Love And Compassion In Elie Wiesel's Night

Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, conducted a genocide known as the Holocaust during World War II that was intended to exterminate the Jewish population. The Holocaust was responsible for the death of about 6 million Jews. Night is a nonfiction novel written by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience during the Holocaust. Many events in the novel convey a theme of “man’s inhumanity to man”. The prisoners of the concentration camps are constantly tortured and neglected by the German officers who run the camps. The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.

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.

To start off, Elie had to get over the unbearable dilemma of losing multiple members of his family. It is unimaginable to lose any family members in such a horrid way, but that was only one of the barriers he had to face. Elie had the perseverance to keep functioning even after encountering something so terrible. Losing his family was only one one of the barriers he had to overcome. Without a family, it made the experience a

In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people. The holocaust makes physical and mental alterations to Elie’s life, and this tells the reader that the people who did this are effective and impacting, also it shows that Elie’s mind is controlled by what he was experiencing.

Do certain characteristics influence us humans to think what actually make us “human”, well these 6 categories of shared humanity play a role in human's everyday lives. Shared humanity happens in humans lives whether it's once or many times. The novels and short stories we took the time to read in class had many evidence to show shared humanity in people's lives. These 6 categories play a major role in human's lives no matter what, you are going to encounter challenges in your life as a human.

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel and his father were in Nazi concentration camps. Although the Nazis treated them horribly, there were some people who went out of the way to show kindness to Elie. I think this shows that even in the darkest moments there will still be kind people. The three examples of kindness I will use are the young Pole in charge of Elie’s block, the veteran inmates and the food that was given to them.

Fear causes people to makes judgements. It’s what makes people cautious and skittish, mostly in unsafe situations. Without fear people’s life would be at risk. Throughout the memoir Night fear builds up over time, starting when the Germans taking over Sighet, they slowly start to take over their lives. They begin by doing good for them like giving them a box of chocolates. Through a slow process the people becoming less human and begin to gain fear right when they are forced to leave there home, true fear sets in. This leads to people not standing up for themselves or doing anything about their situation, all because of fear. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, it’s clear that fear overpowers the actions of people and

In chapter one of Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, his purpose behind his use of excessive tragic irony is to display the astonishing amount of innocence and unawareness the Jews have about the Germans’ plans. For instance, Wiesel displays the Jews’ ignorance when he writes, ““There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk” (16). This exemplifies how the Jews truly believe that the situation was going to get better. This is tragically ironic because their situation was not going to get better, it was going to get much worse. The Jews don’t believe that what awaited them in Auschwitz was even possible. For example, Wiesel displays tragic irony when

For most people, you have a feeling or need to help others. When someone is bleeding or hurt you wouldn’t just leave them. Caring for others and being compassionate comes naturally to most. Despite how most people would react it’s not what Elie had witnessed. Forced out of the Ghettos, thrown into a train full of people where you couldn’t move or sit. “‘There are eighty of you in this car,’ the German officer added. ‘ If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs.’” They were over packed in the cart. Treated as if they weren’t people and told if they tried to escape they’d be killed. Not only did they threaten to kill them but they compared to an animal, showing what the Nazis actually thought about them.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night he and many of the other prisoners felt victimized by the guards and their use of power over them. One example of abuse and dehumanization is Franek, the foreman. He noticed that Elie had a gold crown in his mouth, Franek wanted it. When told to give it to him, Elie said no, so Franek started harassing and abusing Elie’s father. Elie’s father was unable to march in step, which caused a problem for him because everywhere they went it was in step, “This presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely. Left,right: he punched him. Left, right: he slapped him,” (Wiesel 55). Throughout Elie’s time at the concentration camps he went through many selections, this is when it is

The Holocaust was a horrible event where the Nazis killed six million Jews and five million Gentiles. One of the most celebrated survivors of this awful event and the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, Eliezer Wiesel, wrote a memoir about the event called Night, where you can see Elie changes throughout his years in the Holocaust. Elie’s horrid traumatic experiences from the Holocaust altered his relationship with God and his physical appearance.

This year in English, I had to read Night by Elie Wiesel during the time in class we were learning about Holocaust. The memoir was about a young teenager life in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp during the Holocaust. While reading this book, I learned many things like how some people did not give up, how Nazis dehumanized prisoners and how Eliezer and many people were changing throughout the Holocaust.

Giving up in a perilous situation can be the easy way out. It's like taking a nap after a long day, except you die. After being put down and berated so much it can make you feel worthless and give up. When it others don't care about you, it's easy to not care about yourself. The conditions and situations the victims of the Holocaust were so extreme that it wasn't uncommon for someone to give up and just want to die.

The choices made by people during the holocaust could change their life forever, or even get them killed. People had to make important decisions like if they should take the risk of hiding a jew, or fleeing their country. It is these decisions that could determine if they could live to see another day. The consequences and benefits of those choices would impact their lives, forever. Choices made during the holocaust like “should I resist” or “can I trust this person”, could decide that person’s fate.

Religion, empathy, sympathy and compassion are all words that describe a kind and caring person. They describe millions of Jewish people before the Holocaust. This race and many other groups of people that were targeted encountered terrible things that no human being should ever experience. These groups, including Elie Wiesel the author of the book Night, lost their religion, faith, empathy, sympathy and compassion because of the Holocaust, and became selfish beings that were focused only on survival.