Essay On Daniel's Story By Elie Wiesel

In the novel I read which is of course Daniel’s Story is about a kid named Daniel and his family and how they try to go through life being a Jew in the WW2 era and how they have to live and how they were put in such harsh conditions and the way they were treated was awful. Just like when Daniel saw a Jewish kid no more than 12 years old being shot in both legs just because he missed a spot of dirt when sweeping. The first thing I would like to talk about is the technology used in the novel. Machine Guns were used, trains were being ridden, there was a crematoria, and in the research I have looked up all of those were historically accurate, the only thing fictional is the characters in the novel like Daniel, but of course this most likely did happen to many families and the harsh things that they were put through.

The second thing I would like to talk about is the locations in the novel the places that Daniel and his family visited were in order first, Frankfurt, Lodz, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald.

All of these places were close to or where Jewish concentration camps, Auschwitz which is referred to in the book as a massive death camp, because of all of the gas chambers, burning pits, and just the millions of massacres that took place during WW2 in Germany. Buchenwald was the place where most of the political prisoners went which were the political peoples that Adolf Hitler did not like. Daniel and his father mostly stuck together somehow throughout the book and was separated from Erika and his mother. Yet that his mother died, Erika almost survived until the end where she was too weak to go on in life. Daniel says everything was supposed to be over but really it was just the beginning of the mourning that took place all over Germany for the

jews.

The third thing I want to talk about is the facts and details that were used appropriately in the story. Most of the facts in the story were true and accurate like the camps and the places they were sent to and the harsh things that went on like, gas chambers, massive shootings, torturous beatings, crazy experiments that went on in the labs. Most of all is the harsh things that happen in the story like beating people upside the head, pouring disinfectant all over cuts, gas chambers, crematoria, burning piles, lice in the ghettos, and other horrible things that you would never even want to think of. Even though all these thing were happening Daniel was able to find hope, life and even love in the middle of despair.