Torsten Wiesel

last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would our lives be lived from one ‘last night’ to the next?” (Wiesel). Unlike Gerda, Elie’s friends and surroundings affect him negatively as he must witness multiple executions and other horrors more than Gerda experiences. He has no time for imagination and time with friends, keeping his hope and faith very low.…

“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the hands of the Nazis. The Jews’ desire to live…

Night is an account written by Elie Wiesel. Elie writes about his own life experiences during the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, and about all the terrifying memories he had dealing with the death of his family. He was only a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in Sighet. During this time they felt as if they needed to give up, or as if it was too much to go through. Elie was one of the very few that survived during this time. Some believe he lived in…

Food Relationship Food is needed for more than just survival; It has an impact on you throughout your whole life. Cara de Silva’s essay “In Memory’s Kitchen” shows how far back in time that food truly was a part of us. Anny received a recipe book years later from her own mother, Mina, that was in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. She holds the book near and dear to her heart because it resembles her mother’s memories and life. Her mother was old, and during the Holocaust, elders were…

I Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, two characters, the man and the boy, are living through a cataclysmic disaster that destroyed every normal way of life. They have to fight the cold and other human threats, while staying moral. The author uses a rift from home to illuminate that companionship is the key to life that the boy and the man experience through enrichments between characters and alienation of others. Companionship between the man and the boy enrich their lives through tough situations.…

From the beginning of Elie Wiesel’s life in 1928 to the very end in 2016, Wiesel has had an extremely up and down life but the lowest of lows any person could ever endure was WWII. But it got worse when he was placed in the most arguable worst Nazi deaths camps ever; Auschwitz. When Elie was growing up as a Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania (present day Romania), he was very religious on his own without the support of his family. He studied Cabbala on his own but his faith wasn’t present…

Night by Elie Wiesel Horrific events like the Holocaust need to be remembered as long as history doesn’t find a way of repeating itself. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, 12 year old Eliezer has been removed from the house he grew up in, in Transylvanian town, to ghettos and different concentration camps. Eliezer’s story takes place in Germany during the 1940s. In this autobiography, Eliezer’s character is developed from a young, naïve boy into a young man who survives tragic circumstances. Wiesel uses…

I will be discussing the transforming effect that the literature I have read has had on me. I will outline the discrimination in Freak the mighty and The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. Also, in Much Ado about Nothing I will outline the immaturity of Claudio as well as the horrific manner in which Claudio treated Hero throughout the film. Furthermore, I will also outline how the aspect that people should never give up is shown in the short story The Fly. Finally I will discuss…

Mary W. Shelley once said “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” The book Night, a memoir on Eliezer Wiesel life in several Auschwitz Concentration Camps, Eliezer faced many challenges throughout the book an example being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the…

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hildebrand is about the life of Louis Silvie Zamperini, a young man who would go from a troubled youth, to an Olympic runner and survive as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II. Zamperini, who was born in Olean, New York in 1917, would live to be 97 years old passing on July 2, 2014. The story covers Zamperini’s troubled youth growing up in a poor Italian family in Torrance. Zamperini’s brother, Pete, would…