Damsel lay quietly studying the four walls that surrounded him. At the far end of the bedroom, a closed dark wood door stood out against the white painted walls. Three quarters of the way up the walls, surrounding the entire room, was attached a wide picture rail decorated sparsely with colorful miniature porcelain ornaments. Two paintings hung from the picture rail facing each other from opposite sides of the room; a corralled fawn colored horse reared high on its hind legs, reined by a taut rope, as a cowhand wrestled tirelessly to break it. The other was of a mountain range with dark thunder clouds that stretched across the entire length of the canvas; skillful strokes of the artist capturing the illusions of rumbling peaks and vallies as …show more content…
A lit, hand painted, oil lamp now hung on a hook beside the door. The door was open, and he could hear the sound of chatter and laughter and the smell of freshly cooked food floating through the house. Suddenly there were footsteps in the passage, and then the door opened a little wider. A head popped in, then just as sudden it disappeared. "He is awake, mom." A young female called as her footsteps faded down the passage. Moments later the middle-aged women entered the room carrying a tray of hot food. Her long hair was now stuffed to the top of her head and held by a large tooth comb thrust into it. She wore an off-white dress, almost cream and it hung down to her ankles. Supported by her neck and secured around her slender waist, by thing material strips, hung a full-cut yellow and white kitchen apron. "Sit up, my dear. You can't eat laying down." and again she helped Damsel to sit up. She placed the tray on his lap and handed him a knife and a fork, and a white napkin. "We boiled the meat so it shouldn't be tough," she smiled dawn at him, and Damsel noticed a slight resemblance to the young women he had met beside the desert. "If you would like I'll cut the meat into smaller
An estimated 11 million people died in the Holocaust. 6 million were Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout his book he describes the tremendous obstacles he overcame, not only himself, but with his father as well. The starvation and cruel treatment did not help while he was there. Elie makes many choices that works to his advantage. Choice plays a greater factor in surviving Auschwitz.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
In his memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel describes the horrors he experienced during the Holocaust. One prominent theme throughout the work is the evolution of human relationships within the camp, specifically between fathers and sons. While they are marching between camps, Elie speaks briefly with Rabbi Eliahu, who lost sight of his son on the long journey. Elie says he has not seen the rabbi’s son, but after Rabbi Eliahu leaves, he remembers seeing the son. He realizes that the rabbi’s son did not lose track of his father but instead purposefully ran ahead thinking it would increase his chances of survival. Elie, who has abandoned nearly all of his faith in God, cannot help but pray, saying, “ ‘ Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done’ ” (Wiesel 91). In this moment, his most fervent hope is that he will remain loyal to his father and not let his selfishness overcome his dedication to his father. However, he is soon no longer able to maintain this hope.
In recent years, society has brought to light many issues that are in desperate need of solutions. This includes topics such as poverty, racism, and gender inequality. While problems like these are important, society tends to be apathetic towards other issues that are just as dangerous and in need of solutions. For example, violence in teenage relationships is a growing problem that is extremely dangerous, even fatal. Many times, victim does not understand what relationship abuse is or how it starts until it is too late, and the victim is stuck in a relationship that is harmful. Sometimes, people outside of the relationship see patterns of abuse and do not act on the problem because no one tells them who they should report the abuse to or how they can help.
Inked on the pages of Elie Wiesel’s Night is the recounting of him, a young Jewish boy, living through the mass genocide that was the Holocaust. The words written so eloquently are full of raw emotions depict his journey from a simple Jewish boy to a man who was forced to see the horrors of the world. Within this time period, between beatings and deaths, Wiesel finds himself questioning his all loving and powerful God. If his God loved His people, then why would He allow such a terrible thing to happen? Perhaps Wiesel felt abandoned by his God, helpless against the will of the Nazis as they took everything from him.
In Night, by Elie Wiesel, there is an underlying theme of anger. Anger not directed where it seems most appropriate- at the Nazis- but rather a deeper, inbred anger directed towards God. Having once been a role model of everything a “good Jew” should be, Wiesel slowly transforms into a faithless human being. He cannot comprehend why the God who is supposed to love and care for His people would refuse to protect them from the Germans. This anger grows as Wiesel does and is a constant theme throughout the book.
When looking at the holocaust, it is widely known the devastation and pain that was caused by the Nazis; however when inspecting the holocaust on a deeper level, it is evident that the Jews were exposed to unimaginable treatment and experimentation often overlooked in history discussions. When looking at “Night”, Elie Wiesel was helped by the doctors in the camp when his foot was severely infected; although this is not the experience he had, many Jews were mistreated and even killed by the doctors. Many Nazi doctors that were assigned to Jewish patients were later found to have exposed the patients to horrific medical experiments and unnecessary treatments that commonly led to their death.
It is reported that over 6 million Jews were brutally murdered in the Holocaust, but there were a very few who were able to reach the liberation, and escape alive. There were many important events that occurred in Elie Wiesel’s Night, and for each and every event, I was equally, if not more disturbed than the one before. The first extremely disturbing event became a reality when Eliezer comprehended that there were trucks filled with babies that the Nazi’s were throwing the children into the crematorium. Unfortunately, the sad truth of the murdering babies was clearly presented through, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there, […] babies”, (Wiesel, Night, 32). This was one of the most disturbing events of the narrative for myself and truly explained the cruelty and torture of the Holocaust.
Book Report on Elie Wiesel's Night. Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle.
Every day, people are denied basic necessary human rights. One well known event that striped millions of these rights was the Holocaust, recounted in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. As a result of the atrocities that occur all around the world, organizations have published declarations such as the United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights. It is vital that the entitlement to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, freedom of thought and religion, and the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being of themselves be guaranteed to everyone, as these three rights are crucial to the survival of all people and their identity.
“There is no longer any reason to live; any reason to fight” (Wiesel 99). In the book “Night”, worte by Elie Wiesel, it depicts the many struggles of the prisoners of the Holocaust. Elie writes about his own experiences and his own struggles. Elie’s life changed and was influenced by what happened during the Holocaust. His life changed by his faith cheapening, having only his father, and the things he had seen.
As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.
I have made a mistake. And this mistake took away thirty years of my life away from you. I won’t be able to pack your lunch on your first day of school, and I won’t be able to see you walk across the podium to receive your diploma. Because of my mistake, your life will be more difficult, and I only hope to make it up with this story. You may hate me or miss me, but no matter what you are feeling, I hope that you will have this story to accompany and guide you when I am gone.
It is hard to trust in something invisible, especially for a child when he has everything taken away. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. After he first arrives at Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel’s mother and sisters are taken away from him. His father is suddenly all that remains of his family. Elie Wiesel witnesses many other terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that keeps him sane is his father. Elie Wiesel’s father even keeps him from possibly killing himself before the Germans could. When Wiesel lives in the concentration camp with his fellow Jews, he begins to question the fairness of God, who he had trusted his entire life. Elie Wiesel loses faith in God, particularly the faith that He would use His divine power to help Wiesel, and begins to rely on his father instead, which gives him more reason to live.
The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of the horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps, mainly Buchenwald, and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid, unforgettable, and shocking images of the past. It is beneficial that Wiesel published this, if he had not the world might not have known the extent of the Nazis reign. He exposes the cruelty of man, and the misuse of power. Through a lifetime of tragedy, Elie Wiesel struggled internally to resurrect his religious beliefs as well as his hatred for the human race. He shares these emotions to the world through Night.