Compare And Contrast Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camps during World War II. During this time, Wiesel witnessed many horrific acts. Two of these were executions. Though the process of the executions were similar, the condemned and the Jews’ reactions to the executions were different. The first execution was of a youth from Warsaw, a strong, well-built boy with three years of concentration camp life. He was condemned for stealing during a bomb alert. The execution was held at the assembly place, where a black gallows had been for said execution. Wiesel said “We were told that soup would not be distributed until after roll call. This took longer than usual. The orders were given in a shaper manner than on other
This young boy was a pipel, “a child with a refined and beautiful face”. (Night,70) The child was convicted of helping the Oberkapo with the sabotage of the electric power station a Buna. The Oberkapo was tortured but would not talk and was sent to Auschwitz. The Oberkapo’s “little servant” was left behind in the camp in prison and was put to torture. He too would not talk and was sentenced to death by the gallows. “To hang a young boy in front of thousands of spectators was no light matter”.(Night, 71) This time the Lagerkapo refused to act as executioner. SS replace him. The two adults called out “Long live liberty”, the boy remained silent. “”Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked. Said Weisel. (Weisel, Night,71) The chairs beneath the convicted were tipped and the two adult were dead, however the boy was still alive struggling to breath with the ropes grasps slow pulling the life from the boy. The boy stayed there dangling by his throat for more than half an hour. When weasel went past the boy heard the same man asking “Where is God now?” and heard a voice from within him self answer “Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows. . . .”Weisel said “That night the soup tasted of