Wiesel and other Jews in the concentration camps had many warning of what was to come, especially from the previous survivors of the Nazi camps. In fact, the new arrivals, when they arrived in camp, were warned right away, by some older men, “‘You’ve had done better to have hanged yourselves where you were than come here. Didn’t you know what was in store for you at Auschwitz?...Do you see that chimney over there? … Over there- That’s where you're going to be taken’” (Wiesel 28). This warning let to revolt by a few sturdy young fellows among the Jews, but extinguished in a very short time, when the older ones begged their children not to do anything foolish and to never lose faith. (Wiesel 29). Despite the warnings, the Jews did not respond …show more content…
The Wiesel seen at the start of the book is a completely different person by the end of the story. What changes the most about him, however, is internal: his faith. Elie’s faith slowly deteriorates during his stay at the camp, due to all the inhumane actions he witnesses. However, he loses his faith completely when he sees all the Jewish prisoners gather together on the eve of Rosh Hashanah to pray to the Lord. Here, Wiesel says, “Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber, I rebelled... I stood amid that praying congregation, observing it like a stranger” (Wiesel 64-65). In an act of rebellion, Elie even refuses to fast on Yom Kippur. He accuses God of creating all this inhumanity that exists and blames Him for the existence of the terrifying concentration camps. In his earlier years, Elie had seeked long and hard in order to find himself a master in the studies of the cabbala. In Night, Elie wrote, “‘ There aren’t any cabbalists at Sighet,’ my father would repeat. He wanted to drive the notion out of my head… I found a master for myself, Moshe the Beadle” (Wiesel 2). The Elie at the end of the book contrasts greatly with the Elie at the start: a religious young boy, who devoted very much to his studies of the cabbala and praising the name of God. Overall, the horrors he’s seen in the concentration camps, from the babies in the crematory to the hangings of innocent people made …show more content…
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath the silent blue sky...Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (Wiesel 32). In this passage, Elie Wiesel creates a mood full of anger and rage. By using the word never again and again eight times, he strongly emphasizes his determination to keep the memory going, and by using descriptions of the unforgivable acts committed, he wants his audience to become riled up and outraged at the actions of the Nazis. He shares his anger with his audience in this passage though a powerful selection of words. Wiesel uses the phrase “never shall I forget” to express the anger and the determination he felt to prevent events like such from ever happening
The book Night by Elie Wiesel shows how suffering and witnessing the painful deaths of many innocent lives can be the cause of loss of faith in the benevolent god. This book is taken in a horrible, inhumane place called the Holocaust. It all started when Moshe the Beadle stopped talking about God after he had witnesses the massacre of Jews by the German Gestapo; at that time no one believed him but time would prove them wrong. When Elie witnesses the horror of the concentration camps and what they do to people especially children he feels as if his God has been murdered right before his eyes. In the camp he sees an atrocity after atrocity, death after death.
Elie Wiesel, the writer of the novel Night, based the book on his experience and the observations he made during his time in a Nazi concentration camp. The prisoners fought to make it through for their families with the chance of seeing them again. The prisoners thought that the entire event was God testing their faith and whether or not they would still praise him after all was over. Concentration camp prisoners did not have the will to live, but continued to live in hopes of liberation, reuniting with their families, and keeping their faith in God. Although Wiesel lost his faith early on in the book, many of the Jews still maintained their faith because they could not comprehend that what was going on in their lives was something purely
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky,” are the words Elie spoke upon his first arrival in a concentration camp, highlighting the importance of this quote is the use of anaphora on the words, “Never shall I forget”(Wiesel 32). The author of the autobiography, Elie Wiesel, is a Jew born in Sighetu Marmației, România who was taken by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was only fifteen. His autobiography, Night, depicts his firsthand experience as a prisoner during the Holocaust.
To be Human How does one remain himself as everything he has ever known is ripped away from him? Elie Wiesel recalls his own experiences with this challenge in his self written book, Night. In this book, Wiesel takes you on a eye opening ride to see and experience the hard life of Jewish people under German Control. Wiesel shows how to accomplish the nearly impossible, surviving.
