Elie Wiesel describe the horrors of Auschwitz in his acclaimed book Night. So does every other book written about Auschwitz. They all proclaim the distress they encountered, the SS guards, the gas chambers, the crematory, the barracks, the death, hopelessness, and fear. The authors tell us what happened, but we will really never understand the true terrors that occurred. However, Night is written unfiltered.
In this passage, my mother and I listened to a discussion Eliezer and Moishe the Beadle had together. Moishe the Beadle asks Eliezer why does he pray. Eliezer is dumbfounded by the question as he his used to praying regularly. He replies to Moishe he does not know why prays. Moishe later tells him that people should ask God questions even though people won’t understand His reply.
Riley Kline ENG II Honors Mrs. Degrood 2/6/23 An estimated 6 million Jews murdered during Hitler's reign, as part of his plan to eradicate the Jewish population. Elie Wiesal writes a book describing his experiences while in these death camps. In these camps Elie was put through many trials and tribulations, including losing his father. Throughout the book, the prisoners are deprived of basic needs according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
In the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel shows us how Nazi Germany ran concentration camps where the Jew’s resided, through detailed language, chilling experiences, and imagery such as when Moshe was beaten brutally by the wip of the officer that ran his concentration camp. Elie Wiesel didn’t only write a book, he wrote a memoir, one that was written with the blood and tears of those painful moments in time to show us the pain and suffering faced by the Jews during WWII when they were held in the concentration camp owned by Nazi Germany. In these concentration camps there were different camps that had you do different jobs, but within these concentration camps there are blocks, and within these blocks are units now these units are led by the Oberkapo
In the novel night, Elie Wiesel discusses how the Nazi army dehumanizes the Jews. In the beginning, Moishe the Beadle came back and told them that “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (6). The army took those lives of innocent babies, that one day could have been something. They treated the babies like they were clay targets.
This story was meant to stop another holocaust from happening and the world turning against one another and starting another war. If this book had not been writin and the other stories about the holocaust then the world might not be as it is right now. The world might be under war or it might be completely split up and everyone not caring about what is happening in the other countries and there being another holocaust. If there were other holocaust then the world would no longer be safe and there would be war everywhere.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are strong at the broken places” --Ernest Hemingway Even after being destroyed, people can and will come back better and stronger. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, he experiences this through a real story of his own horrific ordeal in the Holocaust. His father along with many friends and just ordinary people die in front of him, changing Wiesel forever. Survivors of this atrocious event suffer beating, injuries, and disease, but they still live.
Traditionally, Jewish people fast during this extremely important holiday. When the day arrives, Jews in the concentration camp are conflicted: should they fast as they always have, or do circumstances outweigh traditions? Wiesel recounts this argument in Night: “...there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. I did not fast...
In the memoir Night, by Elie Weisel, the Jewish prisoners are faced with a decision. They need to decide whether to fast for Yom Kippur or if they will simply not carry out this sacred ritual. The prisoners should have fasted as a show of commitment to their faith, they could have found another way to fast, and they should have done it as a protest to their German captors. Fasting for Yom Kippur is not normally done because it is easy. Fasting is something that you do that is difficult, to show God that you are able to make sacrifices and live through discomfort, just as he has, to show your commitment to your faith.
Feelings and thoughts went through my mind as I read about Wiesel’s experience as a German prisoner. I thought he was really brave and everything was just unfortunate for him because it was also hard for himself to live but with that, he had to help his father too in order to save him. If I could talk to him about this time in his life, I would ask him if he would have given up sooner if his father died earlier. I would want him to explain about some inconsiderate things that he has thought about his father as they were on the camp.
Many Holocaust survivors, including some of those who came to Houston after WWII, were never held in concentration camps. They survived in hiding, in ghettos, by fleeing into the Soviet Union, or by passing as non-Jews. In “Night”, narrated by Eliezer Wiesel, Elie talks about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. His family is deported from Hungary, brought to Auschwitz, and experiences starvation, abuse, and death. Elie is the only survivor in his family.
In the story "Night," the narrator allows the readers to have a glimpse into the lives of those who lived through concentration camps. We can see how the narrator uses language to convey his devastation at becoming an inmate in the concentration camp through repetition and metaphors. Throughout the story, there is one phrase that is constantly repeated. The story "Night" opens with "never shall I forget," and that specific line is repeated many times.
Elie Wiesel, author and victim of the Holocaust wrote the novel Night which portrays his experiences in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the Nazis dehumanized many groups of people, but primarily the Jewish people. Elie writes about his personal journey through the Holocaust, and how he narrowly escaped death. In Elie’s novel he also provides detailed descriptions of what the victims of the Holocaust had to suffer through, and the different ways the Nazis made them feel like nothing more than animals that are meant to be used for work and slaughtered. One of the first things that Elie and the other Jewish people from his village have to suffer through is riding in a cramped cattle car, as if they were animals.
There are many themes in the memoir Night. For instance, one could use freedom and confinement. The Jewish people were free before the holocaust, and as time went on the Nazi's began stealing their freedom to a point of the living Jews being walking corpses; like Weisel says, "I decided to go look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me."
In a span of 10 years, the Holocaust killed over 7 million people, that’s just as much as the population of Hong Kong. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his experience on how he survived the Holocaust and what he went through. How he dealt with the horrors and even to how he felt of his dad’s death and how he saw himself after it was all over. As he tried to publish it he was constantly turned down due to the fact of how horrid and truful it was. He still tried and tried until it was finally published.
