Section One Of The Book Night By Ellie Wiesel

The book Night by Ellie Wiesel, gives the account of a teenage boy going through the horrendous events of the Holocaust with his father by his side, though this is one of the many accounts of the Holocaust it is crucial to society that we learn the lesson behind it. The lesson to learn from this horrifying event, is to accept all humans for who they are and not be prejudice against their religion or race. In the dissection of section one of Night the readers can spot how blind the Jews of Sighet are to Hitler’s cruelty and power. The Jews are so blind they would not even believe when one of their own Moishe the Beadle, who was captured by the Hungarian Police and then forced into cattle cars and forced to dig a mass grave. Then one by one

In the beginning we learn he is very devoted to his practices of the Jewish tradition, and he prays multiple times a day and believes that god can do anything. But as they are torn from their homes and deported into the ghetto’s he is forced to ask god for mercy such as when they reach the small ghetto they all fall to the ground and pray “Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us”. But as they are transported to camps and conditions become severely worse he starts questioning his faith and why god would let something happen so horrible happen to him and his family. In the end perhaps the worst death of all was of his of his religion due to Hitler’s extreme cruelty and

We see this when Eliezer’s father sees him laying down and wakes him up before he falls asleep to his own death, but we do not see Eliezer willing to do that for his own father. But he does regret letting his father die when he knew his father would have done anything to keep his son alive, so we see Eliezer feeling guilty about his decision. I think that is why he wrote some of this book so that his father could be remembered and the sacrifice his father made for