Joe Rantz and Elie Wiesel are both people that had many similarities. Joe Rantz was a man that wanted to compete in the olympics but had to have faith in the people he was going to row with. Elie Wiesel was stuck in Auschwitz. He also had to have faith. He had to believe in himself and have to have faith in god. Another similarity Joe and Elie have is that both of them lost their families which is a tragedy that they both must overcome. While in the Auschwitz camp Elie had to have faith in himself and have to overcome the tragedies they both dealt with which was losing their families. When Elie's family went to the camp he lost his mother and sister immediately. It was just his dad and him. His dad got killed from a disease and Wiesel couldn't do anything about it. Those were the tragedies Elie had to overcome. Wiesel was losing faith everything including himself and God. ¨My eyes had opened and I was alone in a world without God, without man.¨ He really thought he was going to die. Joe Rantz wanted to compete in the olympics but he had to have faith in the people he got teamed up with. He didn't know if he was going to get tricked. He had to believe them. Rantz also had to overcome a terrible tragedy which was losing his mother. Those are the similarities Joe Rantz and Elie …show more content…
They had to have faith and overcome occurred tragedies but the only similarity there was that Rantz and Wiesel lost their family. They had to overcome the same tragedy. But their faith was different. Wiesel was losing faith and Rantz had to have faith. Wiesel was not accepting God anymore. ¨I no longer accepted God's silence. The only similarity there was that it was both about living. Wiesel did not want to die and Rantz had to believe in the team and know that he would be safe. Rantz did not know any of the people he was teamed up with. And then the other situation they both had were the deaths of their family
Imagine you were forced to leave your home, family, and friends, then you have to undergo terrible traveling, working in unbearable conditions, and never having a full meal to eat. Well for Yanek and Elie that was every day of their life after they were taken for the Holocaust. They both survived by keeping their faith and taking advantage of any good opportunities. Yanek and Elie have many similarities and some differences when it comes to their experience in the Holocaust such as the family they had there with them, the death marches, and how the cattle cars are for the both of them.
Also at one point they were both at Auschwitz, they were their at the same time. Adding to that they were both transferred to different camps on cattle cars at least once and both had the same experienced on the cattle car. Elie and Leon both talked about how crammed the cattle cars were and they were so enclosed to the point where you couldn't breathe. Elie and Leon both experienced working at the camps doing hard labor. Elie and Leon have many similarities and differences from the Holocaust experiences.
Elie Wiesel demonstrated a great amount of emotional/mental stamina. In the book, he was faced with lots of doubts and people that would tell him “you are too skinny, you are too weak, and you are good for the ovens.” But, Elie Wiesel kept his stamina and moved on. In the book Hitler
In the story, Elie is slowly losing his hope because he feels like nothing is coming in his direction that is good. He and the other Jews have a hard time living in the concentration camps because everyday they are being punished and starved. In the story, Elie Wiesel shows the literary element of imagery by saying “Then we began to hear the airplanes. Almost at once, the barracks began to shake.
Douglass was hungry for knowledge, and once he had learned of an outside world beyond where he was placed in society, he decided who he would be. Eliezer was different because he already knew about what life was like before he was sent to a concentration camp. His experience was less about self discovery, but more about how he persevered through it all. One thing they both had in common was that they had a goal in the future. Elie Wiesel deeply wanted to tell the story of the Holocaust so that the world would never forget or repeat it. Frederick Douglass wanted to define himself and then
Character Analysis of Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night talks about his horrific experiences and memories while in the Holocaust between 1941-1945. While in Sighet, Elie is very focused on his religious beliefs. His mentor for the Talmud, Moshe the Beadle, comes back from a near death experience. He warns the Jewish people that the Nazis are going to come and harm them, but no one listens.
Elie endured so much mental damage at his young age that it made their mental state irreversible. Elie’s story is truly inspiring, having survived one of history’s most heartbreaking, detrimental, and antisemitic events in World History. Before he was imprisoned by the Nazis, Elie lived a very religious life. God was whom he would turn to in need, and the Holocaust altered that. The division between men and women forced Elie to stay by his father’s side for the next two years in brutal, unhumane conditions.
