Also, Elie’s father dies at night. In fact, Elie states that so much suffering has made life seem like one long night. He feels like he cannot escape the darkness of the night. Night is also used as a metaphor for the loss of faith experienced by Elie. “ This day I ceased to plead…My eyes were open and I was alone-terribly alone in a world without God…without love or mercy” (Wiesel,65).
Even of his father..."(pg 105). Eliezer Wiesel loses his faith in God, family and humanity due to the experiences he has during his incarceration in the Nazi concentration camp. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a God. "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust..."(pg 32). Elie worked hard to save himself and asks God many times to help him and take him out of his misery.
Night Eliezer is a teenager that lived in a little town in Transylvania, where he spends his childhood. at the beginning of the book Eliezer is a normal religious person, “By day I stu-died Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple” (pg,3). this little fragment of the text show us that yes, in fact, Eliezer is a very reli-gious and faithful boy; but his faith passes through several changes that make him become another person. his faith, his beliefs and his environment change throughout the book . “He had watched me one day as I prayed at dusk.
When Elie says, "I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did," it shows how he thinks about his father’s well-being even before his own. Although Elie helps his father, his strength is in himself. A Kapo told Elie, "Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.” Before the camps, Elie was religious and had a relationship with God.
Dehumanization has to be the most worst way to deprive a person from there humane self. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a 12 year old boy sentenced to a concentration camp, often has to deal with the horrific attempts to deprive him of his human qualities. Dehumanization remains a recurring event in Night which happens either physically or mentally. Dehumanization physically occurs in Night. Shlomo, Elie’s father goes to a meeting, as he returns from the meeting he has brought some bad news on his way back.
That moment that Tom Robinson stepped out of that court room and being granted guilty for abusing me, is the day that I knew I would never be the same. The day Tom Robinson died in the county jail, something died inside me too. I took an innoncent man from this world and I was the only one to blame. Happiness has left my soul and it's never returning. With him life was a routine; without him life is unbearable.
His voice was broken and hackneyed. He discussed his chapters of his life of solitude and told me how he lived separated and gaped from the rest of society similar to myself on this vessel. His eyes sparkled in the middle of the night as he took his life at ten till twelve in the night. Hear him not; call on the names of Justine, William, Elizabeth, Clerval, his father and of Victor in your prayers. His last words I recall were, ‘thrust your sword into his heart If you ever get a chance..
“Don’t cry, Kestrel. You have to stay strong. Stay strong for him, okay?” I let him comfort me. After school, Daniel noticed me walking aimlessly. He walked up to me and said, “I know who killed your brother.
Elie wants a meaning for his survival and that is why he wrote the book, people think that god saved Elie just to write this book and convey a message to the world that this kind of holocaust never happens in the future. In this story Elie Wiesel is the author and Eliezer is the narrator. In this story Eliezer tells us about all the torture he went up in his teenage life, this story clashes with the Anti-bildungsroman Tradition, this anti bildungroman is a traditional story where a young knive man entering a world to seek adventure but it provides him with an important lesson, the denuma finds him happier wiser and ready for a productive life. The same happens with Eliezer Wiesel he was a educated young man he forced to go in the hell made by human hands, there he learned more wisdom than he asked for, even when he dreamed of learning mystical tradition but in the end what he learns was the human behavior when he sees himself in the mirror for the first time in
One example that sticks out in the book is when Elie hears, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (pg. 27) This is when Elie begins to hate the Nazis. Once they separate his family, he no longer has any room in his heart for them. Although these conflicts tore apart Elie’s life, there were many other conflicts he had to deal with.