Death and Survival: What Gives Us the Will to Continue? What can cause someone with total passion for life to completely give up? What is their ultimate weakness? "Night" gives a vivid picture of Elie Wiesel's life during the Holocaust. Throughout the few years he spends traveling from camp to camp, he learns more about himself and what means the most to him. Over time, he discovers that he lives and continues on for his father. When he enters the first camp, Birkenau, he acts as if survival is all matters, but by the end of his treacherous journey he is simply living day to day, and after the death of his father, he is only a shadow of the boy he once was. On Elie's first day in camp his only goal is survival, for him as well as his
During the book, Elie becomes numb to the horror around him and becomes a different person. From the first time he stepped into a concentration camp he saw terrible things, like children being thrown into pits. He saw many people be killed by officers or by other causes. The
Throughout the darkest days of Night, there is still hope for Elie Wiesel. At the end of the Holocaust, over 60,000 Jews were liberated by US soldiers and more than 90,000 Jews escaped death camps. For them, there was still hope in the universe. In Elie’s memoir, he struggles with his belief in God and the intertwining existence of hope in the universe.
At first glance, Weisel, along with the other Jews are presented as inhuman to the Germans. When the Jews are first transported to the concentration camps in cattle cars, the Germans lay out a few ground rules. The Germans expect the Jews to stay in their designated places and that “if anyone is missing” they “would be shot like dogs” (22). The Germans compare the Jewish to animals. They transport the Jews in cattle cars, and call them dogs, bringing them down to the level of animals rather than human beings.
Why Elie lost more hope More than six million people died in the Holocaust. Elie and Jeanne lived two very different lives and had two very different situations. Elie wiesel lost more hope in humanity because he had horrible conditions, he was betrayed by his government and after the war his life changed the most. Elies life during the camps were absolutely horrific and unimagimal.
Later, Elie begins to explain how his personality and outlook on life changed during his time at the camp. He stated, “The instincts of self-preservation, self-defense,
Blinders are small, black rectangular squares strapped on each side of a race horse's eyes in order to block the scene around it. In a way, this is what people around the world do when a tragic event happens. Whether it is the forced containment of “impure” races or the genocide of millions of people, people tend to put their own blinders on as a sort of blockade against the event. They cannot fathom how humans can be so cruel to one another. People also put these blinders on because they believe that they, a singular human, cannot possibly make a dent in the proverbial metal of a situation like the Holocaust.
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
Survival of the fittest The theme of survival of the fittest is shown throughout the memoir Night. Night was written by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. In this memoir Elie explains as well as shows survival of the fittest, by sharing his story of his struggles along with countless other Jews during the holocaust. He illustrated the theme of survival of the fittest in the memoir night through the situations of Elie lying about his age during selection, the Rabbi's son leaving his father, during the death march, and the son killing his father over a crust of bread.
Hope is a helpful tool to push people through the hardest times in life. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, there are numerous examples of hope helping people and revitalizing their confidence. People used hope to help them through rough times. People hope that friends and family are still alive. Also hope that the Front liberates the camps and frees everyone.
Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. It is the ability to bounce back, no matter if it 's an object or person. As Margaret Thatcher said, “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young Elie Wiesel and his family are taken from their hometown, Sighet, and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this book, Wiesel relives and tells the horrors and nightmares of what his friends, family, and himself went through while in the camps.
Courage is a word that used often or not, has it’s own meaning. Having courage to do the impossible is experienced in our everyday lives without even thinking, such as, taking out the trash, going to school, taking a step onto a unknown street, it happens to us all and can even have a dramatic impact on yourself, your future, and your life. In the book Night courage is experienced every single day of torture. Prisoners, such as Elie, face and fight for their own survival not knowing that their best weapon possessed in their hands was courage. Courage was a weapon, a very powerful weapon that could change your fate in an instant.
The human condition is a very malleable idea that is constantly changing due to the current state of mankind. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of the human condition is displayed in the worst sense of the concept, during the Holocaust of WWII. During this time, multiple groups of people, most notably European Jews, were persecuted against and sent to horrible hard labor and killing centers such as Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiesel uses complex figurative language such as similes and metaphors to display the theme that a person’s state as a human, both at a physical and emotional level, can be altered to extreme lengths, and even taken away from them, under the most extreme conditions.
In Night by Elie Wiesel the author shows resilience is how people survive through difficult times. Elie shows resilience by never giving up hope on surviving and working hard to keep his life going to make it out of the war. A specific instance is when they have begun the run from one camp to another with the SS shooting people who were left behind “I kept repeating to myself ‘Don’t stop, don’t think, run!’ Near me men were collapsing into dirty snow. Gunshots.”
Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.
The world could be a definition of a utopia or a dystopia, though our world tends to be leaning towards a dystopia. This world we live in is filled with depression, hate, and even pain because all the conflicts and deaths that is happening all around the world. A point in history that is a clear example of a dystopian society was the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, shows a normal child during the Holocaust being put through camps after camps as a result of being Jewish. He was forced to grow up fast; having to take care of his father, encountering millions of deaths, and tortured by the S.S. Guards, living a life like no child should.