Night by Ellie Wiesel The Experience of a Young Boy...

The book â€Å"Night† by Elie Wiesel is non-fiction, which is based on Elie’s experience throughout the Holocaust as a young boy. Evidently the protagonist of this book is Elie, and he explains in detail everything that happens as he was a young â€Å"normal† child, to when he escapes from the concentration camp years later. His life before the Holocaust was very different from his life during the Holocaust. This experience led him to grow quickly and have a different perspective of life and society. Everything he witnesses forced him to mature quickly at a young age and open his eyes to all the cruelty around him. Elie Wiesel was a young Jew in 1928, which lived a â€Å"normal† life, until the Nazi Holocaust changed his life for the worst. Elie grew†¦show more content†¦When he brings his father hot coffee he thinks, â€Å"I probably brought him more satisfaction than I had done during my whole childhood.† (Wiesel and Wiesel, 101) Elieâ₠¬â„¢s main goal in the concentration camp was not to be separated from his father. Anywhere his father had to go, he would have to go after. â€Å"I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right, I would have run after him.† (Wiesel and Wiesel, 32) Each person in the camp had the choice to work or die. â€Å"The SS officers wandered through the room, looking for strong men† (Wiesel, 35) ...†Those who were selected that day were incorporated into the Sonder Kommando, the Kommando working in the crematoria† (Wiesel and Wiesel, 35) The officers would separate the weak from strong, to then have the strong work, and then ‘weak’ would be immediately killed. Elie is heavily impacted by the forces of society. Many of the crimes committed in the camps had a big effect on him, it made him become into a person who lacks emotions. The hanging of a child in Buna, made him question God’s existence. Everyone wa s forced to walk by the hanged child and look at him in the eyes, but Elie felt no emotions, instead a man asks â€Å"Where is God now?† as the young boy struggles with his death, and a voice within Elie responds â€Å"Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows....† (Wiesel and Wiesel, 62) Auschwitz had a positive andShow MoreRelatedNight Essay: Examples of Night998 Words   |  4 Pagesother name.† (42) Elie Wiesel’s Night is about a young Jewish boy and his experiences through the Holocaust in the 1940’s. Any human being should never experience the hell-like terror that Elie had to go through. He is separated from his mother and his sister and is deported to Auschwitz, one of Hitler’s most depressing concentration camps. Wiesel uses night not only as the title but also as a symbol of time, a world without God, and man’s inhumanity to man. Night is defined as a time of day when