Examples Of Compassion In Night By Elie Wiesel

Mitch Albom, an internationally known author, once said, “sacrifice is a part of life. It’s suppose to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.” The author of Night uses sacrifice throughout the novel to show what real courage and true love looks like. Sacrifice is displayed and demonstrated throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel , Elie’s father, and Moishe the Beadle and Rabbi Eliahu.

There are a handful of important examples of compassion in Night; however, certain parts illustrate the concept best. To begin, in part six; Elie tries to encourage Zalman to keep walking during the march to Gleiwitz, in fear of them being killed. When Zalman got a cramp in his stomach, and fell to his knees, Elie

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates and shows courage during the Holocaust through his actions. First, Elie tells Stein, his relative, that he has heard from Stein’s wife, Reizel, and his children and that they are fine. Although Elie had not heard anything about Reizel and Stein’s children, he lies to Stein because he knew that it would give Stein courage and a reason to live on. Second, during a selection, Elie runs after his dad and brings him back from the left side, the weak side, to the right side, the healthy side. Elie went after his dad because he wants to save his father from getting killed, this shows courage because the risk that he took could have led himself to his own death.

In Elie Wiesel's book, Night, the overlap of optimism and will for survival and faith kept many people in the Holocaust alive, including Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust was an agonizing time for many people. It was a mass persecution and murder of 6 million jews and 5 million non-jewish people. Some people targeted in the Holocaust were Jewish People, Homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, Communists, and Socialists. They were sent to camps most of the time. Those who were deemed fit to work normally would be anybody over the age of 14 and appearing to be healthy, anybody else was sent to be executed. The Elderly and Women with Children had no chance of being deemed fit to work.

Could you imagine being in the Holocaust? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel Jews were not only just killed in the history ,and there Elie and his father are trying to survive. Other than that I will be telling you how they are trying to show compassion throughout the book. Night by Elie Wiesel shows how he experienced the Holocaust with his father and others, but yet he has to face human cruelty.

Resilience, what is it? It is one of the few reasons many Jews survived the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II, from 1941 through 1945. Moishe the Beadle showed resilience even after being captured and escaping; he tried to warn the people of Sighet that the Germans were coming, but no one believed him. Eliezer’s father showed resilience throughout the novel until his death, guiding Eliezer and himself through the concentration camps. Eliezer Wiesel showed resilience all throughout his life, during his captivity to being liberated by the United States and the rest of his plentiful life.

Shocking. Frightening. Inhumane. The novel Night, written by Elie Weisel, tells the story about Eli and his father treacherous days in hell. They belived in God from the very beginning, and had faith in Him until they went to the concentration camps.

Even when faced with traumatic malice,humans have the capacity for great empathy and benevolence. To begin, when compassion was shown to Elie. Elie was beaten severely and backed up into a corner till he no longer fought back. A French girl merely wiped his forehead, smiled, secretly gave Elie a bread crust and offered advice. These inspirational, encouraging, and compassionate words were enough to keep Elie holding on with the little hope that he had, ‘“Bite your lips, little brother… Don’t cry”,she pleaded, “ Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later the day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait” (Weisel,53). Next,is when Elie shows compassion to Raziel's husband,Stein. Stein begins frantically passing through rows in the bunks,asking for “Weisel from sighet.” Once found, Stein begins explaining that he was deported in 1942 to a concentration camp and begged to know how his wife and two boys were,since Elie’s mother was Stein’s aunt. Weisel did not recognize Stein, but Elie immediately knew who he was. "Yes,my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine.

When bad things are happening in your life, it may be hard to notice the good things that are happening. In some of life’s toughest moments, it is when we can find the kindness, given to us from others. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the kindness of others is proved to be true through many examples. When Elie Wiesel is put in a concentration camp he finds kindness in an authority figure, a young woman and his very own father. Kindness can be shown in any way, even just by giving advice.

When surviving, compassion is most certainly necessary; without compassion, one would not survive because there would be no reason to. If you are trying to survive in the wild your end is to goal to be alive, and what to do while you are alive is your choice. Whatever it is that keeps you going, that is you compassion which is also your survival. In the story Night by Elie Wiesel there are multiple examples of compassion being used for survival. We know that Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust but how he did it is a mystery to us. What we do know is that heh survived with compassion helping him. Night by Elie Wiesel is a perfect example to show how compassion is necessary to survive.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

In Night Elie shows, experiences, and saw many acts of kindness. One act of kindness Elie experienced was when a prisoner told Elie and his father to lie about their ages so that they could stay alive. Elie stated, ““Hey, kid, how old are you?” “Fifteen.” “No, You’re eighteen.” “But I’m not,” I said “I’m fifteen.” “Fool. Listen to what I say.” Then he asked my father, who answered: “I’m fifty.” “No.” The man now sounded angry. “Not fifty. You’re forty. Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.”” This was an act of kindness because the man was nice and kept Elie and his father from dieing and kept them from being separated. Another act of kindness was when the dentist in Buna let Elie keep his gold tooth. Elie stated, ““Seated in the chair, I asked meekly: “What are you going to do, sir?” “I shall remove your gold crown, that’s all,” he said, clearly

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories” (Wiesel 30).

Cruelty surrounds the world constantly, and is used frequently in works of literature to reveal certain things about the theme. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, acts of cruelty are used to express the theme and enhance its message. One of the largest themes revealed by these acts is “man’s inhumanity to man,” which includes mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis, the common people, and other Jews. Watching the large amounts of violence, abuse, and discrimination that occur in this memoir show us the horrors of the Holocaust and how it transformed the men and women who it experienced it, as well as those who caused it.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.