...Have you ever wondered how different your life might be if you were deported to a concentration camp, but managed to escape and survive? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family were deported to a concentration camp. Elie eventually lost his mother, father, and sisters, and struggled to survive throughout the book. After going through many horrible things, he was freed when American tanks came to the concentration camp Elie was at. Elie had been affected by many events in the book, such as the loss of his humanity, the harsh conditions in the camps, and the loss of his father. One event that clearly changed him was the loss of his humanity. In short, he lost everything that made Elie himself, such as his clothes and even his own name. For example, Elie said “A Kapo came in to check if somebody had new shoes… I had new shoes. But, as they were covered in mud, they weren’t noticed. I thanked God for creating mud” (Page 38). It is very evident that Elie did not want to lose his shoes, because the Germans had already taken everything he owned that made Elie unique. Another example can be found just a few pages later. Elie notes “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Page 42). He was no longer identified as a living human being with a name, but...
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...Horrifying. Terrible. Scary. Elie Wiesel in Night was a young Jewish boy. He was taken out of his own home by a german because his family was Jewish. They were sent to a concentration camp and were treated like animals. Before arriving at camp Elie had a very strong faith, but later on he began to question god about his beliefs and lost his entire faith while there. While living in Sighet Elie had a very strong faith in God. Faith is believing in something you strongly agree with. Eli believed that God would always be there to help him out. He wouldn't go a day without praying wheather it was day or night he would always pray. Before being evacuated by the German soldiers to move out of the Ghetto to go to the concentration camps Elie was up and early. "I was up by dawn. I wanted to have time to pray before leaving"(18). Elie knew it was there last day in their home. He wanted to take one last prayer in...
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...In the memoir “Night”, the main character wrote himself (Elie Wiesel), Elie’s father being alive decreases the chances of Elie surviving. Elie takes many risks for his father. He gives his father some of his rations of bread and soup. Elie also helps his father pass a selection in Gleiwitz. Elie helped his father in many ways, like teaching him how to March. Elie sacrificed himself a lot for his father, putting himself in danger at times. Elie decreased his chances of surviving when he would give his father rations of his own bread and soup that Elie was given for himself. The prisoners would get very little rations, and yet Elie would give his father his rations. In one occasion the prisoners were allowed to go outside, and those who were sick stayed in the blocks. The prisoners who were allowed to go outside were give their bread and soup rations. The prisoners were then allowed to go back to their blocks, and Elie rushed to his father and asked him “Did you eat?” “No.” “Why?” “They didn't give us anything… They said we were sick, that we would die soon and that it was a waste of food… I can't go on…” “I gave him what was left of my soup” (107). Elie started realizing he should care less about his...
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...silent? In Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, irony, and imagery to illustrate how silence takes over when fear sets in. When Elie gets to the concentration camp there is an immediate change in his personality. The fear of the camp sets into Elie and he starts to lose his voice. Right away Elie’s father asks to use the bathroom and the officer slapped him. “What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh.”(p.39). Elie says that yesterday he would have stood up for his father. This quote is symbolizing just how much the fear of the concentration camp had changed Elie in just a short amount a time. His voice was dissipating along with his courage. By the end of the book Elie has lost his voice completely. When...
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...- Describe and analyze Elie Wiesel’s changing view of god throughout the memoir and how it affected his identity. Explain three specific examples of this transformation from Elies experience beginning in sighet to his liberation at Buchenwald. NIGHT As humans we all have certain characteristics that define us. What we look like, what we do, what music we listen to, and even our religious beliefs. All of these make up our identity. Sometimes we feel like our identity is altered because of an event that has occurred. It may be positive or negative, for example if we start doubting our faith it changes our beliefs and our beliefs are a big part of who we are. In the book night Elie Wiesel starts off with an influential belief in God. Elie experiences many situations that change the way he views God slowly transforming his identity as he continues to go through many atrocities in the concentration camps. For instance, when Elie first arrived at the camp he immediately starts doubting God as he asks himself “Why should I bless his name? What had I to thank him for? (page 42) At this point in time Elie was...
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...that happens to most people but the majority have not had it stripped away or been forced to question entire religious beliefs. Elie Wiesel did. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he discusses how Jews were stripped of their homes, titles, gold, and religion. He explains his story of being deported and taken to concentration camps, where he endured countless cruel acts. Elie once an extremely religious young man, tells the story of losing his faith during those horrific months. Eliezer’s loss of faith forever impacted him because seeing such horrible things made it hard for him to have faith how he previously did. Before being taken to any concentration camps, Elie is devoutly religious and is extremely faithful. Wiesel...
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...Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience of being forced to survive in a concentration camp. At the tender age of 15, Elie had to witness and suffer through things we could never imagine. As a Jew, one could only choose to die or work until they were too sick to function. Some people were unlucky enough to not get a choice to begin with. Unknowingly, this nightmare would change him externally and internally for life. Due to the atrocities witnessed and experienced during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, a once deeply religious individual, loses his faith in God, himself, and mankind. Throughout the story there were many occasions of where Elie started to question and lose his faith in God. One of the many occurances...
