Examples Of Heroism In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

Heroes come in different shapes, sizes, and looks. Maybe someone you saw on the street one day was heroic for saving someone’s life in a car accident. A hero to me is someone who can be brave in situations that aren’t so safe, and take a risk to make sure everyone is okay, no matter who

“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.

What would it do to a person to go to a concentration camp, see the horrible things, and come out alive? This book, Night, is about Eliezer Wiesel, who is both the main character and the author. Elie’s book is a memorial about his experience in Hitler’s concentration camps, what he went through, and how he survived. This paper is going to be about Eliezer’s horrific experience and the ways that it changed him.

The author Veronica Roth says “Desperation can make a person do surprising things”. In Night by Elie Wiesel, you see this quote come to life. Night is about a teenage boy, Elie, who survives the Holocaust. As he experiences the concentration camps he and his father fight for their survival. Elie Wiesel witnesses a son kill his father for a piece of bread. Through imagery and motifs, Wiesel shows the desperation for survival. After the prisoners experience the horrors of the concentration camp they lose all sense of morality because of their will to survive.

Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were some my father and I. Still, there were some gunshots and some dead” (Wiesel 96). Because Elie ran after his father, some people were shot and dead, that could have been him, but Elie did not care. As long as he stayed with his father, he was okay. Even though his father was getting weak, Elie never left his side, even if it meant putting his own life in danger. Most people in the camp did abandon their fathers, however, and would even beat their own fathers to death for a few crumbs. Elie was the different one in this case, he was one of the only people that did not abandon his father and did not just think of himself the whole time. His father and him relied on each other in the camp and because of that they were both able to be so resilient depsite the terrible conditions thy faced. Without his father by his side, Elie did not feel alive. For example, after Elie’s father

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates and shows courage during the Holocaust through his actions. First, Elie tells Stein, his relative, that he has heard from Stein’s wife, Reizel, and his children and that they are fine. Although Elie had not heard anything about Reizel and Stein’s children, he lies to Stein because he knew that it would give Stein courage and a reason to live on. Second, during a selection, Elie runs after his dad and brings him back from the left side, the weak side, to the right side, the healthy side. Elie went after his dad because he wants to save his father from getting killed, this shows courage because the risk that he took could have led himself to his own death.

In the book “Night”, families are separated by gender when they arrive at a concentration camp and are even more separated when the weak are picked out to go to the gas chamber. Would the remaining family members be able to hold on to their family ties or would it just affect their survival? In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel shows that having a family relationship in this case father/son can decrease your chances of survival by dragging down and having something more to worry about. Some family members might try to get rid of the weak link, but others will try to hold on to their family which can lead to their downfall but will bring some happiness and humanity.

The Holocaust brought out savagery, brutality, and callousness towards the humble, innocent Jews. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays his life of living through the holocaust with his father, starving, working, and striving to live through the viciousness and death around them. Throughout Elie’s experience through the concentration camp, his story shows survival is what sustains us, survival of the fittest.

Bruce Ismay saved other lives before he saved himself in the Titanic when it sank. In the memoir by Elie Wiesel called Night which talks about a Jewish survivor in Concentration Camp who is trying is hardest to survive and take care of his ill father, and the nonfiction article called “Is Survival Selfish” which talks about different situations in which people are risking their lives for others. Both stories show how survival is not selfish in many ways. Survival is when you continue to live and not die. In the two texts, it shows how survival is not selfish because everyone’s instincts make others believe that they should help themselves rather than others.

“The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us. In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either” (Wiesel,36). One of the most important keys to survival during the Holocaust was endurance and self-preservation. In order to ensure one would make it by, many focused on themselves. Some of the Holocaust victims took this mindset too far. There were many times when the Jews would kill each other, including their own family for food. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there were many times were Elie thought he would be better off without his father.

Struggle. Devastation. Emptiness. These are all things young Elie Wiesel faced during his time in the concentration camps. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel tracking his journey and struggles with his life, family and faith. Elie, who was once a devoted believer, faced many challenges and traumatic experiences that made him question his faith and his identity.

Survival is an instinct instilled in all humans used during difficult times to keep them alive. Night is a Holocaust memoir by survivor, Elie Wiesel. Many Jews, including Elie and his family, are sent to many concentration camps to work. Conditions are harsh and not many survive, but Elie does, and he shares his story of experiences he had in the camps. As Elie’s situation becomes increasingly dangerous, he changes from a selfless boy to a selfish survivor showing that self-preservation is more important than morals or values.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an account of Elie’s experiences in the camps. Many Stories have come out of this period of time; stories of loss, death, as well as ones of survival and human kindness. In Night, Elie’s is a story of survival. “Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.” (Tzu). Survival is made up of the culmination of many factors. For some it is the hope of a better tomorrow, to others, it is a reason in the moment. Sometimes, ones’ survival is of sheer fate as if they were destined for a brighter future. Elie Wiesel’s Night is the story of his survival against odds.

A hero is a man of courage and ability who is admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. A hero is a person who does not come along very often in any time period. He is a special person, who is a step above the average person in the way that he handles any situation that may arise.