After the Nazis had taken all the Jews into the trains taking them to Auschwitz, Elie changes a little as he sees people dying, also being murdered, put into crematories, and being gased. Before Elie's train arrives with the other Jews at Auschwitz, Madam Schachter, a lady from Elie's neighborhood, starts having visions of a fire in the train (33-36) but her fears shortly become real as they reach their destination, Auschwitz, and they see a place with smoke coming out, and they smell the skin of people burning. The place they see is the crematory, also the place
Also when Buddy, Zirko and Zirko’s crew catch the boy who punched Buddy, he begs Zirko: “Please don’t hurt him”. This shows that Buddy cannot express his feelings at the right time and holds everything inside him until the last moment. Throughout the story Buddy is changed and by the end losses his innocence. When standing in front of Chuckie’s house, Zirko was in the process of destroying the snowman; Buddy was trying to stop him but in the end gave him the crowbar to completely take out the dog shrine. “ Jesus, Andy.
Eliezer was 12 at this time and wasn't really aware of what was occurring in the world concerning the Jewish people. He had a friend who went by the name Moshe the Beadle. Moshe was very good friend of Elezers'. One day it was ordered that all foreign Jews in Sighet be deported by German troops. They were told they had to wear yellow stars to identify themselves.
In the ghettos, she would scream about a fire every once in awhile. The Jews in the ghettos thought she went insane and crazy because her husband and her two eldest sons had been deported. [“The separation had completely broken her.” pg.22] This shows that Elie might be in the same position as Madame Schachter when they arrive to the concentration camps. Besides Madame Schachter, Elie was affected by seeing babies burned. The second example was when Elie witnessed babies being burned in the crematory.
Every time she did this someone ended up striking her in her face. When they finally pulled up to the camp people saw smoke and fire. Everyone just turned and looked at her while she sat down and kept silent. When everyone was let out of the carts the Gestapo split the people into two groups, Men and Women. That was the last time Elie Wiesel saw his mother and sister Tzipora.
Coming from a humble town in Hungary, Wiesel and his community were force on to cattle cars and shipped off to work. Once faced with the mortality of separation upon entering the camp father and son struggle to stay together. Were he [Elie’s father] to have gone to the right, I would have ran after him”(Night 32). It is made clear that if they were to survive their stay in hell it would have to be together. Wiesel was not aware that such anti-Semitism was possible.
Jacob's father hides the key to Abe's gun cabinet to keep him from hurting himself or someone else. Later one evening, Abe calls Jacob. He is distraught, certain the monsters he tells in his stories are after him. One of Jacob's friend Ricky drives him to his grandfather's house, only to find it damaged and his grandfather missing. After a brief search, Jacob finds Abe dying in the woods behind his house.
He spends time on Tralfamadore, in Dresden, in the War, walking in deep snow before his German capture, in his mundane post-war married life in the U.S.A. of the 1950s, and in the moment of his murder by Lazzaro. Billy's death is the consequence of a string of events. Before the Germans capture Billy, he meets Roland Weary, a jingoist character who constantly chastises him for his lack of enthusiasm toward war. At their capture, the Germans confiscate everything Weary has, including his
The father fell behind a little. Eliezer thought that maybe his son thought his father growing weaker. So his son got rid of him. This was one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. Eliezer prayed that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahu’s son behaves.
The man standing beside me who was in charge of the wagon called to the German Officer and asked if the sick women could be moved to the hospital car. That was my mother they were talking about and she was not going anywhere. No where without me. As terrifying as it was mother jumped up again shouting: “Jews look! Look at the fire!