The book Night took place in the 1940s during the horrific World War II. A young boy named Elie Wiesel once lived in Sighet, a city in Romania. He began to tell us his journey through the years of concentration camps he was forced to live in. In the first chapters in the book, Elie was a student, he was studying “Zohar.” Zohar is a Kabbalistic book about Jewish mysticism. After a while, his education was slowly falling apart. This was caused by his teacher named “Moishe the Beadle.” His teacher was captured by the Hungarian police and he was deported for several months.
The horrific event started to take place. When Moishe the Beadle came back to town, he told his horror story in front of Elie. He described what it was like to be captured and what the police did to him during his time in prison. This capture was a warning sign that the Nazis had arrived and were prepared to conquer the city. Other people in the prison, besides Moishe, were beaten badly. Things got increasingly worse throughout the chapters but eventually improved at the end.
It was the spring of 1944 when the bad news came from the Russian Front. The news had announced that Germany would be defeated by the Nazis. This would occur in the number of months. People in Sighet spread the news, describing how Fascists would attack Jewish stores and synagogues. Everything became serious, everyone got scared. After a few days had gone by, German Army vehicles had made an appearance on Elie’s street. Soldiers wore steel helmets. Two ghettos was launched in Sighet, one of them was on Elie’s street and the other was in the center of the town. Elie, his mother and father were captured and put into the ghetto. Not just Elie and his family, but all Jews in Sighet were put into the ghetto and later deported by train to Auschwitz. On the way to Auschwitz, the ride was horrible. For example, it was very crowded, no food to eat, the passengers were dehydrated, smelly, and dirty.
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By the time they reached their destination to Auschwitz, Elie and the others were relieved because they got off the hideous and stinky train. But, things did not get better. Men and women were separated into different lines. Elie’s family was separated and Elie joined his father, which meant he would never see the rest of his family again.
Elie was so upset and depressed. Nazi soldiers made them work in terrible conditions and in a very bad environment. While he worked, Elie saw other men in similar conditions. They were skinny and some had no clothes to wear. They were all starving to death. Elie was getting thin too. Later in the chapter, his father would be beaten and Elie would give up his gold crown in his teeth in an effort to stop continued harm to his father.
The soldiers were in luxury materials. Whoever owned luxury items, soldiers forced the peasants, as they called them, to give them their luxury. His father was being wonderful by protecting his son from the soldiers so that he did not get beaten down.
During winter, Elie had suffered swelling in his foot and he eventually had to get surgery from the hospital. The doctor had told him if he would calm down, everything would go back to normal. Days had gone by, and Elie was slowly recovering. In very high icy winds, Elie and his father were forced to march and were screamed at by soldiers calling them “dogs.” If they did not march properly, they would get shot down. Some men were collapsing and could not go on much further.
In the end, the war was almost over! However, Elie’s father was getting so weak at that point. His eyes became fuzzy, which indicated that he was blind from glaucoma and his face looked pale. They were still in Buchenwald, Germany. Elie gave him water to help him. On January 28th, 1945, Elie’s father passed away. Elie was sad and he didn’t know what to do.
On April 10th, the United States Army had made it into the gates of Buchenwald and was getting ready to destroy the camp. All prisoners were free to go. Elie was back at the hospital because he got food poisoning and he had spent two weeks resting. When he was able to stand up on to his feet, he looked in the mirror and he noticed something different about himself, he had changed.
This writer would like to discuss the character Elie Wiesel. Elie is such a caring teen during the World War II time frame. It is always nice to care about other people when they are hurt or not feeling well. When it was toward the end of the war, Elie helped his father by getting food and drink because he was extremely hungry and thirsty. When the officers told them to march in the snow, Elie even cared about his father’s pace. Elie gave up his gold crown in his teeth because the officer was beating him his father. Elie had struggled throughout the book and his biggest struggle was starvation. During this timeframe, it was all about hunger and how badly they were being treated. The Nazi officers could have cared less about them! But, Elie stayed strong like a man! Not only the struggles that he has had, he also experienced personal growth. One example of his growth was seeing how the concentration camp had developed and how it changed his life. His growth allowed him to tell his life story about what it was like to suffer from the camp.
There are two elements that this writer had used in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor.” First, “ the quester.” An example of a quest in the book is: Elie had to go through A long journey as a prisoner until he was rescued. The second was, “a stated reason to go through the process.” An example of a stated reason: Elie was forced by the Nazi officers, he had no other choice, and neither did his family. They could not even escape or they would get killed! Fortunately, Elie had survived! That’s good news.
As one can see, World War II concentration camps were devastating. Prisoners were told what to do by soldiers in a very unfriendly way, they had no food to eat except for bread crumbs, they had to suffer from long term diseases, and they had to do the dirty work for the soldiers. Everybody knows that this kind of environment makes it difficult to survive. Additionally, very few prisoners had the chance to survive. We are hoping that we do not have this kind of war again. We can’t imagine how it will look if there is another war like this. We must treat everybody in a respectful manner and that way we will have peace and will get along with other countries and people!
