The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is about him as a young boy when he spent time in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout the book it’s easy to see that Elie is slowly changing as a person as the holocaust progresses. At the beginning of the book Elie was just an innocent boy who went to school and had a regular schedule just like any other child. Until one day he fell into the hands of fate and everything changed. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi army hated the Jewish race with a passion and was attempting to wipe them all out and create the “perfect race” of Germans and blonde haired blue eyed North Western Europeans, also called Aryans. Hitler believed that the Aryan people and Germany was destined to rule the world. …show more content…
His hair was shaved and he wore the same striped jumpsuit as every other prisoner. His child-like innocence was gone. He was no longer a devout jew. He wasn’t even called by a name anymore. He had a number just like everyone else. They were no longer individual beings, but walking corpses waiting to die. They were denied the dignity a human being deserves. Bodies deprived of the nutrients needed to survive. Many went insane. But Elie stayed stayed sane throughout the torture. He was becoming weaker by the day. His father was in worse condition. Elie was beginning to think what he feared he would eventually think. His father was becoming more of a nuisance than a companion. Elie became independent and helped his father more than his father helped him. In chapter 5 Elie was sent to the infirmary. His foot was swollen and the doctors had to drain pus from it. At this time, rumors began to spread through the camp that the Russian Army was coming so all prisoners would be moved. At first, Elie, his father and the other prisoners planned to stay behind, but once they hear that those who remain behind will be executed before the army arrives. This caused Elie and his dad to evacuate with the rest of the prisoners. Elie bravely walked and ran for days in the cold snow with an infected foot. It is easy to see that Elie is getting stronger throughout the book. When they arrived at the camp Elie’s father was growing much weaker and collapsed onto the snow in exhaustion. He had contracted dysentery. Elie went to sleep that night with his father alive in the bed underneath him and woke up the next day to see that his father was not there anymore. "After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." With his father dead Elie had nothing to hold onto anymore. He was broken inside. He had built an immunity to things affecting him. And to his deep shame he did not cry, he felt
in the book “night” by “elie wiesel” we see a boy who was trying to live a normal life but unfortunately for him the nazi’s enter and change his life completely. like elie gets sent to many camps to try and separate him from his father the only source of strength elie had. Over the course of the book, elie changes from a believing person to just a emotionally destroyed person. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the of theme of nazi has played a completely negative lifestyle for a person for example when the night at the camp, when elie gets ripped away from his father, but also we see elie show her weakness at the end of the book
The holocaust ended May 8, 1945 but it took the lives of millions of people with it. Depriving millions of innocent souls of basic rights we have today. In the book Night, we are shown the experiences and transformations of young Elie from the day he arrived in the ghetto, to his last day in a concentration camp. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.
The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is about a teenage boy name Eliezer and what his family and he went through during the Holocaust. Eliezer goes through so many different kinds of situations and faces many problems as well. Throughout the book, it tells readers about how Nazi dehumanized their victims during the Holocaust. There is three stages of dehumanization mentally, physically and emotionally and Eliezer went through all three stages of dehumanization, not only him but many Jews did as well.
The Holocaust took place in 1941 in Germany. In total during the Holocaust six million Jews, and five million non Jews lost their lives to the Nazis. One of the nine hundred thousand survivors won the Nobel Peace Prize, and that would be Elie Wiesel. After this terrible tragedy Elie wrote the book Night describing his life as the Holocaust approached his family and the scary way he lost his family and friends to the Holocaust. The Holocaust changed Elie Wiesel in big and small ways, emotionally and his relationship with his father. The nazis starved him, beat him, make him watch horrible things (Such as Death), enslaved him, and all of this torture came to an end on May 5, 1945, when he was rescued by the Americans.
Winter had arrived and the situation got worse. Soon, Elie's foot began to swell because of the cold, so he went to the infirmary. The doctor had to operate on his foot or else it would have to be amputated. Elie was told by another sick inmate in the infirmary to leave before selection because Germany has no use of sick, useless Jews. While staying in the infirmary was sublime compared to outside because of bed sheets, good bread, no work, and thicker soup, The front was near.
In chapters 7-9 the relationship between Elie and his father has grown greatly. They have grown together so much from the beginning of the book. They went from not talking to each other, to being the only reason they would survive and fight off what has happened. They relied on each other to survive because they had no one else but themselves.
Throughout Hitler’s reign during the Holocaust, the victims’ faith in God started to disappear. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a dramatic account of Elie’s experience in the Holocaust. He is forced to choose between faith, death, self-interest, or interest in others. Elie Wiesel was thirteen when the Hungarian police started to capture people and put them into the hands of the Nazis. Elie was transported to Auschwitz with his whole family, but was forced to separate from his mother and sister.
During the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive, little boy to a spiritually dead, dispassionate man. In his memoir, Night, Elie speaks about his experiences upon being a survivor of the Holocaust. The reader sees how Elie has changed through his experiences in Sighet and the ghettos in comparison to what it was like for him in the concentration camps.
The Holocaust was a tragic event that shocked the world. The Jews were treated like repulsive animals and that majorly affected their shortened lives. More than six million Jews were killed, but Elie was one of the few to survive the Holocaust. As hatred grew, the poor treatment and killings escalated. Elie’s book Night clearly involves the dehumanization of the Jews. He was forced to grow up before he was ready. Elie saw dreadful things that forever changed him, but despite his dreadful situation, he overcame many challenges and lived to tell his story.
:After witnessing his friend’s death, Elie started to let the idea of death consume his thoughts to the point that, if his father had not been by his side serving as motivation, he would have died that night during the march. “Death enveloped me, it suffocated me, It stuck to me like glue.”
He gives loved ones advice on what to do before it’s too late, showing that he cares for their safety. “I had asked my father to sell everything, to liquidate everything, and to leave” (Night 9). This shows that Elie cared for his father all along, even if he didn’t believe in his faith. Unfortunately for him, his father was unable to do anything. “I am too old my son, too old to start a new life.
When Elie was first living in the ghetto, he was healthy, weighed a normal amount of weight, and especially religious. He was really focused on his religion, and as the book progressed, Elie stopped believing because he became tired of praying for it to get better, just for it to only get worse. Elie lost an unimaginable and unhealthy amount of weight, where he almost came across death many times during the less than a year that he and his father spent in the concentration camps. He looked unrecognizable, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”
Eliezer Wiesel (Elie) is a famous Jewish author who has written a total of fifty-seven books, one being Night where he talks about him and his family being taken away from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he keeps horrific memories of the death of his family and the death of his own innocence as a young boy. Although Night is a very informational read, it’s also heart-wrenching as well and can bring you into tears as you image yourself walking through this terrifying experience. To readers, it is obvious that Elie is no longer considered a boy witnessing what he has seen in the holocaust. World War II has taken the innocence from a Jewish child through his experience
Others though very stupidly tell them to rely on faith, not action. They then march to auschwitz where they were quarantined for a while and got their prison number tattooed on their arm. Past this they were taken to buna where they will begin their work. After the inspections to make sure he was work-fit Elie was placed under a particularly violent kapo who ends up causing him and his father much pain and suffering. It should be noted that Elie clearly and honestly states how the camp has changed him.
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.