Elie's Changes In The Book Camp Life

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

In a Concentration Camp survival was next to impossible. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is a survivor of the holocaust who doesn’t have much of a relationship with his father. He has always felt that he was never important to his father and that his father cared more about the community than his own family. When Eliezer and his father are forced to count on each other, it’s a slow process for them to finally have a father-son relationship. Without each other they wouldn’t have survived for as long as they did and Eliezer would have lost all hope. A major theme in this story is how Eliezer and his father come together and build a relationship amidst their circumstances.

In this camp stayed many people. Most of the people in this section were considered “ill, but curable”. Due to their health conditions these people didn't work, when the others had to. The camp mainly consisted of women or other prisoners who had just been traveling in tight train cars. Many got ill after traveling for days like this.

One internal conflict Elie experienced was the loss of all of his family. While he was in the concentration camps, he and his father were the only ones in his family that were left. “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone,” which was stated on page 30, explains how he and his father were all that were left and his father would have to be there for Elie during that time. They fought hard together through the cold nights

At the beginning of the novel , Elie's relationship with his father is fairly close. Slowly but surely, through out the novel their relationship changes. The reason for their father-son relationship tobe fairly close and not extremely close as it should be is because his father, Chlomo’s commitments to the community, affects his life at home.

Jewish prisoners that were alone during the holocaust survived better than being with family. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie had to be separated from his family; he never saw them again. Family made the holocaust even harder; Jewish prisoners perturbed about their family every second. On top of Elie worrying about his family, his dad was an old man. There were many times throughout the book Elie had to be a provider for his dad.

Prison camps are a crucial part of war. When a member of the opposing force is taken by his enemy, he will be a prisoner to that side. These prisoners are kept in places called prison camps, where they must rely on their opponents to provide for their basic necessities, such as food, water, and clothing. The quality of living conditions in such camps varies in different wars, countries, and time periods. For the Civil War, the experience that each prisoner faced behind the walls of these camps had a wide variation as well. While there were camps that treated their prisoners adequately, most of these places had dreary conditions that were cruel to those who were forced to stay there. Overall, prison camps of the Civil War had many problems for anyone who entered its brutal doors, which can be seen by examining overall statistics and conditions, individual camps, and the punishments dealt out to prisoners.

They were to line up for food, do almost nothing except for hard labor and were locked away in a barracks every night. One shocking moment in the memoir caught my attention. Rajchman found out his sister had been killed and found her dress when sorting through the piles of clothes. I could not imagine the despair and anguish he must have felt at the time. He barely had a chance to grieve the loss, due to the fear of losing his own life too.

The working conditions were terrible they worked for hours with little to no rest under the hot sun. The food they received was also horrible and most workers were treated horrible and talk to disrespectful. “If you ask any questions to have them explain to you, they get very mad” (Lecture 15) Most of the workers were paid by checks at the camp. Sometimes the check would be less that what they had worked for but due to the English barrier nothing could be done but if the workers tried to speak about the problem than the men giving the money would get mad a sigh of the discrimination being done since most did not know English and did not know how to communicate leaving them with low minimum wage.

Elie and his father have not had a normal relationship. They have been through so much together in and out of the camps. No relationship is seen like this in the book other than Ellie and his father. The relationship between them has its ups and downs just like anyone else. The fact that they keep on caring for each other before and during the camps.

Father-son relationship is shown in the letter as in the beginning Elie was not very close, in terms of relationship, with his father. The experience they both had together in the concentration camps brought them close to each other. They both were living for each other and

When forced into such oppressive and horrible conditions people benign to do whatever they can in order to survive. Man got desperate enough to eat out other prisoners that broke rules. The camps affected the prisoners attitudes about themselves, making them believe that there was no hope for them, and some even believe that they were put in the camp because they are being punished by God for something they did.(Aleksandr Soljenitsin, Online PDF, Page 40) The camp makes the men look at themselves in a new light, with how they choose to survive and live defining who they are. They have to decide themselves if discarding any dignity they have left and lowering themselves will be worth it to survive. What they decide to do in order to survive makes them think if this is who they really are or want to be. Most importantly, the camp attacks their personal identity and individuality. Their names replaced with random letters and numbers, all aspects of themselves stripped away.They are not aloud to remember themselves and eventually it will be up to them to try and remember their lives before the camp, and who they are as an

He begins by characterizing how the isolation of the camps causes the frontiersmen to, “suffer not only from the physical discomforts of the bunkhouse, but also from the deadening monotony of camp life, the absence of culture, or of any ringing and elevating influences…they are invariably weakened morally by the isolation and neglect.” By emphasizing the disadvantages of such conditions, Fitzpatrick calls for the urgent need to bring a healthful, social, and intellectual culture to the life of the camps. He outlines how this is “necessary to the maintenance of [the frontiersmen] moral and spiritual life.” Fitzpatrick believed that by providing these men with both more sanitary working conditions, as well as educational and social privileges, would benefit society as a

They were placed to work in camp. If they refuse to do what the Germans tell them to do, they’ll just kill them. Many Jews died by murder, starvation, or living with diseases living in camps. He survived in camps for 10 months, and was known as greatest author and a survivor, throughout his life experiences.

She illuminates the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the lives of prisoners that, in some cases, greatly advantaged them in enduring the trials and tribulations of camp life. Powerful and wholesome friendships sustained the will to work and to live. Political dissidents were empowered by their struggle and their burning desire to survive the camps and resume fighting the very tyranny which imprisoned them. Religious devotion gave comparable strength and resolve, along with comforting beliefs in a higher power and afterlife. Whether it be good friendships, political beliefs, or religious beliefs, the common thread between prisoners who held one or more of these things was mental wellbeing, and a sense of something to live for, which, in a concentration camp, is about the best survival strategy one could ask