For example, when the author states, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (page 67). This shows that he not only didn’t believe anymore but that he despised God and has lost his religion. Elie was so furious at the concentration camp that he thought, “As for me, I had ceased to pray!... I was not denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice… a thought crossed my mind: Where is Mother right now… and Tzipora” (page 45). This shows that he starts to rebel and not believe in God because he has not gotten the luxury of seeing his Mother and Sister for a long time. In the words of Elie, “And in spite of myself a prayer formed inside me, a prayer…
During the Holocaust, over 11 million people were killed. 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he speaks about a young boy named Elie Wiesel. This novel also explained his thoughts/feelings during the tragic event. During, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.…
Night By Elie Wiesel Hope or despair? The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a first-person narrative about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of over 6 million European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II The book tells the story of the time when the author was taken to a concentration camp by the Nazis. At the time he was only 14 years old and lived in Sighet, Transylvania. He tells us all of his horrifying experiences as a Jewish prisoner. Even though he tells us this gruesome story I believe he is trying to tell us that even though terrible things may happen, you must always have hope that things are going to get better.. It must have been very hard for him to narrate this memories that probably still haunt him so we must be thankful to him for giving us this chunk of history that was missing.…
The death of his family and the horror of the camp internments was a devastating experience which began a reformation of Elie's religious beliefs. "The Holocaust created a void in the souls of many who survived. Elie Wiesel was one of those people. Before the Holocaust he had been one of the most devout Jewish children." During the Holocaust, "The town felt that God was with them and would protect them from anything as horrible as what these rumors suggested. They felt safe and secure in their faith." Once in the camps,…
Night Novel Timed Writing Elie Wiesel in the novel, Night, illustrates how his life went during, arguably, the worst time in recorded history, the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was born in Hungary, 1928, and was the age of 15 when he first was sent to auschwitz. He went thru many devastations during his time in the Holocaust and with him being one of not so many people to survive this period of time he’s able to tell his story now. Elie’s father, Shlomo, was another huge character in this book. He was a Jewish leader and had to go threw the Holocaust knowing everything he worked for is being destroyed and ripped from his hands and there's nothing he could do about it. Although Elie tries his best to keep his father's hope alive. Due to the Holocaust Elie had to go threw changes such as His whole family, religion and Race be destroyed and taken from him in a short period of time, and he went thru terrible living conditions and a overall bad way to live.…
Never Repeat History The events that took place in World War ɪɪ were horrifying, since the Nazi’s took millions of Jews and placed them in concentration camps. One story told by Elie Wiesel, in the book Night describes how Elie survived the holocaust and lived to tell his story. His story describes of the mistreatment of the Jews and his father.…
They had to be there, away from others waiting for their destiny. They lived cramped giving shelter to their family and friends that had no where to stay within the ghetto. Afterwards, they had to evacuate their homes because they were being deported. They went on this terrible train ride with no food, no water, and no space to even breathe All the Jews from that town were in this train, they were all going crazy and they were dying slowly and painfully without water. Elie tried to stay strong through all of this, for his family and himself. He felt himself change when thing started to go wrong but he only thought of surviving. I think that Elie was a very strong person, he never gave up. He was sick and he was mentally harmed with everything he had to go through, including that train ride, but he still tried his best to stay strong and to keep going. “After two days of traveling, we began to be tortured by thirst. Then the heat became unbearable” (21). They were only two days in and they were already dying of thirst. They were on this ride for much longer without any water. In conclusion Elie suffered a lot, and he kept going. In order to keep his life he went through things most boys don’t go…
For one, the imagery of babies and small children being thrown into the flames of the crematorium was infuriating. (Wiesel, 50). Even Wiesel had to pinch himself and wonder how it could be possible that women and children were burned and the world stayed silent. (Wiesel, 50). In addition to these sadistic acts were the hanging of two young boys. The prisoners were forced to look at the first hanged boy in the face after he died; the second boy was too light and the rope didn’t kill him instantly, so he remained there for nearly a half an hour, while the prisoners were again forced to watch. (Wiesel, 83). Finally, the event that outraged me the most was the death of Elie’s father following a terrible illness. His father was calling out for Elie to come near him, but, in fear of the SS, Elie didn’t move. (Wiesel, 129). After that, Elie went to bed after “etching his bloody, broken face” in his mind, and woke up to a different man lying on his father’s cot, leaving Elie completely alone and not knowing exactly what happened to his father. (Wiesel,…
