Night is a memoir narrated by Eliezer, a young Jewish teenager. Eliezer recounts his life in Sighet, a small Transylvanian town, in 1941, four years prior to the end of World War II. As the protagonist of Night, Eliezer shares insights into his strong beliefs in his faith and his family. He desires to have a tutor who can guide him in his spiritual growth and deepen his devotion to God. Moishe the Beadle is the first person Eliezer mentions in his book.
This section did not have hope in it unlike the past section. However, I was able to get more of a perspective of how activities ran in Auschwitz and all the other camps intermingled within it. I found that the section had only a few parts that were disturbing, but for the most part, I find that the author of the book is increasingly likeable. Although he has guilt for some of his orders, it is a significant contrast from the guards in charge whom do not care about any prisoner. What I found to be very reprimandable is when Nyiszli gave the female prisoners medicine to take back to their shacks.
Chapter One: Introduction During the English Civil War, in the 1640s, the Earl of Clarendon came up with a novel wheeze: rather than allow those presumed to be parliamentarian enemies to claim the benefit of the rule of law, he would establish a prison on an island off the British shoreline. That way, he reasoned, they could be safely forgotten, buried along with their legal rights. When parliament later looked back on this dark chapter of British history, they passed the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 to ensure that never again would an unpopular group of people be denied justice. Clarendon was impeached by the House of Commons and fled to France, where he died in exile.
The book night is about a kid and his family and friends getting sent to a concentration camp. While they’re there, they met people and lost people and Elie lost faith in God, himself, and his fellow man. He lost his faith in God when he thought he was going to walk into the fire and die, Lost faith in himself when he wanted to attack the man that attacked his dad, and lost faith in his fellow man when he lied to Stein about his family being alive then he found out. First, Wiesel and his father met their cousin, Stein. Stein asked them if they knew if his family was alive or not and if they weren’t he wouldn’t want to live anymore.
In the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel writes about what he experienced in the holocaust. He went from his house to ghettos and then to concentration camps and the entire time he had to wear the star of david. Elie was in the concentration camps and went through many events from the time he was forced to go to the ghettos until the last people including him were let free. Elie’s views on God changed his identity after he lost his trust in God and caring towards others. Throughout the memoir Elie along with his father and the other Jews changed due to how they were treated.
The story begins with the introduction of Twelve year old boy Eliezer, living in the town of Sighet. He is an orthodox Jewish family’s son and have two older sisters, Hilda and Bea and a younger sister Tzipora. They have been raised under strict Jewish tradition. Eliezer’s father is a shop keeper and highly respected by the Jewish community of Sighet. Eliezer is very interested in religious activities, he studies Talmud; Jewish oral law and he has a passion to learn Kabbalah.
Image result for elie wieselIn the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel wrote about how the Jews and the Gypsies were taken from their homes, their countries, friends, family, and was forced to dig their own graves. They were killed on the spot if they did not follow directions. Wiesel wanted to show how evil mankind can be, the way they were treated with hatred, disgust and looked down upon. They were treated like dogs. Wiesel is trying to teach that even though there is evil in the world, you cannot let go of your positivity, hope, and will to survive.
In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, there are many terrible things that happened that nobody thought could be real. Many Jews have been shipped to concentration camps and now they have to deal with what lies ahead of them, death. In the beginning of this true story, we see a young innocent boy who has no idea what he is up against in the near future. Many Jews relied on the thought of God being with them to keep themselves strong. Throughout the book we see that Wiesel's view of God drastically changes by the many horrific acts he witnessed in Buchenwald and Buna that could not be unseen.
The book I read was NIght by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1958. Elie Wiesel was a well known author. He recently passed away July 2nd, 2016. He wrote many books: Night, Day, Dawn, and The Oath.
In the beginning of the story, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the readers are given background of the town where Eliezer grew up. Within the background given, the readers are introduced to two major characters in the story, Moishe the Beadle and Eliezer. Moishe the Beadle is a poor man who lives in Eliezer’s town of Sighet but, he is a very knowledgeable man. Eliezer is the main character.
After the camp became liberated, he went off to study in Paris and became a journalist who wrote of his experiences in concentration camps. As a result of Wiesel’s experience, he wrote many pieces and novels, including his most famous novel “Night”. “Only in Night does Wiesel speak about the Holocaust directly. Throughout his other works, the Holocaust looms as the shadow, the central but unspoken mystery in the life of his protagonists” (Encyclopedia of the World). In his most famous novel “Night” is where he becomes a “messenger of the dead amongst the living”, because he speaks for all the lives lost in the Holocaust and tells his experience as a young male in concentration camps.
In times of instability, friends and families relationships strive by helping each other and providing each other with love and support. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained.” – Winston Churchill. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel is a young, religious boy who is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp with his family. Elie discovers hastily that the world is filled with hate and extreme racism.
Before leaving Gleiwitz, the Jews (including Wiesel and his father) faced another selection where those strong enough would be sent to the left to continue to the center of Germany and those too weak would be sent to the left and, eventually, to the crematoria. When his father was sent to the left and he to the right, Wiesel broke rank and went after his father. By doing so, Wiesel made a big confusion with the SS officers and he, his father and some others switched to the right side. Though they both survived, Wiesel wrote “Still, there were gunshots and some dead” (96). The substantiality of this is that Wiesel was safe in that moment
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.
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.
