Take a moment and think about how difficult it is going through an unexpected change having to do with leaving your old life, your hometown, and even your house by force. Well, that's what you call a sudden change that may leave a long-term effect on a person. Based on true story, In the book Night, movie called Life is Beautiful and article named “ The Journey to Europe: One Syrian refugee’s story” all show terrible experience through sudden changes of a person due to Religion and way life is going on in their own hometown that changes a person for life, but after going through the change they're able to continue a normal life.
For example, in the book Night, a true story, Elie Wiesel and his family including two sisters and his Mother and his father, from the small town of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania, tragedy moment begins when were told to leave everything they have and even their house by a German Gestapo during the start of the Holocaust. “ I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt a little sadness. My mind was empty, “(Wiesel,
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19). Coming to the point the way Elie felt about leaving his home to be sent to the Concentration Camp showed a lot of feelings and expression into having to leave everything for good just like that is a significant change that will leave a memory and go forward it may affect him in ways. Another point is, as Elie and his Father spent years in the concentration camp they both suffered physically and mentally. Elie went through beatings, starving, painful workdays, and with the weight of seeing his father take the beating affect the way he may move on with his life until the biggest change of his life came in again being free from the concentration camp. “OUR FIRST ACT AS FREE MEN was thrown ourselves onto the provisions. That's all we thought about,” (Wiesel,115). Elie at this point goes through another biggest significant change with being able to come out and see the open world to live a normal life and live so long with his life. In addition to sudden changes, in the short article “The Journey to Europe: One Syrian refugee’s story”, a true story, Hamed Shurbaji from the that's going on in his country resulting him to lose family members and damage hometown of Syria, he had to leave everything he had in Syria due to the Civil War conflict going on. ‘ "I couldn't stand it anymore," Shurbaji explained. "My hometown Darya was totally destroyed and I lost a lot of family members. I couldn't stay while the security forces were killing innocent people. There was nothing left for me there anymore, when all my loved ones were either jailed, killed or scattered abroad,”’ (Al-Muqdad). As Hamed express it was too much to take the way he was seeing his community and losing family members pushed him to leave his hometown and everything he has there before anything occurs to him. That is a big role in going through a sudden change of having to not just leave hometown but to also deal with family members lives gone. As Hamed journey continues, he moves to several nearby locations to get life back on track with work but he ends up struggling as also ran into smugglers on his journey through Europe that ripped him off. Hamed was on his last journey Germany which is where he found his success . “After three months in Germany, Hamed was finally granted refugee status and became a legal resident of Germany. He's currently taking German language courses, and is preparing to go back to college, and continue his studies in French Literature in the near future,” (Al- Muqdad). Last formal example of a significant change is in the remarkable film Life Is Beautiful about a jew family of one little kid named Giosue and his two parents who were all forced to leave their normal life to be sent to the Concentration Camp.
“Guido the father and son were forced to the Concentration camp but Guido persuades Giosue through the camp to believe that it's a really tough game to survive and win an award of a tank, ( Benigni). Giosue a little boy who doesn't know much about what's going on gets persuade that the camp is a game to win a tank goes through times in the camp where he wants to go home but doesn't know he was abandoned and his family was forced. Giosue later loses his dad and after freedom from the camp, Giosue was able to live his normal life on with his mom who was still
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An example of adversity is the Holocaust - Hitler‘s plan to exterminate the Jews. In the memoir, Night, we discover how Elie Wiesel changes in response to his concentration camp experiences. The separation from his loved ones and the horrible conditions of these camps affect Elie immensely. Elie is affected in the following ways: physically, emotionally and spiritually. The Holocaust had changed him into a completely different person.
Imagine being trapped in a ghetto, seeing communities leaving in trains, families being split up, never to see each other again.. The emotions that each and every Holocaust survivor must’ve gone through is overwhelming. Some things that are taken for granted, will never be seen again. While reading the two texts, Night by Elie Wiesel and “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” by Pavel Friedman, The two predominant emotions that prevailed most to Holocaust victims and survivors were hope and fear.
In his novel Night, Elie Wiesel shows the importance of family as a source of strength to carry on. The main character of the novel is a thirteen-year-old boy named Eliezer. He and his family were taken from their home and placed in a concentration camp. He was separated from his mother and sisters during the selection once they arrived in the camp. His father was the only family he had left with him to face the inhumane environment of the camp. Many of the prisoners lost the will to live due to the conditions. During the marches between camps some of these broken souls would drop to the side of the road where they we...
Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy, lives in Sighet during World War II with his mother, father, and two sisters, and he is very religious and wanted to study Judaism. However, there were warnings by some people that Jewish people were being deported and killed. Although no one believes these warnings, Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto where they have no food. After being in the ghetto Elie and his father are separated from Elie’s mother and sister because of selection and were placed in cattle cars where they had no room. They are taken to Auschwitz where they suffer from hunger, beatings, and humiliation from the guards which causes Elie’s father to become weak. By now Elie loses his faith in God because of all he has been through. Lastly, Elie’s father dies just before the Jews are liberated and Elie sees his reflection in the mirror but does not recognize himself because he looks like a skeleton.
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden. Elie Wiesel shows that the relationship with his father was the strength that kept the young boy alive, but was also the major weakness.
