Essay/Term paper: Night by elie wiesel

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Night by Elie Wiesel:  In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's
Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration
camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different
point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a
teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read
about a middle aged man's view. In the book, Night, Elie, his family and his
community go through a system of indoctrination which in each step it makes you
seem less and less of a human

In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many
stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world
war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book
because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A
Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read about a middle aged man's view. In the
book, Night, Elie, his family and his community go through a system of
indoctrination which in each step it makes you seem less and less of a human.

The first step is that the Hungarian police made all the Jewish people wear
yellow stars, so they could be picked out easily. The next step is that all the
Jewish people had to get rid of all their valuable belongings. The next step in
the system is moving all the Jewish people to the ghettos either in the large
one or the small one. Elie and his family was moved to the large one. The next
step is that Elie and his family had to move to the small ghetto where they were
getting ready to leave or be sent some where else. The following step of the
system is everyday they take a certain amount of Jewish people into the center
of the town square and then they let them sit there for a while.

The next step was that they had to walk to the synagogue and then they had to
walk to train after being in the synagogue for a day. Once they reach the train,
the Hungarian police put eighty people in a thirty person train car. The next
step is the long trip on the train, where people start going crazy, people not
getting fed well and no room to sit. Life in the camp, the next step is when the
train arrives at Auschwitz and then SS men ordered everyone out and makes them
leave their personal stuff behind.

In the next step they separated the men from the women and children, this was
a point where families were separated and most of the families never saw each
other again. Elie never saw his mother and his sisters again. He could have stay
with his mother but he told the SS men that he was eighteen years old and that
was better because the most people they killed were children. The older people
got to live longer because they thought that they will all die because of the
way they were treating them bad, by not feeding and making them work longer
hours.

The next step was to separate the handicapped from the normal. After that the
young and old are separated. The next step is all the men had take of the
clothes and be shaven and cleaned. The doctor went around check all the people
for any diseases and or handicaps. The next step is that all the people had to
get tattooed and the tattoo was that of a number and that number now replaced
your name. Then after that the sent you into room and they

gave you the same clothes. After that moment you definitely lost your
individuality because you looked like everyone else and everything about you has
been taken away so you start to think that you a just one of a million. These
ideas are taken from pages 8 to 39 in the book, Night. The concentration camps
seemed to bring out the worst in people because what happen was that all the
people there reverted to animals and they only thought on their minds was me.
Most of them wanted to survive as an individual rather than helping out and
surviving as a group. The issue of primary importance for the prisoners was
survival by any means necessary. Either young or old, everyone wants to get out
the concentration camps alive. Everyone had a different method of

survival, one example of that is that some people step over other people to
survive but others actually tried to be social and helpful, so that family and
friends of theirs could survive also. There is a four point methodology that can
be used to understand more the situation that both authors were in.

The nature of the universe is life in the concentration camp for men. Our
role is that we have to do everything in our power to survive the concentration
camps. The flaw is that not everyone wants to do everything in their power to
survive the concentration camps. The remedy is that you would have to give the
people that do not want to live a reason for living. You can tell them that
their family members are waiting for them when they get out or someone needs
them to be alive, so they could survive another day. Wiesel talks about how
everyone has something inside them that they want to live for, but if they
cannot see that then someone will have tell them about it. Wiesel believes that
we should all see our something that makes us want to live because life is very
valuable and you cannot just let it go like that. In the reading of both these
books, I have learned many things about the human race. I learned how cruel it
can be and how fragile it can be.

I believe that if I was in a position of either being a prisoner, a SS man or
a Kapo, I really do not know how I would act. If I was a SS man, I probably
would have listen my conscience and done everything in my power to get out of
that position. If I was a prisoner, I would probably do everything in my power
to live and survive the camps. If I was a Kapo, I would not treated my follow
men bad so that I will not face any harm. Even though I think I would have done
these things if I was in those positions, I probably would have done something
else because I can never really understand the situation and the experience of
it.