Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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“All the victims of the holocaust were not Jewish, but all the Jews were the victims of the Holocaust.” Elie Wiesel was an author who wrote an autobiography about the Holocaust called “Night”. He was born on September, 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania and his world revolved around family, religious study, community, and god. His entire life turned around in 1944 when he was deported to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel survived the holocaust and it was a harsh experience for him, he saw everyone suffering slowly. He didn’t have much food, all that he would eat was soup and a piece of bread and sometimes he would go days without eating. He would go running in the snow and was beaten so many times as if he was an animal. He had to see how people got hanged, he saw his own father dying slowly. Going through what Elie went through is a true survivor and has so much courage to keep on fighting. Elie Wiesel uses Night …show more content…

In page 95, paragraph 2 it says “He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound. In such silence”. In page 95, paragraph 4 it says "He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings”. In other words he’s playing like his lost hopes, his lost past, his extinguished future. Elie is trying to say is that Juliek's music is extremely touching because he puts his whole self into his playing and he takes everything that has been happening to him and puts it into his music.The music that Juliek played was like the faith that was hidden inside every prisoner. They didn't think that they believed in God but deep down they all still had hoped that everything was going to be fine. After all of this happening to the Jews they still hear the beautiful music and that’s what makes them have hope again. Thanks to him, he brought a piece of happiness to the others for a fraction of a