The reason he gave him the spoon and knife is that he thought he wouldn’t make it through the selection. It was because his ad was not as strong as he was before. He thought he couldn’t do it anymore. But his son told him he could make it through the selection and come out and be with him. His father that he insisted that he take the spoon and knife. His father came back and passed the selection so his son gave him all of his stuff back. The reason it was such a good inheritance was because if your first spoon and knife got stolen you would have another back up pair. His father also wanted to give him his bowl. His father really thought he wouldn’t make it out of the selection so he gave his son his bowl also. It was such a good gift at Auschwitz …show more content…
Because everyone would try to steal them from someone else if they lost theirs. That's Why it is so important. If u gave up your bowl knife and spoon you wouldn't be able to eat. His dad did not need them because he need his son to stay alive longer than him that is what one of the veteran prisoners said.He said you would rather have your son live longer than themselves so they don't have spend their whole life in worry about their child. His son was young he also needed more food to stay alive then his father. That is why his dad tried to give him that stuff. It was such a good gift his son could not take it cause he did not want his dad to day. His father was week but since he ran and did not let them see his number he got away free handed. I believe the he considers himself as afraid because he is afraid of what could happen to him in the end.
I also think he is afraid because his dad is probably sad about what happened to him and his very kind family. The thing if I was a Jew or someone in the concentration camp and I would have been horribly scared and afraid to tell my Dad happy new year I think it would make him very emotional and he would cry a lot. If it was new years and I had a new years resolution it would be to keep myself strong and never give up on the fight between myself and survival. They do not deserve to be they're in the horrific place like Gleiwitz or Auschwitz. The thing I would most be afraid for is getting shot in the legs or arms and suffering a death by bleeding out. If I were to die i would want it to be quick and easy. I know that he would have wanted to die quick and easy too. He is afraid of losing his dad. If he got wounded by a gunshot, then he probably would have touched the electric fence. He said in the beginning that he did not want to suffer due to fire or anything like that. He also did not want to get too attached to his father in case his father died. That is why he was afraid to wish his father a “Happy New Year”. He knew that life at Auschwitz was basically a living hell where life and death could change at any moment. Then he got hurt and did not see his father until he escaped the hospital. He gave his father a choice to stay with him, but they both ended up
marching. The Holocaust was a terrible terrible time for the Jewish, gypsy, and disabled people of Europe. It took the people of the Jewish faith and killed them. For all of the people of the Jewish faith, it might be hard to continue believing in someone who is supposed to protect you when thousands of people of your faith are being killed each day. In the story, Elie directs most of his anger towards God because like I said, God is not protecting his children like all faiths that believe in God promote. He thinks that it is God’s fault because God put these people on Earth and God is not stopping this from happening. If I was in Elie’s position, I would think the same thing because God is supposed to help and protect you through hard times like these, or at least that is what the bible preaches. During Elie’s time in the camps, his experiences are what made him think this way of God. His first bad experienced really took a toll on him. The burning children in the pit were very disturbing to see as the first thing going into the new camp. He thought to himself,”How could God let these people do this” or at least that is what I would think. His experience of being separated from his mom and other friends and family also caused him to question his faith and God’s existence. A big part of being a believer in God is having loving caring family, and if that is all taken away from you, then does God really exist? Not only was it the actions of the German soldiers that took away his faith, but it was how they did it. They had no human emotion about taking away the value of these people’s lives. Another rule of believing in God is to worry about yourself last and care about other people. If God really exists, then why would he put these people with this mindset on Earth? Elie had some very tough experiences during the Holocaust and concentration camps, most of which made him disbelieve in God. I honestly don’t blame him for the way he felt towards God, because I would feel the same way if I was in his situation.
This is the one of many choice decisions Elie makes in his journey. Chance plays another key role in Night. By chance, Elie and his father were placed in the same block and were never separated into different camps. “That night the soup tasted of corpses.”(65)
A statement from the nonfiction novella Night –a personal account of Elie Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust—reads as follows: “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou. Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end up in the furnaces” (67). War is a concept that is greatly looked down upon in most major religions and cultures, yet it has become an inevitable adversity of human nature. Due to war’s inhumane circumstances and the mass destruction it creates, it has been a major cause for many followers of Christianity, Judaism, and other religions to turn from their faith. Followers of religion cannot comprehend how their loving god could allow them to suffer and many devout
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.
In this world, people go through the process of dealing with both empathy and malice. As a matter of fact, almost everyone has been through times where maybe they feel understood by some and misunderstood by others. Specifically, in the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, a character named Madame Schachter goes through the experience of fellow Jews displaying empathy and malice during in result to her behavior. Along with this, the reactions reveal just how inconsiderate we can act when in uncomfortable situations. One example of the malice and lack of sympathy they provided her was during the cattle car ride to Auschwitz. During this ride, she went a bit insane due to the devastating separation of her family. Elie explains, “She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been
Upon entering the concentration camps, Eliezer and his father demonstrate a normal father and son relationship. In a normal father son relation, the father protects and gives advice to the son, and the son is dependent and reliant on the father. Eliezer and his father demonstrate this relationship to extremes throughout the beginning of their time in the camp. Eliezer reveals his childlike dependency upon entering the camp. Eliezer displays this dependency during first selection by stating, “The baton pointed to the left. I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right, I would have run after him (Night 26-32) ” . Eliezer’s determination to stay with his father was constantly present. Eliezer reflects on a time in the camp which is all that he could think about was not to lose his father in the camp. Eliezer also requires his father’s protection during their stay in the concentration camps. Unintentionally demanding this protection, Eliezer remembers, “I kept walking, my father holding my hand” (Night 29). Eliezer continues to show his need for his father’s presence. Eliezer’s actions and thoughts reflect his
When an evil leader comes to power you would think it would be easy to overrun this leader and stop him in his tracks, but this is not always true. Elie Wiesel, a young teenager during the Holocaust is sent to many concentration camps. He sees the horror of what an evil power can do. As Elie Wiesel writes Night, he shows that in difficult times people stay silent and do not fight back, staying obedient to a powerful leader.
