The Holocaust is a genocide that killed about six million Jews that started in January 1933 and lasted until May 1945. Many families were taken from their homes and put on cattle wagons, they were brought to various concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Buna. In the memoir, Night Elie Wiesel’s family is taken out of Sighet for a year and a half, with the struggle of living each day but luckily he survived. All were put through harsh conditions like being starved for days by not receiving all rations of the meals and only given a small portion of bread and soup. At these camps everyone was forced to march, if you fell behind or got weak you would be beaten or killed. Seeing the new environment can impact who you are as a person. Characters like Elie, Rabbi Eliahou’s son, and Moshe the Beadle have experienced a change of character throughout their journey. Elie was thirteen when him and his family were forced to leave their homes and begin the process of survival. His mom and sister were the first to separate from their family at the first stop then soon died after. Now it was just him and his father continuing their path, promising to stick together. When they stopped at Buchenwald, Elie had a self conflict. It was about him and his father, “...If only I …show more content…
Elie is thinking about Rabbi Eliahou’s son and the reasoning for his disappearance. He uses the word “encumbrance” which is an obstacle, “...to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chance of survival.” Rabbi Eliahou’s son left him for his own needs and felt as if his father was an obstacle, only ruining his chance of survival. This entire time they were a team, but once Rabbi Eliahou starts feeling weak, his son goes off and forgets about
One of the reasons that Elie lost more of his faith in humanity comes as a result of him being separated from his family. “‘Mother is still a
Elie doesn't know what to do, or what is going to happen to him and his father, which makes him fearful every day. Everyone in the camp tries not to show that they are scared, but they are really scared about the same things Ellis scared about, not knowing what is going to happen to them. Elie is confused on why God is letting this happen to him and the others in the camp. Elie is now starting
This book is a piece of historical evidence concerning the events today describes as Holocaust. World War 2 started in 1939,the Nazi began ordering Jews to wear a yellow star on their clothing so the Jews could be easily targeted .Began in 1932 and ended in 1945.It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 6 million of these were Jews.1.1 million children were murdered. Elie Wiesel’s famous book Night was first published in French in 1958 and in an English translation in 1960.He published his memoir after a 10 year vow of silence only at the urging of Francois Mauriac, whose account of his meeting with the young survivor appears as a foreword to Night’s French and English versions. He dedicated Night to the memory
They were running to Gleiwitz and Elie was thinking of his dad and thinking that the only reason why he was still running was because of his dad so that is why he was still running. “My father’s
Night is a book that is based off the true story of Elie Wiesel living his life through the holocaust. The book is written in first person as Elie lives through the horror of World War ll. Elie was only twelve years old when World War ll and the holocaust started. Elie and his family lived in a small house in the town of Sighet, Romania. He was a very smart kid and was engaged in Jewish mysticism.
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.
He and his mom and sister were separated at the camp and he has no want to see them until the end of time. " Men to one side! Ladies to the right..."(pg 27). His dad is getting old, and powerless, and Elie understands his dad does not have the quality to get by all alone, and it is past the point where it is possible to spare him.
In the book Night the main character Elie Wiesel had gone from being a spiritual little boy to a spiritually dead man. In this book we listen and visualize what Elie went through along with a lot of other people. We hear and see what changes he went through from spiritual boy to a spiritually dead. We see that at the beginning Elie had a very strong belief of god.
He doesn’t want to be next. Deep down, he wants to leave his father behind, but he doesn’t want to admit that to himself. Evidently, Elie, at this point, is not ready to get rid of his father, but more than ready to, at the same
There are a few factors that help shape Elie’s identity. His faith is the biggest part of his life that shaped his identity. His relationship with his family helped to shape his identity. Moshe the Beadle helped shape Elie’s identity by helping him with studying the Kabbalah. Moshe the Beadle was also a role model and a father figure to Elie.
Lastly, basic necessities can overpower the importance of family. In the novel, many characters portray the act of selfishness to ensure their own safety instead of the safety of others. There are moments when Elie hides behind others in order to ensure his own safety.
In the beginning of Elie’s experience, he gets the choice to abandon the ghetto and go with the family’s former maid to a safe shelter. He chose to stay because Elie would have been separated from his parents and little sister. This choice had a negative impact, but also a positive one. The negative side is that Elie’s family stayed in the ghettos, and then the concentration camps. At the time, no one could believe the rumors about the Nazis.
This is just one example of the internal conflict going on endlessly within himself. When thinking of family, there are good times and bad times. When experiencing the moments that are extremely difficult for Elie and his father, he often thinks how great life would be if he could just get rid of his father’s dead weight. One evening when Elie’s father is very ill, the had of the block approaches Elie and tells him, “‘Don’t forget your in a concentration camp. Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else.
In the book it says “ My father presence was the only thing that stopped me. What would he do without me?” This quote show how elie realtionship with his father save his
These conditions cause the changes between Elie and his father relationship. During their time in the concentration camps, Elie and his father experience a role reversal. Upon entering the camps, Elie and his father have the usual father and son relationship. Entering the camp, Elie reveals how much he depends on his father during first selection, “The baton pointed to the left. I