Night is just one of many memoirs written by Eliezer Wiesel, who survived the vicious and the infamous Holocaust during the calamitous WWII. The renowned legend Eliezer Wiese, including his book Night, showed a variety of different concepts as in his dauntlessness, intrepidity, and sanguineness for his desire to survive. During this period he faced many tribulations as in tyrannical hardships; he experienced many spiritual differences as well. He had to face many crucibles during his time in the Holocaust. Night is one big predicament which includes many lessons of life. Eliezer Wiesel was a young teenage boy living …show more content…
The prisoners then marched passed Dr. Mengle, who conducted the process of selection. Eliezer and his father were told they are going to the crematory and were filled with terror as they marched closer to a fiery pit. At the last minute, the line of men turned away from the flames. The prisoners are then forced to run, bathe, and redress, while being pummeled by veteran prisoners and SS guards. Eliezer and his father were taken to the gypsies' camp, where they were harangued by an SS officer. The prisoners then march to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, conditions were better and the fellow prisoners were allowed to sleep. Eliezer refused to eat his first ration, a plate of thick soup, but as time passed he was forced to eat due to hunger. At the camp Eliezer and his father meet a distant relative, Stein, who was seeking news about his family. Eliezer lies to him by telling him that his family was well; Stein retained his will to live until he found out the truth. The prisoners were then transferred to …show more content…
Eliezer's father didn’t want to observe the religious holidays either, although most of the other prisoners do. The SS held a selection for the crematories right after the New Year. Dr. Mengele held selection once again and Eliezer runs as fast as possible past him. He passed, but his father didn’t. Luckily, his father convinced the SS officers that he was still strong enough to live and escapes death. The Akiba Drummer, formerly a devout religious mystic, lost his faith, his will to live, and he went to the crematory. During winter, Eliezer's foot got swollen from the cold and he had to go to the hospital to get an operation. A bedmate warned him to escape the hospital before the next selection, because all the invalids would be taken to the crematory. The doctor for Eliezer's operation was kind, although Eliezer panics that his leg had been amputated, he told him that he would be able to walk again. Soon, however, the camp was to be evacuated because the Russian army was approaching. Eliezer and his father decided to be evacuated with the rest of the prisoners, instead of remaining behind in the
Although he was not physically fit to do the deeds that he was assigned to, he had no choice but to do so. They were treated as if they weren’t humans; as if they were toys to play with and to boss around. Eliezer wanted to rebel and try to escape but later grasped the fact that he was trapped; that his only way of getting out of the camp alive is to comply with the
One of these deaths was of his father, who after his death, Eliezer seemed relieved. He saw so many executions and deaths that it seemed to him as an everyday routine. From reading Night one infers that he was a strong witted child, able to run away from death in many occasions. Although he seemed not well affected by his father´s death, he did show that he loved his dad dearly, he tried to save him, to see him alive by giving him his own food. He chanced his dad even more because he was separated from his mom before going to the concentration
Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters, but he remains with his father. They lie about their ages so that they can live. If you are too young or too old you are of no use at Auschwitz. Later they arrive at Auschwitz and they lie again to Dr. Mengele and Elie says he is a farmer, not a student. After, they move on to the pit.
Subsequently it explores how the horrific events within the concentration camp drastically reshape his outlook on life and forge his sense of self. At the beginning of the narrative Eliezer is portrayed as a boy deeply committed to his religious studies and devoted to his familial relationships. He finds solace in his faith. Shares an unbreakable bond with his father.
Throughout the text, Wiesel creates a sense of routine in the camps when he presents what the daily life of Elie is like to establish the struggle they go through in their new daily life. To present this, Wiesel writes about Elie’s life and his experience during his time in Auschwitz. He states, “In the mornings: black coffee. At midday: soup. By the third day, I was eagerly eating any kind of s o u p ...
He had to go to the infirmary and get surgery performed on it to drain the pus in it. A fellow bedmate warned him that another selection was coming soon and that he should get out of the infirmary soon since the people in the infirmary were to go to the cemetery. The doctor that was treating Eliezer was kind to him and told him that he could walk after 2 weeks. This reassured Eliezer that his foot was not amputated.
My favorite character from all the prose selections we’ve read is Eliezer Wiesel, the author of the book Night. A young Jew boy who was put into a concentration camp. There are no words to explain the pain he went through. There are three major reasons to why he is my favorite and these are why; he is a survivor from the Holocaust, he risked all he had to try and keep the ones he loved alive, and although being young he never gave up. The way he tells his journey through this event is magnificent, so people can understand what actually happened 85 years ago.
After a very long horrid train ride of Mrs. Schächter “prophesizing” about seeing flames, the Jews of Sighet arrive at Birkenau where they are separated by gender. Elie and his father are now on their own. 4. With the fear of the first selection behind them, Elie and the other man are sent to the showers, and assigned to a barrack, A while later, all the men are transferred to Auschwitz. Elie and his father are given block 17 to stay in.
(page 23)”. They were suffering without water and the heat made them weaker. The prisoners were forced to stay without water for several days. They were also forced to work until they couldn't feel their
The Holocaust was one of humanity's darkest events and was the most devastating genocide in history. Even in the darkest event in history, there were those who didn’t give up hope and survived. One of these survivors was Elie Wiesel. He recounts the horrors he faced in Night, a retelling of what happened inside the concentration camp Auschwitz. Elie was only fifteen when he was deported in 1944.
Trains with large amounts of Jewish people moved from ghetto to ghetto. After that, came concentration camps where Jews were brutally hurt and abused. Eliezer and his father stayed in the same camp at first. They were separated from their other family. Eliezer and his father were given little
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.
In pages eight-five to one hundred-three, several events happened. There was another selection. This time, Eliezer and his father were split up, Eliezer in the healthy line, and Father in the not healthy line. Luckily, Eliezer case enough comotion to get Father to his line. After this, all of the healthy people were put into cattle cars with no roof.
As time progresses, he becomes confined to his bed and cannot move. Eliezer brings him soup and coffee, but at the same time he regrets it and thinks to himself how he should leave his father and conserve his strength. The other prisoners beat his father and steal his food. His father had dysentery so he is always thirsty, but it is dangerous to give it to him. Eliezer tries to get medical aid, but the doctors will not help him because he is an old man.
Eliezer and his father rely on one another to survive through the Holocaust. Together they encounter the cruelty of the Nazis, the lack of compassion from the prisoners, as well as the difficulty of simply surviving. They remain strong together unlike other father-son relationships seen in the novel. A majority of the prisoners gravitate towards self preservation while Eliezer chooses to remain with his father. Eliezer does exhibit ambivalence in continuing to help his father because the conditions of the Holocaust continually make it harder to make others a priority than oneself.