Characterization In The Night By Elie Wiesel

After 3 weeks at Auschwitz, they get deported to Buna, which is a turning point for the relationship between Elie and Chlomo. The camps influence Elie and give him a crooked mind focused on staying alive and nothing else. This leads to him disregarding his father. This twisted way of thinking, due to the camps, is making Elie cheer during bomb raids at Buna. He states his thoughts “But we were no longer afraid of death, at any rate, not of that death” (57). This shows that he is willing to die to see the camps destroyed. The most horrifying event that demonstrates his twisted mind is when Eliezer pays no heed to his father while he was being repeatedly beat with an iron bar. Eliezer, rather than acting indifferent and showing nothing, actually feels angry with his father. “I was angry at him for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (52). The new lifestyle of the camps affected Elie and his relationship with his father for the worse.

Elie Wiesel, the author of the literary memoir Night, illustrates the impact of notable events on his destiny. Eliezer Wiesel grows up in Sighet, Transylvania. A devout Jew, his entire

Throughout the story, there are often descriptions of the characters based on what Elie sees in their eyes, and he uses those descriptions to show how the Holocaust changed them. One example of this is the character Moishe the Beadle, who is one of Elie’s close Jewish friends. At the beginning of the story, Moishe and many Jews are deported to Poland, where they were forced to dig huge trenches, later becoming their own mass graves. When Moshe escapes and Elie finds him, he shares his terrible experience, and Elie describes him through his eyes. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone.” (7). Though the experience of having neighbors ruthlessly shot would change anyone, Moshie’s experience literally took the joy from his eyes. Elie describes it as

Moishe the Beadle’s story of captivity in Poland is very similar to what had happend to Elie. He and other prisoners were taken from their home and brought to a concentration camp. From there they had to do forced labor, and when they were done somepeoples heads were shot off, and babies were thrown into the air as targets. But then Moishe escped, and came to warn everyone. Also, Moshe the Beadle was given the knowlege to help and save the people in his town and he tried to but everybody jusdged him and thought that he was crazy.

The Holocaust was a very terrible time in history over six million Jews perished in concentration camps. Even though in every tragedy there are survivors. Elie Wiesel was a little boy when all of this happened. He experienced all of the terrible things that happened during this time frame. While suffering in the terrible condition of the camp Elie and his father’s relationship goes through a drastic change.

Before being deported to the concentration camp, he had many desirable character traits. For instance, “Please, sir… I’d like to be near my father.” (Wiesel, 50). This shows that Elie is caring because he wants to monitor his father and protect him from harm. He maintains this deep care and concern for his father throughout the book. Additionally,“I moved closer and had a glimpse of Idek and a young Polish girl.” (Wiesel, 56) shows that he is also curious because he goes to the noises he is hearing instead of away from them. Although this incident occurred during his time at Auschwitz, it is still one of Elie’s good traits because it allows him to be more observant and aware of what is happening around him. Finally, “And most important, don’t be afraid!” That was a piece of advice we would have loved to be able to follow” (Wiesel, `

Eliezer, the protagonist, characterizes himself throughout the novel with how he feels about things and what he says. Readers can see that he is internally conflicted about his father through much of their experience. He was never sure if he should try to help his dad or if he should just fend for himself. Within the book, we learn that Elie is 15 while in the concentration camp. We also see Elie start to lose his faith directly after they arrive at the first concentration camp and he sees the babies being burned. This supports the idea of the quote stated before. Elie was trying to fight against the genocide but he ended up losing faith while he was there. Wiesel begins to question his faith in other human beings as well as his sense of justice in the world. He was often at war with himself trying to decide what he felt. Into their journey, Elie realizes that he does need his dad and that they should help and push each other along the journey. Readers see that he keeps his dad going in the death march and he helps him survive. Over time, Elie starts to question whether there is a God and why, if there were

Moishe the Beadle, Elie´s mentor and Kabbalist teacher. He is seized by Hungarian officers, and expelled from Sighet, as he was a foreigner. Moishe details the Jews being moved over the Hungary border, and being taken by the Gestapo. ¨He told me what had happened to him and his companions… The train had

In the beginning of the book, Elie Wiesel introduced Moishe, a poor beadle who greatly impacted how an almost thirteen-year-old Elie reflected on and thought of his religion. As the Nazi power spread into Sighet, Elie’s home, they began to expell foreign

One day, Moishe was observing Eliezer pray, and proceeded to ask him “Why do you cry when you pray?”(4). Elie just replied with “I don’t know”, Moishe then asked him why he prayed. This sparked a million thoughts through Ellie's head, “Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”. All he could say is “I don’t know”. This was the first time Elie really got his faith questioned by someone, it was so taboo to him he didn’t know how to react. Faith engulfs Elie’s life, he prays and studies his religion. Moishe is Elie's mentor, showing him and teaching him the Kabbalah revelations, Elie really expected Moishe to help him reach eternity. One day Hungarian police forced all foreign Jews out of their homes and into cattle cars, Moishe was a foreign Jew. Days passed, and one day Elie was in the synagogue and saw Moishe sitting there, he had escaped. Moishe told Elie his horrific experiences of witnessing Jew dig mass trenches only to be their graves. For days he had gone to every Jewish household to warn them about what was coming, no one wanted to believe him, it was

In the start of the book, Moishe is introduced by Elie as an awkward fellow who stayed out of people’s way but was very wise when it came to faith or anything about his God. In the beginning, we get to see a blossoming relationship between Moishe and Elie, with Moishe serving as a mentor to Elie in his study of the Kabbalah and God. However, we see a twist in their relationship when a transport comes to take all foreign jews away, and Moishe being one caused him to have to leave on the transport. This transport caused much distress in Sighet for a short while but “the deportees were quickly forgotten,” (Wiesel 6). All of the citizens of Sighet returned to their usual doings and rumored about what they thought had happened to the deportees. Meanwhile, Moishe had seen sights that he never expected to see in his lifetime. For example, Jews were told to dig holes not knowing that they would soon be shot and put in those graves they dug for themselves, and babies were being thrown up and shot in the air, something that seemed like a game to the Gestapo and S.S. men. Moishe happened to get shot in the leg and received the blessing of being able to sneak away from the Galician forest, where they were taken, and return to Sighet to warn the jews about what he had seen, yet no jew believed him and he ended up changing and not for the

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells the dark story of his time during the Holocaust as a Jew. Eliezer, a fifteen year old boy who narrates the book, devotes his time and attention to his father, Chlomo, as much as possible. His father was a highly respected man by the majority of the Jewish community in Sighet. Eliezer and his father were almost inseparable throughout their journey in the camps. Despite being father and son, they had many differences.

The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, contains the story of Elie Wiesel himself. In this bo

Wiesel faces personal trials, and tribulations within this story. He also observes other characters facing internal conflict. Wiesel writes about Moishe’s internal conflict here, “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah”(Wiesel

Moishe the Beadle helped Eliezer guide him on his spiritual path. Their relationship is highly spiritual, elevated and is enhanced through each other. This is important because Moishe tries to warn the others and Elie is forced to see his guru, this made his experience and that his religious elements are