The book that I will be describing today is Night by Elie Wiesel. The book Night symbolizes how Elie’s life has been ever since he was taken away from home. On the first couple of pages it explains how he didn’t write the book just for him to go mad or to go mad so that people would understand the madness he went through. Just from the first page you can tell that this will be a good book because of the tone used. What happened in the book?, you may ask. Well, Elie was a strong believer of God and he would go to the synagogue once or twice a day. Elie says “one day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide him to his studies of Kabbalah.” But his father Told him that he is way too young to learn about Kabbalah. Yep that’s right he is fascinated by God. Every now and then when Elie would be walking home from the house of worship, there would be a rumor about how the Germans would be in town soon. But no one believed it until two Germans arrived smack dab in the center of town. When all Jews were escorted to a place called the ghettos that when things started to click in for the Jews. The well known Adolf Hitler was the leader of an organization called the Nazis. The Nazis were a group of anti-Semitism men that …show more content…
On the picture when I saw the ghettos it looked worse then I thought it would be from when I read the book. Even though the museum didn’t show many things that Elie was saying. Also in the museum there was no pictures of Elie which was surprising to me because we talked about him multiple times in class but I didn’t see him in the picture or in the famous Jew section which was in the lobby. The Auschwitz entrance looked the same as it did when we looked at it in class. Those are the two things that I was looking for when I walked in the museum because that is all we talked about in
The last passage in the book, on page 115, stood out to me the most. Elie Wiesel describes the first time he looks at himself in the mirror since he was in the ghetto, and he is stunned by what he sees. This passage highlights how severely the Holocaust affected Elie, as well as millions of other Jews. It had not only separated Elie from his family, who he would never see again, but it stripped him of his humanity. Before the war, and even in the ghetto, Elie had hope, his family, his faith, and his innocence.
In the book Night, the author describes his life being a prisoner for the Nazis. In this book, we are described with how Eli survived and what he and his father went through. We learn about how the prisoners were treated in the concentration camps. In the next two paragraphs, I will be sharing my opinion on what I think are the two most terrifying experiences the author, Eli, had to endure.
ight The choices we make, even the most mundane, affect our lives. Sometimes big, sometimes small. Normally, they’re small & inconsequential. In the novel, “Night” Eliezer’s family is taken away to a concentration camp.
The book I chose to read, “Night”, was named after Elie Wiesel’s darkest time period in his life. When Elie was young, he was enslaved by the Nazi’s. In the novel, Elie tells us how harsh conditions were for the Jews and what they had to experience. After the Holocaust, he was inspired to write about the concentration camps that he stayed at and what he experienced while he was in the death camp. I chose to read this book because I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust and what the Jewish people had to experience.
The holocaust makes physical and mental alterations to Elie’s life, and this tells the reader that the people who did this are effective and impacting, also it shows that Elie’s mind is controlled by what he was experiencing. Way back at the start of the book the readers see an adolescent boy who is studying Kabbalah, but when suddenly German officers come to ship the Jewish citizens out of his town, Elie wants to run away. By
“Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that sheds light on his life growing up as a Jewish teenager. When he was just sixteen years old, he was forced to grapple with limitations set in place by the Nazi’s rule. At this time in history, the Nazis were trying to exterminate the entire population of Jewish people solely because of their religion. The Nazis took over his town and began their cruel ruling system.
Night Many times as Christians or Jews, we find ourselves or others to be in rough situations that make us question God. When it comes to this topic, one event in human history stands clearly above the rest: the Holocaust. From an outsider’s perspective, believers understandably question why God would allow something so terrible to happen, but seeing the perspective of someone who experienced these horrors is a whole other level. Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” shows the world how the Holocaust caused him and others to question God.
A major theme in this novel is a boy’s loss of innocence in a world he thought was good, and loss of faith in a God he thought just.” This generalization was used to describe the book called “Night”. “Night” is a book written by Elie Wiesel. It tells a true story of a boy’s experience in the holo hast. The boy that went through the horrible experience was Elie Wiesel, the authors, himself.
Compassion is an extremely powerful emotion. It’s when you help someone get through an awful time in their life. Usually if it’s someone or something you, love you can show compassion towards it, You’ll end up putting an extreme amount of love and compassion into something you care about. If your loved one is going through an event you’ve gone through, you can empathize with them and connect. Showing love and compassion can let other people know what kind of person you are.
Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place as the tyrant Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Nazis targeted the Jews' humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human. The feeling of dehumanization was very common between the jews. They were constantly being treated as in they were animals. The author and narrator Elie Wiesel, personally experienced being treated like an animal
World War II had been raging for two years and was bout to enter Sighet. The Germans attempted to commit genocide on the 'lesser ' races, particularly Jews. Through the brutality witnessed, acts of selfishness, the death of his father, and the loss of his faith, Elie changed. Elie became a young man with a strong sense of mortality through it all. By the end of the war, Elie claimed to see himself as "A corpse contemplating me."
Loss of Humanity “I didn't know that this was the time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever”(29). In Elie Wiesel’s Night, this is where the book took a turn for Elie. He was still new to the concentration camp and he was being split up from his mother and sister forever. Loss of Humanity is what really changes Elie from a bright spirited boy, to a young kid that was sad almost all the time.
Imagine that one day, everything that you and your family had worked for was taken away. You had to leave your home and go to some unknown place for some unknown reason. Think about the fear rushing through everyone around you, but you can’t do or say anything about it. Elie Wiesel and many other Jews had to go through during the Holocaust. In the book Night, Elie explains his journey through the concentration camps, he attempts to show readers what pain and suffering that had occured in them.
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” — Primo Levi. Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, who survived the Holocaust. This quote talks about how someone you think is just an average man can actually be more dangerous than monsters.
He grew up in a religious household and lived his life in a way that was glorifying to God by keeping God first. At the beginning his father seemed really religious and always talk about his love for God. Near the end of the book however, Elie mentions nothing about his dad even mentioning. I think if his dad was an honest faithful man that no matter the situation he would be encouraging faith at the hardest times. I wonder if Elie forgot these discussions with his dad because times were so hard or if they actually never happened and he wasn’t as religious as I thought he