Night By Elie Wiesel Chapter 1 Summary

Unchallenged authority leads to unnecessary aggression and violence. Power is extremely hard to control through one being in our human nature, so a balance of power is often the only way to rule effectively without going over the line. Power will take over and turn to aggression even toward the innocent inferiors of this world. In the novel Night, author Wiesel speaks of the extremes that unlimited power will lead to using imagery, details, and diction to outline his first-hand experiences under an overkill authority. Wiesel demonstrates his harsh days under unjust rulers through touching diction.

I have begun reading Night by Elie Wiesel. This novel is about the events that Elie Wiesel endured as a teenager and harrowing truths about the holocaust. The first chapter was quickly paced and straightforward. A major part of Eli’s day was studying. A man Elie meets named Moishe the Beadle begins to cause him to question his faith and why he prays. The man is definitely different and this later causes the community to miss a warning sign of their impending doom. Moishe the Beadle is a foreign jew and is taken away months earlier than the other jews. He witnesses and miraculously survives a mass murder of foreign jews by faking dead. After returning to Sighet he attempt to warn the residents of what happened but no one believed him. This is important because at this time there were still visas available but since no one could fathom the idea of an attack on a whole population that included millions no one listened. Eli thinks, “Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means?” (8) I liked this explanation in the book because most holocaust books brush over the reason of not leaving when they sensed conflict besides fear and this seemed much more logical in the fact that it does appear to be unbelievable.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.

The Jews of Sighet were of disproving failure to anticipate Nazi terrorism in reason of two factors: disbelief by doubt and ignorant fear within themselves and their community of Hitler’s extermination strategy. In Night, the author introduces his life as a teenager and his relations with Moshe the Beadle, a shtibl who would joyfully about the Kabbalah and its mysterious revelations and guide him into studying such esoteric tradition, but then drone endlessly about his abhorrent experience of being imprisoned as a deportee. Unfortunately, no matter how much he spoke of it, his words became dust as they left his mouth and had blown in “A calming, reassuring wind” (Wiesel, 6). The people of Sighet bypassed Moshe’s warning signal simply by not taking him seriously, and Wiesel verifies this expression in page 7, presuming how everyone “refused to believe his tales” and “...to listen,” which led them in believing that that “he wanted their pity...was imagining things…” and “had gone mad”. This doubt provoked the inconvenience of Moshe’s hopes to inform his people as a preliminary to an impending event. Wiesel later notes about the ignorant temper that everyone, including himself, showed towards Hitler’s upcoming massacre; they felt that they were “in the abstract” and “The Germans...[would only] stay in Budapest...For strategic...political reasons” (8). Citizens of the city facaded their apprehension of this

Throughout World War II the Jewish people were subjected to many levels of hate such as acts of prejudice, act of violence, and genocide. Elie is a Romanian Jewish boy. Elie is one of many to have survived the holocaust. Elie, a young boy who survived the holocaust. It begins in a little town, Transylvania, with Moch­­­­­­é the beadle warning the Jews of great danger in their future, no one willing to believe him. Germany invades the town of Transylvania taking everyone hostage, bringing them to a little ghetto. Being taken to a little ghetto eventually lead to being brought to a concentration camp. The pyramid of hate shows people how something small can turn into something dangerous, if no one speaks up. No on is there speaking up for Elie when he is being taken to a concentration camp. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel experiences an escalation of hate and violence that shows how in specific circumstance acts of prejudice can progress to acts of violence and ultimately lead to genocide.

