•IN short PARAGRAPH FORM you need to answer each of the following questions. You are not limited to one paragraph. You must provide specific examples from the book. If a question has to be answered in terms of how you feel about something I expect MUCH more than "I don’t like it." five sentence responses will not earn full credit. I want LONG, DETAILED responses.
What is the significance of the book's final image, Wiesel's face, reflected in a mirror? He writes that a corpse gazed back at him, with a look that has never left him. What aspects of him died during his ordeal? What aspects were born in their place? What do you make of his observation that among the men liberated with him, not one sought revenge- What is the symbolism of the word "night" in the book?
- How is Elie’s moral struggle an important element of Night?
- Why do you think survivors often feel guilty?
- What hints of hope does Elie offer us?
- Why is this book relevant today?
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What Eli is trying to say that he finally look him self at the mirror was because he never thought that he will see himself free. Or he could try to say that he new that one day he will see himself but is not the same as it was before because his family is not with him. Another thing is that know that he is free he is not going to try to remember his family and try to make a new life. When he say that no owned have take revenge is because probably they are to scare to make revenge or they are just to happy of being free that they even forgot of revenge and try to move on and have a better life. I think why the book is called night is because the prisoners always thought at that last night that they sleep good in home. They thing that all the things that happen to them were like a nightmare that they just woke up. Eli talk about how he felt when all this horrible things happen to him. How he felt when he got spread from his mom and sister. He tells how the prisoners felt inside of all this suffering. He tells how he felt when his dad died and how the prisoners stop having faith. The survivors feel guilty because they could do something about all the things that the Nazis did to them. They could try to fight for their freedom and they could not have lost their families they were a lot of prisoners so they could probably win. They also feel guilty because they perfect to pray them try to defend their freedom. They could probably some had died but at least they will say that they fight for them. What Eli tells us is that even when you see that everything is died and you don’t have no way out their always god protecting you. He also tell us to fight and never give up because you don’t have to let no one have your freedom always fight for the people that you love. This book is important today because it talks about all the horrible things that the Nazis did to them so if one day they try to do something like that us to defend our self's and our family. It good that this book had was made so all the people that died at lest we know that they existed.
What Eli is trying to say that he finally look him self at the mirror was because he never thought that he will see himself free. Or he could try to say that he new that one day he will see himself but is not the same as it was before because his family is not with him. Another thing is that know that he is free he is not going to try to remember his family and try to make a new life. When he say that no owned have take revenge is because probably they are to scare to make revenge or they are just to happy of being free that they even forgot of revenge and try to move on and have a better life. I think why the book is called night is because the prisoners always thought at that last night that they sleep good in home. They thing that all the things that happen to them were like a nightmare that they just woke up. Eli talk about how he felt when all this horrible things happen to him. How he felt when he got spread from his mom and sister. He tells how the prisoners felt inside of all this suffering. He tells how he felt when his dad died and how the prisoners stop having faith. The survivors feel guilty because they could do something about all the things that the Nazis did to them. They could try to fight for their freedom and they could not have lost their families they were a lot of prisoners so they could probably win. They also feel guilty because they perfect to pray them try to defend their freedom. They could probably some had died but at least they will say that they fight for them. What Eli tells us is that even when you see that everything is died and you don’t have no way out their always god protecting you. He also tell us to fight and never give up because you don’t have to let no one have your freedom always fight for the people that you love. This book is important today because it talks about all the horrible things that the Nazis did to them so if one day they try to do something like that us to defend our self's and our family. It good that this book had was made so all the people that died at lest we know that they existed.
I think that he saw himself dead because he had lost everything. He lost his dad, his house, and all his clothes. He had nothing. He thought there was no reason for living.
The symbolism of the word night in the book is that everyday he is there in the camp, for him its like night. He can’t leave because he is a prisoner. Everything is dark and evil in there. He hates it in there, everybody hates it in there. They treat them like slaves. They do work and they don’t even pay them. They just give them a little bit of food and that’s it. It is not even food, its just a piece of bread and a little bit of soup.
Ellie did fight a lot to stay alive. He even fought a lot to keep his father alive. At the beginning, His father was keeping Elli alive. Then the father started to get weak, so Ellie started taking care of his father. He would give him his ration because his father was really weak, and was about to die. He also saved him from a selection. He ran after his dad and the SS told him to come back, they got confused so Ellie’s father came back and they didn’t notice.
