They would support each other as to go on living and working, but this relationship transforms as the two go through more and more situations. Never in the history of the Jewish people, men have never recited Kaddish for themselves. Elie and his father were in a line that was heading to the pit, an infernal heat that was rising, as they were getting closer. They were told by another inmate to lie about their ages, the Elie was eighteen and that his father was forty. As they were getting closer Eli was to himself saying goodbye to his father, to everything, and against his will, he was also whispering the Kaddish.
What he sees really plays a major role of his psyche, and how he begins to treat others. As the novel gets closer and closer to its end Eliezer’s whole attitude toward his father changes, where in the beginning he wants to stick to his father for safety and comfort, near the end he tries to distance himself from his father thinking that sticking with him is cutting his chance of survive. So he faces the hard reality of wanting to leave his father for dead just so he can live. One point in the novel that Elie says that will stay with him is on how he didn’t try to help his father when he was calling him to help him when he was being beaten by other prisoners. In the novel Night Elie Wiesel shares his persona memories of the Holocaust.
My mind was empty.” Section 1 Elie faith has not yet died, when leaving his home to transport to a concentration camp , Elie leaves some of his religious dreams behind, along with his childhood home, and some of his innocence . “ I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to throw myself onto the barbed wire. Deep down, I was saying goodbye to my father, to the whole universe, and against my will I found myself whispering the words: " Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba … May his name be exalted and sanctified …" My heart was about to burst. There, I was face to face with the Angel of Death …” Section 3 When Elie draws near to death for the first time in his life, he doubts; yet despite his doubts in God, he finds himself reaching out to the comforting words of Jewish prayers . “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me.
The prisoners are forced to run 42 miles in one night during a blizzard. Those unable to keep up are shot. The refugees stop in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep each other awake to avoid freezing to death. Rabbi Eliahu enters a small shack occupied by Eliezer, looking for his son. Eliezer recalls--after Eliahu's departure--seeing his son desert his father, something he prays for strength never to do.
Then the weak and old ones were separated from the young and strong. The weak and old were then killed. The Nazi army threw all the babies and newborns down the chimney where they were burned while everyone else watched. Elie came from a deeply religious Jewish community along with his father, mother and sister. Yet they were soon separated and headed into two different directions.
No one believes him, including Elie; they think he has gone crazy in his absence. Soon the persecution of the Jews becomes widespread. Elie and his family are forced to move from their home into the ghetto. They are not allowed to go out after dark or interact with non-Jewish people. Soon large numbers of Jews in Sighet are arrested and deported to concentration camps.
But suddenly, this man who believed in an answer to every question, God being the supreme in knowledge, is stripped of his identity, family, and home right in front of his eyes. As the train departs, Shlomo's only hope at the moment was to protect his son. And with him being by his side, he grasps the love, care, and clear connection Elie can bring as the home of this journey. While they wait in line after they have arrived in camp, Shlomo's
“Night,” by Elie Wiesel, is a novel of young Wiesel’s survival in the concentration camps during WWII .The overall theme of Night is faith. In 1941, a 12 year old boy named Eliezer Wiesel. He lives in Sighet Transylvania, and he belonged to an Orthodox Jewish family. His dad is a shopkeeper, and his family is highly respected within Sighet's Jewish community. Against his father’s will, Eliezer is into learning religious mysticism such as the Kabbalah.
Marissa Rodriguez 8 April 2011 English Pd.1 Changes in Elie Wiesel Change can happen to someone through the experiences they face. Many changes happened to Elie Wiesel as he experiences the Holocaust, in Night. In Elie Wiesel's Night, Eliezar changes physically by growing into a young man, socially by becoming alone, and emotionally by losing his innocence. In Night, Wiesel shows physical change from being a healthy boy to a weak young man. Before entering the concentration camp, Wiesel was just a teenager in good shape.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the horrifying story of the Holocaust through Wiesels eyes. In 1944 Elie and his family were taken from their home Auschwitz. Night is the terrifying story of his memories of the death his family, the loss of his innocence and faith in God. Based on what I read in Night, things of value will always change. The valuable things that Elie cherished in the life before the Holocaust were very different, than those after and during his time in the camps.