Everyone has hopes and dreams in life. Some people’s dreams can be ruined in very little time. Elie Wiesel changes as a person through Night as a result of his father dying, receiving little food and seeing unpleasant sights. Elie relied on his father for useful advice and some skills. His father taught him many things that stuck with him for the rest of his life. His biggest fear was to lose his father because of the bond that they had built. He gave up many things for his father like food and some opportunities. On page 107 it states, “In my father’s place lay another invalid.” This is when his father died. After his father died, it was almost a relief, but he was sad because he didn’t say his final goodbyes. He got two times the amount of bread due to his father being dead. His father died a hard death and his biggest fear had come. He became a selfish person because he had been helping other people and doing things for other people all of his life. …show more content…
After being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau he received little food. He ate things like bread with maggots, watery soup, and unclean water. Through his journey, he gave up some of his food for certain people and privileges. He had to give away a ration of bread to a dentist who pulled his tooth and some soup to his father who was feeling ill at the time. Elie said as follows on page 44: “ … bread and margarine. I was terribly hungry and swallowed my ration on the spot. My father told me, "You must not eat all at once. Tomorrow is another day … “ In this section, his father is teaching him to save some food because he did not know when they would eat next. Elie also received “... a present for me: a half ration of bread” He would not have considered bread as a gift but as dinner. His perspective on food was really changing because before, he was picky and got lots of food and now he ate very little and received unpleasant
In his memoir, he quotes, “No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread”. He is saying that the only thing he cared about after being freed from the final camp he was in was the food the American soldiers had for them. Elie also changes in his commitment to his father.
He was no longer treated as another person but as a working machine. He was unable to mourn his father’s death because he knew that being weak in the camp would only lead to his death. The loss of his father only added to the pain he felt, it made it that much harder to have hope that one day he would leave that treacherous camp. Only, he didn’t know if he wanted that day to come, if it meant he would leave be leaving without his
Mr.Wiesel wanted to survive the Holocaust with his family, but they were separated and he was luckily left with Elie and they stayed alive for a long time during the Holocaust, so through the years Mr.Wiesel survived a long time for the reason of his son and wanting to survive the genocide with his family, then they went through some life threatening events but they were still fighting to survive. The author wrote and stated “My father swallowed my ration” (Wiesel 50). Based on this, I can infer that Elie was helping Mr.Wiesel build up strength by feeding him his ration, also wanted his father to eat his rations for the sake of not wanting to lose his father. In the same way, Mr.Wiesel would have done the same thing and fed Elie his rations.
When they arrived at Buchenwald, he fell very ill. Elie’s and his father received barely any food to eat, but Elie always gave a small portion of his meal to his father. Despite if he was starving, he always put his father’s health before his health. But after the blockalteste talked to him and said he couldn’t save his father, Elie
He is starved and becomes weak and scrawny, he must take care of his father over himself, and he loses his faith in God which was so deeply rooted in him throughout his younger years.
Indifference Kills ADL’s Pyramid of Hate states how every genocide that has ever happened on earth will always start with a biased attitude towards a group of people. This biased attitude leads to acts of discrimination, dehumanization, this is followed by, extreme systemic discrimination, then bias motivates violence and finally genocide. Another aspect that most people forget when a genocide happens is the response from the rest of the world. To show what happens when societies disregard their obligation to help each other we can see from Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's first hand accounts about living through the fascist Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
When it comes to war, there are no winners. When people think of war the first thing that come to their minds is victory never death. In the book Night Elie wrote about his past in Auschwitz seeing men, women and children being burned in the crematorium (Wiesel 32) War is a battle with consequences people think that war is a way to show power and strength and it does but the people who are fighting it lose their lives. Elie saw what appeared to be the dance of death.
Elie had difficult time in the camp. His father was very ill and ost of the time elie would give him his swoop because he was sick. Elie father had dysentery a terrible disease that back in the days there was a cure for it yet. This made you have a dry mouth and just won't make you want to eat but just drink water, If you drink water you were basically killing yourself from the inside. He trying giving his father his own food and mainly because he didn't want to see his father in this condition.
The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tell the story of a 13 year old girl who goes into hiding in an attic for over a year. In this play, Anne lives in a very crowded attic with “family” that doesn’t always get along. Similarly there is a teen boy who wrote a story describing his struggle in staying alive during the same time period, the holocaust. In Night Elie Wiesel struggles to stay alive during his life in the concentration camp without all of his family being there with him. Although Elie and Anne are in different settings and have different ways they treat their mothers, both share a great bond with their 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.
I have always respected and explored the terrible events of ‘The Holocaust’. After reading Elie Wiesel bibliography, “The Night” I was horrified that he experienced those traumatic events, at the age of 12 and just because he was a Jew. Back when I was twelve, I just started high school and yet I had no information or understanding of ‘Holocaust’. Since reading Elie Wiesel’s book, I still don’t understand why humans could be so wicked, immoral and evil to another human being? The killing of innocent Jews, just because of their beliefs isn’t acceptable, it’s pure evil.
When Stein, Elie’s relative, was told by the Wiesel’s that his wife and two sons were still alive, he was so grateful that “from time to time, [he] [brought]” Elie and his father “a half portion of bread” (44). This highlights that by lying to Stein, it earned food for the Wiesel's and helped Elie and his father live. A second example is when Elie was liberated on April 10th, the thing the free thought about was “only of bread” (115). All the former prisoners cared about was food, not their family or revenge. These two quotes demonstrate how people are greedy, only thinking about food.
Additionally, he allows us to step into his shoes by expressing his guilt. To exemplify, he states: “He was not a fighter. His health was poor, his body small and frail. He liked books. He wanted someday to be a teacher of mathematics.”
Also, Elie’s body physically changed. On page 17, Elie went a day without food, and the hunger did not set in just yet. This showed that he was still well nourished. Elie went from being well fed to small rations. He noticed this change in the end when he looked at himself in the mirror.
The human condition is a very malleable idea that is constantly changing due to the current state of mankind. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of the human condition is displayed in the worst sense of the concept, during the Holocaust of WWII. During this time, multiple groups of people, most notably European Jews, were persecuted against and sent to horrible hard labor and killing centers such as Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiesel uses complex figurative language such as similes and metaphors to display the theme that a person’s state as a human, both at a physical and emotional level, can be altered to extreme lengths, and even taken away from them, under the most extreme conditions.