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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night by Elie Wiesel tells about the struggles Elie goes to go through as a Jewish person during the Holocaust. While being sent to many different concentration camps, Elie experiences countless terrible situations and sees that some of the prisoners become cruel when given leadership roles within the camps. Many people had lost all civility they had in an effort to stay alive, sacrificing others for their own good. Elie manages to hold onto his decency through all of this, though, by helping out others within the camp occasionally and supporting his father whenever he could. Elie tries to keep his father awake when they are in the shed, resting from the running they had been forced to endure. “...It’s dangerous to fall asleep in the snow. One falls asleep forever…” (88) Elie’s father tells him this just a few minutes earlier and remembering his words, Elie tries to tell it to a man resting nearby. Elie has no emotional connection to this man at all, and yet he still tries to save him from the impending death he will suffer from falling asleep. …show more content…

“Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right…” (96) Elie was healthy enough that he could have passed the selection without the distraction but instead of leaving his father to die, he risks his own life to help save his father and many others from death. Someone who was cruel would not give a second thought to anyone and would leave them to their fate. A cruel person would likely never go out of their way to save someone who might be close to

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He was running next to be, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die.” (86-87). Elie was so tired mentally and thought he couldn’t keep going, but due to his fathers presence, is the reason why he is

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Elie didn’t want his father to die and did everything for him. In the beginning of the memoir he states “I had asked my father to sell everything, to liquidate everything, and to leave.” (Wiesel 9). Then again towards the end he took his fathers food, and laid above him while he died. So in the beginning he showed his love for his father, but then became very distant and not caring.

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This displays their relationship briefly, it shows how his father cared for him and how he saw how sad he was, but was still there for him. These moments happened often throughout the story, but each time their relationship grows stronger and stronger, helping them prevail through tough situations. Relationships are powerful, at the end of the book Elie’s father insisted Elie to stop helping him because he is too weak to move on and feels like he is dragging Elie down and lessening his chance for survival. His father was willing to give up his life to greater the chances for Elies survival, Elie explains; “There were no prayers at his grave. No candles were lit to his memory.

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Although he was aware that going against the SS officers was dangerous and he could die as well, he argued with the officers to leave his father alone. He also tried his best to wake his father up because the importance of his father and his company was more than his survival. In short, Elie and his father prioritized each other enough to provide them with the ability to face challenging situations that came up due to their desperation to stick together at all times. On the other hand, some people believed that neglecting their families was the only option left, since it seemed to prevent them from staying

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He and his mom and sister were separated at the camp and he has no want to see them until the end of time. " Men to one side! Ladies to the right..."(pg 27). His dad is getting old, and powerless, and Elie understands his dad does not have the quality to get by all alone, and it is past the point where it is possible to spare him.

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Elie believes it's better to fend for oneself rather to help one another. Elie and his father have been in Auschwitz for 3 weeks. His tent leader was had been explaining what they were to do this week. He says three days in quarantine after you will go to work and tomorrow medical checkup. He then asks Elie if he wants to get into a good unit.

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Elie's father being alive was something like a crutch for him. Elie's foot had started to swell because it was cold out, and there was discussion about the Red Army approaching, and how the Nazi's would kill off all the injured. Elie, however, had a different mindset,"As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father." (Wiesel 82). Elie's desire to be with his father and care for him was great, but he would suppress his own pain for his father, which in turn, could've killed Elie.

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The nonfiction memoir genre is important to memorialize historical events like the holocaust because the memoir allows the reader to feel like they are inside the story, it grows the reader's sympathy and it educates the readers about the holocaust so they begin to understand things they didn't know before. Especially in the memoir Night, Wiesel decries the events accurately and describes in great detail the horrific sights he had witnessed and experienced. In chapter eight, Elie watches his father die, then when he wakes up he sees in his father's bunk “another invalid”(Wiesel 106). After withstanding this, Wiesel “did not weep” (Wiesel 106) but he admits that he had a shameful moment of relief. This allows the reader to walk the path of

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They also showed no remorse whatsoever towards their actions, they didn’t care if whoever they were hurting or killing was a child or a sick person. Elie felt like there was no hope and because things weren’t becoming better he became faithless and started wandering if there really was God out there.

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Throughout the past and now the present, we often refer to heroes as the ones that save the day, such as superman or batman, the people who stand up for what they believe in. When standing up for something or someone, there are always consequences, so within every decision, there are two choices: standing up or standing by. Our literature and societies issues often create great examples of what standing up and standing by construct opportunity wise, whether it is surviving the concentration camp Auschwitz, killing a friend for the good of Rome, or even taking a stand for equal pay as female athletes. Once a choice is made, no matter the decision, the outcomes will contain both positive and negative outcomes.

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Even through all of those collapsed relationships, Elie and his father rely on each other up until the moment of Elie’s fathers passing. When Elie and his father make it through the selection thanks to the help of the man, Their hopes are immediately derailed when another Jewish man tells them that they are headed straight for the crematorium, and with flames in sight, all hope they had to survive was immediately lost. When hope is lost, Elie’s father starts to pray and this is when Elie starts to lose faith. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why

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“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate, one less reason to live” (66). The story “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and was published in 1956. The story is about a young boy who is caught in the middle of the holocaust with his father. Throughout “Night”, one of the major themes were the difficult experiences Elie and his father had to go through. These moments are important because they show how Elie has changed throughout the story.

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A boy, only thirteen, was sentenced to be hanged along with two others. The prisoners gathered around the gallows as they were forced to bear witness to all the hangings that took place in the camp, but unlike the other times Eliezer, along with the other prisoners, wept. Eliezer even mentions that the Lagerkapo, the head of the camp, refused to act as executioner, instead three other SS guards took his place. Furthermore, after the chairs were tipped over, as the Lagerkapo commands the onlookers to remove their caps to pay their respect, Eliezer notes that the Lagerkapo’s voice is quivering. This is especially powerful because it is the only incidence in the novella where a Nazi shows any shred of humanity, and for this one small moment in time, all the observers are human.

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