Elie’s Permuting Purpose The novel Night is the personal tale of Elie Wiesel as a Jew during the holocaust. Night shows the changes someone can go through during extreme times in their life. Elie Wiesel at the beginning of the novel was only twelve years old, and full of innocence living in Sighet, Transylvania. After Elie’s teacher is taken away by the Hungarians, he returns months later to tell the other Jews about how the Gestapo made Jews dig their own graves and the police executed them there, but he escaped, but none of the other Jews believed him. Three years later the Nazis occupied Hungary and soon took over Sighet, forcing all Jews into ghettos, and eventually moving Elie and his family into cattle cars on trains, heading for Birkenau. Through Elie’s struggles, he and other characters search for their purpose in life. Elie will eventually find his purpose, but it will be different from what he thought his purpose was, but other characters will fail to find their purpose. In the beginning, Elie believed his purpose was not to remain alone and to be with his father for as long as he could, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” (30) Elie tried everything to be with his father, at one …show more content…
Akiba was a man in the camp with Elie and his father. Akiba started to lose his faith, believing that God was no longer with them. He was so pessimistic that he knew he would not pass the selection so he said, “In three days, I’ll be gone… Say Kaddish for me.” (77) (Kaddish is the prayer to mourn) Since Akiba could not find his own purpose, he gave up, which ultimately led to his death. Keeping your faith in the camps allowed many of the Jews to keep going. Even though Elie might have lost his faith, he did not lose his will to find his purpose, and his will to live. Elie was destined to keep surviving which separated him from Akiba Drumer in the
Courages, painful, depressed these words describe Elie experience at the Concentrations camps. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was a normal Jewish Teenager until the Nazis took Elie and his family in boxcar to Auschwitz. He was sent different camps every so often deeper into Germany. Before Elie and his father was sent to the camps their relationship was not very close almost extinct. After sent to camps their relationship grows stronger each camp.
Simone Rosson Ms. Ahonen English 1301 1st period 22 October 2015 Night Night, is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel about the tragic events he endured during the Holocaust. Wiesel was one of the very few who survived the horrid times of the Holocaust. He was stationed in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the very well known camps. The story begins in the year 1941 when him and his family are torn from their home and transported to a concentration camp.
Elie had been captivated with making sure he had remained with his father. He had not wanted to be alone and at any cost wanted them to remain together. By the middle of the novel, his father had weakened and their relationship
The holocaust makes physical and mental alterations to Elie’s life, and this tells the reader that the people who did this are effective and impacting, also it shows that Elie’s mind is controlled by what he was experiencing. Way back at the start of the book the readers see an adolescent boy who is studying Kabbalah, but when suddenly German officers come to ship the Jewish citizens out of his town, Elie wants to run away. By
As it says on page 35,” ... the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father.” However, Elie viewed his father more as a burden near the end as it says on page 112, after his father’s disappearance he said to himself “... Free at last!” All of these excerpts show that Elie was very worried for his father at the beginning.
There are many things that could tear someone from their beliefs. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there are even more things. The jews in this story have viewed things many of us have not, and those things they cannot bring themselves before that time. In my opinion, Elie had the worst fall of his faith while viewing the things he did at the camps. Being religious and believing in certain things really can change a person, and nothing should be able to take them from that.
He didn’t think that he would make it out, or that he would live. He started to give up on religion. In the beginning of the book, it told us how Elie was studying a new type of religion, and how he was way above his age level with religion. But, he stopped believing that there was a god, and he stopped praying and celebrating the Jewish holidays. He thought that if there was a god, he would have helped them by then.
Daniel Haugen Mr. Dayton Ninth Lit/Comp 19 October 2014 Starvation in Concentration Camps Eliezer Wiesel’s Night is a memoir about his own personal tragic experience with the Holocaust Concentration Camps. While there Eliezer’s entire life turns upside down as he is exposed to the worst forms of torture that anyone should be involved with. Night greatly demonstrates the evils that were bestowed upon the Jewish community and the other groups thought by Hitler to be intolerable. The Concentration Camps caused the Jewish people to be deprived of the proper nutrition leaving them not only physically scarred, but psychologically as well.
Elie himself is accusing God of causing all the pain and grief that he and the Jews have suffered. On the last day of the year, Rosh Hashanah, Elie shows his defiance by not atoning his sins because he believes that God should be the one asking for
After reading page four this passage immediately stood out to me as peculiar. I have never heard of, or witnessed, someone crying during prayer, and it presents itself as an extremely unorthodox response to the situation. Although, I can only wonder if he cries because he feels such a deep connection to God in those moments, or because God has yet to answer his many questions and it’s frustration that is causing the tears. (74 words) This moment truly marks the end of Elie’s childhood as he must now take the role of an adult to help himself and his family through these tragic times.
Elies world as he knew, it is changing around him, nothing is the same and nothing ever will be the same about his life ever again. Elie and his family had lived upon the start of the war when the first actions of relocation of the Jewish people had been moved, they started with foreign Jews and moved them to build the camps. It all begins towards the end of 1941 when the Nazi’s had then started to enter Sighet. The war had been going on for two years and the Nazies and the pure Germans blamed the war on the Jews and the only thing to be done was to commit genocide on the Jewish community. Elie, who was deeply religious as a child had become a young man with a strong sense of morality.
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
The adversities at Auschwitz and Buchenwald caused Elie to lose faith in God. Before being transported into Auschwitz, Elie was a boy who deeply believed in God and had absolute faith in God. Elie 's first seeds of doubt in God came when he was transported into the camp and separated from his mother and sister. The other prisoners began reciting the Kaddish, but Elie got agitated when they gave thanks to God, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me.
Never shall [he] forget those things, even were [he] condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 75). This quote leads me to believe that the suffering endured in the camps lead Elie to become lost with who he was. Elie and the other members of the Jewish community try to keep their faith as much as they can even though it is being tested. As shown in Night enduring suffering forces people to become much different versions of themselves.