In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel narrates his experience as a young Jewish buy during the holocaust. The book is mainly told by a Fifteen year old Jewish boy. The German people continue to take from the Jews without reason when they take their valuables.…
Elie Wiesel's Night is a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horrors that turned between 11 to 17 million people into agonized witnesses to the deaths of their families and friends. I chose this book to read because I had heard from numerous people that it was "the best book about the Holocaust I could ever read" . I read it and found out that it went into much more detail than some of the other Holocaust books I had read. This book was extremely powerful as it awakened me to the terror that many people went through during the Holocaust at the concentration camps. I found the book to be incredibly addicting and easy to read.…
“Night” by Elie Wiesel focuses on Wiesel’s experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 and 1945, toward the end of the Second World War. It all begins in 1941 with Eliezer is a twelve-year-old boy living in Sighet. He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family and is evidently quite religious. Eliezer learns the truth about World War II and the Holocaust through his teacher, Moshe the Beadle who was deported and escaped. When Moshe returns he tells everyone about how the people deported were being killed and tortured. Nobody believed Moshe until they themselves were being shoved in train cars and taken to Auschwitz. When they reached the gates of Auschwitz Eliezer and his family are…
Elie Wiesel’s Night, unfolds the lurid tale of a 15-year-old Jewish boy’s imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. Wiesel’s title, merely a single word, embodies the hidden horrors found in the novel. In the concentration camp night signified the time when Wiesel was forced to separate from his father, the only family member he had left. It was during night when Wiesel reached his nadirs of suffering, the loss of his father accompanied by his soul. Night proved to be an inevitable darkness, captivating each person, only satisfied when leaving each to stand alone.…
In Night by Elie Wiesel, the narrator, Elie Wiesel, gives a first hand account of Auschwitz. A concentration camp led by Germany during World War II. The story begins when Elie starts to notice that things are starting to change in Germany and neighboring countries, that involve the Jewish population. Throughout the book he tells the stories he has from Auschwitz, and explains what was his thoughts and feelings about certain things that go on inside of the camp. Toward the end of the novel it explains what was going on with him and his fellow prisoners escaping the camps and trying to survive outside of the camp. Whilst throughout the course of the novel it explains how Wiesels relationships change with certain people…
In the 1940’s, Jews were living a rough life. Wiesel decided to share his story. Throughout his teen years, he was in and out of many concentration camps along with a handful of others. Eliezer Wiesel’s novel night describes the harsh journey through the holocaust and explains that severe suffering can cause a reversal in relationships.…
The book is called “Night” by Elie Wiesel. This book is a first encounter of the Holocaust where Germany prosecuted and sent Jews to camps to be prisoners and tortured or killed. In this personal encounter of Elie he is sent to Auschwitz along with his father, mother, and sister. Elie experiences terrible events that happen at the camp including his father's death and abuse. Throughout the book Faith and Terror were a huge part of the holocaust.…
Night is a memoir by Eliezer Wiesel about his experiences during the holocaust. Even though the Wiesle’s were warned about the imminent Nazi invasion of their home town, Sighet, they stayed, resulting in the Jewish population being sent to concentration camps. Here Elie’s family is split up and the memoir truly begins, you hear the story of Elie and his father's struggle for survival in the concentration camps. Through their struggles Elie and his father change dramatically, but in opposite ways. Elie, growing darker transitioning from being a bright boy- comparable to that of the day- to being cold and harsh like night, and his father growing softer and weaker resembling the soft, eerie, sadness of dusk by the end of the novel.…
The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive the holocaust.…
Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, is about a young boy and his experience in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. This young boy, Elie Wiesel, starts of as a religiously devout Jew that lives in a small community of Sighet, Hungarian Transylvania. In the spring of 1944, his close knit family of his parents and three sisters are deported to Birkenau. Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters at the arrival of the concentration camps. After a short stay, Elie and his father are transported to Auschwitz, Buna, and eventually Birkenau. They meet many others in the concentration camps. Idek, a Kapo, was very violent to the Jews although he was also a victim in the Holocaust; Elie feels his wrath at one point in the book. Throughout the course of Chlomo (Elie's father) and Elie's journey, they are dehumanized by being branded, beaten, starved, and forced to work past their limit. They watch many others die through the work of Germans, Kapos, and even other Jews. Ultimately, they were stripped of all their pride. Elie managed to survive it all, however, and was liberated on April 11, 1945.…
Night, a memoir written by a holocaust survivor, demonstrates a young Jewish boys experience in the concentration camps. War is a unignorable factor that causes uncomfortable truths such as the inhuman capabilities of people fueled by hate, the hardships that come with questioning a personal moral code in favor of one’s own country, and the lasting mental effects of a war on the people who participated after it is finished to be exposed.…
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university” - (Albert Einstein). These words reflect the way Atticus Finch, protagonist, attorney, and father in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, lives his life. There is no difference to him in regards to race, social status, or gender. Atticus Finch is an admirable gentleman who demonstrates intelligence and respectfulness throughout the Tom Robinson trial and his interactions with people who despised the fact that he was taking the case. He strongly believes in respect for people of color and passes his belief down to his children by taking the Tom Robinson case. Although he is at times too trusting of people, his words and actions continue to prove to his children and community how a real gentleman behaves.…
The holocaust was a horrible event that caused the death of millions of people. The book “Night” explains the horrors that were conceived inside a group of war camps spread across Europe, one of them being Auschwitz. Ellie Wiesel, the writer and main character of the book, explains how the Jewish people would struggle for food and drink every day, and how their strength was tested in an…
A horrifying story of a family during a time of death and war must find a way to stay together and survive one of the most horrific events in history. The novel night follows a fifteen-year-old boy who travels with his family to Auschwitz. Elie’s mother and sisters are sent to a death chamber meaning that Elie and his father are the only family they have left. Sadly, this is the tale of many Jewish families during World War II and the holocaust. While Elie is at Auschwitz he and the rest of the people at the concentration camp are put through a series of events that will change their lives forever. The Nazis have an evil system designed to dehumanize every Jewish person they can find. The book Night shows that the fastest way to dehumanize…
When the judge assigned him the job of defending Tom Robinson, he knew that he had to accept the case because if he rejected it an innocent man would die without a fair trial as everyone on the jury was white and they would not side with a man who was black. Atticus, himself knew that even though the odds were against Tom Robinson he would not be able to face himself everyday knowing that he did not try to stop this injustice. When he made up his mind to stand up and help Tom Robinson, Atticus went through the extremes of defending Tom with only a small gun when a mob came over to the county jail with the intention of killing his client and making his family face the prejudice and danger that went along with his defending someone black at that time. He even gained dangerous enemies such as Bob Ewell. Although he lost the case, Atticus was still able to think of himself in an honorable way because he knew that he stood up for what he believed…