Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie, his family, and his mentality were torn apart by the terrorism of the Germans. The happiness and peace once flourishing in the Wiesel home was taken away, policy by policy; until nothing was left except Elie himself, alone on a cold bunk in a concentration camp. Wiesel grew up a devout Jew in Romania in the 1940s, in a family of six. Elie’s daily activities included studying Jewish scripture with his teacher Moishe the Beadle, and helping his parents with chores. Elie’s peaceful life was devoid of doubts of faith and God. However, the policies enforced by the German Nazis destroy his physical and mental soundness. In the beginning of the story, the first policy was instituted. All Jewish people would have to …show more content…

All Jews would be deported to Hungary, Poland, and other countries; however, they did not know they were being sent to death and labor in concentration camps. In Wiesel’s situation, he had to discard of all of his belongings, he’d never see them again. The ride to the concentration camps was torture for all of the passengers. The deportees were so tightly packed they could not move. There was no food or water provided, this caused many deaths. Disease and sickness also spread. Elie Wiesel did not subject to illness; however, “...we began to be tortured by thirst. Then the heat became unbearable,” (21). The heat and lack of necessities weakened Elie. After surviving the train ride, Elie and his family arrived at a concentration camp. This was the last time Elie and his father would see his mother and his younger sister. Throughout Elie’s time at the concentration camp he is beaten, operated on, had his tooth pulled out, almost starved and froze to death, and suffered many other terrible deeds. In this passage it portrays Wiesel as he was whipped, “I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip...Two more I thought, half conscious,” (55). Although Wiesel survived the whipping, his father died at the camp Buna after being beaten to death by SS officers. Wiesel was now completely alone, even his God was gone. Elie now had his God murdered right in front of