Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, one of the main characters Elie Wiesel was taken from his home in 1944, and was sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp, at the age of fifteen. When Elie was separated from his family it caused me to think the most. The part in the book that provoked the strongest feelings in me was learning that babies were being burned. The book Night also helped me to have a better appreciation towards the Jews and what they had to live through. Through Elie’s words throughout Night, the separation from his family had the most effect on me, learning about babies being burned provoked the strongest feelings within me, and Night helped me to really appreciate the struggles endured by the Jew’s.

Firstly, when Elie was separated from his three sisters and his mother (Hilda, Bea, Tzipora, and Ms.Wiesel) this caused me to think the most, because I can not imagine how I would feel if I was forced to leave my family at the age of fifteen. I would not be able to go through life not knowing if my sisters were alive or dead. I think that Elie would be terrified and scared not knowing what was going on, when Elie says, “Men to the left! Women to the right. [...] Yet that was the moment when I left my mother.” I feel compassion towards Elie, it makes me think how lucky I'm to have a family.

My feelings and thoughts towards this action were and still are very strong, I do not believe in child abuse at all, reading about this terrible action makes me sick to my stomach! I can not imagine what it would be like to walk in Elie’s shoes, and experience, hear, and see the repugnant things that happened. No child should ever experience what Elie went