...“There are eighty of you in the car...if anyone goes missing you will all be shot like dogs(night pg 24).” This is one of many examples of inhumane content in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Inhumanity can lead to a long life memory that can't forgotten. Two significant themes i picked out are losing faith and hope as well as the will to survive. The will to survive was very important in the holocaust because it wasn't easy for them to survive. On page 86 in the book night they were running to the next concentration camp but if you would not be able to make it there and stop running you would be shot. The jews wanted to live because they said “don't think, don't stop, run (Night pg 86).” That shows that they want to live and keep running because...
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...12 year old boy would have never seen a man shot to the ground or eaten by dogs, Elie Wiesel unlike any other boy went through this, not in the comforts of his home but in the filthy concentration camps. Surrounded by death itself Elie held onto any life available, could you? Elie Wiesel the author of Night went through the horrors of inhumane treatments Through his book, Wiesel changed from an innocent boy to a mature man only at 15. Wiesel was like any other boy in the beginning. He held a stable life while living with his family in Sighet. In the beginning of the book, Night, Elie Wiesel was not immune to the nazi treatments, He doubted that what had happened to him would eventually become his reality. Wiesel lived with his two sisters and his parents, They lived in a jewish town, Everyone in the town knew of Hitler and his goals, but, they abandoned the idea of him accomplishing any of his plans.Wiesel too believed this, Moshe a friend of his, warned everyone the terror the Nazis were bringing to the jews. Everyone just pitied him. Wiesel explained, “Even I did not believe him I often sat with him after services and listened to his tales trying to understand his grief but...
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...When Elie recites his story in the book Night, he talks about the inhumane the SS officers and how they endured cruel treatment. Elie also talks about how the SS officers split their family and the torture he endured in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Wiesel uses imagery all throughout the book to emphasize the horrible treatment of the camp. Imagery, a visually descriptive or figurative language plays a big role in describing the scenery and the treatment. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel used imagery to explain how the SS officers treated the prisoners brutally and dehumanized them. When SS officers took Elie and his family to the concentration camp he had to go through the physical and mental torture. The SS officers treated the prisoners less than...
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...person. The tragic and terrifying event continually haunts the world today. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes his terrible sightings during the Holocaust. He was fifteen when his family, along with himself, arrived at Auschwitz, a death camp. Elie was separated from his mother and three sisters, but remained with his father. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and tone to portray the inhumane conditions that occurred during his experiences and the ripple effect of harm it caused. Elie uses foreshadowing to hint that something terrible is coming. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things” (7). Moishe has seen what was hurdling towards them. He had already lived through it. The...
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...In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie describes his experiences during the Holocaust. He expressively shares his horrifying experiences and suffering as a Jew. Along all of this, Elie has to deal with his losing faith with his god. The theme of Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is about loss of faith. The book quickly starts up by showing Elie’s religious status. The introduction shows that Wiesel is religious and prays oftenly. When Elie and his father arrives at the concentration camp, Wiesel questions God on how such a place could exist. He struggles mentally and physically during his time in the camp. He was treated cruelly and inhumane. Later on in his experience in camp, the Jews forget about friends and family and start focusing on self survival. God...
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...Brian Levin believes that the denial of the Holocaust pulls in people who are right-wing and anti-Semitic to conspiracy theories. People who are anti-Semitic are prejudice against Jews in every way. Do they truly believe the Holocaust did not happen because of insufficient evidence, or just because they do not like Jews? Elie Wiesel is not the only survivor to write a book about his experience. Anne Frank wrote a diary while in the Holocaust. Her diary was found later and then published. Extremists who deny the Holocaust believe Frank’s diary was a forgery, and they also believe the six million Jews who died was an exaggeration. Before the Holocaust began in 1933, there were approximately 9.5 million Jews living in Europe. If two-thirds of Jews were annihilated during the Holocaust, would not that equal out to nearly six million Jews that died? (USHMM). When the Holocaust ended in 1945, it caused a rapid growth of learning in fields such as history, philosophy, and literature. Holocaust denial in North America is important to extremists because it includes the study of these subjects...
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...Jews were known as an inferior race. They were thought to be a threat to the German community. After years of having the Nazis rule in Germany, Hitler decided his “final solution”. This solution included mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of Poland. In the article “Elie Wiesel Biography” by The Biography.com, the author’s main thesis is that the Holocaust was a very traumatic event that caused an eye-opener for humans about how cruel humans can be. This article talks about Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor who is now a Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist known for the memoir Night. In his books he discusses his experiences of surviving the Holocaust. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust (Eliezer Wiesel, 2014). Elie and his father were separated from his mother and younger sister and taken to Auschwitz. They were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between concentration camps. On January 29, 1945, Wiesel's father died after suffering from dysentery, and starvation (Eliezer Wiesel, 2014). Wiesel lived in the camps under...
