Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust. Weisel shares how it all started and talks about how his life changed drastically in a matter of a few years. He takes his readers with him on his long, haunting and treacherous journey of the Holocaust. He talks about the many different aspects of the Holocaust, such as the selection process, life in the ghetto’s, his loss of faith in God, and the ways that the people in the camps were treated. The inhumane things that occurred within this time are also talked about in Night. Eliezer starts off the book, speaking about his life before the Holocaust. He grew up in a religious household, and was very religious himself. There were many things that he wanted to do and was interested in such as the Kabbalah and …show more content…
However they chose to believe that it was simply a lie that was being told with someone that had lost their mind. Soon after, they realized the mistake that they had made. They were packed up into carts and taken to concentration camps, where some were killed and others were worked to death. The conditions of the cart were awful, there were barely any room to stand, let alone sleep and many of the Jews were losing their minds. They had no clue how much worse it would get once they arrived to the camps. Once they arrived at the camp they were sectioned off by gender. This was the last time many of the families would be together. Weisel says “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Section 3. Page 29). Weisel goes on to explain that he and his father were told by an inmate to lie about their age and say that they were 18 and 40. When the SS officer came over to Elie and his father, they both lied about their ages and Elie about his profession. Both Elie and his father were sent to the left and were told by another inmate “Poor
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
The book called “Night” is a great book to read about survival of the fittest. The book was written by a man named Elie Wiesel and was about his experience during the Holocaust. His book has some interesting parts about how he and other Jews saw the Holocaust before and after they were taken to concentration camps. Before the Jews were taken to the camps, they thought that since the war was so far away and was going to end soon, they were safe. That soon changed because they had the chance to run and hide, but did not take it.
Night is a book that has a very strong theme that I believe strong hearted reads would really enjoy. Night describes the life of a young Jewish man Going through the hardships of the holocaust and every struggle that went along with such a hardship. The author Elie Wiesel describes how the struggles of the intense work camps, the low rations that they were given to eat and the continuous beatings that were force upon his people. I believe that this book is intended for a mature audience. It describes many graphic and gruesome scenes that a child should not b introduced to.
This essay is over the book called night by Elie Wiesel. The book is about Elie Wiesel who was sent to auschwitz concentration camp during world war 2 with his family. It is also about what he saw and experienced. My first example is when he sees the jews being thrown into the fire and beaten. They were barely feed and lived in horrible conditions.
Eliezer is the main character throughout the story ‘Night’. The story follows him and his father as their Jewish ideology is tested. Throughout the story Eliezer's is dealing with the fact that even with faith and a celestial being, man can do appalling things to fellow man. Eliezer's faith is tested in many drastic scenarios throughout the shocking events. We are introduced to a young boy by the name of Eliezer early in the story.
Picture this a boy looking out his window looking at a field with gates, huge sheds, and buildings with smoke coming out of them. That comes from the book called The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, in this book you will learn that no matter how different two people are they make it work. The book I will be comparing my book with is called Night. In this book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie went through a time that no one should have to go through. He had to see things like people going into the chambers that would never walk out again or people who were sick and couldn’t get help because of who they were.
Once they arrived at the camp after a long, distraught, and tiring journey to Birkenau, they had seen the flames coming from the chimney accompanied by a horrid stench of burning bodies. Walking forward, taken as targets, the men and women were separated. Now, all that Eliezer has is his father and he is going to try his very hardest to keep it that way. “All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.”
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.
There were neither enough places to live nor any sanity in the available area. Diseases and starvation killed many people. Later on, the prisoners were moved to Auschwitz via convoys of cattle wagons, with eighty people stuffed in each car. Elie’s car, additionally, also included a crazy lady named Madame Schachter who had actually foreseen the chimney of the concentration camp. When they had arrived, the people were separated between the males and females.
Not long after, Elie and his father were moved to another camp where conditions were just as bad. Elie’s experience at this camp was dehumanizing. He was beaten and saw things no human should have to see.
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.
Simple laborers were left and many other able men were send to work at the camps. They were told they were leaving with the next transport. They walked their without hurry and saw germans on the
Night written by Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust. Wiesel had narrated Night to share an important part of history, He wanted to leave behind legacy of words, memories with hope to prevent history repeating itself. Eliezer Wiesel shares his personal experience from the beginning. In 1941, Eliezer was twelve year old Jewish boy living in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. Eliezer had a peaceful life with his family members, in 1944 Eliezer and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp which results in the lost of his mother and sisters and altering his view of his religion.
Elie and his dad both lied about their age and were sent to the same line. The felt relived because they ended up together, but then found out they were destined to burn by an SS member. “Poor devils, you are heading for the crematorium (Wiesel 32).” In addition, babies were thought to
Do you think that you have what it takes to survive alongside Elie? In Night, by Elie Wiesel, his story is told when he is taken to a concentration camp along with his family and stripped of his belongings and identity. Throughout the book, Elie Wiesel shares information about the people he meets, the attacks he had, and the death around him and along with the countless other things that made him a survivor of the Holocaust. Some of the most influential people showed up relatively early in Elie’s life.