The Evils and Format of Night The novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, tells about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. It is an extraordinary work telling the terrifying and real life experiences from the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors of the holocaust, and tells his miraculous story of what he went through and how he survived a long, life threatening year in the camps. The Holocaust was a time period in the early 1900s where 6-million Jews were killed off by Nazi Germans lead by Adolf Hitler. If not killed, they were taken to Concentration Camps where they were worked, starved, and beaten to death. These camps were where Eli and his father were taken. In the Concentration Camps a multitude of evil was present in both German soldiers and the Jewish prisoners for many…
Elie Wiesel’s novel, The Night,describes Eliezer’s journey of being part of the Holocaust. Through the novel, he faced many hardships and had to try and survive through the whole book. This was the reason he used, The Night, as the title of the book because the title conveys the deep darkness he went through at the camps. The night symbolizes the darkness that was mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. Eliezer faced many tough times and chose the title, The Night, for a reason.…
If I was forced from my home, cooped up in the Ghetto, and encumbered on a raucous cattle car ride, I think my spiritual state would be on the verge of shattering, unlike Eliezer Wiesel's, whose spiritual state gets stronger. But before then, if I would have spent about five years studying, (like Eliezer did) by day the Talmud and by night the Kabbalah to find suddenly my religious teacher and some other Jews disappears, and is said to have been moved for their safety due to the war, but a few weeks later he comes back telling profound stories of Jewish babies being used as target practice, innocent people being forced to dig their own graves, then stand in front of that grave while someone either beheads or shoots them, and they fall into…
It is estimated that 1.3 million Jews were held in Auschwitz and 1.1 million of them were brutally tortured and murdered before the camp’s liberation in 1945 (Seventieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz 1). One of Auschwitz’s survivors, Elie Wiesel, recalls his experience in the camp, “Death wrapped itself around me until I was stifled. It stuck to me. I felt that I could touch it. The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me.” Even though Elie was liberated from Auschwitz when he was fifteen years old, the ghastly events still haunt him. Looking at himself in the mirror weeks after his liberation he states, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” After reading Elie’s book, Night, I was completely blown away by the horrific conditions that he had described. My perspective of the Holocaust was transformed completely after I finished the book. I could not comprehend how human beings could be capable of something so horrendous, so egregious… so demonic. I still get chills when I ponder it. I often wonder how many more people could have been saved if the camps had been liberated just one day earlier, how much more suffering would have been prevented? These questions haunt my mind every time the subject of the Holocaust is…
In today’s world, we are taught that it is acceptable to be different and to be proud of who we are. However, as we know, that has not always been the case. In school, we recently read Night by Elie Wiesel. His story, like so many others, shares his horrific experience during the Holocaust. He struggled to believe in his faith as the world around him crumbled. His story teaches us that we have to stand strong even when it feels easier to give up.…
Elie entering his first concentration camp his first changed in his faith in god because of the the terrible things he witnessed. For example, Elie states,“Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (Wiesel 34). This represents how Elie’s lost in hope from what he had witnessed was like he lost his life, and faith had changed in god. The only hope Stein had was his family and without them he has nothing to live for, so he gives up to live. Therefore, Elie states,“The only thing that keeps me alive, is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up! We never saw him again. He had been given the news. The real news” (Wiesel 45). This is relevant because Elie lied to Stein to keep some hope in him until he was finally found out his family was gone so was his hope and life. Being in the camp had destroyed the prisoners so poorly and horribly that the Akiba Drumer took his death walk on the first selection because his hope because of his faith in god was faiting. Finally, Elie states,“Poor Akiba Drumer, if only I could have kept his faith in God . . . But as soon as he felt the first thinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death” (Wiesel 77). This suggests that just being in these concentration…
Donovan Collins-Goodman Ms. Burdios English 8 4 May 2013 Night Essay Have you ever been separated from your family? What if living wasn’t guaranteed? The holocaust killed over eleven million people. The purpose of the holocaust was to eliminate the entire Jewish race. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family were separated. Elie was forced to take care of his father while his mother and sister were killed. The Jews’ freedom, identity, and sense of hope were taken from them to make the Jews feel less than human.…