Starving, burning, shooting, beating, and death. These are just a few examples that tormented Elie.The parents should have listened when they recieved their first warning signs that the germans were approaching, little did they know their future would be filled with hardship and pain. Concentration camps were no place for a human being to encounter daily. Nazi’s decided that blonde hair and blue eyes are what made you acceptable to the world, and others without were worthless, especially jewish people.These countless acts against jews made some question their religion and or even the existence of god. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” pg. 27 These words were spoken by Elie Wiesel his first day at the concentration camp. First day at Auschwitz Elie seen the stacks of burned bodies, the image is still stuck in his head until this day. He feared being apart of the stack of …show more content…
torched bodies, so to escape from a blazing death he figured he would run into a barbed wire fence to get electrocuted. Luckily, he avoided joining the grave with various jews and gypsies. He viewed people being beaten senseless beyond his eyes and hung until death. This began his thinking of how could there be a god if such death and mischief occurred. “Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished. Behind me, I heard the same man asking: "For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."at night, the soup tasted of corpses.” The camp used viewing the hangings as a factor to keep the prisoners in line and show dominance. Looking at the little boy still hanging from the rope, alive and breathing really disturbed Elie mentally. One prisoner had to question the presence of god aloud, because he thought such a dreadful scene should have never occurred. This was the first hanging of a child, he and the other men had armed weapons and had and a measured plan to destroy or harm individuals in the camp. "I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute justice." Chapter 3 pg. 42 Elie never was a religious person, he believed in evidence and proof which cannot be provided within religion.
He did cry while praying at night with no exact or specific cause. It might have been the fear of the unknown, and the result after death. Also he thought that if there is a higher power, then he would’ve prevented all those tragic situations from happening. He encountered numerous beatings with no mercy. There also appeared to be no consequence for the antagonist. He also seen his family suffer, like when Idek beat his father. Idek beat him, because Elie denied him his gold crown upon request. Later on, his shoes and his gold crown were taken from him for nothing. This young boy was kind, helpful, and intelligent, his trouble with religion was the purpose for supporting
it. As expressed, Elie lost an abundance of faith during this period entitled the holocaust. His life was filled with hardship and pain. He went through numerous obstacles, such as watching his father be beaten, watching children and men be hung, and having his personal items taken from him. These situations caused Elie to lose and question his faith in religion and or god.
The Book Night was the autobiography of Eliezer Wiesel. This was a horrible and sobering tale of his life story. The story takes place in Sighet, Translyvania. It's the year 1941 and World War II is occurring. Eliezer was 12 at this time and wasn't really aware of what was occurring in the world concerning the Jewish people. He had a friend who went by the name Moshe the Beadle. Moshe was very good friend of Elezers'.
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.
So as the morning Sun rose. The light beamed on Christopher's face. The warmth of the sun welcomed him to a new day and woke up in a small house in Los Angeles. Christopher is a tall, male, that loves technology and video games. He stretched and went to the restroom it was 9 o'clock and he was thankful it was spring break and didn’t have to go to school. Christopher made his way to the kitchen trying not wake up his parents and made himself breakfast. He served himself cereal Honey Bunches of Oats to be exact with almond milk. Then he took a shower and watched some YouTube videos before doing his homework.
The significance of night throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel shows a poignant view into the daily life of Jews throughout the concentration camps. Eliezer describes each day as if there was not any sunshine to give them hope of a new day. He used the night to symbolize the darkness and eeriness that were brought upon every Jew who continued to survive each day in the concentration camps. However, night was used as an escape from the torture Eliezer and his father had to endure from the Kapos who controlled their barracks. Nevertheless, night plays a developmental role of Elie throughout he novel.
Almost every Jew had a conflict with themselves. As a hole they had to fight to keep going. Thats because most of them were starving and lost their families. Most jews turned against each other to survive. They even went as far as to kill each other to get food to survive(101 ). This effected Elie because he had to see his own people turn against each other.
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.
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (9)
The book Night is a true story by Elie Wiesel, he survived the Holocaust, and it was very hard for him to share his story to the world but it was a good thing that he did because it teaches the world something and not many Jews survived during the Holocaust. We do understand that during the Holocaust 6 million innocent Jews died and some people don’t even know about the holocaust as a matter of fact they don’t even know what it is. I think every person in this world should read the book “Night” because you learn a lot of things from it and it gives you an idea of how the world was a mess when Hitler wanted all Jews dead and how the world did nothing about it. How can somebody have the mentality and the audacity to think like Hitler, they didn’t even tried to stop and realize that what he was doing was very wrong.
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.
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.
In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel remembers his time at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Elie begins to lose his faith in God after his faith is tested many times while at the concentration camp. Elie conveys to us how horrific events have changed the way he looks at his faith and God. Through comments such as, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God, my soul, and turned my dreams into dust,” he reveals the toll that the Holocaust has taken on him. The novel begins during the years of 1942-1944 in Sighet, Transylvannia, Romania. Elie Wiesel and his family are deported and Elie is forced to live through many horrific events. Several events such as deportation, seeing dead bodies while at Auschwitz, and separation from his mother and sisters, make Elie start to question his absolute faith in God.
When Elie Wiesel was a kid, he had extreme faith in his religion. The first person to question Wiesel’s faith is Moshe the Beadle. Moshe the Beadle asks Elie Wiesel why he prays; after pondering the thought, Wiesel replies, “‘I don’t know why,’ I answered, greatly disturbed” (2). Wiesel does not know
Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said, “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.” Inhumanity is mankind’s worse attribute. Every so often, ordinary humans are driven to the point were they have no choice but to think of themselves. One of the most famous example used today is the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night demonstrates how fear is a debilitating force that causes people to lose sight of who they once were. After being forced into concentration camps, Elie was rudely awakened into reality. Traumatizing incidents such as Nazi persecution or even the mistreatment among fellow prisoners pushed Elie to realize the cruelty around him; Or even the wickedness Elie himself is capable of doing. This resulted in the loss of faith, innocence, and the close bonds with others.