Throughout the past and now the present, we often refer to heroes as the ones that save the day, such as superman or batman, the people who stand up for what they believe in. When standing up for something or someone, there are always consequences, so within every decision, there are two choices: standing up or standing by. Our literature and societies issues often create great examples of what standing up and standing by construct opportunity wise, whether it is surviving the concentration camp Auschwitz, killing a friend for the good of Rome, or even taking a stand for equal pay as female athletes. Once a choice is made, no matter the decision, the outcomes will contain both positive and negative outcomes. The memoir “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel, …show more content…
In the memoir, “Night”, “The SS officers were doing the selection: weak to the left; those who walked well to the right. My father was sent to the left. I ran after him.” (Wiesel pg. 96) Before continuing their evacuation, there was another selection. When Elie’s father was put in the group to be left to die, Elie chases after him causing enough distraction to save his father. If Elie hadn’t stepped up and chased after his father, his father would have either been killed or left to die with no food or water. The way Elie steps up is by chasing his father, distracting the officers long enough to switch groups. Throughout the story, Elie repeats being in the concentration camp continuously ages his father, to a point where he tells Elie to let him die. Elie is the only person keeping him from doing so. Standing up in this situation saved his father’s life, and it made his life span a little longer. Even under the circumstances, the harsh dehumanization through the killing and mistreatment of the Jewish people, Elie stands up for his father under the risk of being killed. Overall, this proves that even after the dehumanization to the Jews in the concentration camp, Elie’s bond with his father is strong enough to overcome that and risk his life to protect his father’s life. In a similar act earlier in the story, a few young men wished to attack the armed guards before doing their separation and first selection. Because of the selection and the possibility of being killed, they had the idea to stand up for themselves, “There were, among us, a few tough young men. They actually had knives and were urging us to attack the armed guards.” Although they didn’t quite end up seizing the opportunity after being talked out of it by some older men, they most likely would have been killed. Since they were still
This passage in the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, explains the adversity and troubles of a death march, that they were forced to go on from Auschwitz to a still unknown location. In this death march Elie, his father, and thousands upon thousands of other Jews and “non-important” cultures of people take on the challenge of a 42 mile death march, in the harsh, cold, German winter; all that fell behind were killed. This is not the only death march that took place during the Holocaust, there were many many more that took the lives of thousands of Jews, for instance the Dachau and the Bataan death marches. While in the concentration camp one day the meisters required the prisoners to clean the camp from corner to corner so that when the liberating
The Burden In the Holocaust narrative Night, written by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s relationship with his father, is tested. Elie has to grow up and make adult decisions concerning his father due to his unfortunate circumstances. Elie must have has one question on his mind during the Holocaust, “is blood that thick?” Elie’s father is a burden to him because he is stubborn and he puts Elie in danger. Elie’s father, Shlomo, is the reason why he died during the Holocaust.
In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel a message was, not listening to warnings and not taking action will inevitably bring you a life of sufferings. Before the German soldiers arrived in Sighet, Moishe the Beadle had been sent to a camp however, he escaped. Coming back to Elie’s town he yelled through the streets, “ Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money.
Painful. Cold. Testing. Elie Wiesel author of Night writes us a memoir of his time in the concentration camps. It starts with him being sent into the ghetto.
The reason Elie survived was because he had his dad by his side, pushing him to do his best and to
He believed if they could make it out alive together that they would be all he needed. Throughout the memoir Elie's father slowly starts to rely him more and more; it is as if all the horrifying things they encountered pulled them closer together. While being transferred from one camp to another by train while snowing many of the jew froze to death and was thrown off the train; Elie’s father was huddle beside Elie not moving. Elie started to worry that his father was in fact dead. Suddenly two “gravediggers” appeared thinking that he was.
As he found himself around people and an ambient where everyone survives for himself, he became aware that he has many responsibilities to do compared to his before concentration camp life. Elie develops new ideas based on the responsibilities that each individual possesses as he confronts with corruption. As he encountered with his father’s hard sickness, Elie understood that he holds many burdens that should be completed, since he wasn’t a child anymore. Now it was his time to take care of him as he did once for Elie, illustrated as he says "I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy.
When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie and his father looked to each other for support and survival, Sometimes Elie’s father being the only thing keeping him alive. In their old community Elie’s father was a strong-willed and respected community leader, as the book went on you could see how the roles were becoming reversed he was becoming weaker and more reliant on Elie to take care of him. Their father son bond had always been strong and only grew stronger with the things they had to endure. “My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” Elie was disgusted when he saw Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father to help improve his chances of his survival he prayed he’d never do such a thing, but as his father becoming progressively more reliant on Elie he started to see his father as more of a burden than anything else.
Throughout history, many people have abused and misused the power they have been trusted to have. The book Night is written by a survivor of the Holocaust, named Elie Wiesel, who is writing to encourage people not to make the same mistakes that happened during the Holocaust. Unfortunately, people haven’t learned the lesson of letting people with power control things. This is seen in the past during the holocaust through Ellie's point of view and in modern-day civilization. Just like in Night where Idek used his power to abuse Elie and remove all the Jews so he could have fun, Hitler putting Jews in concentration camps, the Ukrainrusso war, and the US government wiretapping, the world has still not learned the lesson of not letting people with
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?
“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ”- Shania Twain.
In the span of a lifetime one often faces many adversities that stand within their path. While some challenges will be overcome easily, others will take a lot more tenacity. When in the face of adversity it is key not to give up. One should always strive to persevere through their hardships, no matter how severe they seem to be. The author of the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel, vividly describes his experiences in the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.
If Elie had lost all humanity, he would have had no reason to live and he could have moved where he was ordered and been shot just as easily. Instead, he chooses to move back to his barrack and try to last just a little bit longer; he knew the end had to be near and he was ready to get out of the hell that was
Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.