Adler In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

It all started simply with the Germans coming up with new laws and ways to limit the Jews to any freedom they had before. For example, telling the Jewish children they were no longer allowed to go to school and shutting down all Jewish businesses.When Adler first heard of the Nazis coming to Czechoslovakia to take the Jews away, he ran away to hide in the mountains. Soon later, he was walking around and found his father that had run away to hide from Hitler. This surprises me because in the book ‘Night’ all the jews there did not believe of this talk. They were not scared and they definitely did not try to run away. They just kind had the “it’s not happening to me so why should I care?” kind of attitude. However, Adler did run away along with his father and Hitler did find them. …show more content…
Therefore, Adler and his father reluctantly surrendered. They took the two males to a ghetto where they slept in a barn, while some Jews slept in a house. What Adler means when he says they slept in a barn is a one horse barn, where his whole family stayed. He did not describe the situation as anything too terrible. Yet while reading Elie Wiesel's book ‘Night’ I believe he thought the situation was much worse. He explained how he was fearful for the future and he was receiving information of having to leave the ghetto which made him even more fearful. Adler did not describe his exposure of the ghetto being too nerve-racking or fearsome. I believe that it is possible that Adler had more character that Wiesel and was able to process stress better than Wiesel which is why when Adler was giving his testimony, he did not describe his encounter as harsh as