NIGHT

1. NIGHT Themes Tobias Elie Wiesel

2. Night And Darkness What Does Night Mean "The dark night of the soul“. This Quote suggests what the terrible nights that Elie experienced, and how these experiences every night changed his state of mind and corrupted his soul. All the nights spent in the the concentration camps, how his thoughts and hopes were lost in the darkness, the horrors of what Elie experienced throughout the holocaust, his first night when everything went from bad to worse. “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.”

3. FAITH “No human race is superior, no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” Elie outlined in this quote racism and faith, this quote means that judging someone by their religion group is just plain wrong, race and faith and the personality of others would only be judged by a racist. In the meaning of the book “Night” Faith is something that one is works for to follow. Elie followed Kabbalistic the secrets of the Jewish community, Elie almost on a mission to study this religion so he could learnt more about the Faiths of the Jews.

4. Dehuminisation/ Inhumanity The German population dehumanized the Jews by treating them worse than dirt taking away their faith and religion, making them struggle for there lives and treating them as slaves. “I felt as though I had been running for years … you are too skinny, you are too weak”, so they were treated as animals struggling for there lives. -Gave up on there god. The Jewish people started giving up on their because they realized that he wasn’t helping them in their time of need they believed that god was allowing for this to happen.”For gods sake, were is god?”65 -Gave up Faith. People gave up faith because it felt to them as though nothing is going to get better for them, they lost the will to carry on. “You must resist! Don’t lose faith in yourself”102 -Didn’t care to live. “One must not fall asleep in the snow its dangerous…” “I’m exhausted. Mind your business leave me alone” 88-90 in this writing the men who experienced what Elie did just wasn’t strong enough they just gave up, and gave up their own lives to escape the hell they were put through.

5. Relationships Elie is only young boy who lives in the town of Sighet, Elie’s life seemed easy as his main worry in life were of the studies of the Kabbalistic religion of the Jewish population. As the final plans of Hitler's solution began his worries about the Kabbalistic works increased and often pressured his father into telling the secrets of the Kabbalistic, but things became more complicated for him as the holocaust begins. As the book goes on Elie's believes in god changes so does his faith and his own personal believes. Elie grows a strong connection with his father throughout the novel as his mother and sisters were taken away and his father is all he had left. As thing became harder Elie started to drift away from his dad made friends with others taking into account the other people around him yet he also started caring for himself as death looked him straight in the face on a daily basis, he no longer had the worries that the young boy inside him had. Towards the end of it all Elie’s believes were gone and he was only in it for himself when his farther passed away, he only cared for what was important for himself and nothing else.