Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

The book, Night, an autobiography of Elie Wiesel, explains his experience during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel and his Jewish family were living in the town of Sighet before they were forced to leave to go to a concentration camp. They traveled to the camp in a train car with about 80 people. Madame Schachter was a woman in her fifties traveling with Elie in the car. She had a ten year-old son with her and was separated from the remainder of her family. In the car, Mrs. Schachter repeatedly was fantasizing a fire in the furnace. Jews traveling in the car worried for her state of mind. Arriving at the camp of Auschwitz, the train car was welcomed to the smell and sight of a burning furnace. Fearing the fire, Mrs. Schachter revealed the dark truth

Schachter was a prophet who acknowledged the dark future for Jews at the camp. Being a Jewish prophet, she feared the future for the Jews. As being religious and wise, it’s shown that she had a vision of terror and cruelty at the camp, hence being prone to fire there. During the time of traveling, Jewish families didn’t know their future at the abstruse place. From traveling in the train car, it’s revealed that she envisioned a dark time at the camp soon. As Wiesel wrote, “‘The fire, over there!’ She was painting somewhere in the distance, always the same place. No one felt like beating her anymore. The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us.” (Night, Chapter 2, Page 26) When she was sharing her vision of the fire to the Jews in the car, it was a reality when they came to Auschwitz. I believe that Mrs. Schachter knew the possible truth of the danger of the fire when she was on her way to the camp since it was used against people. Therefore, it’s believed that she screamed fire before going to Auschwitz to prepare herself, and the car for the future. Being a prophet, I believe that her faith played a role on being aware of the reality of the camp for the fellow Jews. Therefore, I believe that Mrs. Schachter’s shared that there was a fire to the camp to signal the Jews to reality away from fear. Madame Schachter revealed the truth of the dark future for

Elie Wiesel explains how Mrs. Schachter was separated from her husband and two older sons when they were mistakenly set-apart. It was revealed that when Mrs. Schachter screamed, fire, she was hallucinating the fire in the train car. Many of the other 80 people in the car tried to calm her down. While repeatedly worried by the visioned fire, this exhibits that she was psychologically mad. Additionally, Madame Schachter was faced with traveling in the conditions of the train car. Living in the train car was difficult because of the circumstances of conditions with not much water and food, shared upon dozens of people. Separation from her family and the conditions of travel caused her to spread psychological madness. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. wrote, “Rather, the adult drive toward omnipotent control of others, in any arena whatever, is rooted in fears of separation, abandonment loss or abuse--the residual effects of early attachment gone wrong.” (The Liberal Mind, 2005) This explains how separation could cause mishaps in behavior. This relates to how Mrs. Schachter was separated from most of her family. Furthermore, her lack of daily food and water could cause psychological behavior changes. With Mrs. Schachter’s separation and a dearth of daily essentials, this could have caused her to become psychologically mad. Her psychological madness cause her to hallucinate seeing a fire. Therefore,