The Compound Literary Analysis

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

He lost his family, his faith, and at some point his will to live his father was the one thing that kept him living for so long and in the end slowly died and Elie watched until, Elie woke up and his father was no longer on his bed. He had been taken to the crematorium that morning. He had lost everything but had also survived what seemed impossible. He was so mentally strong in the fight of life or death that in the end he was victorious. He had lost his faith but, had still made it

The book opens with Elie’s life before him and his family were taken away. The story continues talking about how when they arrived in Auschwitz his mother and sister were taken to the crematorium with other women and children who were not strong enough to work in the camps. The only people left from Elie’s family were him and his father. Throughout the whole book Elie talks about how his father was his only motivation to keep going. When Elie’s father dies he contemplates to keep going or just to give in. In the end he is liberated and is freed.

Throughout the book Elies reason to keep going is often tied to his father's survival. He physically supports his father's survival by getting him food and taking care of his dad, he also contributes emotionally by providing his father mental support. Elie ends up spending what's little of his time and energy helping his dad rather than himself. Elie realizes the importance of family in this situation because of his surroundings. When Elie is on the Train from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald, the train is packed with prisoners and the thought of food is non existent. “My

In the story Elie was whipped savagely by the Kapo, and all he can think about is his father. Later in the new camp Elie's father is giving up on life and Elie tries to make him move. There is an allied air raid and for the first time Elie leave his father.(wiesel pg. 106) This proves he finally gave up on his father. He started off in the story really caring about his father sacrificing his own safety just so he could stay close to him. After his father was struck ill in the new camp he gave up on him. In the story Elie wanted to keep his shoes even if that meant he would get tormented even more. This show he has a very strong will and loves things that give him a glimmer of hope. At the end when his father died he stopped caring and lost all hope in surviving the

At this point I was convince Eliezer wasn’t Elie anymore. That his nickname ringed in his ears with emptiness and not a trace of sweet or aching reminiscing. He already lost his foundation at first - everything he grew up to know and everyone he grew to love. If that wasn’t enough his faith in God was stomped on and all of of his passion and love, along with nearly every other emotion, was forgotten and he could no longer remember all of the happiness he felt before. His heart was hollow. All he was now was a soulless boy who was forced to be a man too

Things end up changing very slightly and quickly for Elie. At the camp, they were standing, waiting to find out whether he and his father were going to the crematoria to be burned alive along with other people and their children. Everybody was saying Kaddish, a Jewish prayer, for themselves and others, and after Elie heard his father whisper it, Elie tells the reader, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?” (pg. 33) Elie was starting to lose faith in the God that he had worshipped and cherished so

As the novel continues, the previous lack of affinity between Elie and his father later transforms into a type of mutual dependence. After being unwillingly planted into the concentration camps, everyone quickly learns that that type of environment required an “every man for himself” mentality in order to increase their chance for survival. Desperate to cling to their lives, the men readily adopted that way of thought, however, Elie and his father do the opposite as their situation causes them to rely more on each other than ever before. For this reason, after going through selection, Elie, “with all [his] strength.. ran toward Block 36; midway, [he] met his father,” and when they both discovered that both had passed, “[they] were able to breathe

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.

He ends up surviving after all the sadness and torture. Everything that happened during the Holocaust changed Eliezer greatly. Eliezer’s faith weakens, he becomes desensitized to violence, and his self-preservation is affected. In addition, after weeks of

After that separation he never saw his sisters and mom again. He remained close to his father at all times(27). They were always hungry no food seemed to satisfy because it was never enough (21). At the camps they wore striped shirts and pants(25). They had bad conditions like not eating or drinking enough, having it too crowded and having the camp smell like “burning flesh” (30). They also had to get all of their hair shaved off of their whole bodies (33). In the morning they had coffee, noon they had some soup,then after roll call they received some bread (40).Elie lost a lot of faith during his time at Auschwitz because he had no idea why people would treat other people like this and have God watch it (42). Since they can not own gold they had dentist check them to make sure that they do not have any gold in their mouth from a tooth filling (46). Toward the end of the war they killed many of Jews on a way to another camp but Elie and his father seemed to have survived. They went to a camp called Buchenwald (98). His father at Buchenwald wanted to die because he had enough. Elie tried to show him by looking at all the corpses around begging his father to not be another one of those corpses.(100). On January 29th 1945 his dad had died from illness

emotionally scarred while at the concentration camps. Eliezer had to experience death, pain, and cruelty. Eliezer had to be emotionally and physically strong for his father. When he was reunited with two of his sisters he had to be strong, and take the lead since his father had died. In the end Eliezer lost his faith in God. He could not understand why God let all those horrible things

One less reason to live.”pg 109. Elie goes through many emotions throughout Night. He feels so much hatred towards the soldiers, that it hides all his other emotions. Another emotion is Love; the main reason Elie is still alive. He loves his father to much to give up on life. But when his father died he had a small amount of reasons to live. Emotions can cloud people's judgement. An example of that would be when he gave his father water when he was suffering. But his consequence was that his father would die earlier than he was supposed to. He begins to lose his emotions at the end of the book Being in the camps taught him that there isn't time to feel emotions. When he loses his father he feels nothing. Emotions make a person human and the camps took that

Sometimes when people are faced with a challenge they change their views about religion. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, himself Elie Wiesel was a 15-year-old boy who was taken by the Nazi, at first he was interested in his religion but as more time went on and he stayed at the camps more his views changed. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel it is clear that People belief in religion change when they are put through hard times. People in the beginning of the book they still believed in god. All of the prisoners were forced to watch a little kid be hung.

When Elie arrived at the camp he was already in the mindset that he needed to keep attention away from himself because the second they got into the cattle car it is clear that Elie had already the first of his youthful hope. Losing innocence happens to everyone at some point, but it is usually lost very slowly and not completely. When innocence is lost as quickly and completely as it was for those in the Holocaust, it is easy to argue that it is a mass tragedy. It is a tragedy to lose innocence that brutally, there is no denying that, but as tragic is it may be, losing that innocence ended up being the key to staying alive. Hope may go hand and hand with innocence, but after losing innocence it is still possible to be hopeful. When Elie got out of Buchenwald, there is nothing anyone could show him that would take away any more of his innocence. Still, even without innocence, Elie still remained hopeful that things would get better. As he got older, Elie was able to see the world attempt to reform itself which made it easier to be alive after seeing what Elie had. His whole life, it was impossible to take away the things he had seen and give him his innocence, but after the camps innocence no longer meant false hope. This freed him from the shackles of believing that hope was only possible with innocence, although innocence makes life much easier, because Elie was able to realize that you can strip someone of their clothes, take away their name, and treat them like pigs but hope can't be