When Elie’s father is living his last days, he tries to take care of him the best he can. The final day when his dad is being beaten he doesn’t say anything because he doesn’t want to beaten. He resembles the rabbi’s son in a way that is sad but reasonable to an extent. With the excruciating and painful days and nights it is hard to comfort others when you can barely make it yourself. These boys were faced with horror at such a young age that they didn’t know what to do. So, when your dad is suffering so much you wouldn’t want them to be, but you also wouldn’t want to bring that pain onto yourself.  This doesn’t mean he loves his father any less, but that it is really everyman for himself throughout the long days and nights.
Yes, I believe kids should read this book. It is extremely important to learn about this because it really did happen. We have to take the terror and cruelty and learn to respect others. I think it was appropriate also because it wasn’t so graphic that we couldn’t read it, but graphic enough we won’t forget it. It’s amazing to know that people survived this and that faith can keep you going through literally everything. Maybe even just comparing it to high school experiences people can relate to some of it. It obviously made an impression on all of us.  It made you think of what you would do to help stay with your family or what you would say if you knew it was the last thing you would say. Would you apologize for something, say I love you, smile, cry or even just glance at them without looking back.
 

Elie’s feelings toward his father are very loving in the beginning. When they get imprisoned he still loves his dad very much. As they are in a convoy running to a new camp, Elie manages to have a conversation with another boy. They finally get a break and Elie sits to rest with his father. His father wants to lay down and die there but Elie helps him keep fighting. As they rest, a rabbi comes in looking for his son. His search is meaningless as he ends up not being able to locate the lost boy. Elie sees this boy later on and discovers the child was very relieved that he did not have to carry dead weight any longer. Elie thinks this is very sad because his father has been his lone bright spot throughout his entire life. As his father becomes more and more ill and old, Elie stays by his side for as long as he can. He isn’t like the rabbi’s son, who didn’t care for his dad. Eventually, Elie’s dad passes away and Elie is emotionally shaken. He loves his dad but deep inside he feels relief because he knows he can live his own stronger life with no one else to hold him back. This is very sad to Elie and the reader of this book.
I think kids should read Night and study the Holocaust while in school because not only Night, but other books as well serve as a great eye opener for people who haven’t lived through the Holocaust. Before this, I basically knew of Ann Frank but other than that hardly anything about what really happened in the camps. Kids should read real life experiences to show their lives are great and that there are cruel, heartless people in the world.

            The rabbi’s son showed that he thought his father was a burden because he decides to run from him when he sees he can no longer carry on.  He probably loves his father, but he also loves the idea of surviving, which triumphs over his love for his father.  He just wants to be freed from his “burden”.  Elie likewise becomes stressed from his father.  Though they love each other more than anything and have been with each other for years in the camp, it becomes too much.  His father becomes ill and tired.  Everyone is tired, including Elie, but he isn’t ill.  Having to watch out for his father becomes wearisome for him.  He doesn’t like having to pick up the slack and watch out for him.  He is obviously mad that people are hurting his father, but he understands.  Elie knows how much he wants to survive and realizes that others do, too.  As much as he loves his father and doesn’t want him to die, he knows it would be easier that way.  He actually feels a weight off his shoulders when his father dies, but he still feels bad because he loved his father and knows that his father was probably still breathing when he was killed.  He feels like a burden is lifted though because he won’t have to bring his dad food.  He won’t have to think about anyone but himself.  He couldn’t even find it in himself to cry at his father’s passing.  He was almost glad to be alone.

            I definitely believe that people need to study the Holocaust and read the book Night.  When people read the book, they are opened to so much.  The book opens people up to a world of pain, slaughter, and mercilessness beyond all imagine.  We think that our lives are bad, but when you look at these people, you learn the true meaning of the word ‘cruel’.  The things done to these people, and the conditions they were forced to live in are disgusting to behold, even though all we see are pictures.  No one in their right mind would ever want anything like this to happen to anyone again.  There is absolutely no way that anyone could easily say that we should not learn about these things.  We must study history so that it doesn’t repeat itself.  We must know history to avoid the consequences of trickery and different political drives.  Also, you learn so much about societies, and people can learn so much about how the world was, is, and could potentially be.  To read Night and to learn about the Holocaust is very enlightening.  It is really impossible to see how truly great you have it until you view the most disturbing parts of life that shouldn’t even happen.  It is important to read this book because you get an actual survivor’s point of view.  I think that the book definitely taught me and exposed me to a world even bigger than the world I had known already.  The Holocaust and the book are both so important to learn about that I think the real question to ask would be, “Why shouldn’t we learn about this?”.  Even if someone were to say they didn’t like it simply due to how cruel it all was, it is known that that was a part of life.  We can’t avoid reality.  We have to fix life and grow from bad things.  Society must find out how terrible it all was and how cruel it all was if they want to keep it from happening again.

