Loss In Night By Elie Wiesel

Josey Hagy

Kidd. J

Humanities 10

April 3, 2023

Night

Six million Jewish people died during the holocaust but Elie Wiesel was not one of them this is his story of how he survived. Elie Wiesel was a teenager living in Pennsylvania with his family when they were forced away in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he and his father got separated from his mother and sister. Eliezer and his father had to see and go through many traumatizing situations, but after being moved to Buchenwald his father died of dysentery, and Eliezer was eventually liberated along with the rest of the people in Buchenwald. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel this memoir shows that people can lose more than just physical items, leading to intense unconscious repressed

This theme is particularly evident when Elie gets yelled at by an SS man with a club, commanding men to go left and woman right. Even while being threatened Eliezer did not want to separate from his family but this “was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think and I already felt my father's hand pressed against mine. We were alone.” Eliezer loses his mother and sister, later in the chapter he thinks about them, his father also comments saying how he had seen many boy around Eliezer’s age going with their mothers and he wishes Eliezer did too but that’s the last time they are mentioned or even thought about, if the memoir had started shortly after getting into Auschwitz readers wouldn’t know that Eliezer had a sister or mother in the picture. Eliezer represses the thought of them so much that it was like they had never existed in the first place. Near the end of the memoir something similar happens, Elie’s father gets incredibly sick to the point of not being able to get out of the bed he lays in,, he calls for elizer to breing him water over and over again ending up annoying an officer to come over and beat him. Elies watched the as the officer beats his father but does nothing even as his father calls for him, when the officer is done beating him Elie watches as his father breaths and mumbles for an

Two men and a boy are charged to be hanged and the entire internment camp is forced to watch they're called for roll call and as each person's number is called they have to come up and March past the victims the two men dead the boy still moving because the kid was too light, kid was still breathing. The kid remained hanging for more than half an hour struggling between life and death dying slowly before everyone's eyes and everyone was forced to look at him at close range “for God's sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘where he is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows…” Eli was just forced to watch a boy hang to death and he just that his God is near him but he things that God is with the boy and two men hanging from the ropes God has just watched as a boy was slowly tortured to death and did nothing. At the end of the Jewish year on the eve of Rosh Hashanah after the last prayer most people of Jewish faith who was in the internment camp came out For the event. An inmate was speaking wow Eli was thinking “I fully believe that salvation of the world depended on every one of my deeds, on every one of my prayers. But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, i felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God” before the