Words, the written language, a way to express feelings, emotions, experiences, and all that your mind can recall from life or fantasy. Although many have heard of the terrors faced by the Jews in countries that were under German control during World War II, few have stepped back and really thought about the weight of what really happened to the people in the concentration camps. I believe Night helped people connect to what really happened. This is an actual person's life, their story, poured out onto pages that reflect not only facts but his deepest pains and fears. While recounting his physical discomforts and many hardships, he also gives a viewpoint for our imaginations. The best way I have been introduced to how it would even remotely …show more content…
This level of rich memory relates the reader to the experience, making it easier for that person to remember the events being explained. As once said by George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." With all the people who endured this first hand gone, it is a rare and wondrous thing to behold an entire story from beginning to end by someone who lived it first hand. Of course, the story not only tells us about Elie's tragedies, but also his people as a whole, as well as, giving other short stories of how the calamity affected other individuals around him. Such as, on page 103, when he is talking about the collective death cry on the wagons, "Someone had just died. Others, close to death, imitated his cry. And their cries seemed to come from beyond the grave....The death rattle of an entire convoy with the end approaching." Such a dark and gruesome depiction of a wave of death sweeping over so many people around him. This vivid description as well as many others help bring to light the diverse stories going on. Elie was definitely not the only one being exposed to the contention. There were so many besides him that suffered. This is one way, I believe, that the author meant to cite that. Another reason this account of Elie's memories is to see the differences and similarities between various stories told by many people is to have a
From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of
In the book of Elie he writes about his experience during the Holocaust as a Jew. How the horrible images still haunt him. Can you imagine seeing people, including your loved ones, being tortured and humiliated just because they found it entertaining and thought was right? Well in Elie's story he tells us about all the forms they were treated like crap.
Therefore Elie shows how the prisoners of the Holocaust went through all different shapes and kinds of cruelty. They were forced to do things that did not want to do and go places they did not want to go because there was a threat of survival. The men and women who were imprisoned in the camp got barely enough food to survive and sometimes when days without any food or water. The cruelty shown by the SS men and women shaped how people thought and acted around
In the speech, Elie lectured on the effects of indifference. He talked about how indiferente is dangerous because it blurs the line between good and bad. The reason the speech was not as powerful is because it has no storyline. As a reader we gain certain qualities from hearing the testimonys of others. The speech has facts from different points in history but there is no series of events. On the other hand, the book was full of hardship and resilience. Through the memoir, the reader can connect with a Elie's emotions of hopelessness, loss of faith and anger but also can be strengthened and learn to be tolerant thought his survival. Elie was angry at the God, for not being present and not having compassion on his people, “ Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I blessed him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (67). Everyone has experienced anger because of something that goes wrong in their life and can relate to Elie when he was angry. The reader can also learn to be tolerant to things we dislike, instead of seeking vengeance as Elie was towards the SS men, “And even when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge” (115). Elie had been through so much yet he didn't seek vengeance. Although he hadn't forgiven the SS men, he didn't wish harm to them, and that takes a lot of strength. We can learn from this because we need to just let things go
Night is an non fiction, dramatic book that tells the horrors of the nazi death camps all around Europe. The book is an autobiographical account of what happened, so the main character is the author. The author is Elie Wiesel who was only 14 year old when Nazi Germany came through his town of Sighet, Transylvania. This is story is set between the years of 1944 and 1945. Elie and his family of 4 are optimistic when Germany begins to take power. Germany invades Hungary, then arrives in Elie’s town. The Nazi’s begin to take over the Jews by limiting their freedom. Jews are eventually deported. The Jewish people are crowded into wagons where they are shipped to Auschwitz. He is separated from his mother and sister. Over the course of the book,
Man loves to kill. In response to the question asked, man will continue to commit such atrocities as a genocide. Man will never learn from past mistakes or all of a sudden stop mass killings or genocides. Humans have always killed and they will continue to do it. Humans will not all of a sudden be pacifists and stop killing. This has happened with the Rwandan genocide and with the Holocaust in Night by Elie Wiesel. Man will not stop committing such atrocities and have a brighter future and these are only a few reasons why.
