Night
Maria Velazquez
September 15, 2013
English Honors
Ms. Reed
Pd. 7 In the story Night by Ellie Wiesel, the main character meets horrible situations in his life. Elizer is only twelve years old when him and his family are taken to a consentration camp with other people that were Jewish just like him. In the begining Elie cared for his loved ones, but in the end all he cares about is himself. Night shows how cruel treatment chaned all the good people into savages. Ellie himself doesn't escape that fate, he becomes a brute himself too. One example when Elizer acts like a brute is when he eats his father's ratio of food even though he knows that his father is starving. The reason why he eats his father's ratio is because he knows that his father is going to die anyways so he might a well eat it so that he will have a better chance of survival. Eventhough, his way of thinking makes sense I think he should have let him have his ratio because his father was starving. Another example in which he acts like a brute is when he loses his faith. At first Elli kept his faith in god strong because he thought God was testing him to see how strong his faith was, but he later came to a conclusion that no God that cared about them would allow all that destruction. I know that the Jews were going through a very hard time but that is when your faith should be the strongest. One last example in which Elizer acted like a brute was when he got angry at his father when the Kapo beats him. Rather than Ellie being angry at the guy that beat him, he gets mad at his father for not avoiding the Kapo. All these events show how the consentration caps have turned him and all the Jews into inhumane people. Inconclusion, in the book Night by Ellie Weisel, the author shows us how good Jews turn into savages in order to survive, because they are treated so horrible in the consentration camps. Unfortunately, Ellie was not able to escape that providence, he also becomes a brute. It is almost
September 15, 2013
English Honors
Ms. Reed
Pd. 7 In the story Night by Ellie Wiesel, the main character meets horrible situations in his life. Elizer is only twelve years old when him and his family are taken to a consentration camp with other people that were Jewish just like him. In the begining Elie cared for his loved ones, but in the end all he cares about is himself. Night shows how cruel treatment chaned all the good people into savages. Ellie himself doesn't escape that fate, he becomes a brute himself too. One example when Elizer acts like a brute is when he eats his father's ratio of food even though he knows that his father is starving. The reason why he eats his father's ratio is because he knows that his father is going to die anyways so he might a well eat it so that he will have a better chance of survival. Eventhough, his way of thinking makes sense I think he should have let him have his ratio because his father was starving. Another example in which he acts like a brute is when he loses his faith. At first Elli kept his faith in god strong because he thought God was testing him to see how strong his faith was, but he later came to a conclusion that no God that cared about them would allow all that destruction. I know that the Jews were going through a very hard time but that is when your faith should be the strongest. One last example in which Elizer acted like a brute was when he got angry at his father when the Kapo beats him. Rather than Ellie being angry at the guy that beat him, he gets mad at his father for not avoiding the Kapo. All these events show how the consentration caps have turned him and all the Jews into inhumane people. Inconclusion, in the book Night by Ellie Weisel, the author shows us how good Jews turn into savages in order to survive, because they are treated so horrible in the consentration camps. Unfortunately, Ellie was not able to escape that providence, he also becomes a brute. It is almost