Commentary On The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." ( page 34) - Elie Wiesel. The mass killings in Germany activated against the Jews created a new word, genocide. The Nazi almost exterminated more than half of Jewish, and other. The book ' Night' was about Elie, and how he was sent to the concentration camp with his father, the story tells all of hardship and the endurance that he and his father need to have and how they survive these horrible experiences.
I never saw a single victim weep. Theses withered bodies had no longer forgotten in bitter taste of tears" ( Night 63) The hanging was lasted was a while when a pipel, was last to be hang. In this quote it show the dehumanization. Because the boy was still alive when he was hang, this boy was just hanging there suffocating, and slowly dying. " And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him in close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished" ( Night 65). This was a pure horror for Elie and the other prisoner, but they cant turn their eye away because it they do.. they'll get shot, beat, or even get
I was afraid, my body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head" ( Night 111) This was one the devastated thing that Elie ever experience, having his sick father calling out for him but end up not going anything other than watching and being afraid to get beaten by the officer too, This is one of the most heart breaking thing, that anyone would have read. It shows how hopeless Elie is. In the other quote it shows how Elie woke up to find that his father was already gone.. and he don't even say anything to his father other than hearing his father last words is his name, Eliezer, " I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: free at last!....." ( Night 112) In this quote it show how the weight that was holding Elie, was lifting because now that his father die. Eliezer no longer have to look out for his father, he have no longer to worry about anything