In Night, author Elie Wiesel gives his account of the terrors he experienced living in a German concentration camp during World War II. The book starts off with an explanation of Wiesel’s town Sighet, in Romania. He goes on to discuss some of the townspeople including Moishe the Beadle, who warns the town about how fast the Germans are approaching. The Germans arrive and put all the Jews in ghettos before loading them into cattle cars and bringing them to a camp called Auschwitz. Elie and his father are separated from his mom and sister. They then moved to another camp called Buna. Soon they have to move to another camp, Buchenwald; this is done by running for miles through the snow. On each step of Elie’s journey more people are
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The horrific realities experienced by the prisoners made them act inhumane. The prisoners acted like animals. Even before the Jews got to the concentration camps their behavior changed. Mrs. Schachter, a woman in the cattle car to Auschwitz kept shouting, “fire! I see a fire! I see a fire (Wiesel 24)”. In response the other passengers beat her up, almost killing her. Later in the concentration camps, Elie “gave him [father] what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly (Wiesel 107)”. Wiesel gets his argument across by writing about his actions and the actions of those around him. One of the reasons why he successfully accomplished educating readers on how much behavior and thoughts of people in a concentration camp change is because he, himself was one of those people. Wiesel was writing about his first hand experiences. He was able to write things down exactly how they happened because he was there witnessing the events. Wiesel took it a step further by allowing readers to go into his mind and see his thoughts about how he was acting. He said he felt extremely guilty about almost not giving his dad some soup. These comments also provide insight to the extreme measures the prisoners took in order to
The horrific realities experienced by the prisoners made them act inhumane. The prisoners acted like animals. Even before the Jews got to the concentration camps their behavior changed. Mrs. Schachter, a woman in the cattle car to Auschwitz kept shouting, “fire! I see a fire! I see a fire (Wiesel 24)”. In response the other passengers beat her up, almost killing her. Later in the concentration camps, Elie “gave him [father] what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly (Wiesel 107)”. Wiesel gets his argument across by writing about his actions and the actions of those around him. One of the reasons why he successfully accomplished educating readers on how much behavior and thoughts of people in a concentration camp change is because he, himself was one of those people. Wiesel was writing about his first hand experiences. He was able to write things down exactly how they happened because he was there witnessing the events. Wiesel took it a step further by allowing readers to go into his mind and see his thoughts about how he was acting. He said he felt extremely guilty about almost not giving his dad some soup. These comments also provide insight to the extreme measures the prisoners took in order to