Elie Wiesel Reflection

In the book, our narrator, Elie, is constantly going through changes, and almost all of them are due to his time spent in Auschwitz. Prior to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie was a very different boy, he had a more optimistic outlook on life. During the first few pages of the book, Elie tells us a bit about how he viewed the world before deportation, “ I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” ( 3). Elie was, as he says himself, deeply observant and devoted most of his time to his faith. He spent almost all of his time studying and worshiping. At this point, Elie’s faith is the center of his life. Elie is also shown to do a few other things and has a few more early character traits aside from being dedicated to what he believes in. Elie also sees the best of people, a few pages later he says, “The news is terrible,’ he said at last. And then one word: ‘transports’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely… ‘Where will they take us?” (Wiesel 14). This is one of the only time we hear about Elie being worried or scared because of the Germans before Auschwitz, and still, despite the warnings that were given and the rumors circulating, Elie doesn’t think that the Germans are actually going to do all of those terrible things. Around this time in the book, Wiesel starts to become more emotionally weighted, but none of what has happened takes full effect until much later. There are multiple instances in the book where Elie is given reason to distrust or even hate the Germans, he talks about how the Gestapo treated him and his family on page 19 “‘Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!’ the Hungarian police were screaming.”. Yet he then goes on to say, on that very same page, that “Still our first

At the age of 15, Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to Auschwitz as a part of the Holocaust. He was sent to many labor camps with his father where they were forced to work under inhumane conditions. However, his mother and younger sister were killed upon entering the camps. Wiesel recalled, “I didn’t know that this was the moment in the time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel, 29) After this, Wiesel and his father witnessed many atrocities. One of the first horrible sights Elie shared in his story was where he saw babies being

During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.

The book Night opens in the town of Signet where Elie Wiesel, the author ,

Torture and suffering is a thing happening all around the world that should be stopped. The time of the Holocaust was a taunting, and dark times in the world, where torture and suffering seemed the right thing to do to people. Elie wiesel was a victim of the torture and suffering by the Germans, in his book Night, and spoke up when he survived. In the book ¨Night¨ by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes due to the time in the infamous death camp Auschwitz.

Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on 15 year old Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust. Elie endures circumstances which are so extreme to the point they are almost unbelievable. Elie’s account of his experiences during his life in the concentration camps has taught readers around the world about how to appreciate everything they take for granted, how desperation can make people do crazy things, and the importance of motivation in tough times.

Before Elie had been deported to the terrors of the Auschwitz, he was a completely different person. Some of the traits that he exhibited were hopeful, shielded, and religious. As Wiesel said in “Night” “There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under the blazing sun.” (16) The town was not concerned about what was going on. They didn't believe that anything else would get worse. Elie and the people of his town were unable to accept the fact that anyone would do such a horrible deed. Elie and his neighbors were ecstatic because they thought nothing could get worse than it was already; what Hitler would do to them in the future, did not even seen imaginable. The victims believed that God would

In the start of the Holocaust, Wiesel is very oblivion of the situation, along with most other people. As he continued through the journey he was unsure of what he should do next. At this part of his life he was still faithful, and he believed everything would be fine. Once Wiesel thinks his mother and sister die, he begins to lose faith and hope. During this period Elie Wiesel began to lose most of his strength, as he struggled to continue with little water and food. Unfortunately, later in his journey, he struggled so much that he completely lost hope for all things but his father. As this feeling went through hi body, he stopped thinking that survival was so important, yet he made it so far. He then realized that he had to push to live on his full life. Sadly, Wiesel had to watch his dad die right in front of his eyes, yet that brought a thought to his mind- he is better on his own. In the end, Wiesel went from hopeful to hopeless, proving that he had changed emotions throughout his

“Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.” After World War I Germany had suffered great loss. Their economy was especially weak. The German people desperately seeked for a leader that could help them. Adolf Hitler had won over the people of Germany and gained control. Many thought he would be the one to save them. Hitler slowly began turning everyone against the Jews. He said the Jews were the ones to blame for their country’s problems. Hitler began sending them to concentration camps in order to exterminate them, this was known as the Holocaust. Between five to six million Jews were killed. Elie Wiesel experienced all of these horrors right in front of his very own eyes, alongside his father.

