Night By Elie Wiesel Sparknotes

Eliezer and his father got separated from his mother and younger sisters. For months in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed inhumane doings that scarred him for the rest of his life. He was forced to work at Buna, a factory, and run on a daily basis to keep himself alive. He became malnourished because of the unappetizing food that they served. He and other Jews were punished and beaten for no reason.

His father was next to him asleep and it puzzles me to think about what I would 've done if I were in Eliezer’s shoes. The third frame

Unlike the ones who surround him, Eliezer escaped the fate of turning into an animal and is shown in his relationship with his father when the prisoners are sent to run and he doesn’t leave his father like Rabbi Eliahu’s son, when he runs after his father as he is sent to the left during selection, and when he gives his father his rations of coffee and soup because he is not given anything. In the book Night, prisoners are evacuated from their prisons and sent by foot to other prisons due to the Russians who were going to liberate the prisoners. During this they have to run the whole way so the Nazis can keep their prisoners, many prisoners start to fall behind because of the distance and their bodies. A Rabbi ends up to be one of these prisoners who starts to fall behind and when they get to the other prison he looks for his son.

Next, they were put into two other groups; in one group you would die in the furnace and in the other group you would live to work. Eliezer and his father both were able to live for

Before the Holocaust begins, Elie and his family live in a town called Sighet in Romania. Eventually, his family moves to a small, cramped

When running on foot in the ranks to the next camp, Eliezer is so depleted that he is ready to throw in the towel and do off the road. He loses the pain in his foot and the idea of death doesn’t seem to scare him anymore but stays in his head. But these ideas go away after taking one glance at his father and seeing his condition. The author writes, “My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. he was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate.

Eliezer’s father’s presence next to him running during the brutal march is what was keeping Eliezer running. Eliezer wanted to die but didn’t because he was his father’s sole support system. Eliezer needed to survive for his father’s sake without Eliezer his father wouldn’t of had any chance of surviving. Eliezer wasn’t afraid of dying in fact he considered it. Eliezer said, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me.

The book night is about the author Elie Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps all around Europe. The camps were Auschwitz, where he was first deported on May of 1944 with his father, mother, and his sister. He stayed there for 8 months before being liberated on January 27, 1945. He also stayed at Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald throughout the year. The book consists of memories of Wiesel’s time in the camps, and how it’s affected him in his life today.

From the beginning of the memoir, Eliezer is dehumanized emotionally, but he continues to save his father. He does not turn against him and keeps supporting him until he dies. When the Frenchman and the Pole are beating Eliezer’s father, he says, “Eliezer…… Eliezer……. tell them not to beat

He and his mom and sister were separated at the camp and he has no want to see them until the end of time. " Men to one side! Ladies to the right..."(pg 27). His dad is getting old, and powerless, and Elie understands his dad does not have the quality to get by all alone, and it is past the point where it is possible to spare him.

Elie also tried his best to stay by his father’s side no matter what, even if it meant almost getting shot; He did this because Elie’s dad protected him during the marches by not letting him fall asleep in the snow, this was so he would not

The condition inside of the train is awful. There are a hundred confused and scared people packed into one cattle car, unable to breathe, hot from being squished together, hungry, thirsty, and wondering what fate has in store for them. After crossing the Czechloslovakian border, the soldiers start to become extremely demanding, putting more fear into everyone on the train. They threaten to shoot anyone who tries to escape and they even go as far as nailing the doors shut. Some become delusional like Madame Schächter in Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night.

2. The Germans arrive in Eliezer’s town and two ghettos were soon created. They are told they will be going on a long journey. After a few days, Eliezer along with all the other Jews are liquidated. 3.

In pages eight-five to one hundred-three, several events happened. There was another selection. This time, Eliezer and his father were split up, Eliezer in the healthy line, and Father in the not healthy line. Luckily, Eliezer case enough comotion to get Father to his line. After this, all of the healthy people were put into cattle cars with no roof.

Sometimes situations occur in our lives that happen because of chance awhile other times they occur because of a choice made. This is especially true with Eliezer in Elie Wiesel’s Night. Eliezer has a series of events happen to him that have happened be chance or by choice. Eliezer never asked to be a Jew in a time when it was so fatal to be one but it happened by chance.