Sighetu Marmaţiei

One of the most defining moments of one’s life is when one discovers who they truly are inside. Growing up, the influences of friends and family are clearly marked on one’s beliefs, ideals, and moral standards, whether they want to believe it or not. The desire to fit in is what pushes many people to do things they may not be comfortable with or believe in themselves; this is alternately called peer pressure. However, even through moments of weakness and the struggle to belong, one shapes and forms their own identity simply by knowing what they do and do not believe in. No one lives the exact same life as another person, so no one has the exact same identity as someone else. In this way, everyone is an individual, no matter how similar they seem in the short term. In the memoirs Night by Elie Wiesel and Body Counts by Sean Strub, both of the narrators go through the journey of self-discovery, with both narrators ending up with a distinct identity at the end of their paths. In Night, Eliezer Wiesel is a fifteen year old Jew from Sighet, Transylvania, which is now in the modern-day country of Romania. The memoir is set during World War II, a time when Jews and any other non-Aryan person were rounded up by the Nazi party and thrown into concentration camps; Elie Wiesel is one of these Jews. Like most Jews, Elie is religiously faithful, but unlike many he is also interested in the cabbala, which is a “mystical branch of Judaism teaching that God is the origin of the world”…

Ferocious Fear Faster, the men ran, faster, are they men anymore, faster, went the running skeletons trying to survive the freezing night. Night is a heart-wrenching nonfiction story by Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who decided to share his story and that of other millions, for everyone to learn and read of. Eliezer was a young man when his entire town was taken into a dehumanizing captivity by opposing German forces, forced around the entire expanse of a European country to five…

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel encapsulates the horrors of persecution from his experiences in the Holocaust, and how such cruelty breeds men into beasts. As readers, we began to question: what differentiates us from animals? By examining the behaviors seen in the initial deportation of The Jews of Sighet, Wiesel’s witness to the killings over bread and Juliek’s last violin concerto, we are able to see how apathy and empathy defines us as ‘humans’. ‘Ignorance is bliss,’ and such is the case of…

NIGHT COMMENTARY In this passage from the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie had been snatched from his home and transported to a concentration camp, in a cattle car. Passage two talks about Elie’s first experience with the Nazis, and the process of how he was treated, and how he felt. This passage shows how a person can be dehumanized by being affected by war and tragedy, it talks about the use of imagery, symbolism, hyperbole, and other literary devices used by the author. The story is told in…

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel shows a great deal of compassion and a heap of compassion is shown to him by other people in order to survive. Compassion is necessary for survival. Compassion helps Elie survive the holocaust. Compassion is defined as a concern for someone or something. It is told from the perspective of Elie. It tells the story of a nation of people in the holocaust who are bound together by their love for each other, the land, and faith. The Jews were used as pawns by the Nazis…

Rahul Sampat Miss Leja Night Literary Analysis Essay The Ambiguity in Relationships “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me [from allowing myself to die]. . . . I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support.” (Wiesel, ) Throughout the novel Night, Holocaust survivor Eliezer Wiesel discusses his relationship with his father and how it inspired him to continue to live in a depressive and dangerous Holocaust world. This relationship not only…

A title is one of the most important parts of a book. It can set the tone for the entire story and is usually one of the first things you see. Elie Wiesel decided to title his novel Night because it signifies a darkness that he faces throughout his time in the Nazi concentration camps. This word is illustrated frequently throughout the story. In my opinion, the author uses the word to symbolize the darkness that he encounters when he loses his faith in God. God was always a huge part in his…

In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel uses faith throughout the story to show both the importance and difficulty of maintaining faith during hardship. Wiesel shows that many people gave up in their faith, people believed that the Holocaust was not God’s doing, and others hid their faith in their God because they didn’t want them or their families to be killed. Many people who were involved in the Holocaust gave up their faith in God. If so many people were going through all of this pain and…

Night is a book about a mans life as a boy during World War II. It tells about his struggles and and how he survived in concentration camps The nazis would beat and starve him. They treated him like a dog and did not care what happened to him. The nazis dehumanized him and you can see that throughout the book. Elie lived in a ghetto when the nazis took his whole family and loaded them into cattle cars on a train. They had to stand body to body the whole time, the Nazis we treating them less…

Silence In the book night Night by Elie Wiesel, the word silence sticks out to me. Ironically the word which means “complete absence of sound” speaks wonders about not only this book but the holocaust as well. It also speaks about the shaky faith the author was having with God. God is supposed to be the almighty and all powerful who is in control of all things, so why would he sit back and do nothing while Germans were killing many innocent Jews. Silence is shown in this book by the sadness in…