Comparative Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

The memoir Night By Elie Wiesel is about Elie’s years in the concentration camps. Throughout the book, Elie uses the main character Eliezer to explain what he's seen and been through mentally, and physically. From the moment he walks in Eliezer quickly has everything taken from him, his family and faith. Eliezer’s time at the camp soon had him questioning his belief in God, in himself, and inhumanity. Throughout the rest of the book, he watches people die and starve as everything gets taken away. “I Sit and Look Out” a poem by Walt Whitman tells us through his eyes and how he saw war, death, and disease but he did nothing. The poem, “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman, and the memoir “Night” By Elie Wiesel are similar in showing the brutality

This quote says he watched all the degradation and shame this world has brought him. This relates to Night because during this time there is oppression on the Jews, and brutality shown towards them while everyone sits back and watches them burn. “I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”( pg 77 Wiesel). This quote from the book night shows how much oppression shown to the point where they believed nothing and no one could save them. Eliezer enters the camp with the hope that he would leave soon, but as time goes on he believes nothing will happen, soon he hopes for death and believes in Hitler's death promise, to the Jewish

“But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!” (pg 106 Wiesel). The quote from, “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman, talks about the oppression and death of people. The quote “Night” By Elie Wiesel shows the person broken down by death, disease, and war. These quotes connect to each other because they both talk about the agony of what has happened to mankind during the time of the Holocaust. “All these All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, See, hear, and am silent.” “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman. The Jews watch and experience, they fear the Germans and stayed silent as did everyone else. “A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.” (pg 34 Wiesel). The quote from Night explains how Eliezer and the others felt. They feel fear, agony, hopeless, all they could do was sit omit and watch death consume