The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a powerful and thought-provoking account of the Holocaust, and it raises important questions about the human capacity to face great adversity. The characters in “Night” are forced to confront unimaginable hardship and suffering. They are stripped of their homes, families, and basic human rights, and are subjected to unspeakable atrocities. Despite all of this, many of them find the strength to persevere and survive. The book has taught me how when a person is faced with great adversity, they must persevere to maintain their human spirit. Elie Wiesel was born and raised in Sighet, a town in northern Romania. Elie Wiesel was 13 when he wanted to learn the kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism. As a young boy, Elie is very religious and wants to study the kabbalah with his father, but his father says he's too young and refuses to teach him. This rejection is a big deal for Elie as he feels studying the kabbalah is his only way to understand god and connect to his faith. Determined to study the kabbalah, Elie finds his own master, Moishe the beadle. Moishe the beadle was the poorest of the poor, …show more content…
The prisoners were forced to do a two-night death march to Gleiwitz; they ran over 20 kilometers through poor and snowy weather conditions. After arriving they were packed into cattle cars and for 3 days they traveled with no food or water to Buchenwald. Elie’s father barely made it through the last stretch of the trip and has become deathly ill. Over the next few days, he barely makes it and finally passes away from a beating because a guard was angry. Elie is witness to this and his father calls out his name as he dies. The fact that Elie has faced such unbelievable cruelty and is present to his father's death shows his ability to persevere and remain hopeful. His only thought was to stay alive and was achievable by overcoming all the hardships he had faced so
Elie was from a town called Sighet,he studied the Talmud and Kabbalah. He meets Moshe the Beadle, who helps him by teaching him. Moshe was deported to Poland, but on the way Germans stopped the train and massacred the people. Moshe escaped and went back to Sighet to warn people, but nobody believed him. The time came when they probably wished they believed
Elie wiesel was born september 30 1928, He was a basic jewish child. He grew up in a small village in romania. His world was centered around his family, god and his religion. All of this was nearly destroyed in the years to come in his lifetime. .His
Elie Wiesel, Night. (New York, 2006). Reviewed by Omeeka Cole. Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was conceived September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. The little Jewish group Wiesel experienced childhood in was assumed control by German fighters in 1944 amid World War II.
It may be hard to believe someone would sacrifice their family for their own benefit but during times of hardship, this can happen. Specifically, this was all too known during the Holocaust. One survivor, Elie Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister. The only family he had left was his dad. During his time in Auschwitz, Wiesel had to go through many hardships to survive.
In, Night there are several instances where God-fearing men were turned into selfish monsters. The cruelty shown to the Jews forced them to become cold and heartless towards one another. Elie was no exception because he had to fight for his life, lie and ultimately leave his father for dead to escape the grueling wrath of the S.S officers upon himself. Every single day alive was a blessing for Elie and all the other Jews at the concentration camp. Death was a daily occurrence, and a primary reason why the Jews became insensitive.
Elie was the only one of his family members who survived. Though Elie endured such a horrendous event, he took his experience in a positive way and made a lifestyle out
Perseverance is a theme evident throughout Elie Wiesel's Night, as the author's survival in the concentration camps is a testament to his unwavering determination. In chapter 7 of Night, Elie and his father are transferred to a new concentration camp, where they are forced to endure grueling labor and terrible living conditions. Despite their situation's physical and emotional tolls, Elie remains determined to survive and keep his father alive. " I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?
The 1960 memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel depicts the Holocaust, a time when morality, ethics, and humanity were brutally compromised through the actions of the Nazis. Through his and his father’s accounts, Wiesel reveals how normal people can be transformed into the epitome of evil. It highlights the loss of faith in humanity and God that results from experiencing extreme suffering, discrimination, and sheer violence. The memoir shows how the Jewish community was systematically dehumanized, enabled by overtrust, and how in desperation, some people, including family members, were willing to turn on each other to survive. Overall, “Night” exposes the dark side of human nature, making us question our faith in humanity.
Throughout my day in school, I see students doing all kinds of things, skipping class, making rude remarks toward others, and spreading rumors. They cause harm to the school, teachers, and their peers around them. But why? Does everyone have some evil in them? Is this their way of having fun?
Surviving Death World War II began on September 1, 1939. Hitler believed that because of the Jewish population, Germany lost World War I. Hitler also believed that the only way to restore Germany and as well as avoid losing was by torturing and killing Jews. Hitler's inhumanity towards the Jews was the cause of this mass murder that killed 11 million innocent people. About six million out of eleven million Jews were killed. This was later called the Holocaust.
”I did not weep and it pained me the i could not weep. But i was out of tears. And deep inside me, if i could i have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, i might have found something like: Free at last!... ” When his father died Elie wasn't sad all he could think of was the weight that was lifted off his chest, that he no longer had to be constantly worried or tending on his
In the span of a lifetime one often faces many adversities that stand within their path. While some challenges will be overcome easily, others will take a lot more tenacity. When in the face of adversity it is key not to give up. One should always strive to persevere through their hardships, no matter how severe they seem to be. The author of the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel, vividly describes his experiences in the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.
Imagine being a young 15 year old boy barely fed, dehydrated and at a camp that was created for the purpose of killing thousands of people and immediately once you arrive losing your mother and sister. Elie shows extreme mental strength during this event, rather than trying to stop it from happening
While their dads were telling them not to. During that Elie wanted to help his father to march and not be mocked at or beaten up. The other inmates started to laugh and Elie distinctly remembered “My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely….But my father did not make sufficient progress, and the blows continued to rain on him”(55).The germans was beating up Elie’s dad.