Main Events In The Book Night

Night Essay
Throughout the book there are many main events, but the event that stuck out to me most, and most likely everyone else is the concentration camps. The cause of the main event, which is the concentration camps is the Germans blaming the Jewish race for their loss in the war. The Germans then put most of the Jewish race in concentration camps to beat, starve, and torture them. One of the three effects of the cause and main event are Ellie got separated from his mother and his younger sister, Tzipara. They got separated when the camps were beginning to take place. An SS Officer said to Ellie and his family, “men to the left! Women to the right!” As we know this was the last time Ellie and his father saw his mother and Tzipara ever again. Throughout the rest of the book, it was up top Ellie and his father to stay
Ellie was separated from his mother and sister at such a young age, he was probably depressed and sad. Another major effect of the cause and main event was when Ellie was losing his faith in God. Ellie really begins to question his faith in God after he witnesses the hanging of the Pipel and is forced to stare at the corpse of the young boy in the face before he is allowed to eat his dinner. It is the end of the Jewish year and Ellie is now wondering why they are even bothering to show worship and praise to a God that would allow these actions to happen to people who have such strong faith in him. When Ellie begins to ask these questions on why he is letting this happen, this is the first evidence on how and why Ellie is losing his faith. So Ellie becomes furious with his God and he begins to say how he used to be so religious and how now he feels that his faith no longer has a purpose and so now he denies his God. Clearly Ellie is intelligent and strong as demonstrated by him not giving up like his father did. The last of these effects in the book is when his father dies. Both Ellie and his dad have stuck together and have overcome