Isolation In Concentration Camps In Night, By Elie Wiesel
Imagine yourself being trapped in a small metal box that gradually constricts your body. It squeezes you until your very being caves in and you breathe one’s last. This is how isolation in concentration camps transforms your tranquil soul into a raving madman. Night, a memoir by holocaust survivor and professor, Elie Wiesel, paints the horrors of isolation and how its knives will carve away your flesh and hope until there’s nothing but a vile corpse. In order to avoid the assured effects of this ‘solitary confinement’ in the concentration camps, having loved ones were beneficial because they needed one another to talk to, keep each other strong, and predominantly to keep each other sane.
In Night, Elie tediously oversees his father for his …show more content…
Urgently Elie’s father tells him to wake up and, ‘ "Don't let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It's dangerous to fall asleep in snow. One falls asleep forever. Come, my son, come…Get up." Get up? How could I? How was I to leave this warm blanket? I was hearing my father's words, but their meaning escaped me, as if he had asked me to carry the entire shed on my arms … "Come, my son, come… " I got up, with clenched teeth. Holding on to me with one arm, he led me outside. It was not easy. It was as difficult to go out as to come in. Beneath our feet there lay men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention to them.’ (Weisel 84). Now it’s not the son this time, but the father that needs Elie to survive. There were corpses all around father and son like moths around a bright light, yet no one put their mind on them. But, Elie’s father decides to warn Elie about the consequences of sleeping in snow by stating that ‘One falls asleep forever’ (Wiesel 84). This quote confirms the previous statement in the unbreakable father and son relationship by displaying the efforts of Elie’s father unshackling Elie from the chains of
In Night, Elie tediously oversees his father for his …show more content…
Urgently Elie’s father tells him to wake up and, ‘ "Don't let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It's dangerous to fall asleep in snow. One falls asleep forever. Come, my son, come…Get up." Get up? How could I? How was I to leave this warm blanket? I was hearing my father's words, but their meaning escaped me, as if he had asked me to carry the entire shed on my arms … "Come, my son, come… " I got up, with clenched teeth. Holding on to me with one arm, he led me outside. It was not easy. It was as difficult to go out as to come in. Beneath our feet there lay men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention to them.’ (Weisel 84). Now it’s not the son this time, but the father that needs Elie to survive. There were corpses all around father and son like moths around a bright light, yet no one put their mind on them. But, Elie’s father decides to warn Elie about the consequences of sleeping in snow by stating that ‘One falls asleep forever’ (Wiesel 84). This quote confirms the previous statement in the unbreakable father and son relationship by displaying the efforts of Elie’s father unshackling Elie from the chains of