Night Elie Wiesel Reflection

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It was in tenth grade when we read Night by Elie Wiesel. When I saw the book I felt as if this dark background on the cover had a very interesting history that had to do with the will of having strong courage and being brave. The moon on the cover made me feel as if there was a dark moment in one's life where he/she must overcome a very horrific event. “Night”, the only time where everything is real to someone. Where they need to overcome a strong conflict that they must have to face at a time.

Elie Wiesel was trapped in the genocide of the most religious people known as the Jews who practice Judaism. It was only one man who controlled all of this, he was Adolf Hitler. Obviously the Jews would rely on their “God” or “Jehovah” to set the Jews free and save them from the horrific genocide that they are put through. If they were to rely on their god, wouldn't their god have spared the six million Jews that were violently slaughtered by the Germans? If it were me, I would have lost faith in anything that would have to do with Judaism. Just like how many Jews have …show more content…
They have lost their faith in the God they have been loyal to. But Elie Wiesel did not want to follow the crowd of not being loyal to his God. Elie Wiesel regained his faith in God from a speech he has written in the 1980’s that won the “nobel peace prize”. Wiesel's topic was to not lose faith in something/someone he had been loyal to his whole life.
“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”- Elie Wiesel-Night. It’s not that Wiesel has lost faith in his god, it’s that he questions the god that he is still loyal to. This is inspiring mainly because he believes in his own religion and that he has strong faith for, unlike the many other Jews that have dropped Judaism because of the holocaust. Elie Wiesel's point was to never lose faith in something he believes so strongly

Elie Wiesel Night Reflection

camps, the Jews were from then on called by number as oppose to by name. Elie explains this change when he mentions “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel, p.42). The first step taken to rid the Jews of their dignity was to take their names, so they would have no control over who they were, even something as small as what they were called. Next, the prisoners were treated and acted as if they were animals. Elie was distraught when he wrote “a worker took a piece of bread out of his…

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Night Elie Wiesel Reflection

passion of mine. There is something special about getting lost in a book and going on the adventure with the author. Not too long ago I read a story that has really stood out to me and has stayed with me. “Night” by Elie Wiesel has impassioned and inspired me. This book is a true story about Mr. Wiesel as a young boy during the Holocaust. He describes his time in the German concentration camps with his father. Page after page he describes the fear and torture experienced, as well as witnessed, during…

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Reflection Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Night , by Elie Wiesel is a sad and strong story of a young boy named Eliezer and how his life turns into a nightmare during the holocaust. German soldiers took him and his family and soon they were on their journey to the concentration camps. Eliezer had to face death over and over again and the people around him turning inhuman. He had to live through the unimaginable struggles and almost gave up hope. Even though he survived, The experiences he had changed who he was. I am writing about this…

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What Is The Reflection Of Night By Elie Wiesel

The story, Night, was composed to tell us about the hardships that the survivors undergo during the war from their perspective. Elie Wiesel started the book by sharing the story about millions of Jews and other people who died by the Nazis during World War II that affected the Jewish memory. Elie Wiesel made it through the war, but his father was abused by the Nazis before dying. Elie wasn't able to do anything because of fear. He wanted to die because of this, but still fought death and was able…

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Night Reflection Essay

Vaviala Ms.Kelley 10 H English - Per 5 5 September 2017 Forced Change In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, characters, particularly Eliezer who changes his behavior, have been shown to change their personality and identities through forces exerted on them by the German concentration camps. Near the end of Elie’s journey, at Buchenwald, Elie’s dad is dying slowly because of illness which is putting a force on Elie which changes his mind about his dad after he dies. “I did not weep, and it pained me…

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Identity In Night By Elie Wiesel

under what the reader absorbs at face value. Which prompts them to peel back the layers of hidden meaning in order to reach the core. This essay is an attempt to peel back the layers to expose the core of the effects of identity and faith imposed on Elie. Changes to Eliezer’s identity as well as his characterisation and understanding of God greatly impact his character’s development throughout the memoir. “We are fragmented into so…

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Short Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night Essay The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel is a witness of the tragedies and events that occurred during World War 1 and with the holocaust. In 1986 Elie won the Nobel Peace Prize for sharing his heart trenching experience with human rights and inequality. He discusses the struggles of being a Jew and his life in the Nazi concentration camps. He talks about how the horrific scenes he witnessed will forever be engraved in his mind. His novel has a great purpose teaching the readers that the…

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Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Persona Change of Elie Wiesel The book Night is a work in which Elie Wiesel, the author, depicts his experiences and changes as a young Jewish boy, who transitions between various concentration camps. During the Holocaust, between 1941 and 1945, the Nazi’s killed six million Jews. The Nazi’s believe that Germans were “racially superior” to the Jews, because they were deemed “inferior,” and were a threat to the German community. The Nazi’s systematically torture the Jewish prisoners in order to…

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Pity In Elie Wiesel's Night

The Role of Pity Throught The Great Divorce and Night pity plays a key role in characters interactions, and portrays the author's worldview of pity. Both Christianity and Judaism believe taking pity and showing empathy to someone is important, and both books reflect this. In Night by Elie Wiesel many events occur that invoke a sense of pity, throughout several interactions in the book can be drawn from both the characters and the reader. Seen through the treatment of the prisoners by the S.S.,…

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Elie Wiesel's Message In The Book Night

toast and tea alive, my life- that is what is abnormal” (Elie Wiesel). The Holocaust was so horrid, bad, and unbearable, everything that used to be normal, was no more. Everything was so unknown and dark, it felt unfamiliar. It all started in 1944 with a concentration camp called Auschwitz. When they arrived they smelled some horrible stench, and saw a chimney spewing smoke and flames. From there on his life declined, in Night, by Elie Wiesel. Elie was only a teenager before his home, family, and everything…

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