Imagine being alone, losing your whole family and never know if you’re going to be able to make it through the night or even get to eat the next day. Now, imagine that happening when your sixteen. Elie Wiesel experienced all these things but in real life, living through the Holocaust and surviving making his mission in life to make sure no one ever forgets of this mass murder. Elie was able to survive the holocaust since he was very lucky, he thought out his actions for the future, and he listened to veteran innocents. Surviving the Holocaust is very difficult but when luck is on your side it’s not as bad.

Elie Wiesel was fifteen at the time when he was taken. When Wiesel was at the camp with his father, he experienced and saw things no human could imagine. Wiesel being at this camp caused him to grow up pretty fast. He also had to care for his elderly father, so it was harder for him to survive. Wiesel had this lingering weight, his father, always on him. In the memoir Night there’s a scene where Wiesel gets put in the hospital because he had an infected foot (74). After Wiesel went through the surgery, he had to recover for 2 weeks. Throughout those 2 weeks, Wiesel didn’t have to work and he even got to sleep in a real bed. Also the Russians were coming to liberate the camp, but only the people that were in the hospital were liberated. Wiesel had a chance to be free, but decided to escape and return to his father even though he was recovering from surgery. Elie Wiesel really showed an act of kindness, love, and affection. He sacrificed his freedom for his father. By him making that sacrifice, he lost his innocence and took responsibility for the life of his father and

Elie Wiesel experienced several horrors throughout the Holocaust. As a boy, he lost his family and his faith in his own religion because of the mass slaughter of six million Jews along with several different races and religions. Elie describes scenes that a fifteen year old child should never have to see such as frantic families lined up for a death in fire, bodies crushed all over as people ran them over, and babies being thrown into pits of fire.

The jews were treated like livestock with no compassion or concern the Nazis act as the herders, only interested in the livestock and what they can collect from the “animals”. Eliezer is forced to run through the snow famished and freezing while traveling to the next camp and being harassed by SS officers hollering hellish insults like “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!.” (85) This quote displays the realness of the Holocaust and how Jews were assumed to be less than the prejudicial Nazis party. The Holocaust left those who physically survived the genocide to suffer, even after World War ii ended the survivors were left with severe mental illnesses such as PTSD due to the suffering and cruelty while in combat. This type of horrifying event motivated Elie Wiesel to write about this event and knew that if he were to get out, that he would write the truth about what was going on. This is to make sure that it was not swept under the rug and wouldn’t be forgotten along with the Nazis intentions. After what this era has put himself and others through they knew that they never would forget this and it would be a part of each and everyone, regardless of the victim’s opinion. Elie shows this internal conflict the victims suffer by starting with the question of why; “Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand

Change is inevitable. Actions, feelings, personalities even, are shaped through experiences and events that take place in our lives. Elie Wiesel’s Night expressed the different circumstances in which Eliezer Wiesel was placed in that impacted his perception of everyone and everything, including his own God. His faith diminished with every daunting obstacle he was forced to face and is the main change seen in Elie during the course of the book.

Everything that happened from this point on was barbaric and exhibited all the Nazis’ anti-Semitism and disregard for Jewish lives. The Jews were forced out of the cattle car under the threat of being beaten and shot, all their precious belongings left behind. The Nazi’s showed no regard and in a cold tone, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” separating families without any mercy. One of the first individuals they encountered was the notorious Dr. Mengele. He was renowned for experimenting with Jews: replacing body parts, testing life limitations. Out of complete luck, Elie stood in front of an inmate who instructed him and his father to lie about both their ages and their professions. However, Elie Wiesel was a good Jew, and under normal circumstances, he would never lie. ‘”I’m eighteen.”…”Your profession?”/Tell him I was a student? / “Farmer,” I heard myself saying.’ He wisely did as the inmate advised. “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! ...children thrown into the flames.” At this moment Elie lost all belief in God. He heard his people praising His name begging for forgiveness which made him sick. Elie Wiesel was certain he was asleep, that this was all a nightmare, that he would wake up in his bedroom with his heart pounding. In the back of his mind, however, he knew this was no nightmare. This was real. He was ready to jump into the electric fence surrounding Auschwitz and end all his suffering. “Two steps from the pit, we were ordered to turn left and herded into barracks.” Elie Wiesel and his fathers’ lives were spared