Examples Of Compassion In Night By Elie Wiesel

Mitch Albom, an internationally known author, once said, “sacrifice is a part of life. It’s suppose to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.” The author of Night uses sacrifice throughout the novel to show what real courage and true love looks like. Sacrifice is displayed and demonstrated throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel , Elie’s father, and Moishe the Beadle and Rabbi Eliahu.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

When bad things are happening in your life, it may be hard to notice the good things that are happening. In some of life’s toughest moments, it is when we can find the kindness, given to us from others. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the kindness of others is proved to be true through many examples. When Elie Wiesel is put in a concentration camp he finds kindness in an authority figure, a young woman and his very own father. Kindness can be shown in any way, even just by giving advice.

In Night Elie shows, experiences, and saw many acts of kindness. One act of kindness Elie experienced was when a prisoner told Elie and his father to lie about their ages so that they could stay alive. Elie stated, ““Hey, kid, how old are you?” “Fifteen.” “No, You’re eighteen.” “But I’m not,” I said “I’m fifteen.” “Fool. Listen to what I say.” Then he asked my father, who answered: “I’m fifty.” “No.” The man now sounded angry. “Not fifty. You’re forty. Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.”” This was an act of kindness because the man was nice and kept Elie and his father from dieing and kept them from being separated. Another act of kindness was when the dentist in Buna let Elie keep his gold tooth. Elie stated, ““Seated in the chair, I asked meekly: “What are you going to do, sir?” “I shall remove your gold crown, that’s all,” he said, clearly

When surviving, compassion is most certainly necessary; without compassion, one would not survive because there would be no reason to. If you are trying to survive in the wild your end is to goal to be alive, and what to do while you are alive is your choice. Whatever it is that keeps you going, that is you compassion which is also your survival. In the story Night by Elie Wiesel there are multiple examples of compassion being used for survival. We know that Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust but how he did it is a mystery to us. What we do know is that heh survived with compassion helping him. Night by Elie Wiesel is a perfect example to show how compassion is necessary to survive.

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories” (Wiesel 30).

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

“For the dead and the living we must bear witness”(Elie Wiesel). The book “Night” was published in 1956, by Elie Wiesel. He talks about the Holocaust and how he survived it and what the conservation camp was like and how he was treated. Throughout “night” one of the major themes was the idea of small acts of kindness. These moments in the story are important because they show what a huge difference one person can make.

In the book Night, Elie often experiences cruelty but he also experiences kindness. On page 85, Wiesel says, " The SS made us increase our pace. "Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!" Why not? Moving fast made us a little warmer. The blood flowed more readily in our veins. We had the feeling of being alive...". This shows that Elie no longer felt like he was alive until he started running. Before he was ordered to run he was at a point where he felt he no longer existed because of how much suffering he was in. After he started to run he now felt the existence of himself because he was running to keep himself alive, because if he would have stopped he would have been killed. He had to dig deep and find a way to keep himself going, he did so because he kept himself going and felt warmer and truly alive. On the other hand, Elie also experiences kindness. On page 53, Wiesel says, “I felt a cool hand wiping the blood from my forehead. It was the French girl. She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread”. The way Elie experiences kindness is that after he has been beaten there was a sweet French girl that was comforting him and giving him extra rations of bread when he needed it most. The insight that the Holocaust gave me was that, there can actually be that bad of people in the world to treat someone so badly. I never thought that any person would treat not just one but millions of others in such an awful

In 1944, World War II was close to over, but not for everyone. Six million Jewish people had been taken from their homes and put to the most dehumanizing work in history by being transported to concentration camps to work 12+ hour shifts. With little to no food, complete segregation, and torturous treatment by sadistic guards, this time of life was a literal hell for these Jews. The SS guards stationed there were so brutal, that the prisoners felt constantly in fear for their lives. In the award winning memoir, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he narrates his experience as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. At the concentration camps, they were separated and put to work, not office work, interminable amounts of forced labor, no mistakes, and if so, shot or beaten to death. The Nazis decimated the Jewish population, and in doing so, exposed Hitler’s true intentions and cruelty. Wiesel discloses the radical changes that the Jews undergo, from normal people, with family and friends, into violent, self-centered crazies who look out for no one else and must fight for

Not yet exposed to the horrors of the concentration camp, Elie enters Birkenau with his innate senses of compassion and altruism intact. Soon after his arrival, Elie witnesses the burning of children, women, and men alike. In response to this horrific sight, Elie becomes doubtful of the reality of this situation and questions, "How was it possible… that the world kept silent?" (32). As seen in the creation of Night and this question, for Elie, silence is unthinkable. At this point, Elie still holds faith in the power that people hold. However, the only hope to save these people from their fates is if the silence breaks. Along with this thinking, his tone of disbelief contributes to Elie's demonstration of one of man's most primitive instinct: compassion. This compassion is still strong in Elie—for if this was false, why would he have questioned this so passionately? However, after submitting to oppression from the concentration camps' officials, Elie's

Even when faced with traumatic malice,humans have the capacity for great empathy and benevolence. To begin, when compassion was shown to Elie. Elie was beaten severely and backed up into a corner till he no longer fought back. A French girl merely wiped his forehead, smiled, secretly gave Elie a bread crust and offered advice. These inspirational, encouraging, and compassionate words were enough to keep Elie holding on with the little hope that he had, ‘“Bite your lips, little brother… Don’t cry”,she pleaded, “ Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later the day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait” (Weisel,53). Next,is when Elie shows compassion to Raziel's husband,Stein. Stein begins frantically passing through rows in the bunks,asking for “Weisel from sighet.” Once found, Stein begins explaining that he was deported in 1942 to a concentration camp and begged to know how his wife and two boys were,since Elie’s mother was Stein’s aunt. Weisel did not recognize Stein, but Elie immediately knew who he was. "Yes,my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine.

Cruelty surrounds the world constantly, and is used frequently in works of literature to reveal certain things about the theme. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, acts of cruelty are used to express the theme and enhance its message. One of the largest themes revealed by these acts is “man’s inhumanity to man,” which includes mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis, the common people, and other Jews. Watching the large amounts of violence, abuse, and discrimination that occur in this memoir show us the horrors of the Holocaust and how it transformed the men and women who it experienced it, as well as those who caused it.

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.

Compassion has little to no boundries. In almost every great story there is a specific character or a group of characters that help the protagonist because they feel bad for them. Compassion is the most important aspect of a functioning society; therefore, Elie Wiesel’s Night, 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose, and the generosity of spirit shown by the average citizen after the recent shooting in Las Vegas are all perfect examples.