This demonstrates how prominent his loss of faith was to his disappearance of identity. The Nazis endlessly proved how they treated the Jews, stripping them of their faith and slowly leaving the prisoners unrecognizable — even to themselves. During the evacuation of Poland to Germany, Elie and his fellow prisoners were forced to run fifty miles without a stop. They had no access to shelter or food and were in terrible condition — to the point where they were barely alive. Elie mentions, "We have transcended everything – death, fatigue, and our natural needs" (Wiesel 87).
He shows us how the two can become very similar in bad situations such as his. One example of when this happens is when Wiesel is in the hospital. He meets a man who seems to have no will to live. He speaks very bluntly about an oncoming death and it seems like he feels he is already dead. He says, “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve… Hitler alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” (Wiesel 80-81). The man speaking so bluntly and without emotion about his own extermination really shows that he already feels dead, especially because he is in the hospital and knows that he will likely be the first to die. Wiesel’s ability to express the man’s bleak tone and readiness to die shows that he was able to teach people that sometimes the line between life and death can become blurred, and that one can feel dead even though their body is still
Before Elie went to the Concentration camp, he had many good character traits. On page 31 - 32 Wiesel states, “The wind of revolt died down. We continued to walk until we came to a crossroads. Standing in the middle of it was, though I didn't know it then, Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele. He looked like the typical SS officer: a cruel, though not unintelligent, face, complete with monocle. He was holding a conductor's baton and was surrounded by officers. The baton was moving constantly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left”… “This conversation lasted no more than a few seconds. It seemed like an eternity.” In this part of the book Elie had just gotten to the camp and is getting sorted by the angel of death. This part of the text showed that Elie was brave because Elie had just talked to a man who had killed hundreds of people, and he never said he was scared or acted like he was frightened. Another trait he had before he changed was that he was hard working. One example of that trait is on page 50, “Sitting on the ground, we counted bolts, bulbs, and various small electrical parts.” In this part of the book after they got
They both also tell a very sad story about their time of hiding. They are both Jews and are very scared in 1942, they thought they would be worked to death in the concentration camps. Krystina
many times during the book it talks about Wiesel’s problems. Elie’s first problem would be when he was in Buna, a concentration camp. This was a problem for Wiesel because he didn't have food, water, and at sometimes air. In the book Elie says “ At ten o’clock we were given our daily ration of bread” (Wiesel 34 ). This quote shows how that they only got bread once a day from their SS Officers, and that they didn't have food. Another problem Wiesel had is the loss of family. Elie got taken away from his mom and sister when they were deported on the train but got to stay with his father. Elie says “ I certainly do. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father” (Wiesel 35). With Elie being taken away from his mom and sister, he wanted to stay with his father through the whole thing. Wiesel’s father was his strength to stay alive. Elie had tough adversities he had to go through in his life and he was strong and overcame them.
Elie experienced many changes, as a person while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small naive child that new very little
In the book, our narrator, Elie, is constantly going through changes, and almost all of them are due to his time spent in Auschwitz. Prior to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie was a very different boy, he had a more optimistic outlook on life. During the first few pages of the book, Elie tells us a bit about how he viewed the world before deportation, “ I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” ( 3). Elie was, as he says himself, deeply observant and devoted most of his time to his faith. He spent almost all of his time studying and worshiping. At this point, Elie’s faith is the center of his life. Elie is also shown to do a few other things and has a few more early character traits aside from being dedicated to what he believes in. Elie also sees the best of people, a few pages later he says, “The news is terrible,’ he said at last. And then one word: ‘transports’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely… ‘Where will they take us?” (Wiesel 14). This is one of the only time we hear about Elie being worried or scared because of the Germans before Auschwitz, and still, despite the warnings that were given and the rumors circulating, Elie doesn’t think that the Germans are actually going to do all of those terrible things. Around this time in the book, Wiesel starts to become more emotionally weighted, but none of what has happened takes full effect until much later. There are multiple instances in the book where Elie is given reason to distrust or even hate the Germans, he talks about how the Gestapo treated him and his family on page 19 “‘Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!’ the Hungarian police were screaming.”. Yet he then goes on to say, on that very same page, that “Still our first