Connor Chapel Mrs. Newsted English March 15 2023 Some books twist one’s heart in a very unexpected way. This was true for the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel. Throughout the story, I started to wonder if fear or hope was greater. Throughout this story, Elie showed love, and how brutal this camp was, and he showed faith in his family and God. Elie showed love in this story by loving his father in the good, bad, and ugly. This is because when Elie didn’t have enough food to spare for himself he still got his father to eat. This was shown throughout the story when he said “I gave him what was left of my soup” (112). This shows the amount of love Elie had for his dad because he was feeding his father who was already sick and had a very low chance of surviving. This shows us how much Elie cared for his dad and how important relationships are. …show more content…
The Nazis showed brutality towards the Jews including Elie and his father acting as if they were subhuman. This was shown in the book when Elie said "...climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one." (22). This clearly shows how the Nazis did not care about the Jews a single bit as they overloaded them into cattle cars that were not meant for humans. “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” (15). This quote clearly shows how the process of killing that the Nazis had created was so dehumanizing that so many people were dying that you could not even remember all of
When Elie was separated from his mother and sister at the beginning of the book Elie was only left with his father. When things got tough, they continued pushing for each other. They made sacrifices for each other and always made sure the other was ok. Elie had lost the rest of his family so his father meant the world to him. At the end of the book this is also taken away from him.
Elie Wiesel shows how relationships can change as life changes and as time goes by and that you can never take them for granted. On the beginning of the book Elie’s relationship with his father is that of him wanting his father to keep him out of the hands of the Nazis and to keep them alive. When Elie and his family were first taken to the Auschwitz he was very scared and concerned for his family. When he and his father got
In Night by Elie Wiesel and Surviving Auschwitz by Primo Levi, the two authors portray the attitudes during selection differently. In Night, Elie tells how the guards are saying brutal things very calmly, “Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. ”
He said in the book after his father all he cared about was his bread that he got. “Please sir i’d like to be near my father. ”(Wiesel 50) this quote shows how family is important to Elie, later in the book Elie traded food to be in the same bunk as his father. This shows how much family
“Never shall I forget that night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel tells the true and terrifying story of life inside the concentration camps during War II. As the author and main character in his book Night, Elie gives a first hand account of many of his experiences, some of which change him and some which do not. Overall, Elie is a dynamic character because Elie begins to question his faith in God, Elie’s attitude towards his father changes for the worse, and Elie starts to get more used to violent acts since he witnessed so much of it. First and foremost Elie begins to question his faith in God.
To begin, human connections can shape lives by taking away one’s sense of hope. The excerpt Night by Elie Wiesel begins with Eli telling the reader his emotions after experiencing the holocaust. Elie says, “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky” (Wiesel 37). In this quote Elie has a flashback to when he lived in the concentration camp and experienced the brutal murder of children and adults. This experience changed him forever and took away his hope for humanity, since he experienced such inhuman actions.
When they reach the camp they are sepperated men on one side then woman on the other. This is the last time he sees his mother and sister. After that his plan throughout the camp is to stick with his father no matter what. As they are walking a man comes up to him and asks him his age. When he says 15 the man tells him “No you are 18” and then asks Eli’s father how only he is.
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (Wiesel XV). In the novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, this quote shows how the world should not forget about the Holocaust and that we should recognize the reality of genocide of the past and the present to stop it from happening it again in the future. I think Elie Wiesel quote is the reason why we should remember the Holocaust because if we do not recognize what the Holocaust is about or pass our knowledge or understanding to our future generations, it has the potential to be repeated. There are three reasons why I believe it is important to remember the Holocaust and why our future generations should never forget it as well. The first reason is remembering the Holocaust
Joel Arnold Mrs. Mcormick English II 3 March 2023 Communities and Challenges Synthesis Essay Roughly 6 million European Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust causing 2 in every 3 Jewish people to be killed. The Holocaust caused the Jewish population in Europe to decrease drastically making surviving the Holocaust a very rare thing that Elie Weisel and 90% of the Danish Jewish population had done, the UDHR was created shortly after this to make sure an event like this never happened again. “Why 90% of Danish Jews Survived the Holocaust” by Erin Blakemore informs the reader about how the Danish people helped save a large majority of their Jewish community by helping them in every little way possible. Night by Elie Weisel describes his
Evan Bautista Ms. Valdez English 10 27 March 2023 The Art of Genocide In the 20th century, an estimated 200 million people died due to genocide. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or group with the intention of destroying them. The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel follows him and his father’s journey during the Holocaust, moving from concentration camp to concentration camp.
Elie Wiesel, who wrote the memoir Night, and the protagonist of this novel are of the same name. In Night, Wiesel’s psychological journey is explored as the Holocaust makes him doubt God and exposes him to the worst aspects of human depravity. It is clear that Hitler and his allies attacked Jewish culture as well as Jewish men, women, and children during their fight. The reasons why the Holocaust devastated Jewish culture will be discussed using characters, character development, and symbolism. Wiesel's and the Jewish people's faith was shaken by Wiesel's sense of betrayal by God as a result of His inaction during the Holocaust.
In today’s society, there are people who struggle or refuse to accept one another, which is the prime motive for acts of oppression. Indifference remains an issue even now, we can acknowledge that idea with continuous racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, et cetera. The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel portrays the way life is as a Jewish child during the Holocaust, in the text Elie is beaten and treated in a dehumanizing way as he’s in a concentration camp with his father. Admittedly, people have changed, compared to citizens who were hateful in the Holocaust, but indifference is a topic that still needs to be discussed more often than it already is, this is because when nobody speaks up, these problems continue sticking with us. While it may not be
When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie and his father looked to each other for support and survival, Sometimes Elie’s father being the only thing keeping him alive. In their old community Elie’s father was a strong-willed and respected community leader, as the book went on you could see how the roles were becoming reversed he was becoming weaker and more reliant on Elie to take care of him. Their father son bond had always been strong and only grew stronger with the things they had to endure. “My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” Elie was disgusted when he saw Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father to help improve his chances of his survival he prayed he’d never do such a thing, but as his father becoming progressively more reliant on Elie he started to see his father as more of a burden than anything else.
The Holocaust can easily be defined as one of the most tragic events in history. Masses were left never knowing if death or life was ahead of them. Among the multitude of people affected by the Holocaust, was fifteen year-old Elie Wesiel. Wesiel’s memoir Night written and released in 1960 about his captivating experiences in the Holocaust. Though there were not many survivors of the Holocaust, many of them survived by finding strength through human connection whether meeting a random person in passing or finding strength in family.
To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.