Elie Wiesel Night Themes

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Mia CesarPeriod 1 “Night” Essay Elie Wiesel's nobel winning “Night” takes us inside one of the most voilent, deadly time periods in history. This book, originally written in French, has been translated into world wide languages for everyone to read. This novel shows the dynamic changes of a 15 year old religious Hasidic Jewish male taken from Sighet, Transylvania to Buchenwald, Germany. The young boy of 12, Elie, thrives for a more in depth view of his religious, and trys to reach this goal by training from Moishe the Beadle. After him and his family is deported from his ghetto, to Germany, Elie sees many life changing scenes that rapidly kills his aspect on his religion, himself, and grows his relationship with his father. At the start…show more content…
Elie through out this nightmare, was determines to stay as close with his father as possible. He realized that they need to give strength to one another to survive. Elie and the prisoners, at one point on the snowy march to Gleiwitz, they stopped at an abandoned village, where he met a Rabbi named Eliahu who asked Elie if he's seen his song who he had “lost” on the way. Elie, after telling him he hasn't seem his son, then remembered his song was the same boy running beside him on the march, leaving his father behind. Elie knows Eliahu's son had purposely left him since his father was becoming weak and his song wanted to survive. He, Elie, had said “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside of me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believe. 'Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength to never do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done.'” This shows Elie is trying everything, even praying to the one he no longer believes in, to keep his father by his side since he's no become Elie's only reason to go on. Even though by the end of the book, his father was visually becoming worse and worse each day, and Elie started to feel the need to leave him for his own

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