The memoir Night was written by Elie Wiesel. Elie is a survivor of the Holocaust. Elie is 87 years old. Elie has written 57 books. Both of his parents died in the Holocaust. He was a very religious man before he suffered through the Holocaust. I believe that no one ever should have to suffer through what he and others suffered through in the Holocaust. Elie saw babies being thrown into fires, he saw people getting beaten with clubs, and he visualized his own father die. I believe that no one should witness or have to suffer through anything like that. No one should have to suffer or bare the pain Elie went through.
The part that I thought was the most striking was the Death March. The Death March happened because the Nazis thought that the Russians were coming to liberate the people in the camp. The Nazis wanted everyone to suffer even longer so they had to do something else. The Nazis gathered everyone to leave. The campers didn’t know where they were going, they just …show more content…
Elie and his father were miserable. His father was weak and old. He couldn’t run much longer. But, Elie made sure they were going to stay together no matter what. The SS officers shot anyone who walked. “Near me, men were collapsing into the dirty snow. Gunshots.” (page 86) The prisoners were exhausted. The SS officers made sure they got nothing except for death. They took a break at some abandoned city. They watched each other to make sure they didn’t die. If they both fell asleep without watching, they knew it would be the end.
After fifty miles of straight running, they finally made it to Buna. The guards were directing them all over the place. Elie and his father were staying together no matter what. They ended up in the same block. Nothing was going good for Elie. He knew his father was close to death. Even worse than the Death March, Elie woke up to his father being gone. There was someone else sleeping in his father's bed? He figured they took him to the
The part that I thought was the most striking was the Death March. The Death March happened because the Nazis thought that the Russians were coming to liberate the people in the camp. The Nazis wanted everyone to suffer even longer so they had to do something else. The Nazis gathered everyone to leave. The campers didn’t know where they were going, they just …show more content…
Elie and his father were miserable. His father was weak and old. He couldn’t run much longer. But, Elie made sure they were going to stay together no matter what. The SS officers shot anyone who walked. “Near me, men were collapsing into the dirty snow. Gunshots.” (page 86) The prisoners were exhausted. The SS officers made sure they got nothing except for death. They took a break at some abandoned city. They watched each other to make sure they didn’t die. If they both fell asleep without watching, they knew it would be the end.
After fifty miles of straight running, they finally made it to Buna. The guards were directing them all over the place. Elie and his father were staying together no matter what. They ended up in the same block. Nothing was going good for Elie. He knew his father was close to death. Even worse than the Death March, Elie woke up to his father being gone. There was someone else sleeping in his father's bed? He figured they took him to the