Summary Of Night By Eliezer Wiesel

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Night is just one of many memoirs written by Eliezer Wiesel, who survived the vicious and the infamous Holocaust during the calamitous WWII. The renowned legend Eliezer Wiese, including his book Night, showed a variety of different concepts as in his dauntlessness, intrepidity, and sanguineness for his desire to survive. During this period he faced many tribulations as in tyrannical hardships; he experienced many spiritual differences as well. He had to face many crucibles during his time in the Holocaust. Night is one big predicament which includes many lessons of life. Eliezer Wiesel was a young teenage boy living …show more content…

The prisoners then marched passed Dr. Mengle, who conducted the process of selection. Eliezer and his father were told they are going to the crematory and were filled with terror as they marched closer to a fiery pit. At the last minute, the line of men turned away from the flames. The prisoners are then forced to run, bathe, and redress, while being pummeled by veteran prisoners and SS guards. Eliezer and his father were taken to the gypsies' camp, where they were harangued by an SS officer. The prisoners then march to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, conditions were better and the fellow prisoners were allowed to sleep. Eliezer refused to eat his first ration, a plate of thick soup, but as time passed he was forced to eat due to hunger. At the camp Eliezer and his father meet a distant relative, Stein, who was seeking news about his family. Eliezer lies to him by telling him that his family was well; Stein retained his will to live until he found out the truth. The prisoners were then transferred to …show more content…

Eliezer's father didn’t want to observe the religious holidays either, although most of the other prisoners do. The SS held a selection for the crematories right after the New Year. Dr. Mengele held selection once again and Eliezer runs as fast as possible past him. He passed, but his father didn’t. Luckily, his father convinced the SS officers that he was still strong enough to live and escapes death. The Akiba Drummer, formerly a devout religious mystic, lost his faith, his will to live, and he went to the crematory. During winter, Eliezer's foot got swollen from the cold and he had to go to the hospital to get an operation. A bedmate warned him to escape the hospital before the next selection, because all the invalids would be taken to the crematory. The doctor for Eliezer's operation was kind, although Eliezer panics that his leg had been amputated, he told him that he would be able to walk again. Soon, however, the camp was to be evacuated because the Russian army was approaching. Eliezer and his father decided to be evacuated with the rest of the prisoners, instead of remaining behind in the

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