Survival 6 million lives, all of those perished in the holocaust for nothing but their religion; So many died but some survived and one survivor in particular Elie Wiesel author of Night tells his story of how at the age 16 he was deported to a concentration camp with his father and saw what took to survive. In those moments where Wiesel is describing what happened is where we decide is hope really the reason he survived or was it is fear? Fear; that is what the holocaust drove on. Fear gave Jews the need for survival as they began to notice that hope did nothing for them and neither did faith, from a response Elie says to a man who asked where god was,”this is where---hanging here from the gallows”(Wiesel 65).This shows that their
A man named Elie Wiesel experienced it and survived. As it was a traumatic experience .Wiesel had been through a lot of starvation, and watched a lot of innocent people killed. Women and children got killed and burned alive by the Nazi s. That first night in the holocaust how he saw everything in Germany. How Wiesel couldn’t do anything about it because he was helpless. This had started in 1933 through 1945 it finally stopped there have been many texts inspired by the holocaust including “First they came for the communist “by Reverend Martin Niemoller and “Never shall I forget” by Elie Wiesel . The text gives a lot of sings on to speak out, also says a lot how we shouldn’t be quite in horrible situations a word can save lives.
In life all will encounter countless obstacles, good and bad, and all must learn how to live through it. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, he was experiencing depressing times and he a Jewish philosopher, had turned away from God. Elie Wiesel's temptation, caused from his grievous situation should not have allowed him to forget who God was. If Elie Wiesel had remembered Psalm 34:17 and Proverbs 3:5-6 he would have acknowledged God in all his hardships.
In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, he portrays how the environment affects the way Jews interact with each other as time goes on. During Elies time at Buna, he is forced to give up his gold tooth to a money-hungry individual as he states “[Franek]knew my weak spot. My father has never served in the army and could not march in step that presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him on a daily basis”(Weisel 55). Elie is guilt-tripped into giving up his tooth so his father wouldn’t have to go through constant pain and suffering because people are becoming so self-centered and selfish in the camp. Another example of how the environment affects Jews’ interaction with each other is a young boy beating his father for not making his bed properly.
In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel is only a teenager when he is taken by the Nazis and used as a labor force. He is taken to many concentration camps in Nazi Germany, now Poland. At the camps, he is treated awfully. He is at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs. Because of this, Elie changes in all kinds of ways.
In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel gives an account about his life in a concentration camp. His focus is of course on his obstacles and challenges while in the camp, but his behavior is an example of how human beings respond to life in a concentration camp. The mood, personality, behavior, and obviously physical changes that occur are well documented in this novel. He also shows, as time wears on, how these changes become more profound and all the more appalling. As the reader follows Elie Wiesel’s story, from his home in the ghetto, to his internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to his transfer and eventual release at Buchenwald, one can see the impact of these changes first hand.
In the sorrowful memoir,Night, by Elie Wiesel the author uses powerful personification to reveal the true sense of death during such an unsuitable, dark time in his life. After eventually getting to rest from a long and laborious run, Elie’s father insists that Elie gets some sleep. But Elie cannot seem to shut his eyes because understands that if he falls asleep he will never wake up. He catching a glimpse of others surrounding him slipping into a never ending sleep. He states, “Death, which was setting in all around me, silently, gently. It would seize upon a sleeping person, steal into him and devour him bit by bit (Wiesel 89).” Sometimes something can be so present and so reoccurring it begins to be the only thing the brain can process.
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.
was for their own sake to live. During the Holocaust, everybody thought they were going to die
Is changing your personality a good or bad thing? Many people gained new traits and evolved due to concentration camps. They did this to survive. One of the people that had to change their personality to survive was Elie Wiesel. In “Night” by Elie wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz.
As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.
Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people
Everyone or body has faith in themselves,but when hard time comes you pray to god and ask for something that you want to happen,but if nothing happens then what happens to your feeling or faith,you might feel that the god is betraying you,or gods aren't real.In the story Night by Elie Wiesel(September 30, 1928-July 2, 2016) a Auschwitz survivor tells his story about the experience that he had in Auschwitz and the horrible griefs he seen and been through. Faith is not the only reason that pulls people back, it the huge big hopes. The Jews still have hopes and faith when they are still on the train and camp and the hard labor they do and the faith they have in themselve how work is going free them free. This is how much faith/hope does the people that
“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 the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a boy named Elie explains his experiences throughout the Holocaust. His family and other Jews were expelled from Sighet and ended up in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. During this time, the only thing the Germans couldn’t deprive the Jews was their hope and humanity. Within the memoir, the theme presented is, “We must never forget, never forget...Human hope & faith must never die…”.
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