Book Report On Night By Eliezerie Wiesel

“Whenever we suffer a physical or emotional trauma, it is said that a part of our souls flees the body in order to survive the experience. With every cut and wound, our essence and vitality grows weaker.”--Mateo Sol The experiences we go through in life sometimes leave damage or hurt in our souls, in order to overcome that, we have to let go of our feelings and happiness. In Night, an autobiography by Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel shares his journey of the Holocaust as a Jew. He lives in a family of six, born and raised by jewish parents. When Wiesel is 15, he is taken away to the concentration camp, Auschwitz, where he would fight to escape deaths grasping hand as it takes away his father. Prisoners in the concentration camps during the Holocaust

When World War II started, the things they had already experienced had immediately made them depressed and nervous of death. One of the first characters we meet it Moshie the Beadle. Moshie The Beadle is a poverty Stricken, religious man who lived happily just like everyone else. When he is taken to the Galician Forest, the germans force him and many others to dig trenches that they would soon lay dead in. He was shot in the leg but still escaped. “Moshie was not the same.” Many like Moshie went to the camp and didn’t make it out. Moshie watches all the people die and he lives. This shapes Moshie into someone that is more scared of death and thankful for life. When people spoke to him, “He spoke only of what he had seen.” Eliezer, “didn’t believe him.”(Wiesel 7). This is not relatable for the people who had only heard of the stories and never seen them. Most people are “trying to understand his grief.” Captives were so physically and emotionally changed, no one will ever fully understand

Some turn their backs on their friends and love ones in order to survive. As many are aboard a train including Wiesel and his father. Wiesel notices an “Old man died, his son searched him.” The hunger of the young boy was so beastly to point that he didn’t care that his own father decease, he was too busy looking for food to satisfy his starvation. He devoured the bread but, “He didn’t get very far… two men joined in”. (Wiesel 101). The men decide to join in to strive for food. In the process they kill the young boy underneath them “two bodies lay dead.”(Wiesel 102). The fact that people fought each other like animals for a little ration of bread Proves how emotionally erratic the prisoners have become. Innocent people died for no humane reason. The survivor Emotionally gave up being respectful and kind to other, staying alive was their only thought. Survival means everything to these prisoners, they will do anything to stay