The people of Transylvania were receiving many signs that the Holocaust was coming. It was just the beginning and after being taken away, their lives were forever changed. They chose not to believe it and ended up going through it all. Moishe the Beadle also explains what is going to occur and what happened to him and little by little, edicts were placed upon them. Once they were sent to the ghettos, there was no way to escape. Chapter 2: Flames In this chapter, the prisoners were in the box cars full of 80 people, to go to their first concentration camp in Birkenau. While the car was compacted with many people, a lady kept on screaming and pointing that she saw a fire. This lady was sorrowful because she was separated from her family and …show more content…
If they would have told them their actual ages, Elie would have been considered too young and his father too old to work. Also, when they see Stein and he asks them if they remembered him, they said yes. Stein also asks if his family is alive and they told him that they were, not knowing whether they actually were. This helped to keep Stein going and a motive to keep on trying to survive the camp: to be able to see and make sure that his family was okay one day. Elie and his father lied so that they would not get hurt and die at the first selection and told Stein that so that he would still have …show more content…
They made stops to throw out the dead bodies like it meant nothing. Also, a German workman threw some bread in the train car and watched amused as the prisoners fought each other to the death to eat the bread. For a little piece of bread, the men were fighting like animals to receive it. It was also seen in the same car that a son killed his own father for the bread. It was every man for themselves. By the end of the trip, when they arrived in Buchenwald, only a dozen out of the starting train made it out alive. Chapter 8: Free at Last Elie’s father was suffering from dysentery and got beat by the SS soldier and was dying. After all they had been through, this journey through their misery; they had stuck together and been there for one another. Although Elie does not know if his father was sent before or after his death, he was sent to the crematorium. Elie no longer had to take care of him and could now focus on his survival. It was every man for himself and although he was sad, he was not able to cry which disturbed him. Chapter 9:
“Raised in an Orthodox family in Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald at age 16. In unsentimental detail, “Night” recounts daily life in the camps — the never-ending hunger, the sadistic doctors who pulled gold teeth, the Kapos who beat fellow Jews” (Donadio). At the end of Great Depression, Hitler was slowly gaining power and he convinced lots of people that Jews were harmful and taking all the food. The Nazis went and rounded up jews and sent them to concentration camps where they would make them work. If they could not work, they would be killed.
Not so much train but cart. On the train it was dark, smelly, and scary. People would scream have visions and Elie just wittinid all of this. After a few days possibly weeks they arrived at Auschwitz. When pulled out of the cart and into lines Elie was told to change his age from 15 to 18.
Eventually, they were herded up and transported in cattle cars to concentration camps, where for most, was their last destination. Written on page 29, Elie says, “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” Upon first arrival at the concentration camp, women and men are separated. Elie never was able to see his mother and youngest sister from that point on as they were brutally murdered by the Nazis. Despite how devastated he was, he never gave up on his journey to freedom alongside his father.
Brothers from sisters, husbands from wives, the Nazis tore apart hundreds of families. They were herded like animals onto trains going to the concentration camps. Packed in small areas with hardly enough room to breathe. Elie was separated from his sisters and his mother in the ghetto. This came without warning, and was only the beginning of the inhumanities Elie would experience.
In the final moments of Elie’s father’s life, Elie has no faith remaining in his father whatsoever. This is shown through Elie’s cruel thoughts, letting the SS beat his father because his father is creating so much noise. The traumatic experience of being near life and death at the hands of an SS guard causes whatever faith Elie had in his father to completely disappear. Elie’s humanity is not present. Wiesel shows the deterioration of the relationship through the descriptions about his father.
“After Elie’s father died he almost felt like a burden was lifted off his chest and he could become a child again. No longer did Elie have to worry about taking care of his father, he now had the ability to fully take care of himself. The camp was not a place for someone to have to make the transition between child to adult. After his dad died, Elie was able to be finally free again”
Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person, or group of people, of their unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From the beginning of the Holocaust, the Jews were the target of inequitable treatment from their German and allied persecutors. They were segregated from other races, seen more like animals than people, and tormented a great deal. In 1944, Wiesel describes his first sight of German soldiers in Sighet; he insisted that despite the Jewish people’s expectations, “first impressions of the Germans were most reassuring.”
Every story written has a tone that is put into the story by the author. Tone is the attitude of the author toward the subject, or the audience. In the book “Night,” tone is something that is present all throughout the story, especially so in chapter five. Here are some of the most prevalent ones that are in this story. One of the biggest tones in this chapter was the feeling of fear.
The condition inside of the train is awful. There are a hundred confused and scared people packed into one cattle car, unable to breathe, hot from being squished together, hungry, thirsty, and wondering what fate has in store for them. After crossing the Czechloslovakian border, the soldiers start to become extremely demanding, putting more fear into everyone on the train. They threaten to shoot anyone who tries to escape and they even go as far as nailing the doors shut. Some become delusional like Madame Schächter in Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night.
Having his father there made it easier for Elie. Elie had someone who would be there for him no matter the circumstances. His father loved him and did everything he could to protect Elie in the terrible time in the concentration camp. Elie learned to be strong and to take responsibility. His father dies and Elie is going to remember him forever as the man who sacrificed everything he had left for young Elie.
Think of a circumstance where you were so hungry and thirsty, that you did not even care to think about your father anymore. That circumstance goes against common father-son relationships. The common father-son motif is where the father looks out and cares for the son. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he explains why the circumstances around a father-son relationship can change their relationship, whether it 's for the better or the worse. Since the book is about the life of Elie in a Nazi concentration camp, the circumstances were harsh and took a toll on multiple father-son relationships.
Empathy; the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. An admirable trait, it often coincides with one's resilience. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his experiences as a young man during the Holocaust. It is a journey of suffering and survival, where the true devastation of the Holocaust is brought to light. Elies great empathy for his father shaped his resilience which allowed him to survive.
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
A Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry, or any valuables”. (page 10-11) When the Hungarian police barged into Sighet, they took all the Jews’ possessions, their heirlooms, their history as a way of dehumanizing the Jews. This is the first step in dehumanizing the Jews. The act of separating one group of people from another and taking all their valuables to lessen their worth. (Wiesel 8).
The Holocaust was a horrific tragedy which started in January of 1933 and ended in May of 1945, the Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of people. The word was derived from the Greek word that meant Sacrifice to the Gods (Steele 7), also called the Shoan which is the Hebrew word for catastrophe (Steele 7). So many countries took place in this 12-year genocide, including, “Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, which were also known as the Axis Powers” (Steele 34). But, although there were all those countries they were all part of one larger group called the Nazis, were the ones who were killing all the different denominations of people. (Bachrach 58).