Life Inside the Gates Between the years nineteen thirty-three to nineteen forty-five during World War II, during the Holocaust, a man named Adolf Hitler had taken power in Germany. He had begun the extermination of any Jewish person, or anyone who was against Hitler's actions. To exterminate Jewish people there were many concentration camps that were built and used. These camps are made up of solid concrete walls, large gates, and one purpose, to keep whoever or whatever goes in and make sure they never come out. While many people felt well informed about Nazi concentration camps, most do not truly understand the inner workings of the camps.
5/10/13 Period 2 Character Development in Night In his memoir, Elie Wiesel tells his story about himself and his father as they struggle for survival in a concentration camp during the holocaust, constantly struggling with starvation and for survival, as they are constantly mistreated by the nazis that watch over them. The author's purpose for writing this novel was to inform the reader. The author did this by explaining everything that he saw happen during the holocaust inside the concentration camps and also by giving detailed explanations on everything that he had encountered, and also what he saw happen. The focus of this essay is that at first, Elie Wiesel was just an ordinary religious jewish boy, who after being in a concentration camp, started to change, and after his father died, he stopped feeling and developed. In the beginning of the story, Wiesel was just an ordinary religious jewish boy who studied the Cabbalah (14) and really liked his religion and never doubted the Cabbalah, the Jewish Bible.
Night by Elie Wiesel Night is a story about a boy named Elie Wiesel and his family being sent to a concentration camp because they are Jewish. The family was warned many times from people who had seen the pain and suffering at the concentration camps with their own eyes but didn't believe it. One day they learned that the Gestapo were coming to the Jewish neighborhood. When they came the people were split into two ghettos, a small and large one. The Wiesel family was put into the larger ghetto.
Ellie Would study Jewish prayers, Talmud, during the day, and at night he would run to the synagogue to cry about the destruction of the temple. He was very eager to learn Kaballah, despite being too young for it. His father wouldn’t teach it to him, nor would he find someone to teach it to him, so Moishe the Beadle decided to dedicate his time to teach it to him. Although Wiesel didn't know why he spent his time being so religious, it was natural to him, like “breathing.” As the story progressed, all the Jews were expelled from Sighet, and one of those Jews was Moishe the Beadle. Luckily he got to escape from the Nazis, but after seeing inhuman and cruel actions from the Nazis, such as tossing up babies and using them as shooting practice targets, he came back a completely different person.
The Importance of Father- Son Bonds The memoir, Night, written by Elie Wiesel tells a young man’s account of the brutal and cruelest event in history, the Holocaust. He explains his struggle with his faith during his time in the concentration camp. Losing his father, experiencing death of others, he begins to lose faith in God, only remaining the faith he has for his father; that eventually leads to his survival. At the beginning of the novel, Elie’s and God's relationship was inseparable, he was very religious. Elie wanted nothing more to learn the Cabbala, and was very serious with his studies.
Dehumanization has to be the most worst way to deprive a person from there humane self. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a 12 year old boy sentenced to a concentration camp, often has to deal with the horrific attempts to deprive him of his human qualities. Dehumanization remains a recurring event in Night which happens either physically or mentally. Dehumanization physically occurs in Night. Shlomo, Elie’s father goes to a meeting, as he returns from the meeting he has brought some bad news on his way back.
“Night” Essay The autobiography “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, is a personal and historical account of the Holocaust in World War II. In a recent interview, Elie Wiesel said his experiences at the camps gradually wore him down and almost killed him. There are several examples that points to this decline and they are Madame Schachter, the boy that was hung, and babies on fire. The first example is Madame Schachter. In the ghettos, she would scream about a fire every once in awhile.
Inside the concentration camps, people were being killed hysterically, most of them Jews. As Jews watch people being killed, being human beings, their minds fill with fear. They begin to search for family members, friends, or perhaps even anyone to give them companionship. For example, in the novel “Night”, Ellie writes that when he arrived at the camp, he held his father’s hand. This simple act of just holding his father’s hand implies that he is searching for some kind of relief.
Elie Wiesel has written the novel Night describing the heinous crime of the dehumanization of millions of Jews that the Nazis perpetrated within their concentration camps. An example of dehumanization that Elie Wiesel provides in his novel is the lack of humane worth that the Nazis thought of the Jewish people.When the Hungarian police barged into Sighet, “A Jew no longer had the right to keep in his house gold, jewels, or any objects of value” (Wiesel 10). The Nazis deprived the Jews of any valuables and later they forced them to sit in crowded wagons that had no space to move about in. This proves how the Nazis thought of the Jewish people as too little of humane worth to be able to own any type of valuable that they could call their own. Later on, a German officer tell the Jews, “‘There are eighty of you in this wagon,’ added the German officer.
As once said by man who believed in the efficacy of compassion, “a destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke; only man can prevent”. These few but compelling words spoken by Elie Wiesel give an abridgement of what he saw as the solution to all the wrong that was in the world. Born in Romania in 1928, Wiesel was born into a chaotic Germany running under the influence of Adolf Hitler and his deranged concepts for Jews. At the mere age of 15 years, Wiesel was sent to the Auschwitz death camp, where he was separated from the rest of his family and where he lived out four of the darkest years known to mankind. Being a survivor of the Holocaust, and like many others in his situation, he came out from this experience finding himself at a loss for words for a period of ten years, where he refused to relive his previous daunting experiences.