Torsten Wiesel

In the book, “Night”. Survival is challenging. From illness to selection, death is inevitable in the Concentration camp. Sacrifices were a big part of surviving. In the Concentration camp, Elie realized that he could no longer be soft and caring, as much as he wanted to be. He quickly learned that the key of surviving was to be strong mentally and physically. Survival in the Concentration camps was very challenging. In the story, it stated, “I kept repeating to myself: Don’t think, don’t…

other images, other silent cries” (xi) Wiesel demonstrates that he has a tight grip on the concept of imagery and figurative language in his book, Night. Similes, metaphors, and personification are used the most to develop the terror of his experience and stress that it must not happen again to anyone else. The Holocaust was the mass genocide and enslavement of six million Jews and six million others who were not deemed perfect in Adolf Hitler’s eyes. Wiesel utilizes descriptive language as a…

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s mentors change throughout the book. His faith at the beginning of the book was in God and he doesn’t have faith in his father. As the story goes on, he starts to lose faith in God and starts to believe in his father more. The theme of Loss of Faith also comes up in another book that we have read this year, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. At the beginning of Night, Elie shows us that he feels like his father does not have emotions and if he is afraid to show…

The Cairo Genizah or “Sacred Trash” is the collection of 300,000 manuscript of Jewish literary collected from the storeroom of Ben Eza Synagogue in old Cairo, Egypt. Genizah in Hebrew means hide away or keeping aside, like Janaza (means burial) in Arabic is derived from Persian word ganj denotes a treasure. These manuscripts dated from 870 CE to 19th century, contain approximately 1000 years of information about the Jewish communities of Cairo (Schechter). Genizah contains the largest…

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a decidedly depressing book which describes Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust. The title of Night is relevant because of all of his terrible experiences during World War II. The mood of the book is as dark as the title. Elie managed to keep his head throughout all of this turmoil. Turning a traumatic and problematic situation into one of learning, he sought to improve the world, and make sure that no one else ever has to endure what he endured. After being…

that were shipped away in cattle carts. Despite his attempt to convince them, the Jews of Sighet do not heed his warning that the Nazis will imprison and kill them. Instead of hiding, the people welcome the Nazis into their city. In the words of Elie Wiesel in chapter 1, “The Germans were already in town, the Fascists were…

In the book night, Elie demonstrates several different themes throughout the book to help explain the difficulty of the concentration camps and his life after the Germans got a hold of him and his father. Throughout the novel characters reveal the importance and the loss of faith, inhumanity, father-son relationships, and hope. Elie's story is an important one that we should never forget. The only reason that he started liking his father was that during the disaster he was all he had left, once…

Jack Ma says “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after will be sunshine”. Elie Wiesel tells us about his life in concentration camps during World War II in the book Night. The book states how Eliezer transforms physically and mentally. He faces trauma and suffering. Eliezer has to fight to survive another day in the concentration camps. Throughout the book Eliezer changes his thoughts and feelings about life. Before Eliezer and his family were taken to the…

One of the main themes of Night was the loss of and the finding of faith. Throughout the course of the book Night, Elie continuously questions his faith in God and wonders if there actually is a higher being. He believes that if there is a God then how did they allow such atrocities to happen? The book details Elie's conflicting ideas about faith. which has probably happened to most people throughout their lives. This internal conflict plays an important role in the book as well as most people's…

The conditions many victims faced during the Holocaust were unspeakable. Among one of these victims stands Eliezer Wiesel, now known as Elie Wiesel, author of Night and winner of The Nobel Peace Prize. The torture, the starvation, the endless grief that Wiesel had to go through is saddening, yet says so much about his character. Throughout this novel his intelligence, determination, and caring shows through his actions and lets him survive. Wiesel’s intelligence and cleverness helped him in…