I don’t know why they feel guilty. They have no reason to feel guilty. The only people that should feel guilty is the Germans that did that to the Jews. They are the ones that did all those bad things to their prisoners. When he is released from the concentration camp. It looks like he is going to have a good life. A better life than his camp life. Maybe he will get married and have some kids or something. Get a house, a big house and make lots of money.
This book is relevant to today because so many people are locked up. They are there because they committed a crime. They are not free to go where ever you go. They also give you some nasty food. When you are locked up, they also put you to work. So I think that being locked up is relevant to the holocaust. Except for all the killing and torturing.
Wiesel is explaining how when he looked in the mirror, he was basically realizing that he is no longer the little boy that he was. He is basically lifeless. He no longer knows who he is. Too many killings and too much suffering has been part of his life for years, that everything cannot change back to normal in just one day for him. The word “Night” symbolizes how everyday of suffering has turned into “One long Night”. As Elie puts it in one of the past chapters of the book. Elie’s moral struggle is an important element of Night because if he hadn’t been calm the way he was trying to be when he was a prisoner, he would have went crazy and died long ago. It was important for Elie to think, focus, and concentrate properly to keep himself alive. I think survivors feel guilty because, now that they are free, they feel like they could have done something in between those times when they were able to rebel against the Nazi’s and SS officers. Usually when people are set free from something, they feel angry because they feel like they could have done something about it, but don’t realize it until its all over. Elie’s story tells us that you could be in a very bad situation, and get out of it, it just takes time. And if you ever act like you’ve been in worse situations than other people, there will always be people who suffered more than you have and that it shouldn’t make anyone a bad person. No one should ever give up on the struggles you go though, because eventually it will be over and you’ll be happy in the end.
#1. “One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength, I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.” Wiesel wrote that looking in the mirror was like a corpse was staring back at him. In other words, another person was looking back at him, not himself. Personally, this quote says that he became another person at the concentration camps. It may have felt like the person who was before the camps was dead, and he now had to start over at life. It might have also been that finally he could put that life at the camps to rest.
#2. Personally, the word “night” symbolizes a couple of things. It could symbolize how the prisoners at the camps only wished to be at home at the end of the day and wake up from their nightmares. By nightmares, I mean the reality of the tragic life innocent people were forced to wake up every day and live over and over again. Hoping for the best and expecting the worst was all they could do.
#3. Elie’s moral struggle was an important element of the book because his struggle with faith, hope, and survival is what makes up the theme of the story. His hope to make it through the life at the concentration camp, wandering if anyone would liberate the camp. Having faith in God to save him and why God let it even happen. Struggling to survive another day could make peoples’ morals change dramatically in certain situations. For example, I’m almost positive Elie would have been greedy with his father but if there was only a little bit of food, I’m sure he would ate it, without thinking of others.
#4. Survivors who feel guilty is most likely because they would have wanted the others to survive as well. Another reason why they might have felt guilty because situations in the camp could have changed the victim’s life. For example, Wiesel might have a guilty conscience because that camp was liberated two weeks after he died. And he might have felt that if he would have taken better care of his father, he would have been with his father.
#5. Everyday for Wiesel was symbolizing hope. Hope to survive the concentration camps and hope to overcome the mental damage the Holocaust had caused him. For example, Wiesel was losing faith in God because he knew that every single victim of the Holocaust did not deserve what was happening to them.
#6. The Holocaust, to me, now just is a reminder of those who suffered to make the world what it is now. Also, for anyone who thought their life’s were so horrible, it can’t be that bad. These were times no one wants to relive again but will never forget. If World War II was something almost everyone didn’t want to do, World War III is definitely not even discussed. Technology has reached an all time high, there are nuclear bombs ready to set off at any given moment. No one wants to completely destroy our world.
In the final of the book elile is ill and struggling for life he then gains his energy to stand after a wile and so he decide to look at him self in a mirror across the room. He then sees a reflected image of what appears to be a corps. He is so skinny and battered that he no longer even looks like what he remembered. He is just a corpse. He will never forget this look. Most of his life and character died during his holocaustic life. he is no longer a lively person he no longer finds a reason to live he is now like a zombie in a way. No longer bound by the emotions of the living his only wish is to feed and he is thoughtless. Nobody sought revenge because there was no reason for it would not undo what they have gone thru and they were just so happy to be liberated that all they wanted to do was enjoy there so long denied freedom.
The symbolism behind NIGHT is the dark the dark days that he spent in this camp. Elile writes…..”never shall I forget that night . The first night in camp, witch has turned my life into one long night , seven times cursed and seven times sealed….never shall I forget those moments witch murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things , even if I am condemned to live as long as god himself. Never.”
