During the holocaust Elie had to overcome a whole lot of things and mature quickly to survive. Then he had to think of things to keep him going; “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” Thoughts to keep his head still staying up and to not to be quiver, but to be strong, independent, emotionless. He was trying to stay strong to stay alive and keep going on.
He doesn't want to lose the only family he has left. This had a major impact on his experience because of how focused on his only goal to not lose his father. This made him mentally stronger. Owing to the fact that he was so scared to lose his father, he was constantly thinking about staying alive. This is another quote that shows Elie’s dedication, of staying alive, Elie writes, “My fathers presence was the only thing that stopped me.
Elie, along with his father and the other prisoners, are put through unimaginable conditions. However, somehow, he is able to persevere and overcome the numerous obstacles thrown at him. For example, when Elie is caught wandering in the warehouse, he is severely beaten and publicly humiliated. Also, he watches countless souls perish in ungodly ways, but doesn’t lose hope, or at least doesn’t lose determination to survive.
Through the unforgettable moments in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night it explains what the holocaust did, and how the Germans made it possible to question humanity. It displays Elie’s relationship with his father; Relationships helps the mind prevail through tough situations; They can be powerful and can influence one to keep hope for the future. Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in the numerous Auschwitz concentration camps. Elia and his father had their mind set to get to survive the camps as soon as they knew what was truly going on. Elie and his father’s relationship was instantly strengthened when Elie did not have to go with his mother, Elie describes “His voice was terribly sad.
For Elie, his survival can be attributed to the choices he made when faced with various choiceless choices, like choosing work or death and lying or telling the truth, as well as having his father right by his side the entire journey. Immediately after Elie and his father arrive at camp they are presented with a choiceless choice. They are told, “Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium.
Near the beginning of the novel, Elie wanted to be in the same camp with his father more than anything else. The work given to both his father and himself was bearable, but as time passed by, “. . . his father was getting weaker” (107). The weaker Elie’s father got, the more sacrifices Elie made. After realizing the many treatments Elie was giving his father compared to himself, each additional sacrifice made Elie feel as if his “. . .
He no longer believed he could feel the same levels of joy and happiness he once did. Through all of this, Elie becomes tired and does not have the energy to feel anything; this causes even his strongest bond to deteriorate. Wiesel explains the one thing that kept him going through all of the agony, the thing was a person, his father. Elie makes many sacrifices for his father throughout the course of the story. Elie and his father have made it to the part of the concentration camp sorting process where their line of work will be chosen.
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
The fact that Elie has faced such unbelievable cruelty and is present to his father's death shows his ability to persevere and remain hopeful. His only thought was to stay alive and was achievable by overcoming all the hardships he had faced so
His motivation to endure through the pain was his father but to strengthen his chances of survival he was forced to adapt to the barbarous culture of the various concentration camps he attended. For instance on page 39 he thinks to himself, “My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent.” Elie knew that if he were to say something, him and his father both would suffer worse consequences. Elie did know it was wrong though and felt remorse.
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.
Imagine being a young 15 year old boy barely fed, dehydrated and at a camp that was created for the purpose of killing thousands of people and immediately once you arrive losing your mother and sister. Elie shows extreme mental strength during this event, rather than trying to stop it from happening
Time is running out” (Wiesel 75). Elie is motivated by his father to stay strong and push through the hard times because he knows if they do not, then they will die. Also, he did not want to lose his father because he was his only motivation at this point, so he needed to stay strong for him. Elie uses his father as someone to look up to and if it were not for his father on this journey Elie would not be where he is right now. Likewise, Magda Herzberger uses her faith and religion to survive the Holocaust.
After the war was over, Elie found out that his two older sisters had both survived Auschwitz, so they all met up for a reunion and to grieve their lost loved ones (Britannica). These events are what caused Elie to become the man that he was, a hero. After surviving Auschwitz, Elie decided to start a new life, so he moved to the United States. He lived in New York and thrived in his new life. Elie Wiesel was a powerful man, not because of the strength of his bones, but because of the strength of his heart and mind.
BIOGRAPHY Edgar Allen Poe was a very creative writer, he was the first person ever to make a full time living off of writing alone. He was very different from other writers. People thought that there was something wrong with him the way that he writes because it was a very dark perspective. He wrote horror, mystery, fiction, macabre, poetry, and even criticism. Edgar had a very unfortunate childhood and started writing at a young age also.
