What Is One Terrible Moment In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp which has turned my life into one long night...never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever”(25) The book “Night” was published in 1956, and written by Elie Wiesel. “Night” is about this child, Elie, and the germans during World War 2. Throughout “night”many recurring stories Elie told were about One terrible moments he experienced as a Holocaust survivor. One terrible moment for Elie in the book was when he him and his family arrived at Auschwitz and he was separated from him mother and his sister forever. “Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother. I had not had time to think, but already i felt the pressure of my mother and my sister moving away to the right… And I didn't not know that in that place at that moment I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever” (22). This quote is important because it shows that at that moment Elie had just seen him mother leave him forever and he's by himself with his father left. In conclusion Elir had faced a terrible moment where he says goodbye to him mother and his sister and knowing that he will never see them again. …show more content…

His punishment was getting him with the whip many times. “Then I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip. He took his time between each stroke. Only the first one really hurt me. I could hear him counting, his voice was calm and reached me through a thick wall. 2 more I thought, half conscious. That quote is important because it shows how Elie had been punished extremely bad and at that moment was hard for Elie because he did nothing and he still got punishes bably. In conclusion, Elie had suffered extremely and that was a terrible moment for him to have to be punished like