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Night by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
This blog is inspired by the work of Honey Kern and Margaret Lincoln. View their blog at: http://nightwiesel.blogspot.com
Night
Night by Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel and his father grow closer through their shared experiences in the first days of their time in Auschwitz. Because they both are facing the unknown, they must stay together and persevere. Wiesel writes, "My father told me, 'You mustn't eat it all at once. Tomorrow is another day'...'Me I'm not hungry,' he said." Wiesel's father is looking out for his son, trying to protect him in everyway possible. Wiesel never spent that much time with his father in Sighet, because he was always taking care of community affairs and Wiesel was studying. Wiesel's only thought, as soon as he arrives in Auschwitz, is to stay together with his father. When Wiesel gets separated from his mother, his father reaches out and grabs his hand. His father, who must also be scared and confused, is the strong figure for Wiesel in such a horrible time. Now that they are forced into a scary new environment together, they must stick with each other and eventually the support they show each together brings them closer.
In Night, Elie Wiesel portrays the significance of the first night and how he and his father change. On this first night, they had gone through more terrifying experiences than they had in their whole life. The first thing they saw was the cinder, where they would maybe eventually be burned into ashes. “I pinched myself. Was I alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (32) The whole time, Wiesel thought it was a nightmare, that it all couldn’t be happening. It was so hard to believe it could all happen to them in one night, and he was so astonished, that they came to not even believe it. Elie and his father had already changed in the course of one night. His father asked to go to the bathroom, and was slapped so hard that he fell to the ground. When this happened, Elie had not said anything. If that had happened the day before, he would have been very angry and done something about it, but now it seemed almost normal to see his father get beaten. Everything that had happened was so eye-opening to them that now they realize what is going on. He and his father have changed because they now realize that they cant complain anymore and what has happened will happen to them every single other day of their life unless they escape.
In Night, Elie Wiesel really shows how he personally felt about arrving at the camp and how her interpertued it. A few things that really grabbed my attention in this reading is when the Mrs. Schachter kept on screaing "Fire! i see fire!". This was very werid in the begining and than when they arrvied there was smoke. I did not understand how she knew there was going to be fire. Also, there was another part that was very emotional. It when when he said " I didnt know that this was the moment in time and the place where i was leaving my mother and Tzipora foreve." This was very overwelling beacuse he had no idea what was about to come for him and his father and that he was loosing half of his family.
When reading the novel Night, I was deeply saddened and overwhelmed by the theme of seperation. As a young child, children grow up with an instinct to love their mother and never leave her in their young years. When the family arrives at the concentration camp, the family was forced to seperate. Reading about seperation before in previous books, I was suprised at how powerful and intense Elie Wiesel created the scene of seperation. On page 29, Elie says, "Eight words spoken quetly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think...we were alone." Without explaining in further depth how he felt when he was seperated, the author has given the reader just enough information to understand the content, but not enough to overanalyze the events that were occuring. I enjoyed this part of the chapter so much because Elie has written it the way he understood and processed the information. It was very quick and sudden, and no time to think.
In the beginning of the book, we see that Wiesel often uses the imagery of night to symbolize safety. During the night, there is no fear of being transported, separated from your family, or leaving everything you're familiar with. There is only hope that the next day will be better than the previous. "No one was praying for the night to pass quickly." (page 21) However, after reading about Elie’s first experiences of being transported to concentration camps, the night is no longer a security blanket. For example, on the way to Auschwitz, Mrs. Schacter put even more stress on everyone’s situation by screaming constantly. The people being transported were almost anxious for the night to end and their journey to come to a stop. “The night seemed endless.” (page 26) Everyone shifts from being hopeful for the future to worrying all the time about what will happen at the next destination. The imagery of night is transformed from a time of safety to a time of distress and panic.
Elie Wiesel and the other inmates at the camp have a lot of faith in God. In my opinion they would lose faith in Him, because of what is going on in their lives right now. Most people at the camp still believe that God is on their side. One man said, "God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if He punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more..." Page 45. I think that nobody wants to lose faith in God because they hope he will stay strong with them the whole time, and he will help them get out. Many people were still praying to God hoping for a way out. I think that Elie Wiesel believes that God is the answer to getting out.
I find it really interesting that in Night, although it's a memoir and a record of actual events in the Holocaust, literary devices can be detected. To illustrate, the anecdote of Mrs. Schäcter and her visions of fire foreshadow the crematorium at Aushwitz. Yet Mrs. Schäcter was part of Elie's experience, not a character. Perhaps this means that literary devices produce effective results in enhancing plots not only because they provide uncertainty and expectancy, but possibly because life is filled with foreshadowing omens and the essence of literary devices. Could also the rythmic beat of iambic pentameter represent the need for organization in an existence, and impulsive prose depict the human necessity of freedom from plan? Literary devices are part of life, and therefore they enhance quality literature.
In pages 45 to 65 there was new reference to everyones faith in God. On page 64 and 65 when they were at the hanging, one boy said " Where is the merciful God, Where is he?" " For Gods sake, where is god?" This is just one reference to people lossing faith in God. This is beacuse they want to know where is he, and why he isnt stopping this madness. Elie replies to this boy by saying in his head, " Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows.." I did not understand this responce and what he ment by this. I also thought it was very cool when Elie reconsized the french girl again and they were able to talk.
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