Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, He writes about his time in the concentration camps. This book takes place in the 1940s during the Holocausts. His family was Jewish and little by little their rights were taken away. It started off with small things like no radios, to not being able to leave the new ghettos that were set up. He and his family were then transported to the first camp. Eli got separated from his mother and sister, and stayed with his father. And he never saw them again. In the book the author, Weisel learned to lie, lost his faith in his religion and he saw unimaginable terror. Elie Wiesel was transported to the first camp, he and his father were asked a lot of questions, but when he told an officer his age he quickly found out that to survive you had to be quick thinking. He was asked his age and at the time he thought nothing of it. But the officer kept telling him he was 18 not 15, so when …show more content…
He saw prisoners being shot, thought about escaping by dying. One part in the book talked about Elie saw something he was not supposed to and was threaten to keep quiet. Just to make sure he stayed quiet, he did stayed quiet but that was not all. Elie said, “The kappos were beating us again. but I no longer felt the pain,” (Wiesel 36). To have to go through that so many times and at one point not feel the pain was probably traumatic for him. He also saw that, “fear was greater than hunger,” (Wiesel 59). While people were waiting for soup some other prisoners were hungry and crawled over. Before they could eat they were shot. By the end of the book Elie was changed. He could never unsee those moments in the camps, never forget them. Elie went through horrors, lied to survive and his belief in religion was gone. The lessons in the book he learned was not to give up. Elie went through so much and made it out alive. The title of the book refers to some of the worst times in his life, but he