Elies has struggled throughout the book night with many problems physical mental emotional and moral. Elile has hade a moral that has bin very low. He questioned many things about god, life and such but he has also found light in the darkest of places.
Survivors often fell guilty because they feel that there were worthier people of living than themselves and wile they enjoy freedom and life the worthier more onset people die a brutal death. lie doesn't often hand hints of hope rather he sees a chance of survival not hope. this book is relevant today because many holocaust survivors refer to it more than a writer he is a witness to what happened living proof .
After liberation many of the people who had survived the Nazi death camps perished. They were too far gone with typhus and tuberculosis. They were too skinny and they were too far along with these diseases to save them. Their tight-stretched skin eaten away by lice. They all had or have good hearts and they were just happy to be alive. The reflection that Elie had seen in the mirror was a reflection that said he wasn’t the same person anymore. It was the events he had been through that have just scared his life. The Jews were just too happy to think about getting revenge. They only reason that look or the corpse Elie saw in the mirror never left him was because it was the year or the day he got his freedom, but he was alone, at fifteen years old, no mother , no father , and no siblings. He was a dead soul, a body, but a dead soul. He was dead inside. The symbolism of the word “night” in this book is that night was the time that they were all just separated. The time that their life was changed, the last time he saw his siblings and his mother. It was the last time somebody ever took care of him. His moral is an important thing to him in this book because it is part of his religion and he is very, very religious. He would cry every time he would pray and he was just very religious and it was part of his religion to be respectful to your parents, to keep your moral. I cant yet understand why they feel guilty. They shouldn’t feel guilty because they didn’t do anything. They had nothing to do with all that went on. I don’t know what type of hints does Elie give us, for hope. He just, well he does give us hints of hope by all the things he said, did, and thought. He kept his words to the last moment were he couldn’t take it anymore. It is pretty relevant because its happened, happens and will happen again. Just because you are not informed it doesn’t mean that its not happening. It happens all over the world, just not many people know.
Wiesel's face is broken he is torn up inside. When he finally got to a mirror he seen that he was close to death. Or that he finally seen himself and thought that he looks like death itself. Also because his spirit was so broken at on time and he thought he mite have seen a ghost. His spirit died in the middle of all this. But one thing that was born was his heart, and being strong and brave. There were many times where he could have shown weakness but didn’t. I think that the men that was with him didn’t take revenge as a way out was because he was strong and they respected that. They knew he had it in him that he was a survivor. The meaning of night in the title was because of his first night in camp. That’s where it all started. And that’s what made him the way he was and the way he is now. Elie’s moral struggle was important because he had to make decisions. Everything he did was based on something. It was all up to him. His dad would have been thrown off of a train if it weren’t for him. I think that survivors often feel guilty because some of them had to do something bad to survive and that is part of the reason they mite feel guilty. Another reason mite be because at once they all had to work together and they feel guilty because the others got left behind. The hints of hope he offers us is when he shows everyone that he can do it. It gives them hope and that is good.
Wiesel's face is broken he is torn up inside. When he finally got to a mirror he seen that he was close to death. Or that he finally seen himself and thought that he looks like death itself. Also because his spirit was so broken at on time and he thought he mite have seen a ghost. His spirit died in the middle of all this. But one thing that was born was his heart, and being strong and brave. There were many times where he could have shown weakness but didn’t. I think that the men that was with him didn’t take revenge as a way out was because he was strong and they respected that. They knew he had it in him that he was a survivor. The meaning of night in the title was because of his first night in camp. That’s where it all started. And that’s what made him the way he was and the way he is now. Elie’s moral struggle was important because he had to make decisions. Everything he did was based on something. It was all up to him. His dad would have been thrown off of a train if it weren’t for him. I think that survivors often feel guilty because some of them had to do something bad to survive and that is part of the reason they mite feel guilty. Another reason mite be because at once they all had to work together and they feel guilty because the others got left behind. The hints of hope he offers us is when he shows everyone that he can do it. It gives them hope and that is good.
Elie hasn’t seen himself in so long. I think for starters, Elie for sure lost his childhood. He was a child no more. I think his manhood was born, unfortunately sooner than he thought. I think that the word “night” probably has more than one meaning. I think it means, the night Elie was sent to camp was the start of the “night”. The whole time he was a prisoner, it was the starting of hell that “night”. Elie’s moral struggle is what kept him alive the whole time. I think that survivors feel guilty because their seeing family members dieing right in front of them, thinking it should be themselves. I'm not sure what hints Elie offers us. I think that since there are Holocaust deniers, I think that the book is not relevant no way.