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...The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, tells a first hand account surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp . Elie’s haunting account, engages the reader throughout the story. In fact, the reader quickly learns the importance of making thoughtful decisions. Enter sentence here. Enter another sentence here. Elie’s choices during the concentration camp played the biggest role in his ultimate survival . During Elie’s time in the camp he has to make life or death choices in many different situations. Elie in the beginning of the book was told that if he tells the S.S. he is 15 then he will be killed in crematorium (29). So Elie chose to listen to the man that told him to say his age as 18 instead of 15 (30). Additionally, Elie has to decide whether...
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...city of Sighet there was a kid by the name of Elie wiesel. At the time in the year 1944 Elie wiesel who was twelve years of age at the time, puts in some energy and feeling on the way of informing someone with good details which resembles (the assemblage of Jewish common and stately law and legend involving the Mishnah and the Gemara) and on Jewish ghost like quality. His teacher or mentor, Moshe the Beadle, comes back from a close passing and being involved with cautions that Nazi people or like attackers that will soon begin to eat away at the quietness of their lives. With whatever happens, notwithstanding when bad and dangerous to hating jews, measures force the Sighet Jews into administered ghettos, Elie's family just stays nice calm , cool , and collected. In the spring, many experts start shipping a bunch of whole trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex( the cabin they were staying in on the camp) . Elie and his family are part of the last bit of people left to be brought to the complex . In a cow's auto, eighty town people can barely move and need to get by on a not important nutriment and water. One of the expelled individuals, Madame Schächter, winds up plainly humorous with different views of blazes and heaters for his view....
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...From 1937 to 1941, around 6 million Jews were killed under the control of a man named Adolf Hitler. Hundreds of thousands were displaced for years, with no home to go to. In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, hatred and discrimination are shown throughout the years. Weisel makes a strong and understandable point: the world is full of apathy. The article "Follow the Crowd" by ABC News dives deeper into this, with research from Dr. Gregory Berns. Apathy is very clear in the world, and it perpetrates injustice because it causes people to turn a blind eye to worldly problems and simply do not want to help because of other people's opinions. While people think they are helping by staying silent, it does more harm than good. Unfortunately, in today's...
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...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… A witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory" (Wiesel ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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...People who experience destructive environments introvert and escape the reality of their condition, and only the strong reemerge. Human nature is defensive and lashes out, only to conceal themselves again. Some deal with their irrational emotions by getting agitated, some freeze and numb, and some reject the outside. Those who are faithful walk strong in the day, and those who are hurting sulk in the night, and only those who find a medium between these extremes can find peace between total trust and total terror. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor, and he has experienced this phenomenon. He followed his faith prudently, and believed that his god had cast to these people punishments to atone for their sins. He believed that he deserved...
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...individuals were involved that you can't just blame one person. The nazis managed to build a society that created monsters who were convinced that the killing of innocent jews was practical. Elie Wiesel’s story in the memoir Night is a horrifying one, which displays the true ruthlessness of the nazis. The Hungarian police show up to Elie’s town and start the regulate everything that the Jews do. They do not let them own valuables, they have a curfew on when to be home, and they even each have to wear a yellow star. Some believe the yellow star is a marker of death. They believe they have been already marked for slaughter. Elie’s...
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...Nicholas Sanchez B3 Tears of A People In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, light is shed on the experiences of those in the holocaust but failed to discuss the main focus that readers may miss. [The main focus of the story overall is the degradation of society, and the fall of humanity.] To iterate his point Elie includes all of the haunting and gory aspects of his story into the book. [(One) of the most important aspects showing the degradation of humanity are the differing ways people die.] (One) of the first ways Elie discovers the ways people die is when he hears from the Beedle that the Germans had built crematories. The crematories show the Nazi's torturous and deadly methods. The crematories also show the amount of thought...
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...Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis. It was a cold-blooded extermination attempt of people of the Jewish faith and non-aryans( blonde, blue eyed, individuals with physically strong bodies and white skin) that hurt many people across the world physically, mentally, and emotionally. The book titled Night by Elie Wiesel is a strong representation of this. The book details the attitude of the people running the camp, the circumstances that could make one give up on religious faith, and the growth of frustration and overall sadness. Being a prisoner at a Nazi camp was one of the worst experiences imaginable. When Elie arrives he is quickly given an obvious message that his time here will not be very pleasant. "Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium—the choice is yours” (29). This quote clearly illustrates the intentions of the camp higher-ups. At this place, Mr.Wiesel and his fellow prisoners were not perceived as a people, but rather slaves and animals used for Nazi agenda development. Anyone that protested for their basic human...
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