The author talks about how there is fear amongst him and the other prisoners of the camp of the Germans. The Germans use this fear to control the prisoners and make them do what the Germans desire. Along with fear comes grief. One of the biggest reasons that the prisoners have fear of the Germans is what they’ll do to them if they don’t follow through with their
If the fear did not break down the prisoners, the intensity of a 15-hour work shift of hard labor would have (ancestry). Frank might have endured all of these consequences, all because he blindly acted and didn 't think anything through, just blindly acted out of
There, the prisoners are worked to oblivion, or they are incinerated upon arrival. The captives are eventually killed or liberated, however if they survive, they would be in a at a stage where they act as if dead. Like lifeless people, many prisoners forfeited their emotions over time due to the brutal scenes that that the inmates and Jews are exposed to during the Holocaust. Initially,
The first piece of advice about how to survive, given to Wiesel, was from a young Pole, a prisoner in charge of one of the prison blocks. After Eliezer, his father, and the rest of the selected prisoners, made the short march from Birkenau to Auschwitz. Upon arrival they were forced to shower. After the showers, they were left outside cold and wet, naked and never given the clothes they were promised. Guards came and told the prisoners they had to run, “The faster you run, the sooner you can go to bed” (page 38).
When Stein, an old family friend, was told that his family was still alive, he responded by saying that “the only thing that keeps [him] alive … is that [his wife] and … children are still alive. If it wasn’t for them, I couldn’t keep going” even though he later heard real news and was never heard from again (Weissel 42). Many of the imprisoned people would push through the pain and torture they experienced daily only for their family and would give up resisting against the Nazis when they were told about the demise of their family. When people are captured and forced to live around fellow prisoners dying, they become emotionless but struggle to stay alive because they believe that their loved ones may be alive, as shown by the Jewish prisoners in Elie Wiesel's
As they stay longer and longer in the camps, the prisoners began to become former shells of themselves and just had their physical presence to define them. They denied everything, not just human rights, but also their heart, soul, dignity, pride, bravery, confidence, and the
In the concentration camps, many people got separated from their families and that torn them apart. For example, in the book “Night” the main character, Elie, was in the train that was on its way to Auschwitz. During the train ride there a lady, Mrs. Schachter, who lost all her family but one of her sons, went crazy and started screaming out that she saw a fire over and over again. Consequently, the people on the train got fed up with her and they gagged her and beat her unconscious. Effectively, the fire Mrs. Schachter saw would create one of the most gargantuan problems and fear of their camp life.
Difficult circumstances that compel individuals to respond to their situation can result in a break down or loss of faith in the individual spirituality. Wiesel introduction into the concentration camp started his progression of questioning his faith. The first negative act among the Jew is they get piled into a train cart like cattle. During their ride to a concentration camp a women
Everybody has experienced a life changing moment at some point or another, but nothing compares to the nightmare Elie Wiesel went through. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie attempts to survive through hell on earth while living during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel lives in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, and he is a very religious Jewish teenage boy who studies Torah and Kabbalah, and has faith in God. Elie and his family, being very optimistic, don't believe that the Nazis will come to their town once they hear that there is Nazi invasion. But they do, in 1944, and things change drastically.
When Elie is sent to concentration camp, he goes through a lot of emotions. At first he is in denial that human beings could do such cruel things to other people. This stage however is short lived because very suddenly he must adapt to the harsh environment around him. Although eventually the atmosphere takes him over.
After going through so much, many people do not have the same mindset as they did before. Being tortured and watching others being tortured changes a person’s life, especially Elie’s, his father’s, Moshe the Beadle’s, and Rabbi Eliahou’s. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, shares his own experience of going through a concentration camp, and it is clear that many things in his life changed
There are many instances, even today, where people are put in a controlled environment, and when they are released they are unaware of how to function normally in society. For example, many prisoners who are released after an extended period of time will commit the same crimes again to be sentenced again, because they know and understand the prison environment now more than they do societies. One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest shows just how difficult being thrown into a new environment can be not only on a person 's mental health, but also physical
Elie states: "Yes I saw it, saw it with my own eyes, children in the flames" (Wiesel 24). Without a doubt, it is clear that the initiation was torture, and most were already at their breaking point before the concentration camp had even started.
In another scenario, when Wiesel first gets to Auschwitz, he hears a veteran prisoner yelling at all of the newcomers, “He [veteran prisoner] was growing hysterical in his fury. We stayed motionless, petrified. Surely it was all a nightmare? An unimaginable nightmare?” (28).
In Richard Rodriguez’s essay, “The Achievement of Desire” he brings you through important memories of his life that impacted his education, and more specifically his reading and writing. As a child, he was eager to learn and ready to soak up all the knowledge he could get. He received many awards and good feedback from his teachers which gave him all the more motivation to learn more. Soon his motivation came out of annoyance of his parents.
