that lasts from 1933 to 1945 under the control of a German dictator, Adolf Hitler. Elie Wiesel is only 15 years old when he and his family are sent to Auschwitz and 16 years old when he is liberated from the concentration camp. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the loss of Jewish identity during the Holocaust through his use of literary devices: personification, foreshadowing, and metaphors. The Jews experience a loss of identity and self value before they even get to the camps due to the dehumanizing acts of authoritative...
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...the book Night Elie Wiesel has a strong faith in God at the beginning of the book.Wiesel has developed this faith by his studies in mysticism and Kabbalah he seems very eager to learn more . For instance, on page four he says “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah. ‘You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism.’”Wiesel’s loss of confidence in God who he once strongly believed in is thanks to the inhumane way people were treated, his lack of basic life necessities, and all the losses Wiesel experienced during the camp and the Holocaust in general. One reason Wiesel lost faith was because he did not believe...
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...longer. Hope is key to surviving in any situation, but it takes a lot of emotional strength to maintain. During the Holocaust, this was truer than ever for millions of people, who faced death every day, and were tortured, starved, and violated. Their hope in religion, the goodness of humanity, and themselves were continually tested and most victims’ hope were eventually lost because of their suffering. One survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir, Night, sharing his experiences during the Holocaust and in a concentration camp, and solemnly displaying his progression of hope. Elie's gradual loss of hope caused him to lose the emotional strength that he needs to survive, which made him desperate to cling on to the familial identity that was...
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...Elie Wiesel’s Loss of Innocence There comes a time in one’s life where a tragic event results in the loss of innocence and an increase in knowledge. Unfortunately this is one of life’s few promises. Some experience this ablution a lot sooner than they should. In children who survived the holocaust in concentration camps, their innocence was taken as soon as their ordinary everyday life was imposed upon by the Nazis. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, he describes himself as an innocent teenager, a child whose innocence was taken from him as the result of the nefariousness performed by the Nazis in World War Two. Elie and his family were transported to Birkenau where his family was torn apart, leaving him with his father, his sisters and his mother. Once they were separated, he began to slowly lose his innocence. Towards the end of 1941, in the small village of Sighet, Hungary, twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spent most of his time studying the Talmud. Elie was one of four children born to his mother and father. Hilda was the eldest, then Bea, he was the third, and Tzipora was the youngest. The two eldest sisters helped the parents run the family store while Elie stayed home to study. Elie was very passionate about the theology of his religion, Judaism. He studied Talmud by day and by night he would go to the synagogue to pray. One of his main interests was Kabbalah which is an aspect of Jewish mysticism. Elie asked his father to find him a master to guide him in his...
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... In Night by Elie Wiesel, in face of extermination the Jews of Sighet commit uncharacteristic ‘sins’. Fear had forced silence, fear had forced evil deeds and fear had turned the Jews against one another. The cruelties of natural selection is described in Night by Elie Wiesel, portraying the breaking of the human spirit, damaging faith in humanity, family, and God. Humanity, an important theme in Elie Wiesel’s memoire is portrayed as an ever changing proposition. The Jews of Sighet, and most importantly Elie, is seen struggling with his conscious based on the inhumane acts of oppression he has witnessed. In the beginning his faith is abundant and is evident through his trust in the German’s and disbelief in Moshie the Beadle (his mentor). “He told me what had happened to him and his companions. …The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. The trucks headed toward a forest. ...Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel 6). Although, Elie did not believe Moshie at first the nightmares described by his mentor became a reality when he had first entered the concentration camps. The traumatizing events witnessed by Elie had caused him to question his faith in the human race while stripping him of reason to live. It was hard for him (Elie) to comprehend that the world would allow the systematic extermination of one race; his conversations with his father upon arriving at the camp describe his deteriorating faith in humanity and...
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...Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience of being forced to survive in a concentration camp. At the tender age of 15, Elie had to witness and suffer through things we could never imagine. As a Jew, one could only choose to die or work until they were too sick to function. Some people were unlucky enough to not get a choice to begin with. Unknowingly, this nightmare would change him externally and internally for life. Due to the atrocities witnessed and experienced during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, a once deeply religious individual, loses his faith in God, himself, and mankind. Throughout the story there were many occasions of where Elie started to question and lose his faith in God. One of the many occurances...
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...“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” -- Mahatma Gandhi Hopelessness sometimes just engulfs the mind into not caring or thinking about God because of the disturbing visuals encountered. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie tells how he thought the ocean got too dirty during the Holocaust by explaining his experience. Him and his family are sent to Auschwitz, along with others, where they are separated by gender and chosen to go straight to the crematoria or to work themselves to death. While many died after months of never-ending torture, the narrator's camp is liberated with Elie still alive. Throughout this terrible experience, the author develops the...
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...relationship between Elie Wiesel, his father and God. At first, Elie built a barrier between him and his father because he felt that his father did not care for their family as much as he cared for others: Eliezer, devoted to his religion, is not close with his father because he refuses that Elie read the Kabbalah, a religious text. After he and his father are separated from the rest of his family, Elie realizes that they are going to have to depend on each other to survive the Holocaust. Throughout Night, Elie grows closer to his father, whilst...
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...name is not you anymore, you are just a number. Everything that you had practiced and grew up on didn’t matter anymore. What if you were being treated so badly that you finally lose your faith in the God that you believe in because you don’t see him doing anything In the worst situation possible. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel was taken out of his home and given the life that nobody could possibly imagine. Family throughout the story was about staying together and not losing each other, Faith, they were questioning their faith and wondering why god wasn’t there and why god wasn’t doing anything in there time of need, and strength was why were they fighting?...
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...Elie Wiesel’s Break Of Silence One of the most dreadful events in the history of mankind: the Holocaust during World War II. The holocaust was a genocide of Jews, homosexuals, mentally handicapped, and crippled. The holocaust killed more than six million Jews alone. Elie Wiesel is a Jew who went through the terror of the holocaust and its concentration camp. He tells his story in his book Night. Night reveals how Wiesel lost his family, faith, and innocence to the evil of mankind during the holocaust. Wiesel believes it is important for people today to read this book because they need to be shown how important it is not to keep silent and let something like the holocaust happen again. Elie has some of the most marvelous figurative language throughout the novel, starting off with some metaphors. Elie and the rest of the block are running to a peculiar concentration camp, with no rest Elie starts having speculation of what will happened if he stops running. “ A great ideal wave of men came rolling onward and would have crushed me like an ant” (87). No analysis How does this relate to the author’s purpose? The next phase awkward phrase is about when there was two cauldrons of soup in the middle of the road with no one to guard it. “Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in the wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking. But who would dare?” (59) Have you ever been so mad at someone that everytime you talk to them you questioned them with anger or say...
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