Chapter Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

As Daylight Rises Again

In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author Elie explains his story of what he went through during the holocaust. Elie lived with his parents and his three sisters in Sighet, Romania during WWII. Then the Nazis came and took over, they took over all the Jews and moved them into concentration camps. These concentration camps were based in Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Wiesel was one of those Jews, he went through a lot and making it out was just one of his accomplishment. Just going back and thinking of all those horrific memories is very difficult but writing a book about those memories is beyond difficult. He pushed through it to teach a purpose to all of us, the readers, for us not to make

By liquidating the ghettos, the Jews were to be evacuated and transported to a secret location that only the Gestapo and the president of the Jewish Council disclosed. As the convoy of cars awaited, Hungarian officers placed 80 people in each car and they were on there way to the disclosed location. In the same car there was a common face to Elie, It was Madame Schächter. Madame Schächter had been separated from her family and that made her go berserk. On the third night she howled and pointed through the window: "Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me!", but nothing was there “only the darkness of night” (25). During the day she remained absent but towards the evening again she began to shout again: "The fire, over there!"(26). In the beginning people had just thought of her to be mad in a concerning way but eventually after all her hollering they got tired of it and begun to struck her. Instead of giving a helping hand and trying to understand what she had been trying to say they struck her and as they did “people shouted their approval” (26). Just like Moshe the Beadle, they disregarded her, thinking of her as just a crazy mad women. She was trying to send a message to the people in the car so they could prepare for what was coming, "Jews, listen to me," she cried. "I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!", but the words that came out of her mouth were just rubbish to them

By not taking things for granted maybe the Jews in Sighet could have lived and got away from the Nazis. Wiesel went through much in his time in the concentration camps and during his time in the concentration camps there was a lot to overcome, but he pushed through it. By pushing through he gained his freedom. But by gaining his freedom he had the price of remembering all those rough memories he had went through. He had overcame a lot of adversities to write the book Night. By writing Night he taught us the readers not to take anything for