When Elie’s father is physically harmed for first time, Elie is“petrified” that his father “had just been struck” and that he “had not even blinked” (Wiesel 39). This demonstrates that Elie is truly taken aback by his change in behavior, indicating that he may not have reacted the same way to this action before he was exposed to the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet, he is not the only one that experienced this alteration, Elie also mentions that he “once saw” a pipel “beat his father for not making his bed properly” (Wiesel 63). The pipel more than likely felt entitled to do this because due to their pretty faces, pipels were often, but not always, treated better in concentration camps than other prisoners. Nonetheless, the marks that the Holocaust left on each of its victims are
It is so strenuous to be faithful when you are a walking cadaver and all you can think of is God. You devote your whole life to Him and he does not even have the mercy set you free. At the concentration camp, many people were losing faith. Not just in God, but in themselves too. Elie Wiesel uses many literary devices, including tone, repetition and irony to express the theme, loss of faith. He uses tone by quoting men at the camp and how they are craving for God to set them free. He also uses repetition. He starts sentences with the same opening, so that it stays in the reader’s head. Finally, he uses irony to allude to loss of faith. Elie understands how ironic it is to praise someone so highly, only to realize they will not have mercy on you. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, repetition and irony illustrate the loss of faith the prisoners were going through.
The section in the novel night that painted a dark and angry picture of human nature is when the Jews were fleeing Buna and hundreds of them were packed in a roofless cattle car. The Jews were only provided with a blanket that soon became soaked by the snowfall. They spent days in the bitter cold temperatures and all they ate was snow. For these reasons, many suffered and died. When they stopped in German towns, the people stared at that cattle cars filled with soulless bodies. “They would stop and look at [the Jews] without surprise.” It was a regular occasion for the German people to see suffering Jews and not feel pity. The dark and angry picture of human nature was when a German worker “took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it
After first arriving at Auschwitz, Elie first encounters the harsh conditions of the camp as he sees the crematorium for the first time. This scares Elie and he becomes concerned only for his own survival and self being. Once arriving in the selection room, Elie is petrified of the SS and is trying to stay out of trouble. Shortly afterwards, Elie witnesses his own
During the Holocaust many people were severely tortured and murdered. The holocaust caused the death of six million Jewish people, as well as the death of 5 million non-Jewish people. All of the people, who died during this time, died because of the Nazis’: a large hate group composed of extremely Ignoble, licentious, and rapacious people. They caused the prisoners to suffer physically and mentally; thus, causing them to lose all hope of ever being rescued. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie went through so much depression, and it caused him to struggle with surviving everyday life in a concentration camp. While Elie stayed in the concentration camp, he saw so many people get executed, abused, and even tortured. Eventually, Elie lost all hope of surviving, but he still managed to survive. This novel is a perfect example of hopelessness: it does not offer any hope. There are so many pieces of evidence that support this claim throughout the entire novel. First of all, many people lost everything that had value in their life; many people lost the faith in their own religion; and the tone of the story is very depressing.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel gives an in depth view of Nazi Concentration Camps. Growing up in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel, a young Jewish boy at the innocent age of 12, whose main focus in life was studying the Kabbalah and becoming closer in his relationship with God. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel reflects back to his stay within a Nazi Concentration Camp in hopes that by sharing his experiences, he could not only educate the world on the ugliness known as the Holocaust, but also to remind people that by remembering one atrocity, the next one can potentially be avoided. The holocaust was the persecution and murder of approximately six million Jew’s by Aldolf Hitler’s Nazi army between 1933 and 1945. Overall, the memoir shows
The ground is frozen, parents sob over their children, stomachs growl, stiff bodies huddle together to stay slightly warm. This was a recurrent scene during World War II. Night is a literary memoir of Elie Wiesel’s tenure in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel created a character reminiscent of himself with Eliezer. Eliezer experienced cruelty, stress, fear, and inhumanity at a very young age, fifteen. Through this, he struggled to maintain his Jewish faith, survive with his father, and endure the hardships placed on his body and mind.
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.
Elie cedes his rations of food for his father. For example, “I gave him what was left of my soup” (page 112). Elie gives his father his soup even when his father is sick and will not survive for much longer. This is relevant, because the prisoners were given insufficient amounts of food, and they were severely malnutritioned. Therefore, Elie was basically killing himself to ease his father’s pain. In contrast, “But it was with a heavy heart. I felt that I was giving it up to him against my will” (page 112). In other words, he gave his father his soup unwillingly, and he didn’t necessarily want to help his father.