Night is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel, which chooses the Nazi Holocaust as the background. Eliezer is the narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir's author. Chapters 8 and 9 were the most depressing and remorseful for me, and it’s so worth to read. In chapter 9, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me”(p115) This quote shows how the concentration camp defeated Eliezer after the liberation rather than viewing himself as a strong powerful survivor. Though Eliezer did not actually die at the end, Eliezer died was with the death of his faith. During the holocaust, he broke his leg. He had to choose between leaving or staying in Auschwitz’s infirmary.
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They try to keep together and keep moving. Clinging to their hands, and they had been encouraging each other.The rumor rocked the whole camp that they have to be sent to barracks after they took showers.Everyone wants to get the opportunity to get into showers in the throng. However Eliezer’s father suddenly collapses on a snowbank because he is in weakness and exhaustion. Eliezer was screaming at his father to wake up and keep. After his father has passed, an SS officer still continuously hit the decaying old man. Eliezer thought that his father’s death would reduce his burden and increase his chance of survival, beacuse his father was cumbersome in fact. Eliezer was afraid of getting killed by the officer. In the following morning, his father’s body had been sent to the crematory. Eliezer felt his father no longer beside him as the corpse. However, that was the day Eliezer made a promise to never forgive himself for his father’s death. He could not imagine his life after that day and he had little hope to survive without his father.he had little hope to survive without his father. From the end of the book, Elie dose not especially describe those days. Relating to the title of the book Night, because the Jews literally had to live one “last night” to another — the last night at home, the last night in concentration
They try to keep together and keep moving. Clinging to their hands, and they had been encouraging each other.The rumor rocked the whole camp that they have to be sent to barracks after they took showers.Everyone wants to get the opportunity to get into showers in the throng. However Eliezer’s father suddenly collapses on a snowbank because he is in weakness and exhaustion. Eliezer was screaming at his father to wake up and keep. After his father has passed, an SS officer still continuously hit the decaying old man. Eliezer thought that his father’s death would reduce his burden and increase his chance of survival, beacuse his father was cumbersome in fact. Eliezer was afraid of getting killed by the officer. In the following morning, his father’s body had been sent to the crematory. Eliezer felt his father no longer beside him as the corpse. However, that was the day Eliezer made a promise to never forgive himself for his father’s death. He could not imagine his life after that day and he had little hope to survive without his father.he had little hope to survive without his father. From the end of the book, Elie dose not especially describe those days. Relating to the title of the book Night, because the Jews literally had to live one “last night” to another — the last night at home, the last night in concentration