An Intentional Hell In this tragic book, Eliezer Wiesel is a young almost teenage Jewish boy. He lives in Sighet with his three sisters, his mother, and his father. Eliezer enjoys studying Talmud and the Kabbalah. There was a poor man called Moishe the Beadle who helped him study these. One day Moishe the Beadle got taken away because he was a foreign Jew. When he escaped he came back and warned everyone about what happened. He told them that at the point where the Gestapo were in charge of the train, all of the Jews there had to dig graves for themselves and then be killed. Nobody in the town believed him and they all just thought he was going crazy. Even when Hungary was full of German Armies the Jews of Sighet thought that it would all …show more content…
Because of the Germans, they all had to wear yellow stars and their valuables were taken. They were moved into two different ghettos before they were taken into cattle cars thinking that they are just being relocated. The cattle cars were torture. A woman named Madame Schächter started shouting about a fire. It frightened everyone including her son. Nobody could see a fire. This went on for days until they finally got to Birkenau. They saw huge furnaces and there was a terrible smell of burning people. Now they realized what Madame Schächter was yelling about. There was their first selection. First, they were split between male and female. After this Eliezer never sees any of his sisters or his mother ever again. They met a prisoner who told them each to lie about their age. Eliezer was to say he was eighteen, and his father that he was forty. Next, they were put into two other groups; in one group you would die in the furnace and in the other group you would live to work. Eliezer and his father both were able to live for …show more content…
It was very harsh considering that they haven’t eaten in three days. When Eliezer’s father is put in the line that will not live Eliezer confuses everybody and they are both able to go in the line for the ones that will live. They then all have to go into cattle cars and throw out all of the dead men. Eliezer’s father was almost mistaken as dead because he was unconscious. Thankfully, Eliezer was able to wake him. The continued staying in the cars for ten days as they moved to Buchenwald. Since the cattle cars were roofless so some people outside of the cars would throw bread in to see people viciously fight for it until death. When the horrifying trip was finally over only twelve men were still alive in Eliezer’s cattle car out of one
The city quickly fell under the control of the SS, who were looking specifically for the Jewish civilians. They came to our workshop and shot our patriarch, my father. The remaining thirteen of us were moved into a prisoner of war camp, where we would be separated. Us six boy were decided to build another camp with some other Jewish teens from the city. This camp was brutal as it pushed and beaten us.
“What if your life was just taken away?” Well in the memoir “ Night” by Elie Wiesel published in 1956. This memoir is about a Jewish kid, Eliezer, who is taken by the Nazi with his family. He witnesses the death of his family and others. Now is taken to this journey to survival.
Both Eliezer and his father passed and were sent to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, the conditions were better and the prisoners weren’t as brutal. They were allowed to sleep and their first rations were passed out. Eliezer refused to eat his ration the first time. For the next few weeks, the prisoners had to follow a tight schedule that included roll call, meals, and bedtimes. There, they meet a relative named Stein of Antwerp, who asks about his sons.
My favorite character from all the prose selections we’ve read is Eliezer Wiesel, the author of the book Night. A young Jew boy who was put into a concentration camp. There are no words to explain the pain he went through. There are three major reasons to why he is my favorite and these are why; he is a survivor from the Holocaust, he risked all he had to try and keep the ones he loved alive, and although being young he never gave up. The way he tells his journey through this event is magnificent, so people can understand what actually happened 85 years ago.
After a very long horrid train ride of Mrs. Schächter “prophesizing” about seeing flames, the Jews of Sighet arrive at Birkenau where they are separated by gender. Elie and his father are now on their own. 4. With the fear of the first selection behind them, Elie and the other man are sent to the showers, and assigned to a barrack, A while later, all the men are transferred to Auschwitz. Elie and his father are given block 17 to stay in.
Between five and six million lives were taken during the Holocaust. Just imagine being stripped from your entire life, and thrown into a prison where you were a witness of all of your friends and family, suffering before your own eyes. The treatment that people experienced during this time period was intolerable. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night to reveal the cruelty of the real world through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor. Eliezer´s teen years were spent in a world of horror, after the age of 15.
The Holocaust. A short, unimaginable period, of just over twelve years, where almost 6 million Jews were murdered by the German nazis. Overall, 17 million victims were killed and thousands were forced to work in inhumane conditions and live in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a victim of the Holocaust, having been deported at the age of 12, is one of the few survivors who lived to tell their story. He has written many books and given many speeches about his experience, but they all convey a similar message, that we as a population, cannot remain silent but to stand up for the indifferences and the horrendous events of this world.
“Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free… One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death,” said Elie Wiesel about the world in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. He was so passionate about these things--But why? The answer lies in this: he was a Holocaust survivor, in fact one of the most prominent.
#2 At the end of Night, Wiesel writes: “”From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” What parts of Eliezer died during his captivity? What was born in their
He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” Eliezer finds the strength to keep going because of his
Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than "things" which were a nuisance to them. The Jews in these concentration camps were greatly disrespected. They experienced several beatings, were undernourished, and overworked. Elie and the other Jews eventually lost faith in God, and witness unpleasant events never to be seen again. Elie and his family not only had to survive the sickening ride to the concentration camps, but then had to endure the pain every day after that.
In pages eight-five to one hundred-three, several events happened. There was another selection. This time, Eliezer and his father were split up, Eliezer in the healthy line, and Father in the not healthy line. Luckily, Eliezer case enough comotion to get Father to his line. After this, all of the healthy people were put into cattle cars with no roof.
One day Eliezer comes to his father’s bed and he is gone most likely taken to the crematory. He doesn't mourn for him and feels bad because of it, but he also feels
Eliezer’s relationship with his father contrast with other father-son relationships because they
Elie Wiesel successfully created a clever plot consisting of dialogue, introspection and dynamic characters to make his story realistic and compelling. Elie WIesel changed the protagonist Eliezer, an observant Jewish youngster, that strived to delve deeper into the mythical traditions of his religion, changed to a person that questions God’s greatness, a disloyal son and a person that only seeks personal gain. The protagonist, Eliezer, proves to be a very dynamic character. One of the most noticeable change in Eliezer is that his perspective and beliefs of God has changed dramatically.