Nighttime is usually viewed as a silent period; cars no longer clutter the roads, restaurants have shut down, and people are quietly sleeping in their beds. It seems only appropriate then that Elie Wiesel’s Night should have so much meaning wrapped up in this theme...
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed….Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust....
Upon arrival in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel and his companions are shocked by unspeakable atrocities, and quickly are reduced to instinct. “We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us” (36). The lack of humanity shown to...
In the novel ‘Night’, it is clear to see there is a changing relationship between Elie and his father. On first impression, ‘he called out to me and I had not answered’, seems to indicate that the relationship has ceased. However, the change in the...
The autobiography ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel tells the perspective of a young Jewish teen, and his time as a prisoner at concentration camps during the holocaust. Eliezer grew up in a tiny community in Sighet, in Transylvania. It is here that he studies two religions,...
I am evaluating a famous piece by Vincent van Gogh titled, The Starry Night. In this piece, I see the wind in the air, I see the stars in the sky as well as, the light that expels off of them. I see the beautiful...
Adolescence is a time when teenagers learn to become more independent, become more understanding, and, most importantly, discover themselves and who they are. But that’s not always the case; when the adolescent’s circumstances are abnormal, their experiences and their maturing processes become abnormal, too. With...
There is a video that Saturday Night Live made called the “Screen Guild Awards” and in this video they had created a satire theme. The main purpose of this video was the irony of how there were five nominees for the best actor award and...
Current research claims that drinking cow’s milk that was produced during the night could possibly be a treatment for both anxiety and insomnia alike. This was published in the Journal of Medicinal Food earlier this year. Although these ideas may seem a tab bit strange,...
Night is tell by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir commence, living in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Cabbala (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). His education is...
When I realize how far the world has come in the decades of the past, I marvel at man’s ability to efficiently collaborate and make good things come out of teamwork, even through the barriers of the varying cultures in the world, including different languages,...
Before I read the book Night and Book of Job, I did not realize the powerfulness of a religion to their followers. I use to think all forms of pray are purposeful, people pray to God because they want God to fulfill their wishes such...
A Bildungsroman story is that of formation, education, or coming of age. It is characterized by the development of the young protagonist to become a more complete person. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel features the opposite, an Anti-Bildungsroman, as sixteen-year- old Elie emerges from...
From January 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945, around 17 million people were killed in Germany in what is known as the Holocaust. At the time, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany aimed to remove people who were not of German descent from Germany, especially those who...
In his first and most famous work, Night, Elie Wiesel relives his experience in the concentration camps of the Nazi regime during World War II. Wiesel, who was born and raised a devout Jew and excelled at Talmudic and spiritual studies, recounts his loss of...