I think that at the end of the story Elie was traumatized. I mean he went trough a lot in the concentration camps. He had to see so many people die. I think that what Wiesel’s face was a much looking older boy all grown up. I think that he probably looked older that his age. I think that the aspects that died when he was in the camp was his faith. The reason why I think that is because when he was in the camp he had doubts about his religion. He thought that god didn’t care and that is why he was letting everything happened to them. I think that now Elie has a lot of anger in him. I think that he hates Germans and everyone that was involved in the Holocaust.
I think that the symbol night means a lot of things. I think that it mostly means pain. The reason why I think that is because the Holocaust was hell and the people suffered a lot. I think that it also means that it was never a good sunny day for the people in the camps. I mean who would enjoy a day when they don’t eat they have to work and get beat up by people that have no feelings.
I think that at the end of the story Elie was traumatized. I mean he went trough a lot in the concentration camps. He had to see so many people die. I think that what Wiesel’s face was a much looking older boy all grown up. I think that he probably looked older that his age. I think that the aspects that died when he was in the camp was his faith. The reason why I think that is because when he was in the camp he had doubts about his religion. He thought that god didn’t care and that is why he was letting everything happened to them. I think that now Elie has a lot of anger in him. I think that he hates Germans and everyone that was involved in the Holocaust.
I think that the symbol night means a lot of things. I think that it mostly means pain. The reason why I think that is because the Holocaust was hell and the people suffered a lot. I think that it also means that it was never a good sunny day for the people in the camps. I mean who would enjoy a day when they don’t eat they have to work and get beat up by people that have no feelings.
All the struggles that Eli went trough is an important element in the book. The reason why I think that is because Eli did see a lot. Eli saw people die every day. He saw how cruel the SS officers were he stayed days without eating and stayed by his dads side until his father died. I think that the worst thing that Eli went trough is the way that he saw his father die.
The people that survived must feel guilty because some of them must have done something that they did when they were in the camp. I think that sons that were in the camp with there fathers and that didn’t stay by there fathers side or helped out there fathers must feel the worst. The reason why I think that is because they could have helped out and played back to there fathers for bringing them to this world but they didn’t. I
In the last section of the book night the liberation has finally occurred. In the book on page 119 it read, “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions” they were malnourished and kept from food for so long that Elie Wiesel’s first days of freedom were spent in the hospital for food poisoning. In the hospital he took the first glance at himself since his days in the ghetto and he discovers the corpse that he was turned into. On page 119 it read, “from the depths of the mirrors, a corpse stared back at me”. He was corpse not only because of not being fed but also because of his time at the concentration camps had changed him into some one completely different from the person he knew before the concentration camps. His religion, his family all that made him who he was died in the concentration camp changing him. It is a travesty that he was no longer that person that he was before the camps but in order to survive he had to become the person in the mirror, just a corpse, an empty vessel that was no longer really part of this world. the fact that they did not seek revenge on the Nazi’s really puzzles me. It brings to mind several questions. One, is it possible that they were so overjoyed at their freedom that they were no longer interested in revenge at this moment? Is it possible that the feeling of revenge have been purged? Has a lingering feeling of religion helped them to forgive? Is forgiveness even an issue presented in the minds of these tormented souls? They only know the answers and I can only make an asinine attempt with the small glimpses presented in the book so forgive me if my next sentences are wrong. I believe that they were overjoyed of their liberation that revenge is the furthest thing in their mind. First thing in their mind was food, they were turned into survivalist that were only interested in one thing doing whatever is necessary to see the next day. Next would be lives lost and lives changed in the book Elie wanted to see what has become of him sense the camps. Could the third be revenge? I hope not because to live with revenge is to live with a cancer that consumes you bit by bit. How could they get there revenge? Would it be on the SS, Germany or the individuals that participated in the crimes against them. They have no room no energy for revenge and that may be good for them. Why the title is Night has been stated several times in the book, though I can not locate them all I remember very clearly the first reference on a page I cannot locate, I hope it read, “That day it turned my life into one endless night”. If I am correct Elie said this, the night that he was taken out of his norm either to the ghetto or to the camp. The fact that either I or Elie saw it was unending night was because the horrors that he endured at the Concentration Camp with stay with him forever. In another instance he constantly saw this as a nightmare, a nightmare that he would wake up at any moment. He couldn’t believe of the cruelty that was able to exist in this world a nightmare that would never end because it existed and would. The struggle that Elie has been trough gives me the definite definition of the title Night.
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