Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.
At first Elie has a hard time getting used to life in the camps. He is beaten and starved. Him and his father nearly get separated at some points in the book. They soon figure out that they won’t be able to stay with each other at all times.
Elies dad buried some of their valuables because he knew that it was going downhill quickly. They were soon moved to the small ghetto where they saw a nazi guard shoot an old guy because he was not walking fast enough. They were also told to stop and sit with no food or water in the very hot weather.
Leo Dalporto English 8 Mrs. Oleson May 8, 2023 The Soup Tasted Like Corpses In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, He talks about something quite strange at the end of each of the hangings. He talks about how the soup tasted. This is quite strange because normally there would be no correlation because of how the soup tasted and the circumstances of the hanging. However, the soup is really just a metaphor of how they all were feeling.
Elie, his family, and many others were at gunpoint and being forced to leave their entire lives behind. Everything they built for themselves, just gone. Everyone was forced out of their homes, into cattle cars, and transported to a place that was unimaginable. They were transported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. When they arrived, immediately, Elie and his father were separated from Elie’s mother and little sister.
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.
Eliezer and his father got separated from his mother and younger sisters. For months in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed inhumane doings that scarred him for the rest of his life. He was forced to work at Buna, a factory, and run on a daily basis to keep himself alive. He became malnourished because of the unappetizing food that they served. He and other Jews were punished and beaten for no reason.
Humans have an innate reliance on each other, be it a doctor, a bus driver and your co-workers. However, the bond that is the most important is your family. You rely on your parents to emotionally and physically support you. The memoir night by Elie Wiesel explores how essential family is for survival and how Vital of a role they play in your well being.
Elie and the other prisoners are fully exposed to the horrible inhumanity of the Nazis. Due to the brutal methods of the Nazis, they are transformed from respected individuals into obedient, animal-like automatons.
Elie’s relationship was cut off, as he was split from his mother and younger sister in the camps. As a young boy, Elie had the choice to go with his mother when they were separated. In addition to his loss of relationships Elie also begins to lose his faith due to the conditions that he suffered through. Elie faces enough dehumanization throughout his experiences in the camp that he views himself as less than human, and he starts to question if God is truly there. After being in the concentration camps for multiple months, Elie is sent to Buna and begins working in a warehouse for electrical parts.
The personal accounts of what Elie went through and the things that he saw, paints a vivid picture of the holocaust. He goes into great detail of the cruelty he, his family, and his fellow Jews faced. “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Nearby, an SS man replaced his revolver in its holster” (p. 30). Families were separated.
Elie's family gets transported to a concentration camp. In the camp Elie faced disease, starvation,
Only those who were able-bodied would be allowed to live and be fed. Elie and his father pass the first selection and before they go to the prisoner barracks, they stumble upon the open-pit furnaces where the Nazis are burning babies by the truckload. In camp, Elie and his father, work hard to get almost no food and shelter. Slowly, Elie loses his faith in God and
Victims of the Holocaust demonstrated finding light in the darkness by practicing their religion, comforting and consoling one another, and masking the truth. Jews practiced their religion during the Holocaust instead of giving it up. In the text, Prisoner B-3087, the author states, “But suddenly I thought standing in a minyan for somebody’s Bar Mitzvah as the most important thing in the world,” (Gratz 269). This is an example of how Jews practiced their religion because he is continuing to practice his religion and help others practice theirs.
Elie, along with his family, is taken to a concentration camp, where they are separated and forced to endure brutal living conditions, starvation, and violence. Throughout the book, Elie struggles to come to terms with the terrible and terrific horrors that he witnesses
