Health and its Impact on the Characters of Night Night by Eliezer Wiesel is a story about the countless trials that the author faces during the Holocaust. He starts as an innocent young boy from Sighet. He is forced into a ghetto, and then into several concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buna. Finally, he is liberated from his camps. He is joined in his trials by his father, Shlomo Wiesel. Through their time on this journey, the relationship between the two changes dramatically. The two traveled, were beaten, and starved together. During their time together, the relationship between the two changes dramatically. Shlomo Wiesel, initially a strong and reliable leader whom Elie felt distant from, becomes increasingly dependent on Elie …show more content…
There are several instances in Night where the Jews are inspected in order to ensure that they are still able to work. In one specific instance, Elie goes through this process with extreme anxiety as he knows how brutal the Nazis are. Despite his concerns for his own safety, Elie thinks to himself, “Then we would know the verdict: death or reprieve. [...] I first thought of [my father] now” (70). Elie has every reason to believe his father would be taken. Elie is becoming much weaker and is unable to work as effectively, yet he no longer regards his own safety as his utmost priority. This is the same Elie who had disobeyed his father’s orders in the past, the same Elie who felt that his father cared more about the community than him. Even after all this, he grows to have his father as such a massive priority for him, that he no longer thinks of his own survival as his number one priority. Elie desperately clings to his father as the last vestige of his former life. Holocaust-Researcher and author Daniel Schwarz remarks that "[Elie’s] father is the eternal flame to which he returns as a boy" (Schwarz 12). His father is the link back to Sighet, his family, and his innocent childhood. Out of the need for a reason to live, Elie clings to the final thing he had left: his
Elie Wiesel shows how relationships can change as life changes and as time goes by and that you can never take them for granted. On the beginning of the book Elie’s relationship with his father is that of him wanting his father to keep him out of the hands of the Nazis and to keep them alive. When Elie and his family were first taken to the Auschwitz he was very scared and concerned for his family. When he and his father got
Night is a book that is based on the holocaust. Elie Wiesel talks about the things he and his dad endured while in Auschwitz. Through the book you go through Elie and his dad's relationship and how they got closer while being here. Night showed us the cruelty's and what each person had to endure during the holocaust. A few important topics in the book are, His journey in faith, dehumanization.
But I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me ..." (Wiesel,pg 7) It was only when Elie entered Aushwitz ,and he and his father were forced together that they developed a meaningful relationship. It existed for simple existing, to keep alive what's left of their family.
Night by Elie Wiesel is an emotionally powerful book that talks about the Holocaust, specifically Wiesel’s heart wrenching experience as a 15 year old with his father in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald between 1941-1945. Night should be read by young adults because it teaches the importance of remembering events and prepares the new generation of preventing anything like the Holocaust from repeating. The Night makes you realize how real the Holocaust was, and how it really affected individuals. The book encourages the voice of Elie Wiesel to be heard. It’s an authentic book that sticks with you for a lifetime.
At night, he went out to the synagogue and cried over the Temple’s destruction. Moshe the Beadle was a poor guy who worked at the tabernacle. In the beginning of his lifetime, Mr. Wiesel were dedicated to the traditional Jewish creed. B. Elie and his father had a fluctuating relationship. In the beginning of the story, the father and son’s connection was almost non-existent because his dad ran a shop and was a leader in the community.
Elie protects and helps his father as well as he does not sacrifice him for his own survival as so many sons have done to their fathers. However as days pass by, he starts to feel some resentment toward his father especially when he is unable to protect himself from the bestiality of the SS instead of pitying him. In addition to that, toward the end of their way to Buchenwald his father becomes weak and cannot move, maybe because of fatigue or loss of hope. He leaves his father and sleeps deeply, when he wakes up, he could not find him and searches for him half-heartedly because a thought tells him maybe he could increase his chance of survival if he was alone. Fortunately, he finds him, ”Father!
Ishaan Sharma Ms. Susa MYP HN English 10 - Block 3 19 March 2023 Health and its Impact on the Characters of Night Night by Eliezer Wiesel is a story about the countless trials that the author faces during the Holocaust. He starts as an innocent young boy from Sighet. He is forced into a ghetto, and then into several concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buna. Finally, he is liberated from his camps.
The circumstances of two different types of people in the same situation. “Night tells the story of Eliezer Wiesel, a studious Orthodox Jewish teenager living in Hungary in the early 1940s who is sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. In Auschwitz, Eliezer struggles to maintain his faith, bearing witness as the other prisoners lose faith and humanity” (“Night by Elie Wiesel | Summary, Quotes & Memoir - Video & Lesson Transcript”) The prisoners experience starvation, succumb to disease, and abuse from the guards. The Nazi doctors regularly perform selections where they decide who is no longer fit to work and, therefore, will be executed.
This puts a big strain on their relationship. Elie is forced to take care of his father and make sure his dad is taken care of enough to survive. Elie gets very frustrated with his father for not being able to take care of himself. At one point, Elie even thinks about leaving his father behind to save himself. In this quote, "I could have screamed in anger.
Elie was beloved by his father: “… I understood that he did not wish to see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames…” (#33). As father loved his son, Elie showed the same feelings to his father: “As for me, I was thinking about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had alredy duffered so much, endured so much.
In the coming weeks, the true weight of the situation landed on Elie. In Night, Elie goes as far as to not describe his life during the period after his father's death as, “It no longer mattered anymore” (Wiesel 113). He goes on to say, “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered during that period” (Wiesel 113). While Elie’s father was a responsibility Elie did not wish to bear during the camps, he soon came to find out that without him his life lacked meaning. Without his father, he had lost the one thing he had left that brought him purpose.
Are your ancestors, Jews, Gypsies, Physically or Mentally disabled? In the story Night, Elie Wiesel went through the hardships of being in the concentration camps. Once, a child Pipel, was hung and they were forced to watch him struggle as he was hung. Since the rope was too big he didn't die instantly and he struggled for an hour and they were forced to see him die. There was hatred towards to Jews, they were blamed for many of the German losses, and they were deprived of the many things that they had.
The Destructive Power of Family Ties in Night In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel family ties is a constant and essential theme of the novel. the relationship between Elie and his father shows that having someone during a traumatic time can be the difference between life and death and while it can be positive it can also lead to a negative outlook. Throughout the novel a change in responsibility, support, and guidance presents the highs and lows in the importance of how those relationships can either hinder or help. The importance of family in challenging and traumatic times is very apparent as in “Night” Elie is thrown into such a new, dark and death filled place with no guidance from anyone but his father, Shlomo.
When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie and his father looked to each other for support and survival, Sometimes Elie’s father being the only thing keeping him alive. In their old community Elie’s father was a strong-willed and respected community leader, as the book went on you could see how the roles were becoming reversed he was becoming weaker and more reliant on Elie to take care of him. Their father son bond had always been strong and only grew stronger with the things they had to endure. “My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” Elie was disgusted when he saw Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father to help improve his chances of his survival he prayed he’d never do such a thing, but as his father becoming progressively more reliant on Elie he started to see his father as more of a burden than anything else.
The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.