After being moved within their town, relocation to another country is the final step taken in separating Jews from society. Wiesel’s father shares the news of relocation after a meeting with local leaders: “‘The news is terrible...Transports.’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day” (13). This measure marks the end of Sighet Jews’ lives in their town and the beginning of a totally different life. They are pulled from everything they know, their town, their schools, their stores, and their friends. Lives in Sighet are brought to a stop while a new life, under a

The book takes place during the span of World War II, and continues through Elie’s perspective, as a prisoner, persecuted due to his religion as a Jewish student. The first main plot line is when Elie and his family are taken from their happy, peaceful lives in the small town of Sighet Transylvania, and are put into a

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In 1940 , Hungary annexed sighet and the wiesel’s were among the jewish families and forced to live in the ghettos.May 1944,Nazi Germany with the Hungary’s agreement, forced jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of Fifteen Wiesel’s family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million jews. Wiesel’s family was affected during the holocaust, all jews were forced to have their heads shaved and a number tattooed on their heads after all the men left the barber they were all standing around naked finding acquaintances and old friends, they are joyful at finding each other still alive. Elie Wiesel’s Night highlights the overarching issues of discrimination toward the Jews as they are forced to abandon their lives and face a death that consumer their existence, relationships and faith.

Wiesel and his father arrive at the camp, which appeared as if it “had been through an epidemic,” because of its deathly state (47). After “settling” into the camp, the inmates are told that Buna is decent, as far as camps go, but being assigned to the construction Kommando is unpleasant. Wiesel is offered the chance to join a good Kommando in exchange for his shoes, but he denies, as “they were all [he] had left” (48). He later meets the Buna orchestra members, and is reassured that he was assigned to a good Kommando. One day, he is called to the dentist, who ironically had a “ghastly vision of yellow, rotten teeth” (51). Wiesel is told that his gold crown is going to be removed, and he immediately pretends that he is sick,

The book begins with the author’s Jewish community witnessing a different community being taken away by the hungarian police. “Crammed into cattle cars by the hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform, we too were left crying. The train disappearded over the horizon. Hehind me, someone sighed, ‘What do you expect? That’s war…’ The depotees were quickly forgotten. Days went by and life was normal agian”(6). This quote demonstates how fast people are willing to move on and ignore obvious signs of their own oppression. If someone ignores something for long enough, it could eventualy turn into somehting horrible like the

In Chapters 1-5 of Night, Elie Wiesel uses tones to express his personality, which reveals the changes in his personality by slowly losing faith in God. In Chapter 1, Wiesel was devoted to his religion and had an abundance of hope for God. For example, Wiesel, "studied Talmud and by night...would run to the synagogue" and wanted to further his studies in "kabbalah" (Wiesel 3-4). Through this, Wiesel depicts that he is determined to study the Talmud and Kabbalah, which demonstrates that Wiesel wanted to dive deep into his religion more. Wiesel had always been a curious young boy and would ask many questions, but only "God...replies" (Wiesel 5).

In the book, Elie talks a little about life before the Germans came in and forced them to give up their humanity. During this time, life was fairly normal and Elie spent his time studying the Zohar with a man name Moishe. Even when Moishe was forced to leave, because he was a foreign jew, not much changed; he continued studying the kabbalistic works and building a relationship with god. It isn’t until Moishe’s return that people start becoming slightly worried, but it still wasn’t enough to really cause a stir within the community. Most citizens just assumed Moishe was crazy whenever he tried to tell people his experiences away from the town. When German police came into the city, people finally began to worry. It was known throughout the town that Hitler had planned to destroy the race of jews but people didn’t believe that one man could manage to kill an entire race. For a time people and the police coexisted with some amount of peace, but then came the ghettos.

Look at that Moshe just ran through screaming like a maniac. He yelled telling us to do something before what has happened to him and the other foreign Jews.5. Listen to what he said and how he explained when he was taken out of the town and make to go on to a train with the other foreigner Jews. He also told us that they were all unloaded and the terrible part to dig their own graves. He also told us how they were all shot and the reason for him living was he was shot in the leg, elder Jew, we must listen or take into consideration for what he has said for our own safety and for all of our friends and families sake and hide. Elder Jew asks,” Why should we trust what Moshe the beadle has to say and believe him, what reason.”