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...In 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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...In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when This is when Wiesel began to disbelieve or lose faith, for example, ‘’How could I say to him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?¨(Wiesel 67).He is confused on why he would continue to pray for his god. A reason is because he had let so many people died and made them surfer. As the author describes is experience, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are loss of faith and becoming closer to a loved ones. One theme in the Night...
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...suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full liquidation. Another example is when Elie describes that living space in ghettos was uncomfortable, but highly appreciated. “Night fell, twenty people gathered in my backyard.”(Wiesel 10). Elie Wiesel’s father sat with groups of people to discuss what was happening in the ghettos and what was going to become of them. Furthermore as soon as...
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... May 1, 2011 Major Works Data Sheet- Night Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Date of Publication: 1958 Genre: autobiography, memoir Historical information about period of publication: World War II, and the Holocaust, ended in April 1945 when the liberating Allied armies came through the conquered territories in Nazi Europe. Night describes 16 year old Elie’s loss of faith in God, humanity, family and morality in general. Elie, therefore, vowed to not speak of his experience in Auschwitz, Buna or Buchenwald (or any event between 1943 and 1945, from the beginning of the occupation of Hungary to Germany’s liberation in 1945) for ten years, until he had time to internalize this dramatic loss, and regain his faith and possession of his memory and life. In 1954, after realizing that even less than ten years after the end of the Holocaust, the world was already forgetting and Jews were abandoning their roots, the time had come to testify and justify to the world that Hitler had not succeeded. Biographical Information about the author: Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet Romania, where his memoir Night begins. In his childhood (up to the Nazi occupation of Romania) his father encouraged his study of the Torah, other Judaic texts and other literary works. As described in the beginning of Night, Elie was also curious about the realm of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. From 1944 to 1945, Elie and his family were subjected to the Nazi terror...
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...Wilson 1 English 12 Mrs. Conrad 1/23/15 Question 2 Essay In the book Night, by Elie Wiezel, there is one scene where a young boy is hung in front of many spectators. Elie describes that they have seen many hangings but none of them where quite like this one. In history there was no event to compare to the Holocaust, that’s why some say the hanging of the Pipel, the young boy, represents the Jewish people during this time. The next few paragraphs will show the symbolism of the hanging to the Jews in the Holocaust. Wiesel goes out of his way in the book Night to put a scene in our mind, a young Jewish Pipel being hung in front of thousands of his own people. He describes this event as being different from the many that he had previously seen. “I never saw a single victim weep… Except once.” (Wiesel 63) It was one thing for a man to be hung but it was a much different situation for a child. This in some way resembles the event of the Holocaust. Innocent people were being killed for an act that was not to be found at fault, religion. As the viewers came to the gallows people were morning and asking where was God. “For God’s sake, where is he.” (Wiezel 65) When we look back on the event today we my wonder the same things ourselves about the Holocaust, where is God? How could something so terrible and inhumane happen to so many people? Wiesel also describes the Pipel’s actions before the hanging. “He too was Wilson 1 tortured.” (Wiezel 64) He was beaten just as the...
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...Lydia Wilson Wilson 1 English 12 Mrs. Conrad 1/23/15 Question 2 Essay In the book Night, by Elie Wiezel, there is one scene where a young boy is hung in front of many spectators. Elie describes that they have seen many hangings but none of them where quite like this one. In history there was no event to compare to the Holocaust, that’s why some say the hanging of the Pipel, the young boy, represents the Jewish people during this time. The next few paragraphs will show the symbolism of the hanging to the Jews in the Holocaust. Wiesel goes out of his way in the book Night to put a scene in our mind, a young Jewish Pipel being hung in front of thousands of his own people. He describes this event as being different from the many that he had previously seen. “I never saw a single victim weep… Except once.” (Wiesel 63) It was one thing for a man to be hung but it was a much different situation for a child. This in some way resembles the event of the Holocaust. Innocent people were being killed for an act that was not to be found at fault, religion. As the viewers came to the gallows people were morning and asking where was God. “For God’s sake, where is he.” (Wiezel 65) When we look back on the event today we my wonder the same things ourselves about the Holocaust, where is God? How could something so terrible and inhumane happen to so many people? Wiesel also describes the Pipel’s actions before the hanging. “He too was Wilson 1 tortured.” (Wiezel 64) He was...
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...other times, not so much. Humanity is the greatest key to unlocking many doors to a great life. The books Night written by Elie Wiesel and Tuesdays With Morrie written by Mitch Albom exemplify humanity and inhumanity. Inhumanity is shown in Night, humanity is shown in Tuesdays With Morrie, and in both books there is a change of heart. Night is about the Holocaust, and how a young boy was forced away from his mother and sisters and left with his reserved father. When the young boy, Elie, and his family were forced away from their homes, they thought it was for the better. “Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps…Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth...
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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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