Many characters had to overcome many different challenges and problems in their environment. The characters had many different ways of coping with these problems and conflicts. In the book Night the characters have to respond and overcome the struggles in their environment, the main Character Elie had to overcome many problems in the book such as getting separated from his mother and he had to go through his own father dying. Many of the characters had to overcome many problems. Some of the characters overcame the problems in a good, healthy way but others struggled. Elie had to overcome many problems in the book such as him losing belief in god and him getting separated from his own mom. In the book Elie says “ Yet that was the moment i parted from my mother”(wiesel 27). Elie was able to overcome this by staying with his father and getting transported. Other characters weren't able to overcome the challenges in a good way. Some characters chose violence on others or even on themselves. Some characters just gave up and were punished for it. One character even killed his own dad just for a single slice of bread. “Meir, Meir my boy, don't you reconize mw, i'm your father you're hurting me .. …show more content…
He had had many challenges before this like losing his belief in god and getting separated from people he loved. He had been taking care of his father for a while before he passed. One night as the SS guards were checking the barracks as Elie was trying to take care of his father they told him to be quiet. Elie's father was trying to get him to get him some water instead of soup, however Elie wasn't able to meet those needs and was trying to keep him quiet. The SS officer hit Elie's father across the face with his ballet. The SS officer ordered Elie to go to his bed. “Then I had to go to bed, I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive”(Wiesel 106). He had to overcome climbing over his own father that was
Night is a book where a baby was used as a shooting target. This was one of the first things that started to change Elie Wiesel. Eile Wiesel is the writer and the main character of the book Night. Eile was one of the lucky people who survived the traumatic hardships of the holocaust and who could educate the world about it. Overall, Eile is a dynamic character because his faith, feelings, and mindset changed throughout the book.
In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.
These experiences could have easily broken him, leaving him emotionally scarred. However, despite the immense challenges he faces, Elie also demonstrates resilience and strength. He manages to
He started losing his father as the hard labor and rest slowly takes over him. Knowing that he has to help his father no matter what happens, it doesn’t end that way. Remembering back, Elie witnessed the act of Rabbi Eliahu and his son’s relationship. No way did he ever think what couldn’t be true become true: “I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy.
Elie was the only one of his family members who survived. Though Elie endured such a horrendous event, he took his experience in a positive way and made a lifestyle out
Perseverance is a theme evident throughout Elie Wiesel's Night, as the author's survival in the concentration camps is a testament to his unwavering determination. In chapter 7 of Night, Elie and his father are transferred to a new concentration camp, where they are forced to endure grueling labor and terrible living conditions. Despite their situation's physical and emotional tolls, Elie remains determined to survive and keep his father alive. " I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?
Having to stand by and watch this happen once to his father and many times to others was really difficult for him. Elie could have intervened during the punishment but his father would not have wanted him to and Elie could have been injured or killed for trying to stop his father’s punishment. “And he began beating him with an iron bar. I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.”
When they approached Elie’s father he was cold and still. Elie was panicked, insisting he was still alive and resorting to hitting him, desperately trying whatever he could to wake him. “And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy.
First, Elie talks about Madame Schacter who kept screaming “Fire” (Wiesel 25) which annoyed and frightened the passengers. Because of this, they tied her up and then beat her. Next, Elie talks about Bela Katz faced the inhumanity of the Nazies because he was “forced to place his own father’s body”(Wiesel 35) into the crematory furnace. Lastly, Elie talks about his cousin Stein of Antwerp kept looking for the transports that might bring news of his wife and children. One day a transport from Antwerp arrived, and Elie knew that “he had been given the news.
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
If Elie didn’t have to face this conflict it would have changed how he fought for his rights and would’ve taken away how passionate he was for his dad. Another conflict Elie ran into was character vs. society. In this conflict Elie had to endure all the Jews beating up on his dad. The change in Elie here
When in the hospital, Elie got told the SS guards were going to mine the camp or the hospital patients will be finished off. All he could think about was being separated from his father. “I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went” (82). Elie suggested to leave, because it seemed like the safest one of the choices. Later in his life, after the liberation of the camps, Elie learned that the Russians freed the people in the Buna hospital.
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.
He lost his innocence and began to feel hatred toward god for letting innocent people die. Elie changed and he became rebellious. He began to wish for things he regretted later and he lost all hope. He became an entirely different person. Elie went through life changing events and he was traumatized.
These chapters talk about the way that people change when they are treated like animals, and about the savagery that people can take part in. Dehumanization was heavily seen in the last parts when people were driven to kill over a small piece of bread. Family was also an important part in the chapters whether it be of its importance, as seen with Elie and his father, or the break between family bonds shown when Rabbi Eliahu was abandoned by his son. Human immorality was seen in the cruelty of the Germans, treating the Jews like cattle and killing over 90% of the Jews that were being transported. Through these events, evoked emotions, and themes, the past two chapters of Night tells us a fraction of the tragedy Elie had to live