Elie’s feelings toward his father slowly changed to the same feelings that the Rabbi’s son felt toward his own father. Elie was growing tired of constantly taking care of his father. His father became mentally and spiritually broken, after the long trek for the evacuation. All Elie’s father did was stay balled up in a corner and have Elie wait on him. His father wouldn’t eat anything and was slowly killing himself. The other Jews were growing irate towards Elie’s father because he wouldn’t even move from his spot to go potty. Elie’s father was hindering Elie’s own survival. And that’s why he felt a little relieved when the father died, because Elie pretty much gave up on his father, and no he thought that he had a better chance for survival… Yes students should continue to learn about the Holocaust, because that’s one of the biggest genocides in human history. We would be doing our future generation an injustice by depriving them of that crucial piece of information. Just for the simple fact that history has a way of repeating itself..

            Elie’s attitude and feeling are more now like Rabbi Eliahou’s son. Through that, Rabbi Eliahou’s son no longer cares about his own father’s death, so Elie is now leaning toward that perspective because he knows his father’s end is near and there is nothing he can do. Rather than to suffer his father’s death he needs to get over it, corresponding to Rabbi Eliahou’s son, who has already forgot his father’s death. Elie should let his grieving out before his father actually dies, that way when he does die he shall not have the huge burden of losing a loved one.
 

             When Elie’s father passes, Elie had no tear, no cry, and no frown. He had to get over it, just like the other thousands of Jewish prisoners that were held at Germany’s will. With his father dead Elie had nothing to live for, and did not care for anything now, he felt having a weird invincible feeling after his father passed. This had never happened before in the entire book of Night. Elie would of probably had done the same if it was his mother or any other relative in the same way he had done to his own father.
 

              Yes. There are many reasons backing my own opinion on why students should read books like Night.  Number one, I think historical novels or book should be a priority in a school, not only the historical facts, but how people and races lived during specific times. The Holocaust is an example itself, and as the quote ‘History Repeats Itself’ is true, unless young people who will be running countries do not look at the past, the present will be the past for the better or the worst. Second, non-fiction books and or novels need to be remembered for the people of certain time, and should be related to a specific person’s life.
 

The question whether to study the Holocaust and/or “Night” shouldn’t have been asked in the first place. It is very important that we apply forward from history and learn from our mistakes. The holocaust was probably the worst thing that was ever done on the face of the earth. It is hard for anything to be as cruel and barbarian as the genocide that was going on during the holocaust. In Germany we learn from our childhood on that it was a terrible thing to do and that it shall never happen again. Even my grandpa who actually fought in the war never talk about things that happened, but when my father was old enough he told him to never let such things happen ever again. Historians have studied before what children think about Hitler and if it could ever happen again. The book “The Wave” or the original story is the perfect example for this. In 1969 the teacher Ron Jones had the “third wave” experiment in his history class at Cubberley High school. He attempts to teach them how it was to live under Hitler’s regime. After a short time the experiments gets out of control and in the end one student ends up dead. The student’s couldn’t deal with the power and furthermore it showed us how still today the power of speech and charisma can affect us in a great way. This is a proof that a Hitler regime is still possible today. We have to keep on teaching about the Holocaust so that we can prevent it from happening again. Overall it is one of the most important things in history to learn from our past. As horrible as it might be, we have to spend time learning it.

to lighten this matter i am about to talk about we will start with a joke ;D if there is a camp for kids with AD/HD would it be politically correct to call it a concentration camp ;)

I do think that we should continue reading the book night in schools because of what an inpact on history the holocaust had on germany and the rest of the world, for example it lead to the second lose of a world war by Germany, and the death of million. Not to mention the sheer disregard for human life. We need to keep reading night in schools because if we do not learn about the past and find ways to avoid it, it is sure to happen again.

but in the words of Gerrit B. "i honestly dont know why we are reading books like this, nothing happened in Germany between 1939 and 1945, we where all on vacation. so nothing happened.."

