Comparing Night And The Lone Survivor

Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel describing his experience as a victim of the Holocaust. When Wiesel decided to write about his experiences, he was challenged with adequately expressing the terror beyond words. What resulted was a powerful and heavy story that changed how people around the world think about the Holocaust. The numerous motifs throughout the story, like soup and fire, are one of the reasons why this story is so impactful. In fact, motifs are a pivotal aspect of the story, and without them the story would not be as impactful.

The comparisons and contrasts between The Hiding Place and Night. Both books were written with struggles, tenderness, agony, and fear in mind. Of these two books only one comes out and realizes that what they have gone through was not a cruse but some what a blessing from God, Himself. The struggles both face is more than just man against man but it is also a struggle within to find who they truly are and whom they truly believe in. Both main characters, Eli and Corrie, faced something they never knew they could face but only one comes out stronger than the other.

Night was a better story because it was an autobiography by Elie Wiesel, and Holocaust survivors

Night and Prisoner have common underlying themes. The will to survive when faced with difficult personal scenarios, and not dwell on the suffering of others, is frequently portrayed in both books. This is seen on page 101 of Night when a son kills his own father for a piece of bread. The theme is earlier explored on page 91 when another son abandons his father because he feels that his father endangering him. Yanek also has the same dilemma when he sees bread in a dying boy’s pocket on page 181 of Prisoner. These examples show how ruthless humans can be when faced with life and death

At one point in Elie’s story, his dad is beaten by a Gypsy inmate in charge of the barrack Elie and his father are staying in. Elie recounts “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in from of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh!” (39). Another example of the theme of emotional death is when Elie and other prisoners are being shipped on a train to a new place. People are dying while on the train. Every once in a while, the train will stop and authority figures will collect the dead from the train cars. Elie says “It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead” (100). A third and final example of emotional death found in the book

The first activity that I chose to do, was to interview a character in the memoir, Night. The second activity that I choose, was to create a collage that represents the mode and the themes of this memoir. Many themes were portrayed throughout this memoir. The two activities I chose, relate to a variety of themes: the consequences of human judgement, loss of faith in God, father-son relationships, and loss of human freedom.

“My aunt’s trailer was the top unit in a “stack” twenty-two Mobile homes high” and “TWO GHETTOS were created in Sighet. A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town.” this shows how “Night” and Ready Player One are similar or discussed the same things because when times got tough or you were being

The holocaust and the war in Sierra Leone had death rates from 70 thousand -6 million, all of which were innocent people (Szor 3). With so many people dying, it was hard for people to stay sane and to survive these harsh conditions with little guidance from parents. Both Ishmael and Elie were stripped from their home and families, forcing these boys to fend for themselves and try to stay alive long enough to tell their stories. Night talks about some of the most horrific experiences in human history and how they can cause peoples’ only concern to be that of survival. Everything that used to matter to Elie such as faith, hope, and his father, soon start to wither away when survival chances become slim. (Winters). Elie turns into a robot that doesn’t feel any emotion anymore, he just glimpses through life.

Night is a recollection of Elie Wiesel’s time spent during the holocaust. It is a gripping tale of survival and death. While it is a small book, it has a huge message. During the time in which the book takes place, the Jewish people were srtripped of their humanity. Elie and his fellow inmates at Auschwitz endure dehumanization throughout starvation and on the train to Buchenwald.

The novel “Night” is a vivid representation of a man’s loss of faith from the beginning to the end of the catastrophic era in which this book takes place. As a young boy Elie’s inquisitive mind directed him to the synagogue where he would study the Kabbalah’s revelations and mysteries. Here is where “Moishe the beadle,” a friend to Elie, would sit with him in the synagogue and they would talk for hours about the intriguing secrets of Jewish mysticism. One important piece of advice that Moishe told Elie was, “There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of the mystical truth.” This simply meant he would need to pursue these answers on his own. However, Elie believed Moishe would help him bind his questions and answers as well, into one. These meetings were interrupted when Moishe was extracted from the Sighet where he experienced malice.

Night is a first-hand account of life for Elie Wiesel as a young Jewish teenage boy living in Hungary and eventually sent to Auschwitz with his family. The moment his family exits the cattle car the horror of Auschwitz sets in. His mother and sisters become separated from him and his father immediately, their fate sealed. Elie stays with his father and right away a stranger is giving them tips on how to survive and stay together. Immediately told to lie about their ages, making Elie a little older, and his father a little younger. This lie may have been the only chance they had to stay together, so they follow the stranger’s advice and pass by the first peril and housed together.

“I don’t know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself,” - Elie Wiesel. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel, wrote this book to tell the story of what he experienced during the Holocaust. He writes how when he first walked through the gates of what he soon found out was a concentration camp, he was immediately separated from his mother and sisters, and moved to a separate line with his father. He and his father survived the best they could together, until his father could no longer go on and Elie was left to survive on his own with the rest of the prisoners. He survived the beatings, harsh weather, hunger, and overall the concentration camps. He lost his family through the process, but he made it. This makes it very clear that the theme, survival, is important in the book in order to show Elie’s strength and how he fought to stay alive during the duration of time he was held in concentration camps.

Furthermore, the theme is shown when Elie’s father died. His father died from growing weaker and suffered from dysentery. He later then die on January 29, 1945. He was taken to the crematorium dead or alive. “No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.” The quote means that Elie’s and his father's bond ended. He felt so ashamed because his father tried to get his attention but Elie never answered back.

As things got harder Elie and Elie’s father realized that the only thing that was holding them from death was each other. They were each other's reason to live, nothing else mattered but having each other. While Elie was running with his father to the new camp he was thinking, “I had no reason to let myself die. What would he ( Elie’s father ) do without me? I was his sole support.” (86 & 87) They never gave up because they knew if they gave up, they would have gave up 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.