Almost everyone in the world knows what happened in the “holocaust”, and everyone knows it was a horrible event that terminated so many innocent jewish people, the thing is people shake it off like it was basically nothing more than Nazis sent jews to camps and they were killed, but then you read a book or you watch a movie and you realize, dear god how could you do this to innocent men, women, and children. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his personal experience in the holocaust, and the terrible hardships he had to face as a child in the holocaust. Wiesel spent almost an entire year in concentration camps, and a year is a long time especially with what you would have to deal with in a concentration camps.
Elie lost so much in the holocaust he lost his home and all his belongings and both his mother, father and sister and his sense of belonging. Jewish families lost so much from items to family members that many jews started to question why he would do this? why were
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they being punished? what had they done wrong?. “I did not deny god’s existence, but i doubted his absolute justice.”(pg 42) In this quote Elie is questioning why god is doing this to him and all the other Jews in the camps, like what had they done so wrong to deserve this punishment. One thing about hitler that Elie says in the book is that hitler always kept his promises toward the jewish people. “I got more faith in hitler than anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the jewish people.”(pg 77) Elie even says he has more faith in hitler than anyone because he has kept all his promises he has made towards the jewish people, those promises were not good ones but he kept them. Elie was starved, beat, mistreated and so much more than that just like the rest of the jews just like him in the camps, it's cruelty at it’s finest. Elie was starved in the camps to the point where he said he could tell the passage of time by his stomach. “I was a body. Perhaps less than that even : a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”(pg 50) In the quote he mentions more than his stomach telling the passage of time, he says he's alone just a body and even less perhaps. Elie knows that there is always a chance of danger in the camps he was never safe no matter where you were in the camps. “Was there a single place where you were not in danger of death?”(pg 37) Death lurked all around him and there was no escaping it no matter how much you thought you were safe, the reality was not one second were you safe the possibility of losing your life never left. For people in the holocaust just like Elie they could not remember what they were like before or what they looked like, because everyone about them from personality to looks.
Elie and others would have something horrible happen to them or the people that they care for that something that seemed bad before was nothing and couldn’t even really affect them. “ After my father's death nothing could touch me anymore.”(pg 107) Elie says after his father had died nothing could touch him anymore, and it’s so understandable because he tried so hard to keep his dad alive but he couldn’t and nothing could compare to the pain of that. Elie could not do anything to say his father moments before he died, because if he tried to step in he could also die. “The officer came closer and to him be silent. But my father did not hear. He continued to call me. The officer wielded his club and deleted him a violent blow to the head.”(pg 100) Elie's father called for him but because of it, he lost his
life. The holocaust took the lives of the innocent, and killed millions, changed the lives of so many. For Elie hes was change so much that he says when he looks in the mirror all he sees a person just looking at him dead in the eyes. “From the depths or the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”(pg 109) For Elie and so many other victims of the holocaust the sights they seen, the torture they endured, the loved ones they lost, has never left them, just a vivid memory of the world’s worst genocide ever.
At last, his father was free. He wasn't taking any more beatings, he isn't suffering, and he doesn't have to be in the concentration camps anymore. Elie is free, he doesn't have to carry the weight of his father anymore. Three months after his fathers death nothing mattered to him anymore. The father son relationship shown in this novel, is something no one else has ever seen before. As you can see the roles switch throughout the story. In the beginning Elie’s father is strong, a role model a leader, but through the story he becomes child-like vulnerable, weak. On the other hand, Elie goes from admiring his dad, to worrying and carrying for
with his father being a burden on his shoulder. Something that was holding him back but even though his father slack sometimes almost caused their demise and caused him to slowdown. In certain situations he kept moving forward and not giving up on his father and on himself. Also trying the best he could to survive and help his father survive.Elie even though he was a young boy took on an adult role and push through his situation handling it as an adult. It seemed to be that his father became a distraction towards the end of Night. Even though it hurt him to see his father in his last days or moments before his death even though we don’t know if he died we
Towards the end of the book Elie says, “On my return from the bread distribution, I found my father crying like a child” (page 109). Elie most likely felt very insecure and scared because he saw his father crying. As Elie Wiesel points out, “I remained more than an hour leaning over him, looking at him, etching his bloody, broken face into my mind” (page 112). Elie had to live with looking at his father who was broken inside and scarred on the outside, which in could leave a long term stress on the boy because he could never get the picture out of his mind of a loved one being beaten up and scared to die. He was psychologically affected because of what he had experienced. When seeing something like this happen (especially to a family member) could leave people affected for life, leaving them only the picture of their family being broken down into fine powder making them feel that they’re going completely insane.
