Elie meets Moishe the Beadle, who teaches Elie about Kabbalah All of the foreign Jews are expelled from Sighet, including Moishe Moishe returns to Sighet to tell the Jews about what he experienced, but no one believes him German soldiers come to Sighet and begin to oppress the Jews slowly Passover begins The leaders of the Jewish community are arrested on the seventh day of Passover The Jewish people are no longer allowed to own any valuables and are stripped of their belongings The Jewish people must wear the yellow star to be identified at all times Two ghettos are created and the Jews are transferred within them Elie and his family are moved to the small ghetto Elie and his family are moved out of the ghetto on one of the transports
In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, there was a very strong shift in the tone just within the first three chapters. “The shopkeepers were doing good business, the students lived among their books, and the children played in the streets”(Weisel 6). It is shown here that they were living ordinary, peaceful lives. “The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction”(Weisel 14). This is where people began to no longer feel peaceful and began the long journey of fear and worry that would get worse throughout the book.
6. Chapter Six Wiesel and his father evacuate with the remaining inmates, marching while the SS directed insults towards them, even going to call them “flea-ridden dogs” (85). As they continue, Wiesel realizes that they were practically running “like machines,” no one lagging behind out of fear of being shot by the SS (85). After witnessing the death of a young boy who fell behind, he contemplates doing the same and declares that “the idea of dying… fascinated [him]” (86). The pain that he was in was so great, that he wished to die in order to end it all.
Night Summary In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, pages twenty-three through twenty-four explain that he was kept in a train with horrific conditions. Wiesel and many other Jews were stuffed in a train that was meant for cattle. They had very little food, air, and water in this train.
“The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). 1. Wiesel describes to the reader how he is tattooed with an identification number by the “veteran” prisoners the morning after he and his father have arrived at their new camp: Auschwitz. 2.
Every story written has a tone that is put into the story by the author. Tone is the attitude of the author toward the subject, or the audience. In the book “Night,” tone is something that is present all throughout the story, especially so in chapter five. Here are some of the most prevalent ones that are in this story. One of the biggest tones in this chapter was the feeling of fear.
Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.
Elie Wiesel’s “Night” depicts death, obliteration, and anguish while directly depicting the suffering he witnessed during his time at Auschwitz, a concentration camp for Jews during World War II. Within the story, there is an overwhelming amount of times the Jews had been in distress. Many children had been separated from their parents and all of the Jews were taken from their homes. Their suffering seemed endless. They were no longer teachers, homeowners, or priests.
Night was written in a young boy’s point of view about his family’s hardships and experiences through the holocaust. This book is based off the 1940s. At this time, the holocaust was coming to an end. The main setting in the book is a series of concentration camps: Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. There is an abundance of historical information about these camps, especially the more popular ones like Auschwitz. 1937, the Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
4. Synopsis: The memoir starts in Eliezer’s hometown of Sighet, Hungary, where Eliezer is in instruction when his instructor gets taken away. A few months pass when his teacher Moshe returns and tells the class of the horrifying tell of the Gestapo taking charge of the deportation and slaughtering the members of the deportation train. Later in the spring of 1944, the Germans invade Hungary oppressing the Jews of Sighet, making them live in the ghettos, and eventually putting them onto the train to Auschwitz.
The author of the Night did not understand why God punishes the innocent and righteous, who worship Him, even in the death camp, what did they do? They pray for you! Glorify your name. Wiesel openly expressed his hatred for God, was not afraid. He thought that after what happened in Auschwitz, the religious dimension of Jewish identity completely lost its meaning.
At what point does respect no longer matter? When does the need for survival take over grief? When do the tears dry up in order to stay alive?
Elie Wiesel lived through a rough concentration camp that involved different parts where innocent human beings died. His reference to “...they listen, they cry, they warn” explains how those who died are still around with them through the Holocaust and help them be warned about the events that happened. Elie shares that the Jews suffered in inexplicable ways by how they were told that they were taking a shower but instead were taken into a chamber where Zyklon B was exposed, disease exposure in locks, and they even had to create certain things for the Nazis’. Jewish families were separated into different camps but few had survived in the Auschwitz camp, where Elie went to. Although these horrors were hard, Wiesel learned to stay calm and heard
Like steel to extreme heat and intense pressure, people often reform when placed under harsh conditions. This has the potential for proxy effects on moral considerations. This moral reformation is often more of a moral degradation as people revert back to their selfish survival instinct. This is evident in Elie Wiesel’s recollection of his experience as a Jew in the Holocaust. Nazi Germany’s transportation of the Jews into concentration camps was executed with a lack of consideration for comfortability.
Wiesel’s approach in writing a literary work is to present the role of a prophet through a character who challenges madness. Historically, “the Hebrew prophets got this sort of treatment from the defenders of the status quo, Jesus of Nazareth got it from the Romans, Archbishop Romero got it from the military, and six million Jews got it from the Nazis” (Brown 180). In each case, fear is the prevailing motif that ultimately led to evil. This is the mystical madness that Wiesel tries to insert into his writing since it gives answers to questions about life and faith. However, Wiesel’s madmen provide different views about one’s purpose in life in this mystical, maddening world and taking them seriously leads to a more serious question: “What if