It is in a child's nature to be dependant of its parents and family members. They rely on them to protect and take care of them, so when they are suddenly ripped out of that comfort and protection, imagine the impact it would have on them. During the Holocaust, there was nothing the parents could do to protect their children; it was inevitable if they were Jewish they were always at risk. But on top of their vulnerability, children were frequently separated from their family and loved ones. Whether it be going into a concentration camp or going into hiding, the Holocaust has many examples of families being torn apart. One example would be with twins. Twins we often used for scientific experimentation, and when they were brought into concentration camps they were immediately identified and separated. The children that were used for these experiments very rarely survived them, and if they did they never saw their twin again. In just a short amount of time they were ripped away from their families and comfort and thrown into this chaos and unbearable setting (Nancy Sega...
Authors sometimes refer to their past experiences to help cope with the exposure to these traumatic events. In his novel Night, Elie Wiesel recalls the devastating and horrendous events of the Holocaust, one of the world’s highest points for man’s inhumanity towards man, brutality, and cruel treatment, specifically towards the Jewish Religion. His account takes place from 1944-1945 in Germany while beginning at the height of the Holocaust and ending with the last years of World War II. The reader will discover through this novel that cruelty is exemplified all throughout Wiesel's, along with the other nine million Jews’, experiences in the inhumane concentration camps that are sometimes referred to as “death factories.”
Eliezer Wiesel loses his faith in god, family and humanity through the experiences he has from the Nazi concentration camp.
But through all of these images of the horror and sadness of the time period, hopes are constantly raised by the humor, and personality of Guido and the magic his character brings to the story. Riding into a hotel ballroom on a green horse, and riding away with his princess—stealing her away from her fiancé, much like the old stories from the past. In the film, the concentration camp is a playground for a young child. And in the same town that Mussolini was driving through, Guido first meets his princess.
Some of the most fabled stories of our time come from individuals overcoming impossible odds and surviving horrific situations. This is prevalent throughout the Holocaust. People are fascinated with this event in history because the survivors had to overcome immense odds. One, of many, of the more famous story about the Holocaust is Night by Elie Wiesel. Through this medium, Wiesel still manages to capture the horrors of the camps, despite the reader already knowing the story. In addition to him having to overcome difficult odds in order to survive for himself, he also had to care for his weakening father. A similar situation occurs in A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, however, Ishmael accepts the situation and is able to defend himself. While
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania. His parents ran a shop and cared for him and his three siblings, Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora. Early on, the Jewish community of Sighet payed little heed to the stories of what had happened to foreign Jews that were expelled. By the time Germans had entered Sighet, it was too late for the people to escape their fates. At first, they were made to give up all of their valuable possessions and move into makeshift ghettos. Next came deportation of the entire community to the Auschwitz internment camp. The way that the people were piled into cattle wagons was only a precurser of appalling events that were to come. The horror really dawned on Elie when he realized that the large smokestacks that he saw were from crematoriums that were set up to burn the bodies of the thousands upon thousands of Jews that were killed in the gas chamber. Elie paints a portrait of life in the camp, which included hours of back-breaking labor, fear of hangings, and an overall theme throughout the book: starvation. The prisoners were given only black coffee in the morning, and soup and a crust of bread in the evening. The most terrifying aspect of the entire experience was the “selection”, the picking out of those that were to sick, old, or weak to be useful. These unfortunate souls were thrown into the fires. The one constant in Elie’s life was his father, who along with his son and all other prisoners, were later forced to evacuate to trains that would bring them to the Buchenwald internment camp deep in Germany, under the pressure of the Allied forces on the area. The final horrific scene in this book was how the interned, in mass, were forced to run full speed for hours on end, the people that lagged being shot on sight. The story culminated in the death of Elie’s father, and the eventual freedom of the Survivors of these death camps.
Gerda Weissmann, Kurt Klein, and families endured horrible things under Nazi rule and throughout World War II; such as: famine, work labor, and a great deal of loss. Gerda’s memoir All But My Life and Kurt’s appearance in America and the Holocaust explain the hardships of their young lives and German Jews. One was able to escape, one was not; one lost everything, the other living with a brother and sister in a new and safe place. The couples’ stories are individually unique, and each deal with different levels of tragedy and loss.
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.
Even though once Jews were moved to concentration camps, it was hard to maintain a normal life, evidence from the camps reveals families stayed intact throughout this time of hardship. Families were often left without a father or child and still sought to keep living. There’s no better evidence of the Jew’s resiliency than the survivor’s willingness to set up families in the years immediately following the Holocaust.
Guido Orifice is unlike the rest. He is talkative, protective and has a optimistic attitude which shows others that life is beautiful. In the middle of the movie there is a flash forward where Guido is married to Dora and they have a son named Joshua. Later, Guido, Joshua and Dora, who isn't Jewish, but is voluntary to stay with her family, are all sent to concentration camps. Here Guido creates a game to make Joshua happy; the game that has a prize of a real tank. For example, he incorporates the game when he notices the guards' sons running around playing hide and seek. Guido instructs Joshua, whoever he finds is eliminated from the game. When a lady calls the boys in for a meal, Guido says, "Got you, got you, got you," and assures Joshua