Summary Of Eliezer Wiesel's Night

“Eliezer…I could see he was still breathing in gasps. I didn’t move.” His worst fear had come true, his father had died. His last words being his name. He called out to Elie; he did not answer.

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes profoundly. The essay that I am typing will have 3 body paragraphs for, and in every paragraph there is a quote for it. Now onto the first quote in the essay. First, quote is in chapter 1, page 1, and quote number 4.

Eliezer began to lose faith in God and others around him. After a month Eliezer undergoes an foot operation. While he is healing in the infirmary he heard that Russian are a dancing and will liberate the camp so the Nazis decided to evacuate to Gleiwitz concentration camp in the middle of a snowstorm. The old and sick stayed but Eliezer and his father March with the other prisoners. Then rides a train to Buchenwald.

We see this when Eliezer’s father sees him laying down and wakes him up before he falls asleep to his own death, but we do not see Eliezer willing to do that for his own father. But he does regret letting his father die when he knew his father would have done anything to keep his son alive, so we see Eliezer feeling guilty about his decision. I think that is why he wrote some of this book so that his father could be remembered and the sacrifice his father made for

When running on foot in the ranks to the next camp, Eliezer is so depleted that he is ready to throw in the towel and do off the road. He loses the pain in his foot and the idea of death doesn’t seem to scare him anymore but stays in his head. But these ideas go away after taking one glance at his father and seeing his condition. The author writes, “My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. he was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate.

The eternal, lord of the universe, the all-powerful and terrible was silent..."(pg 31). Eliezer doesn't understand why God has left them and why all the terrible things are happening. We also see Eliezer at the beginning of the memoir being a family-oriented

At this time Eliezer him self had become the “Patriarch” and still reassured his father that he would not die. Around this time his father had contracted dysentery, limiting his ability to work and move about. Throughout this ordeal Eliezer and his father help each other survive by means of mutual support and concern. I believe by this time Eliezer was so mentally abused he didn’t know what he believed in any more. As Eliezers father grows weaker from dysentery, he helps his father while at the same time questioning his own beliefs about family.

After being sent to the hospital, Eliezer was keen on staying alive. He keeps on asking the doctor if he was going to stay alive after the surgery. The reassurance from the doctor calmed Eliezer but Eliezer still was looking out for his only survival. The second encounter was in Buchenwald. In his thoughts he stated, “One day I was able to get up after gathering all my strength.

Eliezer's difficulty in expressed in the following excerpt, "It was over but I did not realize it, for I had fainted. I felt myself come round as a bucket of cold water was thrown over me. I was still lying on the box. I could just vaguely make out the wet ground surrounding me.

Eliezer thinks his father is dead but after a little while he opens his eye and is awake. Days pass by and then years, without hardly any food they act like “emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread” (101). A father and son die from being trampled by other hungry people. Many deaths occur later and everyone cries tears for the loss of their love ones and friends. The last day is the most tragic because the population of the people was at a hundred or so and now the number has gone drastically down to twelve people including Eliezer and his

#2 At the end of Night, Wiesel writes: “”From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” What parts of Eliezer died during his captivity? What was born in their

Eliezer is affected so badly that at times, he doesn’t care for his father. Something similar happens when his father is sick and dies. His father’s last words to him were calling for Eliezer, and he didn’t move. He ignored him on purpose. “Free at last!”

Eliezer has to learn how to adapt to not having as food as he used to, being beaten for no reason, and watching daily hangings. Eliezer specifically remembers one particular hanging of a young boy, a pipel, whose master has been gathered arms for the resistance. Eliezer said “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… ” Eliezer remembers how the child cried and remained alive for the next half an hour, before his body finally gives out and the child dies. Towards the end of the book, as the group that Eliezer and his father are in keeps running around Germany, and Eliezer has a choice to give up and die on the side of a road, but he continues to run because of his father. Eliezer says “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me.

One day Eliezer comes to his father’s bed and he is gone most likely taken to the crematory. He doesn't mourn for him and feels bad because of it, but he also feels

Eliezer’s relationship with his father contrast with other father-son relationships because they