Response On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night

As humans, we must have all the basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter. But we humans also need a reason to live, whether it be your family, God, or just maybe reaching a goal you have been wanting to reach. Whichever one it may be for you, it is easier to find out which one, when you are put in awful situations. In Night, Elie tells us all of the horrific things that were done to him, and the ones around him during the Holocaust. Throughout the book, those people begin to lose faith in those things that had helped keep them alive: their faith, their loved ones, and themselves.

Often, we find ourselves facing events in our lives that force us to redefine ourselves. Such circumstances try to break the heart of the human nature in us. It is at that time, the humanity in us either shatters apart, or it transforms into a strong bundle of compassion.

The jews started feeling like no one cared about them, and that something was wrong with them. Why would God let these awful things happen to good people?

Elie survived the concentration camps for almost two years. Though he often claimed that he wanted to give up, that he wished he would just die, he still fought against his death. He was alive when the first American tank arrived at Buchenwald. He wrote: “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread.” (Night Pg. 77) This quote shows that, even though Elie had lost most of his humanity, he still managed to survive.

Many Jews who survived the Holocaust was forced to have to change. From the beatings, starvation, and other awful things, the survivors of the Holocaust would never be the same as they was. Some survivors of the Holocaust tell their stories so we all remember that what Hitler did is unforgivable and that it should never be