In the beginning of night we meet a 12 year old jewish boy named Elie. Elie lives in the town of Sighet he also lives with his parents and two older sisters, I actually find that quite ironic because I have two older sisters. He also has a cabbala teacher named moshe the beadle who is often described as awkward. Moshe is deported by the hungarians because he was a jew. After several months in captivity Moshe returns telling stories of how at the Polish border the jews were handed over to the Nazis and were forced to dig their own graves and were killed. But no one in the town believes his stories of mass killings. I can actually accept the fact that they did not believe him because what they were doing to the jews was inconceivable. Later once …show more content…
Elie was separated from his mother and sisters but luckily still had his dad by his side. Personally I would feel a small joy knowing that someone that is dear to me like my father is still by my side in the middle of all the madness that surrounds them. When halted by a guard Elie and his father lie about their ages and occupations to make themselves seem more fit than they really are. After the account with the guard Elie and his father witness babies being burned in a pit and kids and adults being burned in a furnace. If I witnessed this I would be very disturbed for months and weeks to come. Elie has trouble sleeping that night after witnessing all of that and I think I would definitely also have a hard time sleeping. In the morning they are awoken by a strict guard shortly after this they are run through a series of barracks where they are shaved, stripped of their clothes and disinfected with gasoline and then given prison clothes. Elie's father is beaten for asking to use the bathroom by the kapo. Elie is disturbed how he did nothing to help his father. I would probably do nothing as well because I would not want to be beaten or killed myself. Finally the prisoners including Elie and his father are escorted to the camp of Buna. Shortly after arriving prisoners are given a medical exam and there mouths
Before the concentration camps, Elie possessed a lot of important and good character traits. “After we were given permission to go back to our block and have our meal. I remember that evening, the soup tasted better than ever.” (Wiesel 63). A man who was convicted of stealing had just been hung in front of thousands of prisoners. Elie had always been thankful for everything he received, even during the concentration camp. He just became more grateful for the smallest things that most people would not think would have meaning. My next point from ‘Night’, “We were the master of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything- death,fatigue, our natural needs.” (Wiesel 87). Elie and the remaining prisoners are running to get to their new camp because the army comes to liberate them. This text evidence shows how Elie was intrigued and surprised. Elie was curious about his religion and surprised by many of the
During Elie Wiesel’s book there seemed to be many mixed emotions throughout the situation of being in the camp and the separation of their family, and along with the relationship between him and his father. In the beginning of the book Elie thought that his father could care less about him and what he does since he always seemed to be busy and had no time for his wife or his children. “My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental, He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel, 4). In the middle of the book things started to change, the both of them tried their hardest to stay together and to never be separated apart no matter what circumstances stood by “We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me” (Wiesel, 89).
Sufferage. Loss. Tears. Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, explains what his father & himself went through as prisoners during the Holocaust. Elie describes everything his father and himself saw and experienced while in a concentration camp. Elie had great faith before the Holocaust, but questioned it due to his experiences at the camp.
Have you ever imagined being stranded in a concentration camp left to suffer, in the book ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel depicts the harsh life a teenager and his father from the Jewish community goes through during World War II. It illustrates all the sufferings and troubles the teenager, Elie passed through while with his father at their homeland and after being taken by the German soldiers to work in the camps. The once happy loving family of four children is separated by the World war and Elie chooses to remain with his father throughout the cruelties. In the book ‘Night’, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, imagery, and tone to illustrate all of the horrors that he encountered while his time at the concentration camps.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is a story that the author tries to tell from his perspective of what it’s like to try to survive during the Holocaust, and the things that people would have to go through plus what they had to do to live another day. Wiesel is a boy that had to go through hell for the years that are usually the best as a child growing up, and he had that taken away from him. He tells his story and explains to the reader using mixed diction and tones. This time was not an easy time to have survived especially in the camps. Some of the times Wiesel had to lie to not be cremated. “‘Here, kid, how old are you?’ It was one of the prisoners…… Our procession continued to move slowly forward.” (Wiesel 28-30). This is a way Wiesel
Can you comprehend living in a place where you or your father can be murdered by so much as a hand motion dictating your fate.Well in the book Night written by holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel he tells of he and his father being sent to an internment camp where they begin to bond and look out for each other in order to stay alive. Concentration camps brought Elie and his father closer together where as others it tore apart.
Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.
During the holocaust many children and teens suffered from the loss of their innocence. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel explained the loss of his innocence through experiences during the holocaust such as the harsh new laws and the death of his family and friends. The death of a family member and harsh punishment cause the loss of innocence.
“My hand tightened its grip on my father, all I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” How far does love for our family go? How much could we suffer for the people we love? How much do we want to be alive with people we’re related to?
And when Wiesel thought about this, he knew that even though his dad were growing weak, he would have never given up on his dad. He even thought to himself “ ‘Oh God’, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done”(Wiesel 91). Not only did his dad helped him through bad times, he helped his dad through his weak points to death. Even according to Jane Elizabeth, that Wiesel saved his father’s life even at risk of his own. With Ted Estess, he said that Wiesel has put everything in his fidelity to his father. Because God broken his covenant with Wiesel, Wiesel did not want to break his relationship with his father. Throughout the text, Eliezer had continuously saved his father no matter the situation
Elie Wiesel in his memoir titled, Night informs the readers that the Jews were forced to leave their homes, beaten and killed by the S.S, treated like animals, starved to death and gassed in chambers and supports his claim through giving examples of his own personal experiences as a victim in Auschwitz. Wiesel’s purpose is to convince the reader to see that the Nazis were monsters who did horrible things that scared people in order to make sure that what happened is unforgettable no matter how hard others try to forget it so his horrendous past doesn't become others future. The intended audience is the entire world and the author uses his own authority and experience in the camp as giving information of his past and hardships that he endured through the concentration camps to support his claims.The author writes in a dark, somber tone and asserts a justifiable bias against the Nazi S.S and Hungarian police for the horrible acts they performed such as the beatings, taking the Jews from their homes, sending the Jews to the crematorium, and so many more unimaginable horrific things.
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Wiesel alludes to the book of Leviticus when he says that his life was “seven times cursed” and to the book of Revelation when he states that he was “seven times sealed.” Wiesel alludes to Leviticus, which describes how God will punish the people who go against his will. He alludes to the book of Leviticus in order to illustrate the atrocities that he had encountered during his days at the concentration camps. The horrid sights that Wiesel saw during his first night at the concentration camp caused him to lose his faith in God. According to Wiesel, due to his abandonment of faith in God, he was harshly punished. The punishments were as severe as the punishments that God threatened to enforce in Leviticus. Later, Wiesel alludes to the text of
Night by Elie Wiesel is the story of a young boy torn from his faith. Elie Wiesel, born into the Jewish faith and grew up during a time of desperation, the Holocaust. Elie survives through the blinding persistence of love in an abyss of despair. He and his father had been forced to run 12 kilometers in the freezing cold, they wanted to quit but hung on for the each other. “My father's persistence was the only thing that stopped me.
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.
According to Elie Wiesel, memory is an essential thing that every person needs. Memory is the act of remembering things that have happened to you or those around you in the past that you can recall. You might be able to remember how you felt, what was said, what you heard, and who was there. Memory is very important because it can help people reflect on the past, make sure terrible things don’t happen again, and make sure you don’t forget what truly happened. First of all, in the book Night Elie demonstrates not forgetting things that happened to him and other people so that it won’t happen again.