Elie And Shlomo Sparknotes

Elie and Shlomo, also known as his father, changed dramatically over the course of their Holocaust experience. When we got introduced to the book Night on page one in the preface Elie Wiesel states ‘’ If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. It shows his desire to speak out to the world from start to finish. While reading the preface, he then goes on and says why he wrote it and it’s almost like he is questioning himself and the reader. Then it goes on into the introduction of the book on page 3. At the beginning of the book, it starts off in Elie’s hometown of Sighet. Elie is a very religious young teenage boy who most likely looks up to his father Sholomo. Elie on page four says ‘’One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in the studies of Kabbalah’’ His dad states, ‘’You are too young for that’’.

Eliezer's father is a respected Jewish community leader in Sighet. Although he has an elevated position in his community, he makes the same mistakes as the other Jews: he disregards the warnings about the coming danger. On page eight, he also claimed, ‘’Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated.’’ This is important to remember because when they arrive at the camp, everything changes. After the Germans contained the Jews in the ghettos, the whole community was deported to Auschwitz. No one had ever heard that name. Before they get sent there, on page nineteen, Elie's father starts to cry, and Elie says it’s his first time seeing his dad cry. As soon as they got there, a man told Elie not to say he was young enough, and this is pretty much the start of how Elie changed throughout the book. A young, fifteen-year-old boy who was just a kid had to lie about his age so he wouldn’t die. Sholomo also had to lie about his age; he said he was