There is a Jewish tradition, honored by the survivors of the Holocaust, to respect the memory of the dead by letting them rest in silence. However, to not talk about the sickening events of the Holocaust is disrespectful to the millions of Jewish people who fell victim to the Nazi camps. As a bearing witness to the Holocaust, Weisel gives his testimony about the crimes he has seen. These statements will bring remembrance for those who died and expose the perpetrators. Perhaps most importantly, it preserves for future generations the memory of what happened, so that it will never happen again. Night did not analyze the whole aspect of the Holocaust, but instead it focused on the experiences of a single
As a young child, it was known that Elie prayed very often, and was much in touch with his faith. His eyes were filled with curiosity, wonder, and joy, and it seemed as though nothing could take that away from him. Once Elie was taken away from his home, and his family were stripped away from him, some earlier than others, it is noticeable that a sudden darkness is coming over him. By the time its is the end of the novel, he is so overcome with guilt and sadness, he can no longer even recognize the person that he once was. Elie explains this right at the end of the autobiography as he states, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” He is no longer saying he is looking at himself, but instead is stating he is looking into the eyes of a corpse, a feeling that has never left him. This shows that no matter how much time passes, or how long it has been since the Holocaust, the feeling of suffering will always remain in those who remember
Night is a first-hand account of life for Elie Wiesel as a young Jewish teenage boy living in Hungary and eventually sent to Auschwitz with his family. The moment his family exits the cattle car the horror of Auschwitz sets in. His mother and sisters become separated from him and his father immediately, their fate sealed. Elie stays with his father and right away a stranger is giving them tips on how to survive and stay together. Immediately told to lie about their ages, making Elie a little older, and his father a little younger. This lie may have been the only chance they had to stay together, so they follow the stranger’s advice and pass by the first peril and housed together.
It is a tragedy that the terror and destruction of the Holocaust could have been avoided if the warnings were taken seriously. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beetle tries to inform the community of his experience, but they do not adhere to his warnings. Similarly, my great-grandmother also sailed across the Atlantic, to warn her relatives. She informed them of the possible danger, but they too did not listen. Likewise, Jan Karski also saw the danger and tried to warn the allied leaders of the upcoming threat. In all three stories, warnings were given and then rejected. This essay will discuss responses to the Holocaust, by examining warnings regarding community members, family members, and Righteous Amongst the Nations. From the very beginning of Hitler’s rise to power, his ultimate goal, was evident in Mein Kampf and threats against Jews should always be taken seriously.
At the beginning of the novel, when the Jews first arrive at the camps, all they have left is their family, so they cling to them. During one of the work periods, Elie comes across two brothers, “Yass and Tibi, two brothers… whose parents had been exterminated… they lived for each other, body and soul” (Wiesel 50). This relationship between the two siblings shows, a bond that has been strengthened by loss. Elie includes this small tidbit about them to show that the Jews still have some hope and compassion still in them. Once news of evacuation hits the camp, Elie’s only thought is of his father, “I was not thinking about death but not wanting to be seperated from my father” (Wiesel 82). This shows the personal level of how the Holocaust affected the families in it. It shows that because family was the only thing that they had left, that was all that they could think about. The Jews lose everything when the arrive at the camp so they cling to what they have, their family.
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.
Elie starts to have doubts about god he misses his mother and his sister but he lost all hope because the camps were dehumanizing him and made him lose his character and who he used to be but his old self never thought to ever look down on god but he had no other options but too he didn't know if he would ever make it
The Holocaust is over and has been for about sixty years, so why are we still talking about it? Why is it still relevant in our world today? The world should have learned from its mistakes, but the sad part is that we did not. No, Hitler is no longer killing millions of innocent men, women, and children, but we are still just still just as cruel only in different ways. Night is Elie Wiesel’s factual account of his experiences in the holocaust. He brings us to a world in which not many people want to go. He tells us the true story of what really happened in Nazi concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor chooses to tell his story and begins to teach an entire generation the dangers of ignorance and hatred.
The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.