Night by Elie Wiesel is a firsthand account of the Holocaust as experienced by the author. First published in 1958, Night has since been translated into multiple languages and become one of the most important works of Holocaust literature. Night chronicles Elie Wiesel’s experience in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, as well as his struggle … Read more
Night is a novel by Elie Wiesel that was first published in 1958. The book is a semi-autobiographical account of the author’s experiences as a Jewish teenager during the Holocaust. Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, in 1928. He was raised in a traditional Jewish household and spent his early years studying the Torah and … Read more
Your father is someone you look up to, model after, he is someone you want to be like. But, entering a concentration camp could have a tragic impact on that relationship between a father and son. In Night, Eliezer and his father go through many ups and downs that reflect on how strong their relationship … Read more
The dehumanization of Eliezer by the Nazis in Night by Elie Wiesel In Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy, by the name of Eliezer, becomes a victim of the Nazi’s cruelty and abuse. Because of the abusive treatment Eliezer witnesses and endures at the hands of the Nazis during WWII, he is stripped of … Read more
Rick Yune, an American actor, producer, martial artist, and screenwriter, once said, “It’s a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience” (Rick Yune). The relationship of the quote, relates to Elie and his father because it demonstrates that father and son rarely get to encounter the same situation together and … Read more
Maturing is a natural process in a person’s life that happens in one form or another to everyone. Most people mature over time and take a few years to fully finish this process, ending only once they reach adulthood. For others however, the process of maturing is forced upon them somehow and they have no … Read more
Night is just one of many memoirs written by Eliezer Wiesel, who survived the vicious and the infamous Holocaust during the calamitous WWII. The renowned legend Eliezer Wiese, including his book Night, showed a variety of different concepts as in his dauntlessness, intrepidity, and sanguineness for his desire to survive. During this period he faced … Read more
The desire for power, fear, and self-preservation can cause people to change in ways one could not imagine. In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Gerda Weissman Klein’s All But My Life, the authors share their tragic experiences from their times in Nazi concentration camps. In Addition, Klein’s All But My Life shows her … Read more
Silence… it’s a simple word that can hold so much over a person. A word that once it is said no longer describes itself. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, flashbacks, and characterization to explain how silence is forced, as well as broken into the people throughout the Holocaust. The inmates were forced to watch … Read more
A horrifying story of a family during a time of death and war must find a way to stay together and survive one of the most horrific events in history. The novel night follows a fifteen-year- old boy who travels with his family to Auschwitz. Elie’s mother and sisters are sent to a death chamber … Read more
When you are posed with the question if human beings are inherently good or bad, you often find yourself floundered to find an answer. It is a fundamental question with no definite answer, only your conception of situations and human beings. People often look for the bad in the world, they point out the negative … Read more
Every person that has ever walked on this earth has experienced the gut wrenching feeling of missing an opportunity you know could have offered a path for escape -knowing that you can pinpoint an exact moment in time that could have altered the course of your story. The Wiesel family is no exception to this … Read more
In the autobiographical novel Night by Elie Wiesel, many forms of the horror caused by the holocaust are depicted. Abuse towards man, discrimination, and most of all the doubt felt by the Jews. The doubt the Jews felt is in religion and above all in their God. Wiesel begins the novel, as with many of … Read more
