Book Report Night By Elie Wiesel

In 1944, a twelve –year-old Elie Wiesel, in the village of Sighet, spends a lot of time thinking about the Jewish faith. He has an instructor named Moshe the Beadle, he returned from a near death experience, and warns people in the village that Nazis will soon come to their village and mess up the peace in the village. No one listens and soon people under Hitler’s rule force the Jews of the town and into supervised ghettos. Though Elie’s family remains calm, in the spring they are shipped into the final convoy to the Auschwitz and Birkenau death and concentration camps. Eighty some villagers on this convoy have to survive with little food and water. The prisoners were sorted out to see who could work for the Nazi’s and who would be killed.

In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, gives you an overview of how the Jews were treated in the Holocaust. Many rights of the Jews were violated during the Holocaust. For example, when the Jews were first taken to the concentration camps, they were stripped of their clothes and anything of value. Another example, is that when they were put on the train, they were all fighting each other for the food and stealing from each other. Finally another example, was they were all crammed into small areas with a lot of people and even bodies of dead people and had very small amounts of food and water, pretty much only enough to keep them alive.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about a teenage boy who lives through the holocaust. Before reading the book you need to know about the holocaust. The holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945. The holocaust is a genocide where 6 million Jews were killed by Nazis lead by Adolf Hitler. Hitler blamed the Jewish people for anything and everything. Hitler had the nazis take Jews to concentration camps. Families were broken apart and never seen their loved one again.

Eliezer, in the book Night by Elie Wiesel was a very religious boy and always prayed to God when they were still living in Sighet and he says, "Man asks and God replies.". When they were forced to leave their homes in Sighet he says, "God alone could answer you.", which he is telling us that he still believes in God and prays to him. Eliezer said, "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us...", when they arrived in the Ghettos because he didn't know what was going to happen so he was praying for the best. When they arrived at Auschwitz Eliezer said in the book, "Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror.

Getting through a tough and emotional event alone is close to impossible, everyone at some point is going to need help. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, there is a young fourteen year old boy who is sent to Auschwitz along with his family, but he and his father move to Buna. Elie and his father move from camp to camp because the Russian army is making advances on the battle line, they have to walk many miles to Gleiwitz then they are transported by train to Buchenwald, this is where Elie’s father dies. However the resistance inside of the camp take over and hold off the SS until the Russians and Americans capture the camp, Elie survives the Holocaust. By examining the novel Night, we can

Upon arrival at the concentration camps 75% of people were killed. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel was a book about his time in the concentration camps during World War One. Elie wrote this book so we could not be quiet about what happened to the jews and so history would not repeat itself. Elie Wiesel used his faith to fight for humanity during the holocaust and the rest of his life.

Connor DeVine Ms. Cornwell Adv Language Arts, P. 8/9 April 15, 2024 Night Essay Have you ever read the book Night because it is an entertaining book about the struggles of the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel and is a very motivating and sad book. First, the author Elie Wiesel is the author of Night and many other books. Sadly Elie Wiesel died in 2016 and had many great moments. But, Elie’s life was also full of sad moments like how he had to watch his dad slowly die and get separated from his mom at a young age. Elie Wiesel wrote Night so we could experience what he felt when inside a concentration camp while the Holocaust was happening.

Elie Wiesel’s Gain vs Losses In the tragedy known as the Holocaust where Elie lost his innocence, faith, and loved ones he was able to gain more faith in himself. In the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, it illustrates how Elie Wiesel gets pulled out of his home, lost his belongings and was sent to prison camps where he was beaten and forced into labor. Although most people believe Elie Wiesel lost more than he gained after surviving 5 concentration camps, actually he gained more because throughout the events he faced, he gained survival instincts and faith in himself after his belief in god was broken. For the first reason why Elie Wiesel gained more was because he gained survival skills throughout his experiences. With his survival skills

The books Night, by Elie Wiesel, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne are two intriguing books by themselves. However, when you put them together you gain an improved perspective about the Holocaust. You also get see how people were affected by it, how they reacted to it, and what their opinions were about it. These two books contain many similarities and differences, but they go so well together.

     Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle. Moshe is taken away and sees an entire train of people murdered by the Gestapo. He returns to Sighet and tries to warn them, but no one believes his story. The Nazis come and take over Sighet. Elie is moved to a ghetto, along with all the other Jews in Sighet. They soon are taken away in a train to Auschwitz.

During the Holocaust only 3,546,211 Jews survived out of 9,508,340 Jews in the countries that were conquered by the Nazis (Holocaust Statistics). The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel tells the true story about His dark days in the Holocaust and how he remarkably survived. Wiesel faced death enough times that he was no longer afraid of death. The only thing Wiesel feared was disappointing those who died, so he wrote. Elie Wiesel uses mental change, physical change, and spiritual change in his memoir to portray to readers his life in the Holocaust.

Wiesel went through the Holocaust and wrote a story about his experiences. Throughout the story, Elie Wiesel develops three major themes. The theme that is most prominent in the story is “In extreme difficulty, man struggles to maintain faith in a benevolent god.” The book “Night” shows the human struggle to maintain faith. In the beginning of the book, Elie loses his faith in God very quickly.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the novel takes place in Europe where the Holocaust was happening. Eliezer is the main character who narrates his life with his father during the Holocaust. It starts that Eliezer and his family was living a normal life in Sighet, Hungary. However, in the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupied his country and forced all the Jews to wear yellow stars. His people and his family were herded by the police into cattle cars to Auschwitz. On their way to Auschwitz, they were stopped at Birkenau and began their first selection. His mother and his sisters didn’t pass the selection. Therefore, he and his father would never see them again. Eliezer, his father, and other Jews were relocated from camp to camp. They were beaten

Night Essay As said by Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, writer and Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, “Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.” Often times during the course of our busy lives, we forget how lucky we are to be living. When do we stop and think about those who have lost what we value most, life?

“I forgive you. Not for you, but for me. Because like chains shackling me to the past, I will no longer pollute my heart with bitterness, fear, distrust or anger. I forgive you because hate is just another way of holding on, and you don’t belong here anymore.”-Beau Taplin. Elie Wiesel, author of Night and a survivor of the Holocaust, he tells all in his memoir, Night. In his memoir, he expresses his true feelings while living through the Holocaust. Wiesel gave the ones who persecuted and assassinated his family and millions of others, but he wrote his memoir to specifically let future generations remember what happen to 11 million people. In addition, Wiesel wrote Night to speak for the remembrance of the ones who died. Wiesel was a child when his family and friends were taken