Self Preservation Vs. Family Commitment In Elie Wiesel's Night

In the book Night, through rough situations people get to bond and get along as Ellie and his father did. According to Ellie Wiesel, that through the worst situation he finally had him by his side; "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry"(Wiesel). In addition, to seeing a family member suffering they get to bond as father and son, which Ellie never got to have until, that happened. Even thought the worst, did happen they were there for each other and they never left each other alone.

Eliezer and his father were separated from his mother and younger sister when they arrived at Birkenau. Eliezer’s view began to change and he started to see his father as someone who he admired and did not want to lose. The horrors of the camps made them value their relationship. Their goal was then to remain alive and to remain together. As his father’s health began to worsen, Eliezer did everything to try to keep him alive.

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is about the Nazis, and the concentration camps, and his experiences at those camps. Elie Wiesel and his father are sent to a concentration camp. Where he is separated from his mother and sister. While he is there he loses his ability to care for others, and starts to focus on how he will survive till tomorrow. This causes him to lose his faith in God, and he refuses to even comprehend God. He goes from a kind hearted soul to a disturbed boy.

Elie Wiesel, the author and main character of Night, went to two concentration camps and had different experiences at each one. The three concentration camps he went to were Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Birkenau. In Maus, Artie's mom (Anja) and dad (Vladek) went to concentration camps too. Like Ellie, they went to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, but they also went to Dachau. Ellie's life in the concentration camp was like Vladek's life in the concentration camp.

Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.

1933 through 1945 was a devastating period for Europe. Nazi Germany had taken over a significant part of Europe. In the result of the Genocide of six million Jews, but the killing of seventeen million total. Two works capture the horrors of this time. Elie Wiesel is a Jew from Transylvania, Romania who had been taken prisoner in 1944, and transported to Auschwitz with his family. During that time he had spent his time as a worker in a factory with his father, never wanting to leave him behind. Elie Wiesel shared his experience in his autobiography, Night, Published in 1960. After the war Elie Wiesel had become a College Professor, Nazi investigator, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Then we also have Life is Beautiful, an Italian movie released in 1997 about an Italian Jewish family won the the Academy Award for the best foreign language film. Roberto Benigni, the director of Life is Beautiful won the Academy award for best actor in his role. Both Night and Life is Beautiful deal with the importance of the family relationship during the Holocaust, but they approach this horrific time in vastly different ways.

Ellie Wiesel began his journey as a normal twelve year old Jewish boy who devoted his life to praying and worshiping God. His life was perfect until the Germans decided to take all of that away. The Germans invaded their homes, and took them all to concentration camps. Elie had not realized how cruel people could possibly be, and the drastic measures people will take in order to survive. He saw horrendous things that seemed so unreal. Babies were

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

Many families suffer from issues of hunger, money, addiction, and more. But not many family conflicts lead to a family member killing another family member. This although, was a common occurrence during the Holocaust. Many of the Jews killed each other for food and other needs that people now take for granted. In Elie Wiesel's novel, Night, Elie shows the digression of families throughout the beginning, middle and end of the book to demonstrate the inhumanity of the prisoners at the camps.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

Humans are very social by nature, the idea of family, and friends are things that separate us from other animals. Ask anyone what important to them, and most will reply family, and friends. This is also true during the holocaust; many of the survivors lived only because of the thought of their loved ones. When he arrives at Auschwitz, Elie meets Stein, a relative from Antwerp. Stein tells them that "the only thing that keeps [him] alive is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up…" (45). Because of our social nature, humans become connected to one another on a much deeper level. When a person loses those that they care about the most, they also lose the will to live. For some people this happens very quickly, depression sets in and a person will become immune to their surroundings, no longer caring what happens. Elie survives through the holocaust because his father is with him. Because of his

How they were making them feel worthless and how they were making them feel all these negative things, Ellie tried to keep his faith but at the end of it he just couldn't do it anymore. One piece of evidence that supports that is “PRESSED TIGHTLY AGAINST one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories” (page 98). This shows that Elie is losing himself in the process of being physically and mentally abused by these people and he can’t take it anymore. Which this also goes along with the theme, by how it represents that Elie is going through this traumatic experience and he's losing himself along the way. Another piece of evidence is “AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CAMP, SS officers were waiting for us. We were counted… The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (page 104). When Ellie says that he doesn't want to lose “him” he's talking about his father. His father is the only family he has now that his other family members were taken away, Ellie is living inn in the dark and in fear of losing his father, he's scared. This connects to the theme by how he is once again in fear, of many things, but his main fear is losing his father and he's losing everything and he doesn't want to lose anything else he doesn't want to become any less of a person he doesn’t want to become any less emotionless.

The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive the holocaust.

In the Memoir “Night” Elie was loyal to his father he changed his nature to a more animalistic nature. The definition of loyalty is a strong feeling of support and allegiance even in the midst of dehumanization. In fact during the Holocaust, Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch was imprisoned at Auschwitz. He was forced to fight fellow prisoners; the losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived over 2 years and 200 fights until the camp was liberated. This shows just how cruel the nazis were to the Jewish people during the time of the holocaust especially to people they knew were weak or strong, and in the case of Salamo Arouch he was one of the stronger people at Auschwitz . The Memoir “Night” Is about Elie Wiesel’s rough life during his time at Auschwitz.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the theme that I found in this book was family bond. In the book it talks about how the helps his father throughout the concentration camp. This shows you the family bond between the father and the son is strong even though he is questioning his religious belief. At the begin of the story they talk about how all the Jews were herded like cattle into these trains to the camps! I could see the father and son going to the camps by the train since I watched the film which also had to do with Jews and they were treated horribly I feel for the pain that they went through.