The book “Night” was written by an author Elie Wiesel takes place in Europe in the 1940’s. This was during one of the most notorious worlds world wide called world war two. Just like every war many people died and were murdered and was also brought hard times, pain and suffering. The book takes us into the perspective of a little twelve year old boy in the Transylvanian town of sighet named Eliezer. One also important detail that brings all the hardships that come his way to him is the fact that he is part of an Orthodox Jewish family, which made him an enemy to the Germans during this time period. Eliezer and his family were punished because they were Jewish. Germans used the Jewish people as a scapegoat for many of the problems that were …show more content…
All they knew was that the ghetto where they were living in was being evacuated. “Their are rumors, my dad said, that we are being taken some place in Hungary to working in the brick factories. It looks that here, we are too close too the front.” (Wiesel 14). When Eliezer gets to the camp, him and his dad got separated from his mom and two sisters. Both Eliezer and his dad were sent to the workforce, where they tried to keep their health up so that they can continue working and not be killed. This task was very difficult because they were challenged with starvation, thirst and even abuse from the Germans. Eliezer’s father got ill and a few months before the British and Americans closed in on Germany his father died. Eliezer was now known as a concentration camp survivor one of the few but was never the same. He suffered with flashbacks and was still haunted by the violence, deaths, and cruelty he was exposed to during what is known now as the …show more content…
It's important to know our history so that it can be prevented from happening again. I learned a lot from this book and i think others would too if they read it. One thing that this book did for me is enforce my belief that no human is better than the other. Not based on intelligence, money, race, religion or even the last name of the human being. We are all people and we are all one humongous entire race and i strongly believe that their is no such thing as being better or more important than someone else. Another thing that i was taught from this book was that how such hatred for someone can bring out an inhumanity and people that should never be existing in our minds and hearts. That is why i think we should constantly have love for one another or even tolerate them but never have hatred because the things that come out of hate are inhumane. Most importantly, this book teaches us how the people were treated in during the Holocaust and the suffering hard times and trials that they went through just to
Eliezer and his father got separated from his mother and younger sisters. For months in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed inhumane doings that scarred him for the rest of his life. He was forced to work at Buna, a factory, and run on a daily basis to keep himself alive. He became malnourished because of the unappetizing food that they served. He and other Jews were punished and beaten for no reason.
Deborah Dimelu Period 8 Mrs. Benliza-Ray “Night” The book Night was written by Eliezer Wiesel. This was a time when Jews suffered from the handy work of Adolf Hitler. Elie Wiesel with other many prisoners lost their faith in God and in Man throughout the book, “Where is merciful God, where is he? Someone behind me was asking.
Jews were treated so badly they lost hope and sometimes even their humanity. After Elie's father passed away, Elie stopped praying or even caring about the others, all he thought about was how he was going
Once the Germans had come into Sighet and gotten comfortable, they took over. Separating the Jews into two “ghettos” and selecting them and taking them to the concentration camps. A couple days later Eliezer and his family were selected to go to the “secret” destination. Having being fooled thinking they were going to a better place than the ghettos , they had no idea what was in store for them.
Eliezer Wiesel, also known as Elie, was born on September 30th 1928 in Sighetu Marmatiei, the Kingdom of Romania (Hungary at that time) - July 2, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a philosopher, writer, Jewish political and humanitarian activist and author of many books. " Night", which was written in 1960 is his memoir of those years living in Nazi concentration camp during the First World War when he was under the age of fifteen, a book honoring the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. The love is real in any situation, throughout the book is the story that Elie witnessed and what had happened to him during his years in the concentration camp and in those cruel situations. The love between humans in this world is warm, sometimes fragile or is distorted
Eventually the SS initiated the ghettos, fenced off areas inhabited by the captive Jews. The ghettos were more-the-less governed by Jews, with supervision of the SS, this gave them slightly more freedom in these small communities. In the ghettos, life slowly returned to "normal", children would be playing games and people would be walking down the streets carefree. But of course something bad happens, and Elie's father is called into a meeting. Once his father emerges back into the crowd, he tells them all one word,
Night: Journal Writing Humanity consists of qualities that make us human, the way we love, care, and have compassion for others. In this novel, I can read about how people got tortured, and treated so badly that they were completely dehumanized. As I read how the Germans treated the Jews, for example, having little to no compassion for them, torturing them, making them live under the inexplicable circumstances they did. It rose upon me many questions based on how and why did this happen.
Despite talking about a significant historical landmark for the Jewish people and the entire world, Night takes a memoir-like form and focuses on the life of Eliezer. Variations in the real life of the author and the main protagonist in the events of the writing exist. However, the differences are either too minimal or analogous to each other such that any reader who has a clue about the writer’s experiences will discern the personal approach Wiesel Elie takes as he produces the book. In other words, there are a number of connections, which call for a consideration of a subjective nature of the delivery of contents of the events of the Holocaust, albeit at a smaller niche. Speaking about the relationship between Eliezer and his father, Chlomo
The author of Night, Elie Wiesel wrote his novel to inform his readers of the gruesome experiences that he witnessed during the Holocaust. Throughout his novel, Wiesel reenacted many different events that took place to illustrate the main themes of this novel and exhibit his emotions. During the course of the novel, the reader is witnessing Elie's personal experiences in the Holocaust, seeing not only what he had to go through, but how he had felt while it was taking place. In Night, Elie Wiesel includes the struggle between a father and his son. While Elie spent his life in the concentration camps, he not only had to ensure his own safety, but his father’s too.
The book was very informative of life when racism was more apparent. I think that books like this show that standing up to racism is an option. It shows that even children of a younger age were involved in the situation.
But Eliezer’s father focuses his time and energy on the people within the community instead of his own family. When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie is left with his
In many ways, Nazis had physically, mentally, and emotionally dehumanized their victims. The Jews were treated so badly by the Nazis that they felt as if they weren’t even humans; they felt like animals. For example, the Jewish prisoners were always being yelled at with harsh tones. Eliezer only remembers one time when a Polish
Running head: NIGHT LITERATURE RESPONSE PAPER ! 1 Night Literature Response Paper Zuleyma Hercules College of Saint Mary Night Literature Response Paper ! 1 Night Literature Response Paper One of the the most devastating parts of our history is known as the Holocaust. The book Night is written by Elie Wiesel, who narrated his own story during the early 1940’s as a young boy named Eliezer, located in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. In the beginning of the book, rumors spread of the horror Hitler has inflicted on the Jewish people, such as the Gestapo or the German secret police that took charge of the Jewish train and led them all into the woods, where they were slaughtered.
From the book I have learned the history of the KKK, other knight groups, their way of living, and their way of thinking. I have also learned how somebody can be a regular old citizen in our community, but is a part of a hate group and believes that Blacks, Latinos, Asians, people from the LGBT community, and Jews are the enemy. Not only are these groups are more than relevant all over the country, but there are young children who will keep these groups alive. The children will be corrupted into thinking that racial hate is normal way to think and will follow the footsteps into their parents. This book very much shows how the Neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, white nationalist, and other groups want a white dominated nation.
Eliezer and his father rely on one another to survive through the Holocaust. Together they encounter the cruelty of the Nazis, the lack of compassion from the prisoners, as well as the difficulty of simply surviving. They remain strong together unlike other father-son relationships seen in the novel. A majority of the prisoners gravitate towards self preservation while Eliezer chooses to remain with his father. Eliezer does exhibit ambivalence in continuing to help his father because the conditions of the Holocaust continually make it harder to make others a priority than oneself.