Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed me has never left me." Elie did not know who he was anymore, while at the camp he lost himself after his fathers death, therefore making him into a living corps. Wiesel who is the author of the book Night is claiming that it all went away after his fathers death, and the pain he felt could not be explained.

Everyone under the Nazi’s rule in the concentration camp struggled; the labor they were forced to do, lack of food and mistreatment was irrational. In the beginning, Elie and the Jews were forced out of their homes and were stripped of everything they once knew. In the end, Elie ended up alone being that his father died at the last camp only days before the American SS came on April tenth and freed the remaining Jews (Inconvenienthistory.com). After he was freed with the others he looked at his reflection for the first time since the ghetto and knew that those years in the

They were badly beaten and starved. Elie was so worried about dieing he gave his food to his dad and let him eat his dad was so worried about elie he didn’t eat. He was so frail he could break abone. Elie’s dad finally passed away and Elie didn’t want to be alive anymore.

Life in a concentration camp is unimaginably difficult and leaves many with great uncertainty. People must fight hard, have unspeakable grit, and go through life-changing events just to have a chance at the freedom they were unsure would ever come. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, we learn Elie was only 15 when he was taken from his home, left only with his father, and forced into multiple concentration camps throughout Hitler's reign. We’re let in on the unbearable experiences and effects concentration camps had on many of the innocent people forced to try to live life as normal there. Elie overcomes the tragedy and struggles brought on by the situation by changing the way he approaches and experiences life's battles.

Elie’s determination to stay with his father was constantly present. He showed this determination all the time. Elie reflects on a time in the camp, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” (30).

When Elie is sent to concentration camp, he goes through a lot of emotions. At first he is in denial that human beings could do such cruel things to other people. This stage however is short lived because very suddenly he must adapt to the harsh environment around him. Although eventually the atmosphere takes him over.

In Sighet, Elie lives a healthy life and never has to worry about a shortage of food or medicine. But once he is captured by the Nazis, his life begins to change. Elie’s captors give him rations of bread and soup each day, but these portions are very small and are barely enough to keep a human being alive. Soon, the only thing Elie can think about is his hunger, which is illustrated in the following text excerpt: “I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach.

In Night. People in concentration camps tried to protect each other but struggled very hard to do so. Sometimes, they barely had a chance to begin with. For example, Elie witnessed someone kill himself because they already committed all he had left to taking care of a family member and was stuck. “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?

Think of a circumstance where you were so hungry and thirsty, that you did not even care to think about your father anymore. That circumstance goes against common father-son relationships. The common father-son motif is where the father looks out and cares for the son. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he explains why the circumstances around a father-son relationship can change their relationship, whether it 's for the better or the worse. Since the book is about the life of Elie in a Nazi concentration camp, the circumstances were harsh and took a toll on multiple father-son relationships.

It goes without saying Elie was very strong. The mental and physical resilience it would have taken to come back from that experience, to go on and publish books and do interviews is unimaginable. If Elie wasn’t empathetic, he wouldn't have kept his father alive as long as he did, and he himself may not have been around to share his experience. If Elie wasn't resilient, he wouldn't have been able to constantly recount his experiences to the world. He could have simply holed himself up and hid from the world, a thought that would have no doubt been tempting.

Imagine being a young 15 year old boy barely fed, dehydrated and at a camp that was created for the purpose of killing thousands of people and immediately once you arrive losing your mother and sister. Elie shows extreme mental strength during this event, rather than trying to stop it from happening

Night is a story filled with good people turning themselves into brutes. The SS officers would torment the prisoners causing prisoners to steal food, water, and harm others to obtain what they wanted. In some cases, people needed food in order to survive. Elie Wiesel was one of the few people that maintained his morals while being tormented by the officers. Elie was faced with many difficult obstacles, yet he still persevered through the obstacles and was able to maintain his morals.

"You are too skinny, you are too weak... at least [he] arrived" (72). This shows us that Elie was trying his hardest to run as fast as he could to show the doctor that he is still healthy and that he can still do work. This evidence matters because even though he went

Throughout the horrifying events of the Holocaust, Elie undergoes a plethora of changes including physical, spiritual, and emotional transformations. During his time in the camps, Elie goes through many physical changes. These distortions in his appearance are caused in large part by starvation,

This example shows how he is almost the center of Elie’s survival. Elie’s relationship with his father reminds him of essential feelings of love, duty, and commitment. Also reminding him of his own humanity,