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Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

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Eli’s story started when he was a young very religious teenage boy who was apart of the unfavorable group during the Holocaust, and unlike Eli, Paul was an adult and he was apart of the prefered group during the genocide he experienced. Obviously Eli and Paul didn't have the exact same experiences. because they were apart of two different genocides. Eli went through the Holocaust during World War II as a Jew so he didn't have much if any control at all when it came to loved ones. Paul experienced the genocide in Rwanda, and he was Hutu which was the more favorable group so he has a lot of power and chances to help people. Although Eli and Paul were in two completely different situations they had to some of the same things in order to survive. Elie and Paul were in different …show more content…

Paul saved his family and friends because he was apart of the more favorable group and he could bribe the guards to protect them like when Paul went to the hotel safe to get money for the guards (Hotel Rwanda) , Eli didn’t have that choice because he was a Jew during the holocaust in Germany and the Nazi soldiers made his sister and mother separate from Him and his father, the Nazi soldiers screamed “men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wisel 27) . Being a Jew was extremely difficult because all of the Jews in germany during the holocaust were sent to concentration camps where they either had to work or they were killed in gas chambers, shot, or even hung, someon told Eli something he would never forget and that was "'Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there.'" (Wisel 28). Over all I believe that Eli had it harder because he was a Jew during the holocaust and life was easier for Paul because he was in the more favorable group during the genocide in

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The Holocaust started in 1933 and lasted for about 12 years. It was a time were Europe was taken by a German dictator, Adolf Hitler, and his army. They tortured and forced millions of Jewish men, women, children, including Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank. They both encountered different lifestyles and outcomes but they also have somethings in common. Elie and Anne both went through the Holocaust with their families.

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Eli fixates on this concept and, after spending time around his dad, works towards becoming the good man he had always hoped to be. Upon getting to know his dad, Eli wasn’t impressed, despite August staying resolute in the fact that he was good. It wasn’t until later when he really took on the paternal role in their lives that Eli even considers forgiving him and participates in his attempts to bond, knowing

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But Eliezer’s father focuses his time and energy on the people within the community instead of his own family. When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie is left with his

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They both suffered through so much and it changed their personalities in different ways. Eliezer was the kid who tried to blend in more and Jeanne was very outgoing and open to new adventures. Eliezer also had a harder time in the camp without his family there by his side compared to Jeanne who had her family. Even though they had different stories to tell during the time the went to a concentration camp they both will never forget those horrible days they went through while they were there. Eliezer and Jeanne were true survivors who went through hell to finally see the outside of the camp

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Early on in the book, Eli actively avoids becoming one of them, but he struggles with this as Night goes on. He starts to have brutish thoughts as he sees another son abandon his father for the sake of survival, but quickly decides not to. However, Eli’s morality finally breaks with his father’s death. Although on the surface, Eli feels grief and wishes that his father could still be alive, within himself, Eli finds a feeling of relief, as if a burden had been lifted from him. This shows that the longer Eli spent in the concentration camp, the weaker his moral sense became.

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Although throughout the book Eli and his father became close , having to care for each other because that's all they had. “ As for me I was thinking about death but not about wanting to be seperated from my father. We already has suffered so much, endured so much together. This was not a moment to separate “ ( Wiesel 34 ) In the middle of the book Eli became so caring for his father Eli gave a portion of his soup and bread to his father.

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Eliezer and his father rely on one another to survive through the Holocaust. Together they encounter the cruelty of the Nazis, the lack of compassion from the prisoners, as well as the difficulty of simply surviving. They remain strong together unlike other father-son relationships seen in the novel. A majority of the prisoners gravitate towards self preservation while Eliezer chooses to remain with his father. Eliezer does exhibit ambivalence in continuing to help his father because the conditions of the Holocaust continually make it harder to make others a priority than oneself.

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Within Night, Elie’s family was taken by the Nazis, separated from each other, and most of them died during the duration of the Holocaust. Elie and his father had to stick together in order to survive. They had to have faith everything would be okay. In Life is Beautiful Guido, his son Joshua, and his wife were sent

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The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.

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“He was more involved with the welfare of other,” (Wiesel, 2006, pg.4). By the time Eliezer’s father finished serving the community, he was always too worn out to pay any attention to his family. As the story continues, we begin to see a different side of both of them. Being stuck together in the camp allowed them to stay strong for each other throughout most of their sufferings. “Everyone encounter filled us with joy- yes, joy: Thank God!

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This was very emotional for Eli because he was his best friend and he was thought to be dead. This had a huge impact on Eli because it made Eli depressed. Eli was also depressed because he was the person that he looks up to because he was smart. This was internal because it hurt Eli’s emotions the most. This the internal and External conflict of the

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We also seen Elie mature as a young boy. We seen Elie come from a young boy that disobey his father wish about not studying the Kabbalist to a young boy who was only worried about his father when he was getting twenty-five lashes. In the beginning of the book Elis’s father was described as unsentimental and Eliezer was described as a Religious boy, by the end of the book both of these labels were wrong. Every father love their son and every son love their father however at the beginning of the book Elise father seem to love the Jewish community more than Elie and Elie seem to respect his faith more than his father. However during the middle and the end of the book we saw a father that was willing to starve for his son and a son whose only reason to stay alive was his father.

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