Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

During the 1930s and ‘40s, one of the world’s most depressing time soccured. This was known as the Holocaust. Over the course of the Holocaust, 11 million people died. It was during WWII where the participants were Nazi Germany vs. The Allies. The Nazis targeted the Jewish race and religion because they were “inferior” and imprisoned and murdered them; as a result, six million Jews were killed and countless lives were affected. Although many have died, many also survived against the Nazi regime. The book Night by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, shares a crucial moment of Elie’s life, where he learns and witnesses the wrath of man. Although this book tells the tale of one of the most, if not the most horrible events in world history,

Juliek, unlike many others, was able to retain his dignity until the very end. He was a violin player who seemed like he cared about his violin more than himself. For example, when Juliek and Elie were piled on, Juliek is more concerned for the safety of his violin rather than himself and says . When Juliek and Elie are talking when they were on top of each other, he talks about his violin and how “[He] brought it with me” (94). I think that him carrying the violin with him during the march and even during the whole journey through concentration camps decreased his chances of survival. Juliek holds on to the thing he cherishes the most, so he can be reminded of his freed past self and to retain his dignity as a violin player. Another instance of Juliek showing dignity is when Juliek slipped out from underneath Elie and the pil and was playing violin. When Elie is analysing Juliek and the music, he says “All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future” (95). This quote talks about how Juliek knew his final moments were to come and he didn’t want to die as a imprisoned Jew but as a violin player and so “He played that which he would never play again” (95). When I think of Juliek, I saw he was able to keep

When Elie was suddenly beaten by Idek the Kapo, the french woman came and aided him without a second thought and comforted Elie even though she was “paralyzed with fear” (53). While consoling her, the french woman says, in almost perfect German: “Bite your lips, little brother...Don’t cry. Keep your anger, you hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait…” (53). I believe that the french woman shows kindness towards Elie by giving him hope of a future with retribution. Later, when Elie fatefully encounters the french woman later in life, she explains how she was“From an observant family. During the Occupation, [she] had false paper and passed as Aryan. And that was how [she] was assigned to a forced labor unit. When they deported [her] to Germany, [she] eluded being sent to a concentration camp. At the depot, nobody knew that [she] spoke German; it would have aroused suspicion. It was imprudent of [her] to say those few words to[Elie], but [she] knew that [Elie] would not betray [her]…” (54). By saying this, she explains that she was indeed a Jew, but she was in disguise as a french woman so she wouldn’t have been killed. If anyone heard her speak her German to Elie, then they would find out she was Jewish and would be sentenced to death. I believe that she did consol Elie anyway because she didn’t want Elie to lose hope