To demonstrate this Wiesel writes, “A prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. "Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done."”(91). This quote continues to demonstrate how the variation in religious views can be a drastic and sometimes emotional roller coaster in terms of what you do or don’t believe in. I believe these types of decisions can especially come out when in very dire and trying circumstances where it really tests what you do or don’t believe in especially if it’s something that will drastically affect your life. Our final example deals with Wiesel and the other Jews getting up to continue running as instructed by the SS guards, they wake to find many of them perished overnight, “The dead remained in the yard, under the snow without even a marker, like fallen guards.
In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he shows his love for God is natural when Moishe the Beadle saw Eliezer in the synagogue and asked him “ Why do you pray?” and he responded “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”
In his memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel describes with vivid details the horrors he and other inmates endured while prisoners in concentration camps during the Holocaust. One major theme of the work at large, and particularly of the middle section of the memoir, is loss of faith. In the beginning of the memoir, Elie presents himself as a precocious child, deeply interested in the complex mystical aspects of Judaism. However, after enduring time in Auschwitz and Buna concentration camps, he can no longer accept the notion of an omnipotent and forgiving god. He describes his thoughts hearing his fellow prisoners pray on Rosh Hashanah, one of the most holy days of the Jewish year, saying, “Why, but why would I bless Him?
At a really young age a kid named Ellie Wiesel was captured by the SS (NAZI) , he was a really faithful person. later on his life his faith in god would decrease little by little. The prisoner Ellie wisel was a witness of the horrifying things that happend in the natzi concentration camps some of the examples are, depression due to observing gorrifying things, witnessing kids being killed in a daily and human being treated like animals without respect. “Never shall I forget” Is a quote written by Ellie Wiesel, Ellie Wiesel is the author of the book Night, he was also a former prisoner of the Nazi Germany, the cause that led the author to write this quote were the horrifying things he was witnessing, bodies being burned, people being killed.
Thus, the rejection of memory becomes a divine curse, one that would doom us to repeat, past disasters, past wars. " His content reveals the meaning of abandoning memory could prevent us to move on, in other words, history will eternally repeat itself until we find the ultimate solution to peace. As Wiesel furthers into dept, he expresses, "Have we failed? I often think we have. " It demonstrates, "Never forget," the world said of the Holocaust, but hypocrisy begins to emerge.
During his first night in Auschwitz, he writes, ""Never shall I forget that night… Never shall I forget those flames... Never shall I forget those moments... Never" (Wiesel 34). Wiesel not only uses repetition with the phrase "never shall I forget" to emphasize his experience, but again he stops the memoir 's continuous flow in an attempt to process what he witnessed.
Paradox, parallelism, personification, repetition, rhetorical question, pathos. You may ask yourself: what importance do these words have? These words are rhetorical devices used to develop a claim. A person who used these important devices was Elie Wiesel. In his 1986 Nobel Peace Acceptance Speech, Elie Wiesel develops the claim that remaining silent on human sufferings makes us just as guilty as those who inflicted the suffering and remain guilty for not keeping the memory of those humans alive.
The Jews realize that the possibility of being burned or killed was very likely. Wiesel writes, “We stood stunned, petrified. Could this be just a nightmare? An unimaginable nightmare? I heard whispers around me: “We must do something.
In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel states that he will never forget that first night in Auschwitz. He went through so much pain, suffering, and being treated inhumanely that he would never be able to forget his first night. As Wiesel quotes on pg. 34 of his memoir, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.” He explains what he remembers and will never forget.
Elie, once so faithful, is one of the first to lose faith in God due to the horrific sights he sees. After witnessing the bodies of Jewish children being burned, Wiesel writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). He quite understandably has begun to doubt that his God is with him following the sight of the supposedly chosen people’s bodies being unceremoniously burned. Elie, though, was perhaps not a member of the masses with this belief; in fact, some men were able to hold on to their beliefs despite these horrendous sights. Also near the middle of the book, Wiesel reflects on the faith of other Jews in the face of these events, saying that “some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come.
In this selection, Wiesel uses phrases such as “.. flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel, 34), “... murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel, 34), and “Never shall I forget those things..” (Wiesel, 34).