Night by Elie Wiesel tells about the struggles Elie goes to go through as a Jewish person during the Holocaust. While being sent to many different concentration camps, Elie experiences countless terrible situations and sees that some of the prisoners become cruel when given leadership roles within the camps. Many people had lost all civility they had in an effort to stay alive, sacrificing others for their own good. Elie manages to hold onto his decency through all of this, though, by helping out others within the camp occasionally and supporting his father whenever he could. Elie tries to keep his father awake when they are in the shed, resting from the running they had been forced to endure. “...It’s dangerous to fall asleep in the snow. One falls asleep forever…” (88) Elie’s father tells him this just a few minutes earlier and remembering his words, Elie tries to tell it to a man resting nearby. Elie has no emotional connection to this man at all, and yet he still tries to save him from the impending death he will suffer from falling asleep. …show more content…
“Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right…” (96) Elie was healthy enough that he could have passed the selection without the distraction but instead of leaving his father to die, he risks his own life to help save his father and many others from death. Someone who was cruel would not give a second thought to anyone and would leave them to their fate. A cruel person would likely never go out of their way to save someone who might be close to
Elie's father being alive was something like a crutch for him. Elie's foot had started to swell because it was cold out, and there was discussion about the Red Army approaching, and how the Nazi's would kill off all the injured. Elie, however, had a different mindset,"As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father." (Wiesel 82). Elie's desire to be with his father and care for him was great, but he would suppress his own pain for his father, which in turn, could've killed Elie.
Amaan Alam Ms. Trag Honors 9th Lit 8 August 2023 Night The captivating tale of "Night " written by Elie Wiesel delves into the journey of its main protagonist, Eliezer as he navigates the harrowing ordeals of the Holocaust. This essay aims to delve into Eliezers persona depicted in the book – his passions and his perspective on life in Sighet.
Strength of Love Scared and afraid wanting to die, but the only thing keeping you from giving up and dying is the love of your family. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is just a normal 15- year-old boy when him and his family are taken to Birkenau a concentration camp in Poland. When Elie and his family were taken to Birkenau Elie and his dad is separated from his mom and his sisters never to see them again. After Elie and his dad are separated from the girls Elie and his father find it very difficult to survive in the camp, they just want to give up and die but the their love for each other kept them going. In Night the author uses imagery to help convey the message of family bonds.
They both needed rest after those long hours of walking almost nonstop. After so much they had gone through, they still managed to find the will to keep living for one another. Elie's father guaranteed him that he was going to care for him while he slept so he could sleep. Elie could entrust or confide his life to his father, to help him get through the
Night is the story that tells a part of Elie Wiesel’s life, the part where he and his family, along his fellow Jews were terrorized, humiliated, and dehumanized. In this novel author Elie Wiesel documented the horrible and gruesome happenings of the holocaust. It was 1944 when he and his family were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, from there on Elie never saw his mother and sister ever again, lost his innocence. At that time all Jews were being brutalized by the Nazis, they were being treated as if they weren’t humans, as if they were animals and as if they didn’t have feelings whatsoever. The Nazis would take away their most precious belongings and separate families.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel, offers a depressing tone and reminds us that silence is destructive. The reader confronts this, desolation from Elie when he talks about becoming the son of the Rabbi. Elie promised himself that he would always be there for his father even during this horrendous time. As time progress, he inevitable breaks his promise and says nothing when the guards beat his delirious father on his deathbed. Sorrow is witnessed multiple times throughout the book, the pipel being hanged from the gallows and the inmates cry on the final train.
This moment in the book provokes feelings of sadness and pity. The Jews had been so packed in these barracks after the marches, that men we piled on top of each other, dead or alive, it became so hard to breathe that many of the men suffocated to death. Elie was one of the men who was buried beneath all of the people. He was trying to get air when he heard the boy beneath him shouting “You’re crushing me… mercy! mercy!”. The boy was the violinist from Buna named Juliek.
Learning to adapt is helping millions of people throughout history. In periods of history, the people that do not adapt die. Night is written by Elie Wiesel and is about Jewish people going through the Holocaust. Particularly, the book focuses on Elie Wiesel. The camps that the Jewish go to are not meant for them to come out alive.
Elie believes it's better to fend for oneself rather to help one another. Elie and his father have been in Auschwitz for 3 weeks. His tent leader was had been explaining what they were to do this week. He says three days in quarantine after you will go to work and tomorrow medical checkup. He then asks Elie if he wants to get into a good unit.
Even through all of those collapsed relationships, Elie and his father rely on each other up until the moment of Elie’s fathers passing. When Elie and his father make it through the selection thanks to the help of the man, Their hopes are immediately derailed when another Jewish man tells them that they are headed straight for the crematorium, and with flames in sight, all hope they had to survive was immediately lost. When hope is lost, Elie’s father starts to pray and this is when Elie starts to lose faith. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why
“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate, one less reason to live” (66). The story “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and was published in 1956. The story is about a young boy who is caught in the middle of the holocaust with his father. Throughout “Night”, one of the major themes were the difficult experiences Elie and his father had to go through. These moments are important because they show how Elie has changed throughout the story.
Night is a first hand experience from Elie Wiesel of life inside Auschwitz concentration camp. He describes the horrid conditions, treatment, and poverty they endured. He was with his father, but was separated from his mother and sister. They had to rely on each other for survival. The relationship between him and his father changed, along with Elie’s Jewish faith because of their traumatic torture.
A boy, only thirteen, was sentenced to be hanged along with two others. The prisoners gathered around the gallows as they were forced to bear witness to all the hangings that took place in the camp, but unlike the other times Eliezer, along with the other prisoners, wept. Eliezer even mentions that the Lagerkapo, the head of the camp, refused to act as executioner, instead three other SS guards took his place. Furthermore, after the chairs were tipped over, as the Lagerkapo commands the onlookers to remove their caps to pay their respect, Eliezer notes that the Lagerkapo’s voice is quivering. This is especially powerful because it is the only incidence in the novella where a Nazi shows any shred of humanity, and for this one small moment in time, all the observers are human.
Night, Elie Wiesel’s narrative, is about a young boy and his struggles as he tries to survive the Holocaust. This novel takes place during the mid 1940s, in the historical event of the Holocaust; the setting of the story includes Elie’s house and several Jewish concentration camps. Throughout the story, Elie, being Jewish, becomes a prisoner of the concentration camps, and he faces the struggle of survival as other Jewish prisoners, most importantly, Elie’s father. Elie and his father, along with millions of other Jews at concentration camps were giving small rations of food, worked hard labor a majority of the time, and lived in poor conditions. As the reader evaluates the story, they realize that Wiesel is illustrating that all people are
Throughout the past and now the present, we often refer to heroes as the ones that save the day, such as superman or batman, the people who stand up for what they believe in. When standing up for something or someone, there are always consequences, so within every decision, there are two choices: standing up or standing by. Our literature and societies issues often create great examples of what standing up and standing by construct opportunity wise, whether it is surviving the concentration camp Auschwitz, killing a friend for the good of Rome, or even taking a stand for equal pay as female athletes. Once a choice is made, no matter the decision, the outcomes will contain both positive and negative outcomes.