Critique on the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel

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Critique on the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel

Night is a book that was written to give the reader an idea on the sadness of the past. The book reminds one of what happened and what human beings are capable of doing. It gives terrifying life understandings of what the Holocausts are. It shows Eliezer who is the main character, suffering and undergoing hardships. It is an inspirational book because it makes one to wonder what will result incase one is separated from his family members. The book does not have a fairy tale ending. It gives a family interactions’ story, suffering conditions and devastating stories of prisoners in the camp. The work of Wiesel generates a disagreement amongst the critics. This book is the path for moral, religions and philosophical issues that analyze the effect of Holocaust upon the critical thoughts of modern Jews.

The book introduces Eliezer at the beginning in need of Maslow’s hierarchy at a higher level. The hierarchy begins from the bottom with physiological requirements and proceeds toward safety needs, love and belongings, self-esteem and eventually self-actualization. Eliezer worked in order to promote love and a sense of belonging to people in respect of following his religion. He wanted to study the Jewish scripture and even became obsessed with it. He was an intelligent teenager who followed the Jewish religion and wanted to know everything about the scripture.

Elie is seen losing faith of his Jewish believes. This was because of too much suffering that he even saw no need of believing in God. In many times, Elie states many quotes to show his anger on what happens everyday in the camps. Elie says there is no meaning of giving blessings to God because he does not see the reason of blessing him and yet they are suffering. His anger towards God reveals how his faith starts to become weak because he thinks that God is all about everything that they undergo inside the camp. While supper was being served, the Jews were not supposed to eat because it was a fasting period. However, Elie’s father told him to eat instead of starving since he was risking his own life, an indication of losing faith in his religion.

The Holocaust in Wiesel’s Night does not talk about the Jews only but also extends to all human kind. The worrying ignorance of humanities or the body of human beings worsens fear in their hearts. Nazis’ animalistic acts create a scar on humankind eternally with hatred and discrimination. This is because the Nazi used to inflict pain on the Jews and other people who were staying in the concentration camps. The father of Elie and other Jews went through this experience, a process that was dreaded by many Jews. Jews were not sure who will remain or who will die in this dreadful night of Holocausts.

The book expresses the feelings of fault as the survivors of the Holocaust and God’s anger on his people by leaving them to suffer despite their faithfulness and commitment to the law. Despite Wiesel’s return to faith, he brings many issues about the suffering of humanity. However, the book does not point anywhere towards a meaningful answer on even the redemption. Actually, the book could have talked about some light to religious believers who had faith and kept the laws of God.

Wiesel gives the truth about his life experience, the way he suffered and his separation with his family. The Night leaves the reader to pretend that the Holocaust was anything apart from what it was because it was not the experience of the light. The matter is difficult to think about but even so, it is essential to deal with and recall. Many people may not want to read about the persecution and genocide, about individuals splitting from their homes and families. The story is depressing because it portrays people losing their hope and fighting with their own family members.

Commentators explored the dominance of Wiesel’s thematic concerns about cruelty to man. They also explore the crucial memory of faith and the impact of Holocaust on the existence of the next generation of the Jews. The examination of Wiesel reveals such themes of complexity such as life, fatality and mercy in his creative writing. Some critics have been raised on the memoir Night because of its fiction on the Holocaust writing. The book was creatively written to make people understand things that happened in the Holocaust and keep remembering them.

The author is portrayed as one of the eyewitness of the alleged Holocaust. He claims to have witnessed Jews being burnt up alive in his Night book but he does not mention about the gas chambers. His story has been criticized and dismissed by all the historians because it is a famous false witness. He gives false tales about ten thousand people being killed everyday in Buchenwald. However, in the Second World War, the historians find the critical methods subjected to careful scrutiny about the eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.

Elie brings about the sufferings of his child that was comparable to that of the Jews in the time of the Holocaust. His child’s suffering is quoted in many people’s hearts, drawing views that are found in the holocaust survivors. Elie stayed quiet for about ten years after the Holocaust because he did not want to use wrong quotations. He was afraid to write immediately about the Holocaust, which also accounts for his Night fiction. However, this is criticized because he does not specifically give reasons for the sufferings.

Apart from the intensity of descriptions found in the book that leaves one to wonder on the situation, Elie brings the readers to the murders in the prison camps. This is where Elie talked about the Nazi killing the Jews and mistreated many people. People will never stop to imagine what it would have been like without knowing what was happening or would happen next. Therefore, Elie introduces this Night story to make the readers know the exact things that happened during the Holocaust. He portrays clearly the reaction of people towards Hitler, the German troops and the kind of life they took during Holocaust.

The method that he uses in taking the reader back to the concentration camps after the ghettos is an interesting one. The beginning of the story may not be appreciated before the reader reaches the middle of the story. The reader would probably not appreciate how life affected and changed the lives of Elie and the Jews and the result of this unexpected change. Night portrays the progression of the innocent boy who was intelligent and began studying at a young age of twelve years. The forces of German are so skillful at breaking Jewish’s spirits that the reader can see their effects through the novel.

The novel shows many occasions on how desensitized individuals became inside their concentration camps. It was a necessity to be desensitized in order to survive within the camps. Those who were weak were taken to the ovens where they were thrown and left to die but the strong ones were left. On certain occasions, the camp where Elie and his family were staying was transferred to Gleiwitz. The weather was too cold and even the snow kept falling, making the situation too unbearable. Elie and his father suffered a lot but Elie makes a promise to be with his father always. However, the situation becomes unbearable especially when his father became ill; hence, it became harder for Elie to fulfill his promise.

The Night reveals facts from one person to another unlike other books. It was written in the first person recitation form and it gives the reader every thought about Eliezer in every situation narrated. However, to a certain point, it narrates the terrible stories and this leaves the reader with many raised questions about whether the story is a fact or fiction. It leaves the reader with an unforgettable message of the story hoping that it would not happen again in the world.

There are certain comical cases where the relaxation attitude of Wiesel is criticized in his autobiographical truth. One reads his pure critiques in Yiddish language. Many people would no longer wish to read this novel because it creates fear. The story about the Night actually takes literal criticism about the father and his son portrayed in a symbolic narration. Actually, the father portrays God and his son. This makes people to criticize Wiesel especially where he gives false eyewitnesses because his story is not clear.

The novel actually focuses chiefly on the kind of relationship between the son and his father in Buchenwald and Auschwitz. This is the time when Wiesel lost his father in Buchenwald due to bad weather characterized by fog. He remembers the terrible night at the concentration camps when the Nazis wanted to abandon the Jewish prisoners and other prisoners who were in the camps. Consequently, the narration of Wiesel’s book is about being alone. However, Wiesel was among many of the children rescued within the concentration camps.

In conclusion, the book Night is full of mysteries that send back the reader to the middle ages. His book is not a novel but it makes someone to want to reflect back and makes a reader to think of being in that situation. One cannot tell what the situation was all about but the dooms try to narrate about the situation during that time. The deaths in the camps and the Holocaust situation depend on how the reader may interpret the story. The book talks about the Jewish religion but the story mostly concentrates on the Holocaust. However, the book has been criticized by many historians because it lacks autobiographical truth. Nobody can tell whether the narrator was present during the time of Holocaust because the story is mixed up and this makes it difficult for the reader to know the truth.