During the Holocaust, many people had died but the Jews were hit the hardest as 6 million of them were killed during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his experience at concentration camps during the Holocaust and wrote about the rough conditions and things he and his father had to go through. The night goes through all the camps, the beating and the lack of food he and father had to go through when surviving through the Holocaust. Unfortunately, when going through this time Ellie first loses his mom and his sisters and eventually loses his dad near the end of the text. Ellie Wiesel develops the theme abuse as throughout his memoir Night as it is shown that wherever he and his people are, they still getting abused. Wiesel, his father and his people throughout the story when they are in the ghettos, to when they are in the labor camps to when they are in their last camp and are freed they are still getting abused.
Elie Wiesel and his people get abused at the beginning of the story when he is in the ghettos. A piece of evidence that supports this is on page 19 of Elie Wiesel’s novel Night where it says,” Faster! I had no strength left. The journey had just begun and I already began and I already felt so weak… Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good for nothing.”Wiesel had just been kicked out of his home and is being transported to another ghetto. This is abuse as the soldiers are yelling at him and his people for moving slow and calling them lazy good for nothings after kicking them out of their ghettos. Another piece of evidence that shows Elie Wiesel and his people getting abused is on page 16 where it says,” The police were taking roll calls, once, twice twenty times. The heat was oppressive. Sweat streamed from people’s faces and bodies. Children were crying for water.”This is showing the police in their ghettos making these people stand outside for roll call in the scorching heat and making these people watch role calls for a long time outside. This is abuse as the police don’t care if they are burning in the sun and that they just want to do this roll call and don’t care how long they are going to be standing in the heat for.ne the last piece of evidence showing that Elie Wiesel and his community getting abused is on page 17 where it says, “We had spent the day without food. But we weren’t really hungry. We were exhausted.”This is when the SS soldiers made then walk to the ghettos and didn’t give them a break. This is abuse as the SS soldiers didn’t let Elie Wiesel and his people eat or take a break after walking a very far distance to their next camp.
Elie Wiesel and his people also get abused in the middle of the memoir when they are at the labor camps. A piece of evidence showing them getting abused at the labor camps is on page 39 where it says,”… he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place.”This is Elie Weisel’s father getting slapped hard after he asked if he could go to the bathroom. This is abuse as Wiesel’s father is getting hit for asking a question to the guards. Another piece of evidence showing abuse occurring in the labor camps is on page 57 where it says,” I no longer feel anything except the lashes of whips. One! Two! He was counting.” Elie Wiesel is getting whipped in this quote because he had walked in on Idek and a girl and this was the punishment they gave to him. This is abuse as Elie Wiesel gets whipped for something that wasn’t his fault and he is so used to getting whipped that he no longer felt pain from the whips. One last piece of evidence to show that Elie and his people getting abused in the story is on page 24 where it says,” Anyone who still owns gold, silver or watches must hand them over now or will be shot on the spot.” This is the SS soldiers warning everyone that they are not allowed to keep anything valuable and must give it to them or they will be shot. This is abuse as this is very unfair for the Jews as they can’t keep any of their things and if they do they will get killed. This shows how Elie Wiesel, his father, and his people get abused at the labor camps.
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Ellie Wiesel and his father get abused at the end of the story when their at the last camp and when Elie Wiesel is free. A piece of evidence from the text that supports this on page 107 and it says,” They didn’t give us anything…They said that we were sick, that we would die soon” This is Wiesel’s father telling him that they weren’t giving him rations because he was very sick and weak and that meant that he would die soon. This is abuse as they are pretty much starving Ellie Wiesels’s father and other people so that they wouldn’t waste food and this is treating them like they’re not humans which is clear abuse or neglect. Another piece of evidence that supports my reason is on page 110,” They threw themselves on me. They snatched it from me, my bread…And they beat me…Again…I can’t go on, my son…”
This is Ellie Wiesel’s father telling Wiesel what happened when they gave him his rations and how these people stole it from him and started beating him. This is abuse as Ellie Wiesel’s dad is getting beat for doing nothing wrong and he is getting his food stolen from the people at his camp. One last piece of evidence that supports my third reason is on page 115 and it says,” Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill: some form of poisoning. I was transferred to a hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.”This is Ellie Wiesel after he is free from the camps and is in the hospital fighting an illness that could kill him. This is abuse after he is free as he is fighting between life and death from an illness that he contracted. These pieces of evidence show how Ellie Wiesel and his father get abused in their last camp and when Ellie Wiesel is free.
Ellie Wiesel’s theme of abuse throughout the story seems to not change as through the entirety of his memoir Wiesel and his father get abused. Elie Wiesel and his dad are seen getting abused in the ghettos, to the labor camps to when they are almost free.6 million Jews died during the Holocaust and many others were left hurt after the Holocaust. We all hope for an event like this to never happen again. Although Ellie Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust was bad who knows what was going through Wiesel’s father’s mind or others that had it much worse during the Holocaust?
