Instinct, Intelligence, Adaptability, and Ingenuity are equally used within the novels I’ve read by the protagonists inside of the novels. The ways in which Instinct, Intelligence, Adaptability, and Ingenuity is used within my Summer Reading Novel is explained in the following paragraph. Over the long and seemingly endless summer, I read a book that that told the struggle of dealing with an eating disorder and overcoming the death of a close friend. The protagonist of the novel (Lia Anderson), felt apathetic towards the pain she committed on her body via cutting and starving herself from the beginning of the novel until the very end of the novel. The ways in which Adaptability is helpful happen to be in my novel Night, which states from the main character’s point of view, that even through days, weeks, and months of torture, the protagonist and his father seem to have now become apathetic to the torture of their fellow men, women, and children.…
Elie Wiesel’s Night teaches about the Holocaust from the perspective of a Jewish boy named Eliezer. Reading and analyzing Night has conveyed points about the Holocaust that differ from topics that I have studied in the past. The main point of my analyzation of Night is the dehumanization of the Nazis’ victims, mainly in concentration camps. Many past Holocaust books and movies that I have studied focus more on the events that happen before the concentration camps, but Night takes place almost entirely in the camps. It helps me to see the Holocaust from a different perspective than the one that I have been seeing it from every year.…
Night Looking deeper into this memoir, one can see that the traumatic journey had a great effect on Elie physical, mental, and spiritually. Some may say that Elie lost his faith in God during his endeavors in the concentration camp, but personally I would disagree he completely loses his faith. Ultimately, I do not think Elie lost his faith throughout his journey, although certain situations in the book lead the reader to believe that Elie had finally had enough. Many times Elie questioned God’s plans for him and the rest of the Jews.…
In the end of Night, Eliezer and his weakened father arrives at Buchenwald after a forced march and a death train transportation. In the train, food is thrown into the cars by people in the passing towns who then watches as the starving prisoners fought and killed each other to get food. Dead bodies, whether dead from starvation or illness, are being thrown out of the train cars by guards. His father barely breathing, Eliezer jolts up and begins to slap his father.…
Another idea that was discussed during the film was that there were selections that determined what group of Jews were to be put to work and which ones were to be immediately killed or left in a room where they were starved and died from natural causes. Throughout the novel Elie talks about working alongside his father, but towards the end he mentions that his father was no longer working because he no longer had the strength to get things done. For instance, Elie’s father would tell him that when they would give him a ration of bread, other men would attack him and beat him until he gave his food up. In fact, a doctor that Elie asked to help his dying father told him that he should stop giving his ration of bread and soup to his father because at a place like this, there is no such thing as a father, brother, or friend because in the end, everyone dies alone (Wiesel, 110). Throughout the novel, Elie and his father were always beat and starved which was what the SS officials wanted.…
In The book night by Elie wiesel one of the things he struggled the most is death or casualties during the holocaust. For example when his father died “I woke up at dawn on January 29 on my father's cot lay another sick person(wisel 112)”.the death the he witnessed each death killed his faith more and more. The death was the worst for Ellie because he was very faithful before then he lost a lot of faith in the end form the death and losses. “Since my father's death nothing mattered anymore (wisel 113)”. His father was his only life during the holocaust.…
Elie Wiesel uses his own survival story in Night to indicate that the loss of a family member has a detrimental impact on one’s self-preservation. First, Mrs. Schächter, a woman who has lost a child and her husband, has gone insane due to their death and only has her ten year old son to support her (Wiesel 25-26). The trauma of losing her family members has made her go crazy and not have the capability to survive the torture going on. When Mrs. Schächter was going through shock and not acting like herself, the Jews beat her repeatedly on the head in order to silence her. After being confined in a small wagon with no food, or water, the Jews caved in to their animal instincts and began acting like animals without regard to the usual social responsibilities.…
When deported to the camps, Elie recalls “[M]y hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” (Wiesel 30) After losing his mother and sisters, Elie was forced to be close to his father, as to keep some of his sanity and keep himself feeling safe.…
“I soon forgot about him. I began to think of myself again” (Wiesel, 86). This quote is the epitome of the topic of survival, and more importantly, self-preservation in Night. Elie Wiesel uses characters such as Eliezer Wiesel and Rabbi Eliahou to show just how important it was to keep yourself alive during the Holocaust. There were even instances where Jews would kill their own friends and family just for food.…
Death is not what the greatest loss is, it is, in fact, when we die on the inside, while our hearts continues to beat. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author retells the horrors he went through during his time in the concentration camps during World War II. The book tells an unbearably painful story that describes all the pain, hunger, work, and beatings Wiesel and his fellow prisoners had to experience. Wiesel details the emotional death within the other prisoners, spawned through the torture, desperation to survive, and a lack of will to live.…
People are significantly affected by the environments in which they live; it has more power over one's nature than one's willpower. Therefore, difficult circumstances can change polite men into animals who will fight over a few bread crumbs. Do people change of their own will, or is it their environment that changes them? This problem is addressed in Eliezer Wiesel's memoir, "Night." Wiesel discusses his experience during the Holocaust, where he was a neutral witness.…
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, takes readers back to a dark period in our world. Where tragedy fell upon countless Jewish individuals in the heart wrenching events of the Holocaust. The world was, and still is left struggling to find answers that can justify the means of this event in history. During the course of the reading, Elie undergoes rises and downfalls in his once strong belief in God. He wonders, along with the rest of the world, how a good God can see such wickedness and leave it be.…
We’ll look after each other”(pg 89). Elie shows great compassion for his father by helping him to a better place so that he may be comfortable and so that he may live. Although it is his father watching him as well it is mostly Elie helping his father, but his father helps him by giving Elie a purpose to…
The Struggle to Stay Faithful What if people were taken to a place where they could not speak or act on their own due to their religion? A place where people were tortured and even died because of what they believed. Would that affect the way the people lived and how much they believed in their religion? If people are exposed to this harsh environment for too long, they will begin to lose the faith that they had built up for so long.…
Although Elie wants to give all his time and energy to help his father get better, the head of the block is telling him that it does not matter that he is his father, he needs to focus on himself. It is survival of the fittest in these concentration camps and even though no one wants to fight alone they almost have too. No matter how many times others tell Elie to focus on himself he continues to stay by his father, “he works and prays to maintain the strength not to forsake his father as these other sons did. "I was his only support," he says of his father” (Gale Virtual). A big part of Elies life before the concentration camp was praying and his family always had his back.…