He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” Eliezer finds the strength to keep going because of his
The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father
Elie would not have survived captivity without his father. Well, let me rephrase that. Elie might have survived, but I think he would have faced many extra and unnecessary struggles along the way. There are three main reasons why Elie would have had a harder time without his father, the first being that his father was his advisor. Secondly, his father was his motivation, and even though Elie was very motivated on his own, his father gave him that extra push that he needed.
Sometimes situations occur in our lives that happen because of chance awhile other times they occur because of a choice made. This is especially true with Eliezer in Elie Wiesel’s Night. Eliezer has a series of events happen to him that have happened be chance or by choice. Eliezer never asked to be a Jew in a time when it was so fatal to be one but it happened by chance.
The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.
Elie survives because his family is with him. Family is the reason Elie survives because of the multiple moments where Elie’s family helps him to both be able to survive and have the will to survive. In the story Elie thinks “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me . . . I had no right to let myself die.
As an illustration, he exchanged his shoes to be put in a good unit. He was also forced to get his gold crown removed. However he played a trick on them but the eventually found out his weakness was his father. Many times Elie would give his father his food so his father would be stronger and didn’t have to be taken away. Furthermore, even though Eliezer was very young he never gave up.
Your existence is special, so you should be grateful for what you already have in life. If you put your mind to something, you will be able to overcome any obstacle. Keep fighting until you cannot fight any longer. Elie Wiesel has demonstrated these characteristics in his novel, “Night.” He has fought through many tough times and experiences when he was in the Holocaust.
6 million human beings. Out of those 6 million people Elizer Wiesel survived the attempted extermination of his people. Elizer suffered through severe hunger, countless beatings, and being taken away from his family. If I had to credit 3 reasons for Elizer being alive after all he endured it would be his father staying by his side, never losing hope, and his ability to understand the reality of situations.
“There 's hope a great man 's memory may outlive his life half a years”William Shakespeare In the book Night Elie Wiesel wrote about his experiences during the holocaust. Elie had hope to live long so he could forget the bad years of the Holocaust and still have hope that there is good in this world. During the 1940s the Holocaust took millions of innocents lives and many of those lives were Jews. Elie Wiesel believed that the reason he survive was to tell his story and make sure that memories of the Holocaust stays memories. Jews were hunted down, they were beating, and kill.
What can happen to the rest of one's emotions once a survival instinct takes over is astonishing. Eliezer’s sick father, Shlomo, was the only link he had back into his past, his good life. Also Shlomo was a burden to Elie. Whenever Elie started admitting that his father was a burden, he caught himself and stopped because he felt ashamed and guilty. When his father finally died of Dysentery, Elie found himself doing the unthinkable, he had abandoned his father like the Rabbi’s son did to him.
Think of a circumstance where you were so hungry and thirsty, that you did not even care to think about your father anymore. That circumstance goes against common father-son relationships. The common father-son motif is where the father looks out and cares for the son. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he explains why the circumstances around a father-son relationship can change their relationship, whether it 's for the better or the worse. Since the book is about the life of Elie in a Nazi concentration camp, the circumstances were harsh and took a toll on multiple father-son relationships.
Eliezer is affected so badly that at times, he doesn’t care for his father. Something similar happens when his father is sick and dies. His father’s last words to him were calling for Eliezer, and he didn’t move. He ignored him on purpose. “Free at last!”
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.
When losing a family member, the natural response is to shut everything out and greave. It could possibly be the hardest moment that a human has to face in their lifetime. Now imagine that you are in a German concentration camp in 1944, watching your father get beaten to death. This is what Elie Wiesel, a young Jew during World War II had to face while he spent countless hours in torture and despair. The torture these Jews had to go through, caused many changes in the Jews that were in the concentration camps.
