Children Of The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Night
Children of the Holocaust
“The killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II” (“Holocaust”). This is the definition of the Holocaust. This definition hardly reveals the tragedy that is the Holocaust. What the definition should read is, “A brutal massacre of millions of innocent ‘Jews, homosexuals, Poles, communists, and mentally and physically disabled people (“Holocaust”)’, for the purpose of praise and superiority”. Isn’t that just awful? Why would people want to do such a thing? Going through four of the five W’s and one H could clear things up. Who, meaning victims and perpetrators. Jews, homosexuals, Poles, communists, and the mentally and physically disabled are the victims of this event (“Holocaust”). …show more content…
The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me” (Wiesel 109). This is a quote taken from Elie Wiesel’s book Night. In order to completely understand this, the quote needs an explanation. In his book, he says he hasn’t looked into a mirror for YEARS. Just think about how crazy that is. That’s where that song from Mulan comes in. “When will my reflection show…”, or something like that. Like previously stated in paragraph 2, someone separated Elie Wiesel from his family. Although he was with his father at first, his father later died, causing an even more depressing time for Elie that the situation he was already in (Wiesel 106). From just skimming through the pages of Elie’s book Night, there isn’t much talk about physical torture in the camps. Even though Night doesn’t really mention much about the physical pain that the camp caused, it does mention the emotional pain. As people would say he “pulled the right straw” as far as avoiding physical pain in his experience. Although, there is not really a “right straw to pull” when it comes to concentration camps. Now, obviously concentration camp is not at all okay, for lack of a better word, but his story wasn’t too “cringe worthy”. Mainly he just mentions that he was just constantly worrying about his father, and fearing for his situation and his father’s situation, and just fearing about the future. Even though he had nothing to worry …show more content…
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is proof that he achieved that goal and in fact is the co-creator and president of it (“Elie”). Once he “woke up” from his nightmare, he did not waste any of his time left of life. Living most people in the world’s dream, he went to Paris. While he was there he because a journalist and met a man named Francois Mauriac who convinced Elie to write about his “death camp” experiences (“Elie”). The writing of the “death camps” are what later became his very successful book Night. Along with Night are Elie’s sixty plus other fiction and nonfiction books (“Elie”). Since “teaching has always been central to Elie Wiesel’s work”, he holds the title of University Professor at Boston University (“Elie”). To add to his ongoing success in the world, he received five awards for his literary and human rights activities (“Elie”). Wow, what an amazing, selfless person. Society noticed and agreed because, in 1986 is when he won his Nobel Peace Prize (“Elie”). This is just before he created his Foundation for Humanity. This just proves how even greater he is. Being acknowledged didn’t stop him from continuing on the great work. That’s just
“The killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II” (“Holocaust”). This is the definition of the Holocaust. This definition hardly reveals the tragedy that is the Holocaust. What the definition should read is, “A brutal massacre of millions of innocent ‘Jews, homosexuals, Poles, communists, and mentally and physically disabled people (“Holocaust”)’, for the purpose of praise and superiority”. Isn’t that just awful? Why would people want to do such a thing? Going through four of the five W’s and one H could clear things up. Who, meaning victims and perpetrators. Jews, homosexuals, Poles, communists, and the mentally and physically disabled are the victims of this event (“Holocaust”). …show more content…
The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me” (Wiesel 109). This is a quote taken from Elie Wiesel’s book Night. In order to completely understand this, the quote needs an explanation. In his book, he says he hasn’t looked into a mirror for YEARS. Just think about how crazy that is. That’s where that song from Mulan comes in. “When will my reflection show…”, or something like that. Like previously stated in paragraph 2, someone separated Elie Wiesel from his family. Although he was with his father at first, his father later died, causing an even more depressing time for Elie that the situation he was already in (Wiesel 106). From just skimming through the pages of Elie’s book Night, there isn’t much talk about physical torture in the camps. Even though Night doesn’t really mention much about the physical pain that the camp caused, it does mention the emotional pain. As people would say he “pulled the right straw” as far as avoiding physical pain in his experience. Although, there is not really a “right straw to pull” when it comes to concentration camps. Now, obviously concentration camp is not at all okay, for lack of a better word, but his story wasn’t too “cringe worthy”. Mainly he just mentions that he was just constantly worrying about his father, and fearing for his situation and his father’s situation, and just fearing about the future. Even though he had nothing to worry …show more content…
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is proof that he achieved that goal and in fact is the co-creator and president of it (“Elie”). Once he “woke up” from his nightmare, he did not waste any of his time left of life. Living most people in the world’s dream, he went to Paris. While he was there he because a journalist and met a man named Francois Mauriac who convinced Elie to write about his “death camp” experiences (“Elie”). The writing of the “death camps” are what later became his very successful book Night. Along with Night are Elie’s sixty plus other fiction and nonfiction books (“Elie”). Since “teaching has always been central to Elie Wiesel’s work”, he holds the title of University Professor at Boston University (“Elie”). To add to his ongoing success in the world, he received five awards for his literary and human rights activities (“Elie”). Wow, what an amazing, selfless person. Society noticed and agreed because, in 1986 is when he won his Nobel Peace Prize (“Elie”). This is just before he created his Foundation for Humanity. This just proves how even greater he is. Being acknowledged didn’t stop him from continuing on the great work. That’s just