Similarities Between Night By Elie Wiesel

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.

He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard the same man ask where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows? (Wiesel 62)

There are many records of first person experiences in the Holocaust that show what it was like to live during the time period, and most records are the victims; telling their story. During the Holocaust, about 6 million jews were killed. A spectator witnessing this horrendous brutality was Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was born in Transilvania and was sent to a death camp when he was around 15. He witnessed horrible things and wrote a book about his experiences in 3 Austwitz death camps. The plot of his memoir,”Night” follows him through his life in the death camps with his father and how they stay together until the enevitable death of his weak and ailing father. A big part of the memoir is how their relationship changes throughout the story.

A dystopian society can be accurately described as an abject habitation in which people live dissatisfied lives under total control of the government. As terrible as dystopias are, there have been many instances of such societies in the past, and a copious amount of them are found in our current time. Although it may seem that mankind would learn from past experiences and be able to prevent the formation of dystopias, all failed endeavors at utopia, in turn, lead to dystopia. A prime example of this is found in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel. The story recounts the Holocaust, a mass genocide of Jews conducted by Adolf Hitler, who believed he could create a utopia by basically eradicating a religious group. This inhumane act created a dystopia which was extremely disparate from our modern day society. Yet, there are still apparent similarities that can be found in any community, which maintain order within. Elie’s dystopia and our present society share the large factors of government, media, and labor, but, the approach to each of these ideas is what sets our lives apart.

“I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life” - Omoakhuana Anthonia. Sometimes, bad things have to happen to people for them to realize their true potential and purpose in life. This proves true for the survivors of the holocaust, they now have the power to stop things like this from happening ever again. For Elie Wiesel, this is especially true, after he survived he went on to write the book “Night”, this book has really helped people to understand what truly happened and to gain respect for the survivors; he also went on to win a number of awards, including the nobel peace prize. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, our main character, Elie,

The quote in the middle of the book is when the Jews are walking to a new location from the concentration camp. The Jews are exhausted and weak, because they are being forced to run the whole way or else they will be shot. Elie Wiesel sees many people die but he does not give up because he still has his father. Here is the quote from the book when they are marching “ ‘Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!’ We no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them” (Wiesel 85). The quote shows how the Nazis tried to take the Jews humanity away by causing them pain. It also describes how

Wiesel struggled a lot with his faith in Night. Before the Holocaust he had full faith in God. But his faith and trust in God started to slip throughout his time in the concentration camp. The breaking point in where Wiesel completely lost his faith in God was when the young pipel was hung. After witnessing

the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah and the Gemara. There are two versions of the Talmud: the Babylonian Talmud (which dates from the 5th century AD but includes earlier material) and the earlier Palestinian or Jerusalem Talmud.

The Holocaust was a time of death. It was initiated by Adolf Hitler and his German army and was the mass genocide that killed over six million Jews. Among those were women and children being sent to death right away, the others were then “selected”, Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky ones. He was a survivor who lived to tell about his experience in the death camps. Elie Wiesel wrote the book ‘Night’ because he felt it was his duty and responsibility to show readers what really happened during the Holocaust. His writing style effectively develops his point of view so he is able to convey a compelling story-his story.

Chance is like flipping a coin and hoping that it lands on one side over the other. The book Night by Elie Wiesel was about Elie and his father, prisoners, in the Nazi German concentration camps at the height of the Holocaust. Elie was put through many dangerous situations and was able to overcome them as a young boy. Elie was forced to use many survival tactics and to adapt to any climate no matter how harsh. Elie survived these cruel conditions due to chance.

While Hitler targeted mainly the Jews, he also killed many Muslims, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witness, Serbians, and Slovic people. In the novel Night written by Elie Weisel, the main character, Eliezer, is taken to a concentration camp and experiences near-death situations. Elie Weisel perfectly provides a situation necessitating perseverance. In Elie’s case, perseverance was vital to his survival. Eliezer had his father with him, to ease some of the fear, but times still became difficult. Closer to the end of the book, Eliezer had surgery on his foot, but was then informed that the camp was getting bombed the next morning. In result, Eliezer flees the hospital and finds his father to walk miles on end with SS soldiers and officers. Ellie and the others are told that if the can survive the journey, they would be free. Many people died, but Elie perseveres. Eliezer could have relied on another trait such as trust, but trust wouldn't have helped him as much as perseverance did. Perseverance allowed Elie to survive, and live a long, successful life up until July 2016, when he passed away. Before Elie died, he said he had to make something out of his life. “If I survived, it must be for some reason. I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could’ve been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I cannot” (Elie Weisel, CNN

The Holocaust brought out savagery, brutality, and callousness towards the humble, innocent Jews. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays his life of living through the holocaust with his father, starving, working, and striving to live through the viciousness and death around them. Throughout Elie’s experience through the concentration camp, his story shows survival is what sustains us, survival of the fittest.

The slaughter of millions of innocent Jews was the outcome in the concentration camps ran by Nazi Germany. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author, a concentration camp survivor, shows the cruel, inhumane acts by the Nazis in the camps. Elie faced starvation, dehydration, and beatings by the German soldiers. In order to survive, luck and motivation by Elie was needed. In my opinion, he was extremely brave. For example, on page 52, he says, ’’Couldn’t you wait a few days, sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever.’’ The dentist was going to remove Elie’s ‘’gold crown,’’ but Elie was brave enough to lie. In the beginning of the book, German soldiers invade Hungary and were to put all Jews to concentration camps. When Elie and his father arrive

He is caught by Idek and is told to lay on his stomach for twentyfive lashes. This threatens Elie’s humanity because after feeling so much pain, he might wish for it all to be over. Fearing death, or just fear is an emotion that makes you human. Pain is also one, and after reading this part of the book you know that Elie passes out. “They brought me a crate. Lie down on it! Lie on your belly! I obeyed. I no longer felt anything exempt the lashes of the whip.”, and, “It was over. I had not realized it because I fainted”. These quotes show that he went through a great amount of pain, so much that he got knocked out. This is taking away his humanity by teaching him to not feel emotion and that having emotions will not help him survive. I think feeling this gigantic amount of pain made him physically stronger because since he made it through the lashes, he could endure other painful

All throughout the Holocaust, Jews struggle to continue and maintain their faith. They do all they can to support and encourage each other to continue. Once they lose their faith they slowly dissipate until everything they know and everything they are becomes the abyss. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, he describes the life and the environment of a Jew taken away by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Along the way he meets many people that help him as he continues his journey. Characters like Yossi and Tibi help Elie survive selection and the young French girl who helps calm Elie to keep him from attacking Idek. With new friends like them, Elie is able to persevere through the pain and suffering of the Holocaust. They continue to fight back and survive work camp after work camp, selection by Dr. Mengele, traveling long distances by foot, and starvation. They endure immeasurable conditions in the concentration camps and avoid near-death