Everyone goes through significant events in their lifetime. These events can range from the death of a loved one to the achievement of an educational goal. People’s life paths can be changed by these events. Some will react poorly, either not coping with the negative or not benefitting from the positive. Others yet will react positively, rising above their circumstances and using them to change the world. A person’s reaction to an event can change their future. Events in Eliezer Wiesel’s life and a personal example demonstrate how significant events shape destiny.
Elie Wiesel, the author of the literary memoir Night, illustrates the impact of significant events on his destiny. Eliezer Wiesel grows up in Sighet, Transylvania. A devout Jew, …show more content…
Nobody believes the Nazis will reach them - yet when they do, Jewish oppression occurs quickly. Eliezer and his family are deported to concentration camps in 1944. Eliezer’s destiny is changed by ignoring warnings his family receives about what is to come. “‘Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!’ he kept shouting in the synagogue...Even I did not believe him.” (7) Moishe the Beadle is in the first group of Jews that is deported by the Nazis. They take him along with many other Jews into a forest. They are forced to dig deep trenches, line up, and are shot, falling into the trenches they dug with their own hands. Moishe is the only one who escapes. He returns to Sighet to warn the Jews, but they refuse to listen to him. Begging, Moishe asks someone, anyone to believe him. He no longer wants to live - he only wants to prepare the Jews for the impending danger. Because Eliezer and his family refuse to listen to Moishe, they end up in concentration camps. If only Eliezer and his family had listened to Moishe! Maybe their stories would not have ended as they did. Another example of Eliezer’s destiny being shaped is when he is separated from his mother and sisters. “‘Men …show more content…
Up to this point, Eliezer and his family have all stayed together. When the SS officer barks out the orders, that is the moment that Eliezer last sees his mother and sisters. Many boys Eliezer’s age go with the women and the children on the right, but Eliezer remains with his father. Had Eliezer gone with his mother, he would have been killed. His sisters, Tzipora, Bea, and Hilda, all die in the crematorium, as does his mother. They are snowflakes in a snowfall; beautiful, temporary, and lost in the millions around them. Eliezer’s decision to step left rather than right determines his destiny. Once separated from his mother and sisters, Eliezer resolves to stay with his father, . “I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went.” (82) Throughout the entire memoir, a constant pattern emerges - “My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father.” (35) Eliezer works his hardest to protect and remain with his father, even when it seems more convenient to abandon him. This is his only motivating factor for survival. Eliezer’s relationship with his father is like a rock solid foundation for them both. He is more
Elie Wiesel, the author of the literary memoir Night, illustrates the impact of significant events on his destiny. Eliezer Wiesel grows up in Sighet, Transylvania. A devout Jew, …show more content…
Nobody believes the Nazis will reach them - yet when they do, Jewish oppression occurs quickly. Eliezer and his family are deported to concentration camps in 1944. Eliezer’s destiny is changed by ignoring warnings his family receives about what is to come. “‘Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!’ he kept shouting in the synagogue...Even I did not believe him.” (7) Moishe the Beadle is in the first group of Jews that is deported by the Nazis. They take him along with many other Jews into a forest. They are forced to dig deep trenches, line up, and are shot, falling into the trenches they dug with their own hands. Moishe is the only one who escapes. He returns to Sighet to warn the Jews, but they refuse to listen to him. Begging, Moishe asks someone, anyone to believe him. He no longer wants to live - he only wants to prepare the Jews for the impending danger. Because Eliezer and his family refuse to listen to Moishe, they end up in concentration camps. If only Eliezer and his family had listened to Moishe! Maybe their stories would not have ended as they did. Another example of Eliezer’s destiny being shaped is when he is separated from his mother and sisters. “‘Men …show more content…
Up to this point, Eliezer and his family have all stayed together. When the SS officer barks out the orders, that is the moment that Eliezer last sees his mother and sisters. Many boys Eliezer’s age go with the women and the children on the right, but Eliezer remains with his father. Had Eliezer gone with his mother, he would have been killed. His sisters, Tzipora, Bea, and Hilda, all die in the crematorium, as does his mother. They are snowflakes in a snowfall; beautiful, temporary, and lost in the millions around them. Eliezer’s decision to step left rather than right determines his destiny. Once separated from his mother and sisters, Eliezer resolves to stay with his father, . “I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went.” (82) Throughout the entire memoir, a constant pattern emerges - “My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father.” (35) Eliezer works his hardest to protect and remain with his father, even when it seems more convenient to abandon him. This is his only motivating factor for survival. Eliezer’s relationship with his father is like a rock solid foundation for them both. He is more