Poem Analysis: If Suddenly You Come For Me By N. Nor

In his fleeting thoughts of abandoning his father to deal with the beating alone, Eliezer is beginning to betray the bonds of family; he is losing the original compassion and willingness to sacrifice his own well-being to help others that he entered the camp with. Although a suggestion of worry and compassion remains in Eliezer's tone, these senses are inadequate for Eliezer to forgo his own safety and well-being. In this, Eliezer has become selfish. He has begun to lose his altruism. However, even in the face of the ever-present self-interest seen in other prisoners of the camp, Eliezer fails to lose this important side of himself completely.

The first of the 2 novels is Night, in this novel; it is often shown through-out the book that in times of need, people are willing to turn on one another. By seeing how Eliezer’s views about his father changed in the novel, it is proven that Eliezer began to focus more on surviving and desires than some of the important things like family thus proving that the evil change that Eliezer went was in fact nothing more than him falling back onto his more primitive beliefs of focusing on living by instinct and desire. The first of the two quotes to prove that is here: “He slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours. I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed so much?”(Wiesel 39) This quote is from Eliezer’s first moments in Auschwitz. And from this quote, we know that it also marks the beginning of Eliezer’s steadily decreasing lack of sympathy for others for he had already began his descent to using his primitive instincts. This quote though, is extremely enlightening when compared to the thesis. This would be because this quote illustrates the fact that Eliezer

Eliezer faced many hardships throughout this book including malnourishment, fatigue, being overworked, and being extremely mistreated. There are so many stories about the holocaust and all of them show that everyone dealt with the pain differently, though some did it better than others. Eliezer had everything taken from him: his home; his possessions; his family; and his pride. After all this is taken from him we begin to see his true character. He becomes a totally different person. Reading this book was like watching a beautiful tree come out of a terrible storm with nothing left. After this storm the tree has nothing left all of its leaves are gone and we can truly see how its branches are made up and how they connect. This relates perfectly

Handling being being tortured like wild animals rather than humans. That is what it came down to for Eliezer and his father. After being treated like animals they are forced to remain strong or else they are going to die. Some people don’t even see themselves alive anymore. “One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depth of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they gazed back at me, has never left me”. (Wiesel 89) Eliezer finally looked at himself through a mirror, and all he seen was a dead corpse fighting to survive. After being treated like an animal and being beaten multiple times, he realized what he was capable of, what he could withstand, and how strong he was. Eliezer was ready to give up, but he kept thinking about his father and his family and how selfish it would be. Eliezer had to keep fighting, fighting to survive, but what really messed with him was his dad dying. Eliezer didn’t know how to live without his dad, but now he had to become a man, just like his father in order to survive. Eliezer was was living in the moment, so if he was being beaten and tortured like an animal, he had to learn to live like

After seeing so much death eventually no one can handle it anymore. The quote “Yet another last night” reference all the times Eliezer came close to freedom. Every time he thought he would be free it just lead to more death and destruction. This made him feel like a dog in the pound, just waiting to die. An event that explains how death is a primary force to the Jew dehumanization is the hanging of the pipel. The expression on the piper's face was chilling at the very least but didn’t phase any of the prisoners. Most just brushed it off like nothing happened. This shows that hanging and beatings have become normal punishments to the prisoners. A character who visualizes the feeling of death in the camp is Eliezer after he was liberated. When he saw himself in the mirror for the first time he thought of himself as a corpse. This show that he believe he didn’t truly survive the holocaust. He thought that as a organizm he was alive, but as a human he was

“The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death ofmy family, as I had come to truly believe …” (CNN). Children are taken away from theirfamilies which later on are killed. Elie was taken away from his mother and sisters. His fathereventually died. Loss of innocence is shown when a child is taken away from their family.

emotionally scarred while at the concentration camps. Eliezer had to experience death, pain, and cruelty. Eliezer had to be emotionally and physically strong for his father. When he was reunited with two of his sisters he had to be strong, and take the lead since his father had died. In the end Eliezer lost his faith in God. He could not understand why God let all those horrible things

Thousands are killed every day. Prisoners were often referred to as “filthy dogs,” or pigs (84). Despite the many examples of dehumanization in this narrative. There are moments of kindness and compassion. Particularly between Elie and his father, Chlomo, who promised to stay with each other (30-32) and take care of each other.

Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows….” That night the soup tasted of corpses (Wiesel, 42). The death of the servant boy created a truth for him; that He was no longer present in Eliezer's life. This causes realization that all Eliezer has is his father (who grows older and weaker each day) and himself. That year he did not fast because he felt there was no longer a reason, and he no longer accepted God’s silence. (Wiesel, 46) Eliezer had directed all his frustration, anger, and fear towards his God because their was no one else to blame for the suffering and pain. The story continues with a “selection” taking place and the movement to another

Eliezer felt like he was being trapped alone in the darkest abyss with a sword pierced through his heart. Being separated from a beautiful and innocent girl like Aliyah broke his heart, making it bleed inside. It had been almost three months since the day Eliezer first met Aliyah, but the memories still burned in his mind.

Aside from Eliezer’s declining human emotions, there was the lack of human civility of his fellow prisoners. One thing that stood out to me was the following “’Throw out all the dead! Outside, all the corpses!’ The living were glad.

Eliezer sees inhumanity all around him, he sees the cruelty the Nazis conflict and even his fellow prisoner. Eliezer does not understand how people can treat others so horribly and how easy it was for fellow prisoners to turn their backs on each other instead of comforting each other in such times of need. His faith is now becoming slim with not just God of also humanity. Eliezer states a Kapo said to him “Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else. Even of his Father. Here, there are no Fathers, no Brothers, no friends. Every one lives and dies for himself alone”

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