Virtue, compassion, and benevolence are all qualities in our society that are considered good. In history, there are figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. that have displayed these characteristics, but then again, demonstrations of goodness are shown by people every day. Goodness or righteousness from people has always thrived, even in the worst periods of humanity. Therefore, mankind is inherently good as shown in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, where this notion is illustrated through kind acts during his difficult times and through charities which give people hope. In the novel Night, inherent good is demonstrated as acts of kindness that helped Elie persevere. Elie is a young Jewish boy who lived happily with his family …show more content…
Through these non-profitable organizations, money from donations, food, and other items are given to help the sick and the poor. In 2014, the people of the United States donated three hundred fifty-eight thousand billion dollars to charities (National Philanthropic Trust). Why would people donate to charities? People have their own problems and struggles to deal with. People could be a dollar richer if they didn’t donate. Also, why do charities exist? There are more than one million five hundred thousand charities in the United States (Foundation Center). People have jobs, families, and other important events to take care of throughout their daily lives. Why spend time caring when there are so many things people have to get done with? According to Merriam Webster, another definition of charity is “benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity” (Merriam Webster). This is why people donate and start charities. People do care. We are all humans made of the same things, able to communicate the same way, and have the ability to have the same emotions. To see a child’s eyes light with hope or a person’s gratitude from something we helped to bring them is something that naturally makes humans happy. Charities that give hope is an additional way that expresses that mankind is inherently
What do you think it was like to live in the Holocaust as a Jew? The memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel describes how the Jews were mistreated by the Nazi’s and transported into cattle cars into concentration camps. The Holocaust is responsible for 6 million deaths and the pain is still felt to this day. The S.S. officers dehumanized the Jews by abusing and treating them as animals, making conditions unbearable in the concentration camps, and by making transportation nearly impossible to live through.
Compassion is an extremely powerful emotion. It’s when you help someone get through an awful time in their life. Usually if it’s someone or something you, love you can show compassion towards it, You’ll end up putting an extreme amount of love and compassion into something you care about. If your loved one is going through an event you’ve gone through, you can empathize with them and connect. Showing love and compassion can let other people know what kind of person you are.
During a time of great struggle, there is no doubt that the event will cause the person to change. In something so horrible and traumatizing as the Holocaust, where the Nazi soldiers inflicted so much fear on the Jews, there is no doubt they would feel forced to change in order to survive. Since the Nazis committed such heinous crimes, the victims of the holocaust began to deny their faith, go against their morals in order to survive the stress, and their physical appearances changed due to the little food the Nazi’s gave them in the Concentration camp. Eliezer, the main character of the novel Night, goes through an intense character change from the beginning to the end of his story as a holocaust victim. This event in his life causes a change
a. How does Elie Wiesel reveal character in Night? Throughout Night characters are revealed directly. Elie’s observations, descriptions, and narrations show us character development. Methods utilized frequently are interactions between people, family bonds, descent into death, desperation for survival, indifference to the well-being of others, as well as generosity and selflessness to their fellow man.
The severely cruel conditions of concentration camps had a profound impact on everyone who had the misfortune of experiencing them. For Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a survivor of Auschwitz, one aspect of himself that was greatly impacted was his view of humanity. During his time before, during, and after the holocaust, Elie changed from being a boy with a relatively average outlook on mankind, to a shadow of a man with no faith in the goodness of society, before regaining confidence in humanity once again later in his life. For the first 13 years of his life, Elie seemed to have a normal outlook on humanity.
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
Humanity takes form in many different ways throughout o society. Many argues that society does not have any humanity, but they are very mistaken. Humanity is very common in society people just show it in different ways this can go from helping someone to just being there for one another. Humanity can be shown through safety,hope, and reuniting people.
‘Isnt it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back. Everything is different’ Quote by C.S Lewis Night by Elie Wiesel, gives out more of a gruesome setting while Elie himself describes his whole horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Do we know how that big of a darkening impact can change a normal human being to someone we all won 't even recognize? Page by page of this novel Elie adjusted differently emotionally, physically, and spiritually from beginning, middle and end.
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.
I learned a lot of new information while reading Night, there were many things I didn’t know about the Holocaust before that I know about now. I never knew much about the conditions of the camps or how the people were treated there, I just knew that they were dreadful places. Now I can have an image of the camps in my head, what it looked like for the people who had to live in these horrendous camps. They committed so many execrable acts on people, they performed experiments on people, murdered whoever they wanted, starved people and many more gruesome things. I didn’t realize how bad the conditions really were and how badly the people were treated.
Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes the horrors of focusing on your own survival. Certain acts provoke inhumane acts throughout the ordeal. A central theme in Night is, even though it’s difficult, people should value compassion over their own survival. For instance, the evil of a lack of compassion affects thousands of prisoner lives.
In the novel Night the main character, Eliezer, faces many problems with who he was. Wiesel showed the struggle he and others had to remain human when inhumane acts occurred around him. The purpose of Night was to share the struggle Elie had with keeping
Those that do lack concern generally have reasons other than because of evolution. The fact that there are charities that exist to alleviate mass suffering shows that many people do care. These charities would not exist if there were not many people donating to them. If a person does not donate, it does not automatically mean they do not care. Some people do not donate for reasons already mentioned, such as lack of money or distrust of the
The American Red Cross is a humanitarian cause that I care about. The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. The reason she founded it was because when she visited Europe she heard about the international Red Cross and realized just how United States needed it. Red Cross’s mission is to give aid in national disasters and other serious disasters. It also gives education to needy children and emergency assistance throughout United States.
People don't like contributing to charities because it's no reason. If the money not benefitting them why give money. Some people don't have money to just give away for free because they have kids and they also have a family to take care of and other things to do for theirself. People can help their own community with their own money putting in fixing things they see wrong. Americans donate twice as much as individuals in other rich nations, but only a fraction goes to help the people where the greatest need and where a dollar goes the furthest.