Character Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's The Boys In The Boat

Teens struggle with hardships every day. Although nothing compares to the teens that struggled in the holocaust.“Night” by Elie Wiesel is a tragic story of one teen’s struggle at a concentration camp: Auschwitz. That teen is none other than the author, Elie Wiesel, and throughout the book, Elie changes drastically as a person due to his time in the camp.

The Holocaust is an unforgettable event to anyone who had to live through the horrors of a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is no exception. He was taken to a concentration camp in 1944 and lost his mother and father in the concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel was brave enough to step forward and share his experiences during the Holocaust, which he recorded in his book Night. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel uses irony, foreshadowing, and tone to describe the uncertainty of one’s future before going and while in a concentration camp.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

The Boys in the Boat is a narrative telling the story of Joe Rantz and his rowing team’s journey to win the gold medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. During this time, America was in its worst stages of the Great Depression. Also, Adolf Hitler had risen

The murder of thousands can not only impact the universe, but the ones that live in it. For instance, victims of the Happiest had to deal with, not only losing all of their loved ones but the deaths of others around them. In “Night”, Elie is expiring death, of not only his loved ones, also other Jews who were taken by Hitler. The loss of your family is petrifying. But watching others have their lives slipped away from their fingertips, is indubitably scary. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes drastically throughout the book, because of the time he spent in Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person because of his experiences at Auschwitz. Throughout his entire journey, his choices became wiser and more strategic. Before entering Auschwitz, Elie was a very weak in the sense of decision making. He did not think ahead or think about the consequences for his actions. However, Elie’s character changed because of his experiences at Auschwitz.

Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.

In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel is a dynamic character shown through the conflict, character versus nature, where he went from being defeated to defiant in the personified death in the concentration camps. Through his journey in the concentration camps and struggle for survival, Wiesel encounters death several times, he either witnesses death’s ways or outlives them. While being in Auschwitz, one of the largest concentration camps from the Holocaust during World War Two, Wiesel had grown numb to the effects of death, he had outgrown the disbelief of how cruel the world could be, of how God could remain silent in such a time of need and help, “Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea

In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, two things drove Wiesel through the struggles of the concentration camps. One was the hope to get through the Holocaust alive with his father, and the other was the meager ration of bread and soup at his next meal. However, when his father died, Wiesel lost one of the most precious reasons to survive in the camps. At the same time, Wiesel’s subconscious felt slightly relieved that he was able to live without his father’s weight on his back.

Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night” shows many of the crimes committed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. In the memoir, Wiesel recalls his experiences in the Holocaust. In many of the dire situations, it is not Elie who pulls himself out of a situation, it is the presence of his father. For example during the Death March: “My father’s presence was the only thing that stops

Elie Wiesel portrays how the Holocaust emotionally impacted him throughout his entire memoir, Night. A significant emotional challenge for him was determining a way to keep his father and him alive, especially as times got more difficult as the story continued. Elie saw many boys abandoning their fathers. For instance, Zalman was running alongside Elie in transport, while aware he was ahead of his father. Elie assumed that Zalman thought his father was a gratuitous obstacle for survival. Or when Meir-intentional or not- killed his father for bread. He was determined not to echo their methods. Though, as time went on, that goal got harder to achieve. Men would tell him that his father's death was inevitable, he should be saving himself, and he “could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup” (Wiesel 111; ch.8). He considered this “only [for] a fraction of a second, but it

Did you know that the book Night was about the life of Elie Wiesel while in a concentration camp and he wrote it after he survived? Elie Wiesel and Joe Rantz really showed resiliency in their own ways in their books Night and The Boys in the Boat. Night was a story about Hitler’s concentration camp in Auschwitz and how Elie Wiesel fought through very hard times. The Boys in the Boat were about Joe Rantz and the Washington Rowing team going on a tough journey to the Olympics against Hitler’s superior Nazi’s. Also, Rantz showed resilience with his family issues, he lived on his own from a young age and had to find ways to dig up money for himself. The author of The Boys in the boat is Daniel James Brown and the author of Night is Elie Wiesel. Joe Rantz and Elie Wiesel demonstrate resilience by overcoming the loss of faith and staying strong while suffering.

A trouble that their family faced was being separated from one another. For instance Elie Wiesel says, “That was the moment when I parted from my mother. I had not had time to think, but already I felt the pressure of my father’s hand: we were alone” (22). This is the point when Wiesel and his father were separated from his mother and sisters because when his family got to the camps they were split up by gender. Wiesel was then left alone with his father at his side and never saw his mother or sisters ever again. His family was taken apart at the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Another way in which Elie Wiesel’s family was troubled was with death. At the end of the book his father dies because an SS officer had hit him with a truncheon on the head while he was ill. For example Wiesel states, “In my father’s place lay another invalid. They must have taken him away before dawn and carried him to the crematory” (81). This means that Wiesel’s father has died either because of the hit that he had received, his illness. or because he was put in the crematory. This must have been evey upsetting for Wiesel because first of all his family was separated and then eventually died or were killed. These were some ways in which Wiesel and his family were affected during The

In the story, Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the narrator shows the struggle to survive during the Holocaust, a very dark time period in history. As WWII went on, Adolf Hitler did his best to eliminate the Jewish population by forcing them to leave their homes and families to be put in concentration camps where they will suffer and fight for their survival. By staying in these concentration camps, Wiesel and his father fight as they are faced with challenges that leave them battling with life or death. These changes cause Wiesel to undergo major changes physically, mentally, and spiritually. The narrator describes his experiences during one of the most devastating times in history in order to portray the different changes that occurred to him; these changes will help him work to ensure that the world is aware of what happened so that it will never again be repeated.