ipl-logo

Symbolism Of Fire In Night By Elie Wiesel

226 Words1 Page

An important symbol that reoccurs in the story is fire. The first appearance of fire in the story was when Madame Schächter envisioned fire while on their way to the camp. Elie has had a nightmare where he sees Nazis burning small infants in a ditch. In the war, Nazis used to cremate their prisoners whether they were dead or alive. However, this symbol could have some relations to religion, people associate fire with the divine wrath. Claiming that the wicked are punished by fire in the depths of Hell, but in this story the fire is used on the innocent making Elie begin to doubt the power of God later defying him.
The other symbol important to the story is a little more obvious and is used in the title as well. As we look further

Show More
Related

  • How Does Elie Wiesel Use Tree Imagery In Night

    1215 Words  | 5 Pages

    First, the tree imagery emphasizes the physical toll on the Jewish prisoners. During one of his fits of rage, Idek, a Kapo in Buna, starts beating Elie’s father with an iron bar. Elie states, “At first, my father simply doubled over

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    210 Words  | 1 Pages

    The second “kiss” from God Elie received was in the Rabbi’s words. When his life began to progressively become worse in the camps moments like the ones in the ghettos were not common; he began to become more despair. The book Night states, “He was the only rabbi whom nobody ever failed to address as "Rabbi" in Buna. He looked like one of those prophets of old, always in the midst of his people when they needed to be consoled. And, strangely, his words never provoked anyone.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    168 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the beginning, Eliezer is a very strong follower of the Jewish Religion. In the early part of the book, before they are sent to the labor camps, Wiesel shows that he is strong with his faith when he says: “I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple (Wiesel 3).” This quote comes from the first page of the book, where Wiesel is talking about his life before the chaos started, circa. 1941.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    209 Words  | 1 Pages

    Many immediately think to blame the Nazis, and only the Nazis for the Holocaust. This is not the case however, as many groups all share a portion of the blame. In Elie Wiesel's book, Night, it is evident that blame be passed to Elie’s God, the Jewish people themselves, and the non Jewish Europeans. Elie writes how his non Jewish neighbors watched, the Hungarian police force the Jews to march. When this was happening, the Jews were insulted, and beaten; it was clear the police had dark intentions.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    182 Words  | 1 Pages

    The symbol is Night, the title of the book is also a symbol. Wiesel wanted to use this symbol to respond to what happened at night. Wiesel wanted to tell the reader what he had to do with his new headlines in the evening. Wiesel said the evening experience "made my life a long night, sealed seven times. " The author began to doubt that God could help him get rid of despair and pain, because he appeared in a long suffering and never saw the so-called God.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    576 Words  | 3 Pages

    "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night"(Wiesel 34). Through Elie Wiesel’s witness of a genocide of his own people, the horrors that became his reality for a period of time was a never ending series of darkness. In his memoir Night, Wiesel uses night to symbolize a period of suffering and despair during his experience through the Holocaust. Night also symbolizes the darkness and hole left in Wiesel after this disaster has occured. Many survivors of the Holocaust are still terrified to tell their stories based on the fact that what they experienced still remains shocking to express.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    455 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the short novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, the author discusses an event of tremendous scarring effect to him and all those unfortunate to be caught in it’s scourge, The Holocaust. From the new age diaspora, death marches, cremation, and many other tyrannical actions from the German Reich that left all witnesses traumatized. These horrendous acts brought out a primal version of self preservation in the prisoners. The prisoners self preservation is displayed through their fight for rations of bread, their relentless labor to avoid the path to death that is tested by Dr. Mengele, leading the prisoners ultimately to the crematorium.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    327 Words  | 2 Pages

    Elie Wiesel loses faith in God and his family through the events that he undergoes in the Nazi concentration camps. To begin, Elie is deprived of his religion in the camps. He struggles physically and mentally, therefore, he no longer believes that there is a higher power: "Never shall I forget these moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust..." (34). Imprisoned in a factory of death, Elie does not believe that his God will give him the strength to keep him going.

    Read More

  • Imagery And Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    596 Words  | 3 Pages

    In 1943, during World War II, there was a mass genocide of the Jewish population. Many people in the concentration camps had lost everything from clothes to family to names. These people who after losing everything, gave up, lost their lives. But those who continued putting one foot in front of the other, made it through to the end. Elie Wiesel, a young boy at the time, has lived to tell the world about his experiences in Auschwitz.

    Read More

  • Symbolism Of Fire In Night By Elie Wiesel

    203 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel it shows us that if you ignore your problems they won't go away. In the novel, the Jews are in a cattle car headed to a concentration camp. Mrs. Schächter, a fellow Jew was separated from her two older sons and her husband, and she was devastated because of it. She kept yelling, "Fire! I see a fire!"

    Read More

  • Elie Wiesel Flames In Night

    434 Words  | 2 Pages

    Holocaust, Is a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar. 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a survival of the Holocaust in the story Night has lacking emotional stamina throughout the book. At the beginning of the book (page 33) when Elie and his father were waiting in line when they got to there first camp Elie said to his father “If that is true, then I don’t want to wait.

    Read More

  • Fire Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    336 Words  | 2 Pages

    Fire stands out the most because he used fire to foreshadow the ghettos and it's easier to spot and recognize when used symbolically. Night and death are commonly used in reference to the text, making it harder to distinguish them from words and symbols. Fire symbolizes Wiesel’s hellish experience in the ghettos with the SS officers, and he makes that very distinct when Mrs.Schächter was used to foreshadow their future. The foreshadowing becomes obvious when the author writes “Jews, listen to me,’ she cried.

    Read More

  • Fire Quotes In Night By Elie Wiesel

    874 Words  | 4 Pages

    The quote depicts the symbolism of fire because of Ms.Schachter, she sees a vision of fire, and claims that this fire will eventually consume and devour everyone, and she is correct, because the Nazi’s would eventually use fire to exterminate the Jews. When Elie first enters the camp, he whiffs the scent of burning flesh, and see’s smoke coming out of the crematorium. Elie later on realized that the Nazi’s were burning young children and elderly

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    620 Words  | 3 Pages

    Laila Nagy Mrs. Leader Symbolism paper 26 March, 2018 Representation of Symbolism Burning fire and damnation led innocent lives to a conflagration that brought about death to 11 million as Adolf Hitler expertly exercised the Holocaust. Hitler was a man who lacked remorse and he inflicted unspeakable pain to thousands of families between 1933 and 1945. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, and survivor of the Holocaust, recounts the horrors that Jewish prisoners experienced at Auschwitz. Within Auschwitz, prisoners’ lives are guided by the campbells, frequent selections that eliminate the weak, and the horrific executions they deliberately instill fear within the Jews.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

    176 Words  | 1 Pages

    Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer seems to be able to get through the holocaust with much, if not all of his humanity intact. Although not the boy he once was, and although after his father dies he seems not to care about anything but food, he still wants to live and he wants to make it out alive: “ ‘Go back to your block. The germans plan to shoot you. Go back and don’t move.’ We returned to the block” (Wiesel 114).

    Read More

More about Symbolism Of Fire In Night By Elie Wiesel

Open Document