In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, he recalls the events of his life during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Throughout Elie’s journey through The Holocaust, he experiences one thing: Evil. Each guard was evil towards Elie, even his fellow Jews were frustrated enough to be evil towards each other.
Elie begins his journey in the Jewish community of Sighet, where his family and all of the Jews are warned by Hungarian police of upcoming danger, they pack their belongings and are taken out of town. After spending 4 days at his Uncle’s house, Elie and his family is forced into cattle cars, and taken away, towards Auschwitz. This is one of Elie’s first experiences with the evil nature of the Nazi’s, being forced away from his home land. On the …show more content…
Before the surgery, he is warned by a fellow prisoner to leave the ward before the SS comes to do “selection” on the sick inmates. Only two days after the surgery the camp hears gunfire, meaning that the Soviets are approaching the camp. The camp is then immediately evacuated towards central Germany, forcing the near-dead inmates to run hundreds of miles in the snow in the middle of January. If the inmates decided to stop running, they were immediately shot. When they finally reach a warehouse to take shelter in, they must keep awake to stay alive. In the morning, the SS have another round of “Selection” where Elie’s father is originally picked to be killed. However, amidst the confusion, Elie and his father manage to get on the side that is designated to remain alive. This chapter helped to reveal how the Nazi’s were very callous towards the Jews. They were forced to run hundreds of miles in a freezing Germany in January, and if they stopped for even a second they were instantly …show more content…
When Elie Wiesel wrote his book in 1955, not many truly understood what the Jewish people went through throughout The Holocaust. Also, Elie’s story was very emotional and showed how the Jewish people were brutally tortured in the camps, forced to stop believing in their religion, and outright killed. In the beginning of the book, Elie was very involved with his religion, and wanted to study the religion more closely. However, near the end of the book, Elie appears to have stopped believing in his God. On page 33, Elie asks “Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for? Also, during the public hanging at Buna, Elie shows his distrust in his God again, by saying “He is hanging here in these gallows” after an inmate questioned where their God was. I believe that this is one of the many ways that the Nazi’s were truly evil during The Holocaust. Not only did they end up killing millions, but they also made the Jews question what they had been practicing their entire lives and leaving them filled with
Elie begins his journey in the Jewish community of Sighet, where his family and all of the Jews are warned by Hungarian police of upcoming danger, they pack their belongings and are taken out of town. After spending 4 days at his Uncle’s house, Elie and his family is forced into cattle cars, and taken away, towards Auschwitz. This is one of Elie’s first experiences with the evil nature of the Nazi’s, being forced away from his home land. On the …show more content…
Before the surgery, he is warned by a fellow prisoner to leave the ward before the SS comes to do “selection” on the sick inmates. Only two days after the surgery the camp hears gunfire, meaning that the Soviets are approaching the camp. The camp is then immediately evacuated towards central Germany, forcing the near-dead inmates to run hundreds of miles in the snow in the middle of January. If the inmates decided to stop running, they were immediately shot. When they finally reach a warehouse to take shelter in, they must keep awake to stay alive. In the morning, the SS have another round of “Selection” where Elie’s father is originally picked to be killed. However, amidst the confusion, Elie and his father manage to get on the side that is designated to remain alive. This chapter helped to reveal how the Nazi’s were very callous towards the Jews. They were forced to run hundreds of miles in a freezing Germany in January, and if they stopped for even a second they were instantly …show more content…
When Elie Wiesel wrote his book in 1955, not many truly understood what the Jewish people went through throughout The Holocaust. Also, Elie’s story was very emotional and showed how the Jewish people were brutally tortured in the camps, forced to stop believing in their religion, and outright killed. In the beginning of the book, Elie was very involved with his religion, and wanted to study the religion more closely. However, near the end of the book, Elie appears to have stopped believing in his God. On page 33, Elie asks “Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for? Also, during the public hanging at Buna, Elie shows his distrust in his God again, by saying “He is hanging here in these gallows” after an inmate questioned where their God was. I believe that this is one of the many ways that the Nazi’s were truly evil during The Holocaust. Not only did they end up killing millions, but they also made the Jews question what they had been practicing their entire lives and leaving them filled with