Due to the cruel punishment Elie endures from the Nazi Army and other prisoners that he comes
Night by Elie Wiesel was a memoir on one of the worst things to happen in human history, the Holocaust. A terrible time where the Nazi German empire started to take control of eastern Europe during WWII. This book tells of the terrible things that happened to the many Jewish people of that time. This time could easily change grown men, and just as easily a boy of 13. Elie’s relationship with God and his father have been changed forever thanks to the many atrocities committed at that time.
First and foremost, Elie begins to question himself and his morals as a person. He acknowledges that the way he was behaving wasn’t like his normal self. “What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me. All I could think was: I shall never forgive them for this.” (39) Elie seems to have become numb to the violence going on around him at this point. Elie watched his father get hit for simply asking where the restrooms were located, yet he stayed silent to protect his own skin. He loses his faith in himself and his will to stand up for what is right.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
During their journey, Elie loses his father due to illness however does not feel much emotion. After witnessing his own die, Elie “did not weep” and “deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...” (Wiesel 112). While going through the camp Buna, Elie and his father had develops a strong relationship with one another. However, after his father’s death, Elie “did not weep” and displays very little towards the event. Elie had felt that his father was a liability for his own survival and did not feel the need to weep over his death. Elie also states that he was “Free at last” showing that throughout the course of the novel Elie had thought as his father as pulling him back from survival. The reason for Elie feels this way is because Elie is still on his journey and his primary goal is to survive through the camps. Elie has become quite desperate through his journey of survival and searches the “recesses of my feeble conscience” for his most inner thoughts. Throughout the novel, Elie had been storing these thoughts in the back of mind. These thoughts include him thinking of his father as liability and him being free from him. At their first arrival at the camps, Elie and his father had been very close to one another going through their journey of survival. However, after
Why did Elie let it happen? What could Elie really have done as an alternative to save his father from dying? He could not have helped his father from being beaten up by the SS guards but he did try to help him from being attacked by his own men in his sleeping barracks. Elie really wanted his father to live. Elie does everything possible to help his father unless it would do harm to himself.
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.
Eliezer loses hope, trust, and his beliefs. He begins to rely on himself because he knew that only he can help himself and he could not depend on anyone else. "Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever..."(pg 32). Elie's father was struck, and that was when he realized he was afraid of death, and he felt guilty because he did not help his father.
The Holocaust was a horrible thing but what would happen we wouldn’t know because it’s been that long but did they help others when they were getting tortured and worked to death. Well one of our proof that this existed was the book Night by Elie Wiesel a man put through this on the last year of world war one and from the book and from chapter 1-4 I have the person opinion that no they couldn’t because they were too afraid to not do what they were told to. From the book, it states that “I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent” (Elie Wiesel 54). This was when the leader was beating on Elie’s father and he just stood there not moving he was so scared that he couldn’t move because the soldiers took all their courage. Not only
He could not believe that the God he followed tolerated such things. During times of sorrow, when everyone was praying and sanctifying His name, Elie no longer wanted to praise the Lord; he was at the point of giving up. The fact that the “Terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent”(33) caused Elie to lose hope and faith. When one chooses to keep silent about such inhumanity going on, they are just as destructive as the one causing the brutality.... ...
This new behavior lead him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things, for example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and putting them in poor conditions. Elie is usually not a person for anger but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until now, when he is starting to question his beliefs. He had learned that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation then asked himself the question, “Is God real?”. Elie became worried because he felt he had lost a companion that always seemed by his side at all times. He lost hope. While Elie was in the camp he had changed the way he acted towards his Dad. Before Elie was sent to the camp Elie had a love hate relationship with his dad. However while they were in the camp together they became closer. Elie showed this when, “I tightened my grip on my
Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.