Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

To be Human

How does one remain himself as everything he has ever known is ripped away from him? Elie Wiesel recalls his own experiences with this challenge in his self written book, Night. In this book, Wiesel takes you on a eye opening ride to see and experience the hard life of Jewish people under German Control. Wiesel shows how to accomplish the nearly impossible, surviving.
Were the Jews aware of what was about to happen to them? Imagine living with the fear that any day your house, your belongings, your family, and your life could all be ripped away from you. The people of Wiesel’s community couldn’t even imagine that. They had know that the Germans were not good to their people, but they had no idea of how terrible their situation

The sudden arrival of the Germans and forces controlled by the Germans was a shock to many of the Jews in Wiesel’s community. Although shocked, the Jew’s were oblivious to what would lie ahead. Many were calm and mostly cooperative, the importance of the situation was to do what the Germans asked of them until they were not bothered anymore. Wiesel's father, Shlomo, was a leader in the community. He reassured his family and people that all would be well if they did what the Germans asked of them. Elie, at the time was focused on his study of Religion. He recalled the Moshie the Beadle, “you don’t understand, you cannot understand.”(Page 7) This statement held exactly true for what was about to

The Wiesel and the Jews have now seen the brutal and unforgiving ways of the German Nazis and people that are controlled by them. Weisel finds himself and his people being moved from place to place, ghetto to ghetto, until finally reaching a camp. In the process of this movement the Jews are stipped of any belongings of value that they still have. During the ghetto movement, Wiesel's father is a leader. He and his family are allowed to stay behind until the last of their community are transported. During these transports is where Elie gets his first real view of how they will be treated. The Jews are very parched and hungry. What are they given? “Some of the Jewish Police surreptitiously went to fill a few Jugs.”(Page 16) Not only are they fed like animals, they are packed into cattle cars with little to no room. They have basically been dehumanized to animals. As they make their final journey to the camp, one woman has a hallucination. She sees fire, this may have been caused by severe dehydration endured on the trip or a foreshadowing of what was to come. The woman is almost fatally beaten after her continuous screaming annoys the guards. That experience shows that only the strong of body and the strong of mind will survive. Survival of the fittest some would say, then again doesn't that term usually apply to