Change. Change is an ordinary process in life that allows humans to evolve as individuals, societies, and as a species. Yet, not all changes are the same. Not all changes are equal. The effect of getting a new job is different than the effect of losing a job. These changes can make one lose himself, and when one doesn’t know who he is, those around him do not either. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery and diction to illustrate the idea that going through a traumatic or emotional event can cause a person to lose himself, lose his beliefs, and change into an unrecognizable human. Wiesel uses imagery to explain why and how the characters changed dramatically. Upon coming back after being expelled because he was a foreign Jew, Moshe the Beadle …show more content…
Throughout the entire start to the story, he and his neighbors are hopeful and positive that nothing bad would happen to them. Though only being naive, they tried their best to hold onto this hope and faith, praying to God that they would get through it. Wiesel, a very passionate person when it comes to religion, loses all of his enthusiasm towards Judaism in one night, becoming a person who doubts God throughout the rest of the memoir. This idea is also addressed later in the novel, while they are observing Rosh Hashanah. During a camp wide service, most men are praying to God, praising him and all he does. Wiesel, however, does not share these thoughts. He begins to doubt God and question why anyone would worship him, “Blessed art Thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe, Who chose us from among the races to be tortured day and night, to see our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end in the crematory? Praised by Thy Holy Name, Thou who hast chosen us to be butchered on thine altar?” (64). The words that Wiesel uses during this quotation gives off a very aggressive tone. Situations as dark and serious as the Holocaust cause major changes that cause a person to think extremely negative thoughts about something they once loved. At the beginning of the story, Elie wanted to dig deeper into the Jewish religion because he believed in it. Now, he is questioning the most basic principles of his religion, He feels anger toward God because he is making so many people suffer, and by using words such as “tortured” and “butchered”, he expresses this anger in a dynamic way. He feels rage toward the one thing he is supposed to love and support unconditionally, a feeling he would have never felt if it weren’t for this
Despite being a sincere worshipper of God, religion suddenly became a question to him. The book continued on Wiesel’s struggle to find his faith in the midst of perhaps one of history's most atrocious
Deceased bodies lying ,forgotten, buried in dirt and snow, or cast in pits. These are the actions of the S.S lead by Adolf Hitler, explained in the book Night by the author and protagonist Elie weisel. Elie Wiesel lives for 1 year in this god forsaken camp of death, cruelty, and destruction, Fighting his way to the end. He faces angry people, starvation, spiritual weakening, and drastic characteristic change. When the going gets hard the strongest, mentally, physically, and spiritually truly survive.
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
After the life changing experience in the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Wiesel has lost his devotion in his Creator. Having a great deal of faith in God for many years and then losing it in a matter of months is difficult. For Wiesel he questions God multiple times about his ways before he lets his religion go. Even after though he continues to let his
Elie Wiesel was one of many whom experienced the unthinkable. As a young teenager his life was changed when he was ripped away from his norms due to religious persecution during World War II. Through his experiences written in his autobiographical book, Night, it is evident that Wiesel experienced exile. Edward Said, a literary theorist and cultural critic, has the view that “exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.” Wiesel might agree, as he experienced exile and knows the horrors, but continues to share his story.
As Moishe the Beadle said previously, "there is a certain power in a question that is lost in the answer. "Wiesel struggles throughout the novel to keep his faith and trust in a god who is supposed to serve and protect. He had trouble grasping why the god he prayed to and lived for would punish him by allowing him to reside in a replica of hell on earth. When the one remaining strand of faith Wiesel had which was his father died so did his will to believe and carry on. Some choose to follow god without speculation for salvation,others for security of mind,and some without cause.
Wiesel's loss of faith was brought on by the absence of God. This resulted in him questioning why it was God's will to allow Jews to suffer and die the way they had. Another portrayal of religious confliction within Wiesel was the statement of his faith being consumed by the flames along with the corpses of children (Wiesel 34). Therefore, he no longer believed God was the almighty savior everyone had set Him out to be or even present before them. To conclude, his experiences within Nazi confinement changed what he believed in and caused him to change how he thought and began questioning God because of the actions He allowed to take
Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel narrates the legendary tale of what happened to him and his father during the Holocaust. In the introduction, Wiesel talks about how his village in Seghet was never worried about the war until it was too late. Wiesel’s village received advanced notice of the Germans, but the whole village ignored it. Throughout the entire account, Wiesel has many traits that are key to his survival in the concertation camps.
One reoccurring theme that is present in the Holocaust is a change of identity with everyone involved. The incidents people confronted, especially the Jews, during this harsh time was life changing and traumatic. The identity of many in the concentration camps changed; young and innocent children developed into mature men. Elie Wiesel in the novella, Night, faces a change of identity within himself and the surrounding people, the Jews, through a variety of events that he encounters.
In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he questioned God, ¨Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled, he caused thousands of children to burn his Mass graves?¨(Wiesel 68). Overall, Wiesel does not follow the words of God and is not believing in him anymore because he thinks God is the one thatś letting all the inhumanity occur. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause disbelief or incredulity.
Wiesel was one of those who started to question his absolute faith in God when he admits, “But I had ceased to pray… I did not deny gods existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” (42) As Wiesel’s faith weakens, his bond with his father grows stronger. Not long after, Wiesel is asked if he wants to get in to a good unit. He replies, “I certainly do want to get in to a good unit.
“My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man (N68). And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him (N69).” Wiesel had always shown his great love for God through the entire book until now.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. " Hope and an optimistic attitude are characteristics of a rational and humane mindset. Documenting how these ideals change throughout a period of time in writing can be done through various means of rhetoric including figurative language. In Elie Wiesel 's personal memoir Night, he incorporates similes and metaphors to effectively convey how the victims ' humanity deteriorated throughout the course of the Holocaust. Wiesel 's figurative language at the beginning of the novel conveys how the Jewish people followed commendable politesse and practiced reasonable behavior early on in the Holocaust.
Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.