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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 first person, as it is very important that the reader hears the events happening by a person who has undergone such dehumanizing acts. Elie’s first moments in the concentration camp, where Elie says that, “‘I no longer was afraid. I was overcome by fatigue.’” This shows that he was too tired to even think straight. It also uses partial imagery, as an image of an exhausted boy comes to mind. It shows that, despite being taken from his house to a place where no one knew what their fate was, he couldn’t feel fear, and was too tired to even think of what could happen, or had happened. It shows the loss of humanity, and how one can change drastically, if experiencing such events. This is further shown, when Elie says “‘The absent no longer entered our minds...their fate was not on our mind.’” The word absent symbolizes all the people who were once loved, but at this moment, all the people with Elie had lost sense of affection for the people they once loved. Elie had had his mother and his…

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…

Wiesel’s novel Night explores the theme of struggling to maintain faith in a benevolent God. In chapters four through six, Eliezer really stops believing in the God that he loved and studied as a child before the Holocaust. The gruesome scene of the child’s hanging is when Eliezer comes to believe that a just God must not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. “Where is He?” Eliezer asks to himself, and then answers, “He is hanging here on this gallows.”…

Night Literary Analysis What do you believe in? What deity and set of laws rule your life? Elie Wiesel shares in his book Night the story of his family and father as they endure life in the concentration camps. Elie and Mr. Wiesel spend little under a year traveling from one concentration camp to the next, encountering pain and suffering along the way. In this story Elie tells the truth of losing his faith slowly and steadily as he sees the true horror of human nature all the while using…

Night Night by Ellie Wiesel starts off in a small town in Hungary it was the spring of 1944 the rise of the nazi army was on the horizon every person in the town was scared not a single soul was living yet everybody seemed to be alive ….. At the beginning of the text we are introduced to Ellie and his family we find out he has a mother a father and a younger sister we find out that the Wiesel family is going to be moved to the camp Birkenau because of the fact that the person warning people to…