Examples Of Difficult Decisions In Night By Elie Wiesel

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

Eventually they stayed alive because they were each other motivation to live. After discovering that the front line was closing on the camp, everyone is worried that they will be killed. When confronted by the news, Elie thought, “As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had suffered so much, endured so much together”(Wiesel 82). Even though Elie and his father were never that close, since the German occupation, they have started to support each other. Yet when confronted by his own mortality, he still sticks by his father's side. Not only is his father helping him, he is Elie’s motivation to continue fighting the urge to give up. If it hadn't been for his father, Elie would not have made it as far as he

When the Russians were close to Buna the Germans rounded up all the prisoners they could and evacuated the camp. Elie was in the infirmary due to an infection on his foot, but all he could think about was staying close to his father. They had already suffered and endured so much that it was not the time to be separated. After many days of running, marching, and a long train ride under horrendous weather they reached Buchenwald. By then Elie’s father was already sick and weak. The sirens began to wail and they were chased into the blocks. At this point, sleep was all that mattered to Elie, not his father.

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”--Andre Lorde.

“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.

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person because of his experiences at Auschwitz. Throughout his entire journey, his choices became wiser and more strategic. Before entering Auschwitz, Elie was a very weak in the sense of decision making. He did not think ahead or think about the consequences for his actions. However, Elie’s character changed because of his experiences at Auschwitz.

Elie, his father, and the prisoners had to run in the snow more than 40 miles to another concentration camp, deeper in Germany. When they stopped a man, Rabbi Eliahou, asked if Elie and his father if they had seen his son. Elie had and he realized that the Rabbi’s son had “wanted to get rid of his father…to free himself from an encumbrance” (Wiesel 87). They then got on cattle trains that took them to the next concentration camp, Buchenwald. They passed by villages and when people threw bread in, the prisoners began to fight to the death for it. One son began to attack his own father for a piece and killed him, only to be killed the next moment himself. Soon after they arrived in Buchenwald, Eliezer’s father was very weak and sick. A part of Elie felt that if he could get rid of his father he “could use all [his] strength to struggle for [his] own survival” (Wiesel 101). He was very ashamed, even more so when his father died and he felt “free at last” (Wiesel 105).

Once he walked into the house, he said hello is anyone here? Then someone responded and he recognized the voice; it was his sister. He asked her how did you get here? Are you ok. She responded with I'm OK, I had to go into the infirmary and then they said the camp was evacuated. Elie asked where is mom? His sister responded she was evacuated and I couldn’t help her. Where is dad? The camp had to evacuate and just like mom, I didn’t have a chance to tell dad where I was. Elie tells his sister how worried he was about his father and how his dad almost didn't make it thru inspection. Elie’s sister said hopefully Mother and Father come back soon. A little more than a year passed and still their mother and father had not came home. They were both really worried. Elie was thinking that maybe his parents were tossed in the crematorium. He didn’t want to tell his sister, because he did not want her to worry. Six more months pass and Elie’s parents finally come home. They ran to them and hugged

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

All of them exhausted and some dying along the way. Elie was weakened almost to death and found a resting place in the snow. His father urged him to move on to a safer place, but Elie found it difficult: “Get up? How could I? How was I to leave this warm blanket [the snow]? I was hearing my father’s words, but their meaning escaped me, as if he had asked me to carry the entire shed on my arms…I got up with clenched teeth.” Elie and his father continued to make efforts to take care of each other. In this case, his father was trying to not let Elie give up.

Astonishing. Inhumane. Forgotten. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie demonstrates what it was like to experience the holocaust first hand along with his father. Ellie was a young man when he and his family were delivered to Auschwitz (a concentration camp).

When dealing with adversity, an individual may be forced to make decisions, where either outcome has undesirable effects on their life. During the Holocaust, many victims faced similar dilemmas, where the outcome meant death, or a slightly longer life, though some were not given that option at all. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family often encountered many dilemmas. Living in the town of Sighet during the war, Eliezer's family is optimistic, however, when they are deported to Auschwitz, all hope vanishes. Elie and his father are constantly facing dilemmas where one outcome is death while the other could also potentially result in death; choosing whether to die instantly, or to be burned alive in the crematorium; to keep persevering

They are given black coffee for breakfast, and they converse. At noon, they are brought a plate of thick soup. They take a nap in the shade of the block. They are waken and given identification numbers. Elie’s is A-7713. There was a roll call that evening. Eight days pass by and Elie and his father meet Elie’s cousin-in-law. They are transferred to another camp.

Passage one is in my personal opinion, one of the most powerful passages in Night. It recounts the night Elie first entered Auschwitz and how the terrible things he felt and saw will affect him for the rest of his life. After Elie had been taken from his home into a freight car, the only thing he witnesses after his journey is a nightmare. The trauma of these events brought him to a disbelief or even distrust of god and all of his infinite wisdom. It sets the stage for the horrific experiences in Auschwitz to come; it’s an important experience in Elie’s memories because it shows just how many people were killed without regard or reason, women, children, and other innocent people were burned alive without hesitation. It is regarded so ominously

Loss of personal identity was a large theme and took it’s tool on Eliezer’s life. The first event that made Ellie feel empty and lost his identity was when the guards separated the women/girls and men/boys to different places. The words “Men to the left! Women to the right!” had been burned forever into Ellie’s memory. He knew the he lost part of himself, knowing he would never see his beloved mother and sister Tzipora again as they headed to the crematoria. If that wasn’t heartbreaking enough, their valuables, and special items to them were taken away. Sequentially Ellie and his father encountered an inmate. He old them what ages to “be” in order to avoid penalties. In addition, Elie and his father had encountered the notorious Dr. Mengele