Fear In Elie Wiesel's Book Thief

(Elvgren 15). The people living in the town knew about Carl and his mom hiding in Anett’s basement and they all liked to help them. When they heard about the plan they agreed to help even though they could get caught. Many Jews were forced into hiding because of hate and intolerance, but there were people who were willing to help conceal them even though it was life

We hand Jonathan our cards and head back to the jail. If the cops see you taking cards from the jail, they can’t follow you so we take our second hand of cards and move in the general direction Jonathan might have gone. We dodge a few cops here and there, but we made a fatal mistake. Jeffrey and I rounded a corner and all we saw in that second was a white light and someone saying: “Stop! I caught you!”

Me Elie Wiesel, my parents, sister Tzipora, and many other Jews have been prohibited from leaving our residences, surrendering any valuables, and forced to wear the yellow star of David, under penalty of death. Two weeks had passed, it was 1944 in the town of Sighet, Transylvania. It was close to midnight. I and other families gathered food and personal belongings into backpacks as German officers arrived into the neighborhoods, yelling “all Jews outside.” The rumors had become true we were being transported to unknown.

“Auschwitz, in case you were wondering.” The man who has been determined to break me informs me, even though I never asked, nor cared. I know what waits for me here. I’m not afraid. The doors of the car open, and I am shoved out.

“This way,” I whisper to Sara, pointing at the door to the rooftop. We pulled at the door, but it was locked. I looked around, out of options, as the footsteps grew louder and louder. I spotted a rusted, metal bar in the corner of the stairwell. I ran to grab it, and Sara and I pried open the rooftop door.

Fear is Destructive Fear causes people to makes judgements. It’s what makes people cautious and skittish, mostly in unsafe situations. Without fear people’s life would be at risk. Throughout the memoir Night fear builds up over time, starting when the Germans taking over Sighet, they slowly start to take over their lives.

For most people, childhood is a time that should be celebrated because of the bliss and innocence one experiences then. For others, it is the complete opposite. Those few can describe childhood as being full of uncertainty and fear. In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak portrays Liesel’s childhood and adolescence as a time of tribulation and terror after being separated from her family, having to conform to a society she did not agree with, and living surrounded by war and violence. At only nine years of age, Liesel was separated from her biological family.

This viewpoint persists even after being captured by the German SS and taken to

The concentration camps shows one of the nine circles of hell in Night to show greed. Throughout the book the author shows greed between the characters, which Elie sees throughout the book. During the book Elie sees how the greed has affected the Jews, which causes them to act differently, and for some not even to act humanely. One instance where Elie deals with greed is when he was forced to give up his gold in his tooth: “ A few days after my visit, the dentist’s office was shut down. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged.

Elie Wiesel was one of only hundreds of people that escaped the horrors of the Holocaust. Very few were lucky to escape, unlike the millions of others. Elie wrote a novel to tell the terrors of the Nazi Party and what he had experienced in his time there. Due to the atrocities witnessed and experienced during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, a once deeply religious individual, loses his faith in God, himself, and mankind.

A loud crashing sound came crawling up the stairs. Warwick and Hall sprung from the musty hole and fell to the ground. Everyone huddled around them with concern. No one said a word. They stared in astonishment while the men lay on the filthy dirt ridened floor.

Many books have the same themes and even some books have the same setting, ideas, or characters. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Night by Elie Wiesel, both Liesel from The Book Thief and Elie for Night both share a common theme: suffering. Both Liesel and Elie suffer from the loss of their family. It is very hard on them since they have almost no one to depend on; they are by themselves essentially. Suffering is a major problem that both Liesel and Elie have to endure with in order to survive.

~ I was running. Running for my life. They were gaining on me. I had to escape somehow. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”, I scream as I tripped over a root.

Throughout the novel Night, Elie and his father overcome many struggles. They overcame a lot of struggles most kids wouldn’t be able to go through most of the things they went through. The novel and the movie are very different though. The novel in my opinion is way better than the movie. Throughout the novel, Elie’s purpose in life changed from the beginning from the end.

My breath trembled, I knew I needed to hide. I got up and ran. I ran as fast as I could. I heard someone holler, that only encouraged me to run faster. Suddenly, a hand grabbed my arm out of nowhere.