Simone Rosson Ms. Ahonen English 1301 1st period 22 October 2015 Night Night, is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel about the tragic events he endured during the Holocaust. Wiesel was one of the very few who survived the horrid times of the Holocaust. He was stationed in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the very well known camps. The story begins in the year 1941 when him and his family are torn from their home and transported to a concentration camp. Wiesel takes us on his personal journey of losing his family, hope and his identity. Of course the main character is Elie himself. When the book begins, he is a young and innocent Jewish boy living in Sighet. Moshe the Beadle is introduced at the beginning of the book. He is a kind and compassionate man, that befriends Eliezer to teach him Kabbalah. Moshe initially warns the people that danger is coming although no one listens to him. A similar character in this …show more content…
Schächter. She is a middle-aged woman who goes a little nuts as they are taken on their journey to the concentration camp. Mrs. Schächter foreshadows the coming of everyone’s death, when she tells everyone about the fires she sees in the distance. Like Moshe the Beadle, no one acknowledges her. Elie’s father is another big part of the book. He disregards all the warnings about the danger to come and is very optimistic about the situation, up until he arrives at the concentration camp, where his whole mindset changes. He was Elie’s only motivation to continue living. Sadly, Elie’s father dies, and Elie forever regrets the fact that he left him alone to die. After his father died, Elie had no more immediate family left, his mother and sister were instantly sent to the gas chambers upon arrival due to their sex and age. Stein is introduced in the book as Elie’s cousin who
The book starts in 1941. Elie is a young kid who loves studying Judaism. He reads the Talmud a lot. He studies with this dude named Moshe Beadle. Moshe is a handyman who digs religion.
During the Holocaust about 500,000 to 750,000 people were murdered due to their religion. Elie Wiesel was one of the people who survived this tragic event and wrote Night to bring attention and to inform about how it happened. The book Night is a nonfiction book about how Elie Wiesel lived in the town of Sighet as a child and was put into a concentration camp. He was put in a concentration camp because he is Jewish and was growing up during World War 2, when Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jewish people. This book is well written and fits all of my criteria for what makes a book worth reading.
“Night” was a non-fictional book written by Elie Wiesel. The story revolves around the author’s personal experiences regarding the Holocaust, the treacherous event where the Nazis heartlessly slaughtered the Jews. But why did the author name the book “Night”? Could it have been given some other title?
The book Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. This memoir is about Eliezer, a young Jewish boy, and his experience of the Holocaust that killed about 12 million people. Weisel used conflict to convey the central idea not to be blind to the truth. One of the characters in the book is called Moshe the Beadle. He was a pauper who roamed the streets of Sighet, Romania, the town where Elizer lives.
Night is a book written by the author and nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel. It is not a fictions book, but it is a life story. In the book, the people are not characters, but true people whom our author met and knew during this time. Elie Wiesel was alive during the Holocaust as a Jew forced to live in ghetto. The book is told from his perspective, and tells what happens at the largest concentration camp, auschwitz.
Night is a nonfiction book about Elie Wiesel, who shares his life when he was in a concentration camp. Before I read this book, I didn’t know about much about the Holocaust other than Natiz took Jews to concentration camps. After reading this book I learned; Natizs would first, take Jews to a camp where families would be separated (women and children would be killed). They would only keep young and healthy men alive to work in the camps. These men were forced to work in harsh environments with little food and awful treatment from the Nazis.
The book “Night” was written by an author Elie Wiesel takes place in Europe in the 1940’s. This was during one of the most notorious worlds world wide called world war two. Just like every war many people died and were murdered and was also brought hard times, pain and suffering. The book takes us into the perspective of a little twelve year old boy in the Transylvanian town of sighet named Eliezer. One also important detail that brings all the hardships that come his way to him is the fact that he is part of an Orthodox Jewish family, which made him an enemy to the Germans during this time period.
Elie Wiesel wanted the reader to think about all of the hardships that the Jews were put through and all of the struggles they had to endure. He wanted the reader to think about how they would feel if they were in the same situation. Elie wanted the reader to consider the fear he had in camp and how it felt, to be trapped and afraid he'd lose his life because he didn't do his job well
Eliezer Wiesel, also known as Elie, was born on September 30th 1928 in Sighetu Marmatiei, the Kingdom of Romania (Hungary at that time) - July 2, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a philosopher, writer, Jewish political and humanitarian activist and author of many books. " Night", which was written in 1960 is his memoir of those years living in Nazi concentration camp during the First World War when he was under the age of fifteen, a book honoring the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. The love is real in any situation, throughout the book is the story that Elie witnessed and what had happened to him during his years in the concentration camp and in those cruel situations. The love between humans in this world is warm, sometimes fragile or is distorted
Ishaan Sharma Ms. Susa MYP HN English 10 - Block 3 19 March 2023 Health and its Impact on the Characters of Night Night by Eliezer Wiesel is a story about the countless trials that the author faces during the Holocaust. He starts as an innocent young boy from Sighet. He is forced into a ghetto, and then into several concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buna. Finally, he is liberated from his camps.
There are a few factors that help shape Elie’s identity. His faith is the biggest part of his life that shaped his identity. His relationship with his family helped to shape his identity. Moshe the Beadle helped shape Elie’s identity by helping him with studying the Kabbalah. Moshe the Beadle was also a role model and a father figure to Elie.
Elie an observant twelve-year-old, the only son of Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel, leads readers deep into the undeniable torture that he and his father endured. Throughout the novel, Elie 's father remained engulfed with the delusion that the abuse his people had endured was all for the greater good. After being seperated from his mother and sister 's for some time. Elie began to wonder where they
Do you think that you have what it takes to survive alongside Elie? In Night, by Elie Wiesel, his story is told when he is taken to a concentration camp along with his family and stripped of his belongings and identity. Throughout the book, Elie Wiesel shares information about the people he meets, the attacks he had, and the death around him and along with the countless other things that made him a survivor of the Holocaust. Some of the most influential people showed up relatively early in Elie’s life.
The novel is about a Jew and his father’s struggle through the holocaust and about them overcoming the struggles that they were faced. A few other characters in the novel are Yossi, Tibi and Moshi. Elie and Moshi were similar in the beginning because they both were into god. Moshi had gone to one of the camps before and when he returned to warn all the others about what the Germans were doing, none of the Jews believed him. Elie said that Moshi was no longer the same when he returned.
Deep Conflict Elie is faced with decisions that will change his very outlook on life. Elie is conflicted with himself, trying to hold onto his faith. Elie’s distrust for the Nazis pressures him to leave Auschwitz on a relentless journey with the Nazis. Elie’s father is giving in to Death and Elie has to decide for himself if he will help his father to survive or let him pass. In world war two, the Nazis and the concentration camps they occupy were bred for one reason, to cripple the Jews and eliminate their kind.