11 million people endured a violent murder at the hands of Hitler's Nazis without doing anything wrong. Around europe Jewish people suffered and slaughtered like animals under the Nazi and their concentration camps lived a life of death and horror, but some survived conquering death and abuse, resisting the odds and surviving. One of these people went by the name Elie Wiesel. Wiesel survived the oppression and insurmountable obstacles pushed in front of him by the Nazis because of his undying stamina. Foremost Elie Wiesel shows a tremendous amount of physical stamina throughout the memoir by refusing to give in to death and by battling through tough circumstances. Primarily in accordance Elies possession of physical stamina shown during the forced movement to Gleiwitz proves his strength. Wiesel recalls, “Chilled to the bone, our throats …show more content…
For instance they say that he lost his stamina when death appealed to him on the march. Wiesel says, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot”. (86) Critics say that because death appealed to him that he had lost mental stamina and that he had become weak. His mental stamina faltered and he lost some hope. Even more they say he lost spiritual stamina. Wiesel explains, “I was alone, terribly alone in a world without god”. (68) He had given up on his faith and no longer had his core beliefs and values. But however you are not defined by your thoughts because everyone has bad thoughts and impure wishes, the thoughts you choose to act on are what define you. Elie Wiesel may have thought about death in an appealing way but he had the mental stamina to resist that urge and keep fighting. Also he eventually lost spiritual but in the place where it used to occupy he gained mental stamina, Wiesel believed in his strength and he relied on
Wiesel states, “Since [his] father’s death, nothing mattered to [him] anymore” (Wiesel 113). Wiesel had already lost his mother and sisters but now his father leaving him with nothing left to care for. He had lost his only motivation for survival. Wiesel is left without religious faith and an irreplaceable family.
Death and Survival: What Gives Us the Will to Continue? What can cause someone with total passion for life to completely give up? What is their ultimate weakness? " Night" gives a vivid picture of Elie Wiesel's life during the Holocaust.
Finally, interactions with others shape who people become by molding their personalities and feelings. Once again, Elie was shaped by his interactions with others, specifically the Nazi’s. Elie’s personality and feelings were also majorly affected by his interactions with the Nazi’s at the concentration camp he and his family were once trapped at. He underwent a major shift in personality: “Never shall I forget the Nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live,” (Wiesel 37). This quote demonstrates that Wiesel’s was shaped into a whole different version of himself, with an adapted personality and feeling due to brutal, human interactions.
Despite some people being in such drastic situations, they still show humanity in their actions. In the book “night” by Ellie Weisel. It talks about his life during the holocaust and what he had to go through while they put him in a concentration camp. Many of the inmates that Elie Wiesel was in camp with had shown humanity in their own ways and actions, despite being in such dangerous situations. And many of those actions could have impacted their survival.
Another reason why I believe that most people will form into good is because continuously throughout the novel, there are people who despite all the hardships and the difficulties with survival remain good-hearted and care for each other. Elie Wiesel faces many difficult decisions, many of which have to do with his family. After he sees a prisoner in his group leave his decrepit father mercilessly to increase his chance of survival, Elie realizes he must treat his father with great respect and kindness. Wiesel shows great solicitude about his father’s well-being and cherishes him. Elie says to himself, “Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done".
The repetition of the parallel events in the memoire also helps trace Wiesel’s changes throughout the course of his imprisonment at the concentration camps. For example, when Rabbi Eliahou is looking for his son after the 42-mile march, Wiesel realizes that during the run, the Rabbi’s son had intentionally run near the front of the pick after seeing his father stagger behind. Understanding that the son had been trying rid himself of his father whom he thought to be a “burden,” Wiesel prays to God to give him the resolve to never think about abandoning his own father (87). However, later on, when his father is struck with dysentery and is taken away on January 29 at the verge of death, Wiesel thinks to himself, “And, in the depths of my being,
A Lucky Man Who Survived The Reign Terrible, chaotic, sad, and devastating are only a few vague words to describe the Holocaust. During Adolf Hitler’s reign millions of Jews were victims, including Elie Wiesel. Even from his early years of life, Elie lived as a Jew at the time when only those of the Aryan race were accepted, however, these prejudices never defeated his spirit. When he lived at Auschwitz at the young age of fifteen, he was suicidal. His survival was nothing short of a miracle and his suffering eventually compelled him to try and change the world.
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
The power of human resilience is reflected by how Elie Wiesel remains humane throughout the tragedy of the Holocaust, as expressed in Night. Over the course of the book, Elie shows how he survives the tyrannical reign of Hitler and the Nazis in the camps, with his growth as a person, his resilience against inhuman actions and his survival. These are just a few examples, each being a significant factor to his life, and important to the story. Elie Wiesel shows his growth as a person during the holocaust, one thing that he does is maintain his morals and does not let how he was treated effect that. Elie had death on his mind more times than one, but never did he act upon them or cave in, “If I was going to kill myself, this was the time…
Wiesel's loss of faith was brought on by the absence of God. This resulted in him questioning why it was God's will to allow Jews to suffer and die the way they had. Another portrayal of religious confliction within Wiesel was the statement of his faith being consumed by the flames along with the corpses of children (Wiesel 34). Therefore, he no longer believed God was the almighty savior everyone had set Him out to be or even present before them. To conclude, his experiences within Nazi confinement changed what he believed in and caused him to change how he thought and began questioning God because of the actions He allowed to take
Elie shows tremendous mental strength despite having an extreme lack of physical strength throughout the story. In the following quote, Elie and his family had just arrived at Birkenau and is immediately separated from his mother and sister. “Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father’s hand press against mine: we were alone” (29).
In the memoir, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the author discusses the struggle to survive during the Holocaust. A major theme illustrated throughout the memoir is survival. The two types of survival that are predominate are survival of the fittest and family commitment. The theme of survival through self-preservation is seen in the memoir Night the situations of Madame Schachter being beaten in the cattle car on the way to Auschwitz, the Rabbi’s son leaving him behind on the death march, and the son killing his father over a crust of bread.
To begin with, Wiesel could not believe what was happening. He didn’t believe how cruel the Germans were. Wiesel was living a nightmare and couldn’t escape it. For instance, Wiesel stated, “I pinched myself; was I still alive? Was I awake?
In Night by Elie Wiesel the author shows resilience is how people survive through difficult times. Elie shows resilience by never giving up hope on surviving and working hard to keep his life going to make it out of the war. A specific instance is when they have begun the run from one camp to another with the SS shooting people who were left behind “I kept repeating to myself ‘Don’t stop, don’t think, run!’ Near me men were collapsing into dirty snow. Gunshots.”
When he was marching he had to face the most difficult challenges but no matter how much he wanted to give up he kept going. Elie Wiesel showed stamina in the any challenge that came his way and even in his toughest