Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

In the novel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor suggests that when humans are faced with protecting their own mortality, they abandon their morals and values. This can be seen in both the Jewish and German people. The German’s are inhumanely cruel to protect their own jobs and safely by obeying government commands. The Jewish captives lost their morals as they fight to survive the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel encountered many obstacles that made many of his ideals changed drastically for Wiesel which was his loss in humanity throughout the book he explains the many ways he does not see people as people anymore. He also explains how all of his natural human rights were no more during the time in the Holocaust. He had to find a sense of self because he could have easily fallen apart. He could not have done anything different, he knew it was going to end poorly. Silence is a very important and prominent theme in this book as silence represents many key symbols such as. God’s silence: Eliezar questions God’s faith many times throughout this book and wonders how he could just sit there and be silent while people are mass murdering people.

One of the decisions Elie had to make was when an inmate was yelling at Elie asking how old he was. The inmate was telling Elie and his father to lie about their ages to the officers so that they would not be killed. Elie, 15 and Shlomo, 50 had to lie about their ages by saying they were 18 and 40 so that they would be able to stay in the camps and not be sent to the crematorium. Elie had to make a fast decision that would be life or death and they chose the right thing to do by listening to the inmate. For all we know, the inmate could’ve been setting them up! Was that a wise choice for them to do? Next, we have the Escape.

The Jews are then marched to Auschwitz, where Elie witnesses many horrendous things happening. Elie and his father are put to

The train arrived to Auschwitz. In the middle of the night. ¨Men to the left! Women to the right” (Wiesel 29)! The SS officers shouted as they forced the Jews off the train. At this time Elie lost his mother and his three sisters. Little did they know that they were going into the gas chamber to die. The women and old people were not useful in the camps. The concentration camp was about 25 square miles. An inmate spotted Elie and told him that his age was eighteen not fifteen. He also told his dad that he was not fifty but that he was forty. The SS shouted for them to move. They ended up in the barracks. The inmates that awaited them in there ordered the new Jews to ¨Strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold on only to your belt and your shoes¨ (35). They then were ordered to run to the barber. There they got all of their hair buzzed off. They then were soaked in disinfectant

The suffering started getting unbearable, to the point that they’d rather lie down and possibly not wake up, then to keep going. When the Russians started attacking the camp to save the Jews, the Jews were forced, by the Germans, to go on a long walk to Gleiwits. When they arrived in Gleiwits, the father started dying and starvation and aching started setting in. They ended up getting on a train to Buchenwald but the father ended up dying on the train. So, Elie ended up getting away but now he was by himself in the

After eleven months of living in the concentration camps, Elie and his father barely survived. They both had to sacrifice everything they had to make it this far, including the regular selections that would mean death if they failed them. When the Soviet army approached the current concentration camp, all the prisoners were very happy, but they were all forced to evacuate and run nonstop until the next camp. “My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, and desperate.

By the end of the book, Elie is saved, by the Americans. “The resistance movement decided at that point to act. Armed men appeared from everywhere. Burst of gunshots. Grenades exploding. We, the children, remained flat on the floor of our block.” (pg. 115) After this, the SS officers flee that camp and Elie is taken by the Americans to safety. Not long after, Eli gets terribly ill from a form of poisoning. He is there, at a hospital drifting between life and death for a long and hard two weeks. One day, Elie felt enough strength to get

After reading the book “Night” the Nazi treated the people like nothing. When families arrives at Auschwitz, the men and women are separated, and Elie sees his mother and sisters vanishing in the distance. He holds onto his father and is determined not to lose him. A fellow prisoner tells Elie to say that he is eighteen (though he is really fifteen) and that his father is forty (though he is fifty). The prisoners who have been at Auschwitz for a while are brutal and cruel to the new arrivals, and one of them tells them about the crematory. Some of the young men talk about revolting, but are silenced by their elders. Thereafter, everyone is forced to march past SS officer, who uses a baton to pick out who will remain alive and who will go to

Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences

Through his first-person memoir Night, Elie Wiesel reveals that people experience changes in their attitude as they become products of their environments.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

Elie and his family were packed into cattle cars and taken to Auschwitz. As the train arrived, they saw smoke rising from chimneys and were assailed by the horrific smell of burning flesh (Wiesel, 2008).

Exposition based on the theory is defined as the opening of the story. In Night novel the opening of the story explained about where is the setting take time and place. Elie also described about his teacher and father as the beginning of the story. They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

Elie remained in Auschwitz until April 5th, when the wheel of history was turned. America finally thought the lives of Jews was just as important as the ones living in their nation; but life did not get easy for Elie, "But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt strong. I was the accuser, God the accused." Elie was placed in a hospital, very ill with death knocking on his door waiting for his arrival. "One day, I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me." Coming so far and then expecting death is a thought no one should ever have cross their mind. Even when free, the battle was still being fought. Those memories are forever in his mind. The corpse standing in front of him will haunt Elie throughout life. With freedom came confinement of all thoughts, sights of deaths and smells of burning flesh through those five years in a living hell for all

An important nonfiction book that I think everyone should read is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1960 by Hill and Wang. It has 116 pages and it is told by a man who survived the Holocaust. This was a very important moment in history that everyone needs knowledge on.