The Theme Of Optimism In Night By Elie Wiesel

Eli's life was changed drastically in a matter of a couple hours. He saw and went through a lot causing him to lose his religious faith. He isn’t the only one who lost his belief. Others like his father began to lose his faith and sense of hope.

Imagine believing so strongly in something and then being let down, or thinking that you were wrong even to believe. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie felt as though he had lost his religion and belief in God. We learned how strong his beliefs were when he says,“I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep of the destruction of the Temple,” (Wiesel, 14). But then he experiences the hardships of the Holocaust and it abruptly changed him. In the book Night, the main theme is religious belief, shown when Elie talks about the his strong religion and belief as a boy, his disconnection from religion, and the inhumane actions the Nazis caused.

When reading the book “night” by Elie Wiesel, you can never be sure something is to be set in stone. Even the characters drastically change from societies previous distorted visions of a Jew to the primordial beast that dwells over the basic components of survival itself. For example, a selfless and cultured man known as Eliezer’s father is forced to adapt himself into a man so full of sorrow not even his own wife would be able to recognize him. What did this? Many may say it was the loss of God. but I believe it was the loss of hope all together. For Eliezer and his father, God was all they had ever known, not once did the thought occur that he could ever do something this horrible, or that he didn’t exist all together. While watching the

Have you ever thought about how it would feel to be in a concentration camp during the Holocaust? The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, it is about a 16 year old named Eliezer. He is a Holocaust survivor and tells about his time in the concentration camps. It is in first person about how he felt, what he saw and what had happened to him.Hope is good until you lose it.

In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith. He is Jewish, but he wants to go deeper into his religion and learn more about it. He becomes good friends with a man named Moishe the Beadle. Moishe is very knowledgeable about the religion and he teaches Eliezer a lot.

The first hanging, the Warsaw native who had been in the camp for three years, was fully grown and filled with defiance towards his German captors. He showed no fear of his executors, refused to be blindfolded and before his death, shouted out his denunciation of the action being taken. On page 62 of Night by Elie Wiesel it states “The hangman...was about to signal his aides to pull the chair from under the young man's feet when the latter shouted, in a strong and calm voice: "Long live liberty! My curse on Germany! My curse! My -" The executioner had completed his work.” This opinion of the Germans was shared by Elie and the other prisoners. They agreed with the condemnation of the prisoner and celebrated someone expressing these thoughts.

The theme of the Compound is cooperation. One time working together is important was when Eli and his family had to survive in the compound for 15 years thanks to the dad. Another evidence that working together is important is when Eli and the older sister tries to escape the compound. The last reason why working together is important is getting along with his sisters and brother.This is an example of how they have to work together because Eli used to only hang around his brother Eddie. But now since he was thought to be “missing” he had to get along with her younger sister, Therese (Little Miss Perfect). This was the theme of the story The Compound.

Throughout the book loss is always prevalent. In the beginning of the book Barns are being burnt down. Not only just the barns were burned the animals inside and along with the hay. This was devastating to the amish because that his how they made their living. They farmed and produced materials using the livestock and land, without it life would be virtually impossible without the support of others in the community. The Hostler families only other source of income would be the mother selling quilts but that was not nearly enough to support such a large family. The Second main loss happened during the barn fire. Little Eli bravely charged into the save his colt, but when running out a burning beam fell onto him. His father quickly

World War II ruined the lives of many people all across the world, and each person’s experience affected them in different ways. Both characters lost something, but the loss that Elie experiences is more than anything that a student reading the book could comprehend. The the events in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel in comparison to Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki are considerably more tragic, but each event had massive effects on the lives of those affected.

The Holocaust. This word can mean different things to many people, but in the end it means death. During the 1930s, Adolf Hitler rises up after World War Ⅰ to lead Germany back to its feet. Yet, instead of helping his people stand financially stable, Hitler burns them all to the ground. His hatred for Jews grows largely in size just like the number of people he holds in his concentration camps. One boy however, goes to hell and comes back to write his story of surviving through it. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and his family arrives at the camp only to find out it was too late to turn back and escape. Elie’s soul rips away from his body as he goes through many changes physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

Wiesel also loses hope in humanity because of the violence. For example, he starts to lose faith in surviving because he thinks that humanity has changed as a whole, because all the horrendous things that the Germans are doing.Wiesel has changed through the book because before the holocaust he was hopeful and after he has grown an shell of deliel towards humanity .Wiesel states “One more stab to the heart one more reason to hate. One Less Reason To Live”. I think that Wiesel is trying to portray, that there is no more hope for humanity because the Nazis are going to “take over”. Also I think that this quote means that he would rather die than live in a world where all these things happen. Wiesel is trying to find hope in the little things

The Holocaust was an extremely tragic event and Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical book, “Night” does a very good job of capturing the vivid events that occurred. In this book, the main character, Eliezer must survive through both mental and physical abuse. He is forced to go days without food and water, and has to deal with the loss of his father, mother, sister and friends while in the concentration camp. Although Eliezer had to face these many horrors, the biggest thing he had to face was himself and everything that had been taken from him.

During slavery in America, many of the slaves lost hope, giving up on their freedom. Night, itself comes to symbolize death and the loss of hope. Elie Wiesel writes about how the horrors of the Holocaust caused him to lose faith in God and humanity. One such horror was the death march, during which many men died, collapsing in the snow after marching day and night. His will to be with his father and his will to survive keep him alive at Auschwitz Wiesel’s first residence.  When the SS march the recently arrived Jews past the crematory, Wiesel wants to kill himself. At the critical moment, however, Wiesel utters the prayer for the dead and walks by. Wiesel gives no reason for this inability to commit suicide, and one can reasonable assume that

1941, Elie Wiesel was a thirteen year old Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania, who spent his days learning about his God. The relationship between the boy and God was vigorous. A hopeful young Elie with a great love for God was cast into a harsh, cruel world where the Almighty’s presence is unknown. How did Elie stray so far away from his beliefs?

“Ahead of you lies a long road paved with suffering”(Wiesel, 38) . In the novel Night ,by Elie Wiesel, he explains about his experiences and suffering as a young boy during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a systematic persecution of millions of Jews. Elie Wiesel and his family were apart of this horrific event. Elie was a very religious boy that loved studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple until his life was forever altered by the Holocaust. Throughout the novel, his personality and beliefs start changing dramatically.