Commentary On The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Setting (time and place): Early 1940s, during World War Two, Holocaust era. starting in Sighet, Transylvania, and moving throughout concentration camps in Europe.

The Nazis’s dehumanized the jews by depriving them of basic human needs like family. When families first get to the camp the men and women, brothers and sisters, fathers and sons get separated from each other. The separation of families is shown on page 29 when an SS officer commanded, “Men to the left!

Night begins with the narrator, Elie, talking about Moishe the Beadle, who is described as the “jack-of-all-trades” in a shtibl (Weisel, 21). He then continues by talking about his family. He goes back to talk about his deep conversations with Moishe and their evenings spent together. One day, the foreign Jews of Sighet, where he lives, were expelled. This included Moishe. They were taken away in cattle cars by the Hungarian police. Months past and one day, Elie saw Moishe sitting on a bench near the synagogue. He tells Elie about what happened to him; how he and the other Jews were transported and forced to dig their own graves in the forest. Luckily, Moishe had managed to escape. He had come back to warn the Jews in Sighet of what to come.

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times scaled. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw

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In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

Elie Wiesel says that after they were liberated, all they thought about was food. Even after they ate food, they did not think about revenge against the Nazis. After Elie is liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp by the Americans, he says: “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions...No thought of revenge...And even when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge” (115). The inmates in the concentration camps were solely thinking about food because of the starvation and other deprivations they suffered at the hands of the Nazis. After the inmates had eaten, they were not thinking about getting even with the Nazis or taking revenge, they probably just wanted to go back to their normal lives. The

For breakfast they were served black coffee. For lunch they were served a bowl of soup. For dinner they were served a piece of bread. This is what they ate everyday while they were in the camps. One Sunday there was an air-raid. Near the kitchen 2 cauldrons of soup had been left, half full. “Two cauldrons of soup, right in the middle of the path, with no on guarding them! A feast for kings, abandoned, supreme temptation. Hundreds of eye looked at them, sparkling with desire….But who would dare?” (Wiesel 43). They were all tempted by the food that was left unguarded. Only one dared go near it. When he did the SS shot him. In chapter 7 Elie discusses wagon ride that lasted 10 days and 10 nights. “One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon….Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle.”

An important nonfiction book that I think everyone should read is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1960 by Hill and Wang. It has 116 pages and it is told by a man who survived the Holocaust. This was a very important moment in history that everyone needs knowledge on.

The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.

The prisoners are in living with life and death conditions in the concentration camp. People who are healthy and they’re 13 or older are supposed to fast in order to get forgiveness for their sins. They should eat because they’re already living a hard life in the camps. They don’t need to ask god for forgiveness because surviving in these horrific camps which is much harder than fasting.

I’m am one of the Jews who have been kidnapped from Hitler, I’ve been in this camp for 3 weeks and I haven’t eaten since. I miss my family and friends, there’s no one here but men. Some say the women’s Jewish camp is 3 miles away. When been trapped here for weeks nobody has been passed to help. I know there Germans smell the smell of death. With them begin no food or nothing to eat.

In the years of nineteen thirty-three until nineteen thirty-nine Germany was poorly and harshly ruled by Adolf Hitler. People were awfully locked into concentration camps, somewhere where food and water wasn’t allowed; Hitler would make Jews suffer. The fact that Hitler was ruling and would let humans die of hunger and thirst demonstrates the amount of power he obtained and the type of person he was, this is known as “The Holocaust”.