Elie Wiesel Journey

Elies identity changes over time when he experienced the holocaust. At first, he had a strong belief toward his religion and about god. He was always interested learning about the history and his religion. When everyone had to move to the ghetto, he said “I was up at dawn, I wanted to have time to pray before leaving ”(18). This shows how much he cares about his belief. No teenager kid would do that and his parents didn’t even tell him to pray. After going to concentration camp, he starts seeing things that are fearful,unseeable, and traumatic. He saw that babies are being thrown in the

They stayed in certain homes of jewish people and they seemed so polite but, distant. Never made any rude remarks, and “...sometimes even smiled at the lady of the house.” (page10) However on the eighth day of passover the germans revealed themselves as the monsters that they had been hearing of, they had arrested the the jewish leaders the community. The jews were not allowed to leave their houses for three days and if they did they would get the death penalty. Moishe came to Elie’s house and yelled “I warned you.’ And left without waiting for a response.” (page

all you have left in harsh conditions. Eliezer has a hard time watching the other families interact

Jewish oppression occurs expeditiously. Eliezer and his family are deported to concentration camps in 1944. Eliezer’s destiny is changed by ignoring the admonishing cries he and his family receives about what is to come. “‘Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!’ he kept shouting in the synagogue...Even I did not believe him.” (7) Moishe the Beadle is in the first group of Jews that the Nazis deport. They take him along with many other Jews into a forest. They are deceived into digging deep trenches, lining up, and being shot, falling into the trenches they dug with their own hands. Moishe is the only one who escapes. He returns to Sighet to warn the Jews, but they refuse to listen to him. Pleading, Moishe asks someone - anyone - to believe him. He no longer wants to live, he only wants to prepare the Jews for the impending peril. Because Eliezer and his family refuse to listen to Moishe, they end up in concentration camps. If Eliezer and his family had listened to Moishe, their stories would not have ended as they did. Another example of

The 20th century was a time of brutal wars and eradication of joy. On April 12, 1999, Elie Wiesel stepped up to the podium, reflecting the violent times as they were months before entering a new century. Wiesel knew very well that the uncountable tragedies had to change, and each individual must exercise his or her own contributions in the face of justice and humanity. His devastating experiences and tragic realizations produced a voice that carried around the world, revealing the fundamental structure of humanity.

At this point I was convince Eliezer wasn’t Elie anymore. That his nickname ringed in his ears with emptiness and not a trace of sweet or aching reminiscing. He already lost his foundation at first - everything he grew up to know and everyone he grew to love. If that wasn’t enough his faith in God was stomped on and all of of his passion and love, along with nearly every other emotion, was forgotten and he could no longer remember all of the happiness he felt before. His heart was hollow. All he was now was a soulless boy who was forced to be a man too

Eliezer and his father never wanted to be separated. But as the book goes on the father gets very sick and Eliezer has to take care of him. While they were waiting in line they watch a load of children go into the fire. After that Eliezer debates running into the electric fence but he doesn’t. Eliezer’s father soon gets very sick and the Nazis ordered him to the furnace and after Eliezer loses his father, he feels a sense of relief because he no longer needs to take care of him but also misses him

When you go through something as horrible as the Holocaust, you change in many ways that didn’t seem possible. These changes could include struggling to maintain faith or the ability to no longer function as a man. The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel follows the journey of Elie who faced these struggles while suffering in concentration camps.

He had seen a woman whom he recognized from the camp while reading the newspaper on the Metro. They spent the evening reminiscing and before parting Eliezer asked,”May I ask one more question?” The woman answers by saying that she is Jewish and then explains how she got into the concentration camp. From an observant family during the Occupation, she had false papers and passed as Aryan. When she was deported to Germany, she eluded and at the depot, nobody knew she spoke German. She says “It was imprudent of me to say those few words to you, but I knew that you would not betray me…” This refers to the time she helped Elie after Idek vented his fury on him. And Eliezer, at that time was starting to find people who he could trust and trust him

Throughout the novel, the overall response of Eliezer is to fight. The protagonist is struggling to thrive through each day in order to persevere. His childhood and innocence are murdered, his faith in God’s impartiality and mercy eradicated. For the remainder of the book, Eliezer grapples to stay alive physically and spiritually. Though many more horrific events tormented Elie throughout his extent there in the concentration camps, there is perhaps only one undying force in him. It is the love and devotion for his father. On multiple occasions, Eliezer would sacrifice something valuable of his in sequence for his father’s health or safety. In Night, Elie claims, “I decided to give my father lessons in marching in step, in keeping time” (Wiesel 55), which shows his devotion in attempt to make it easier for his father to keep in line with the others while treading from one place to another. His father did not have any experience in the military, nor could he march in step. With each possibility, the guards would use the opportunity in series to “torment and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely” (Wiesel 55). As a result, Eliezer taught his

« Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole agin and even to lose the very thing you are desperate for » (Laura Miller). As Eliezer witnesses the deteriorating levelheadedness among the inmates, he realizes that their oppression and desperation for any kind of life they can acquire massively alters their sanity, and turns innocent beings into barbaric savages who mentally lose control of themselves. Eliezer, however, realizes this prevalent epidemic before he spirals into his own never-ending pit of brutality, and successfully perseveres the small sliver of sanity that he has left to ultimately escape the seemingly inevitable fate of inhumanity. Throughout his psychological journey while imprisoned at Auschwitz, Eliezer recognizes and utilizes the episodes of Mrs. Schächter’s beating, Stein’s search for his family, and the burden that his

Eliezer had a more harsh experience in his time in camp compared to Jeanne. Eliezer was beat and got separated from all of his family except for his father. When the story had first began Eliezer was only twelve years old which is much older than Jeanne when her story first started. Jeanne Eliezer had different faiths and believed in different things. Eliezer was Jewish and Jeanne was Japanese.

On page 50, when the Gypsy deportee struck Eliezer’s father, Eliezer does not react at all. Here, Eliezer himself and the reader realise that he has changed, that his new surroundings have changed him. The inhumane way of treating the Jews has transformed them too to behave like animals; only fending for themselves and leaving the others to live their own lives – or in this case, die their own deaths.

•But Moishe survives the shooting and comes back to the town to tell the people about what had happened and that they need to do something about it, because they are going

At Aushwitz, he and his father are separated from his mother and sisters, whom they never see again. They are then stripped, shaved, and disinfected while their captors treat them with almost unimaginable cruelty. Eventually, they are marched to a work camp, Buna, where Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. Under slave-labof conditions, severely malnourished and decimated by the frequent