From the beginning of the book, you could tell that Elie had much respect for his father. He loved him unconditionally. When they were taken to the camp, all he wanted to do was make sure he and his father were not separated. Elie felt like that if they were together, there was hope of survival. Conditions worsened, and Elie's father became sick. While he was sick, Elie began giving his food rations to his father, in hopes that it would better his health. When they began the Death march, Elie began to look at his father as "luggage". All he was was something else for him to worry about, and to look after. One day, another Jew said to Elie that his father was dying, and there was no way he would survive, and that he should just eat the food himself. From this point on, Elie's sole goal was to only worry about himself. I couldn't blame him. It would be so hard to watch after someone in the condition Elie was in. Slowly watching the man that raised you die would take its toll on a young man like Elie. When he woke up one morning, his father was gone. The first thing Wiesel thought was that of "relief".

The Holocaust is –obviously- a very sensitive and scary topic. However, it is very important to incorporate the history of the Holocaust into schools. The genocide of over six million Jewish people teaches students about prejudice and stereotyping in society. It also shows that xenophobia occurs everywhere, not only on the street, but in a powerful government body as well. Another reason students should read a book like Night is that the novel is 110 pages of correct history. No history book or teacher will have as much information as this in depth book. The novel not only gives you correct historical information, but it also puts on in the mindset of Eliezer Wiesel. The author has a way of making the reader think that they are actually in a selection or toiling in Auschwitz. Students also relate to Elie, seeing as he is just a child himself.  What student couldn’t get chills from reading this novel? At fifteen, he had already witnessed the death of his father, father and son killing each other, babies getting set aflame, and so much more.  To summarize, every student should be assigned this book in their high school tenure.  Elie’s way of bringing the reader in and describing how he lost everything so well makes students exclaim, “Holy crap.” George Santayana once said, “Those who forget the past are bound to repeat it.” This quote alone can summarize my final, and most important reason, we should learn about the Holocaust. If we forget about the Holocaust, and take it out of school, it may just happen again. 

I think students should learn about the Holocaust in schools because of it being a part of history and a tragic event that happened during WWII. Without this knowledge, students would be missing out on some parts of history very few people don’t like to talk about. I also think they should read the book Night at some point in their school career or at least something that is related to the Holocaust even if they don’t like to read, they will get so into these books that it would be very difficult to put the books down for any reason. Elie's attitude towards his father and the rabbi’s son was he tried to keep them alive for as long as he could but they he was told by several people to stop worrying about other people and fight for your own survival while in these camps. When his father was just barely alive Elie would give up his food rations to his father but all that his father wanted was water. After awhile the rabbi and Elie's father was just like “just let me lay here, it is killing you just to keep me alive. I want you to survive this and tell everybody about what we have experienced, don’t worry about me anymore. We are too far with our minds set on death for you to keep us alive.” After Elie was told this then he didn’t worry about the rabbi or his father, or his mother and sister anymore but he would occasionally think of them but then he would forget about them and fight to keep himself alive until the camp was liberated.

1. Elie’s attitude and feelings toward his father begin to resemble Rabbi Eliahou’s son because his son ran farther ahead to make a greater distance between them. He did this because he felt that his dad was a burden and he had to start thinking about saving himself rather than everyone else. He was tired of caring for him too, when the movement was going on. He didn’t want to get shot, so he went on without having a single feeling of regret. Elie was trying to care for his father, but he was resisting the food and getting up. All he wanted was water because his stomach was “burning.” When his father did die, he was sad, but he forgot about it and started thinking and caring for himself. When Elie woke up the next morning, he didn’t see his father, but another sick person. He was thinking and that nobody said a prayer for him. Nobody had a ceremony. They just carried his body to the crematory, breathing or not. He stopped thinking about him and his mom after a while.

2. I think that students should continue to study the Holocaust and read “Night” in school today. I think they should because it is a very important part of history. A cruel and sick part, but it’s still part of it. I think they should know what it was like for someone to go through that dark time. I also think that reading this book, and other kinds of books similar to this, would help open their eyes. Movies, videos, and pictures would also be a good eye opener. People need to know that they should never take life for granted and be thankful for their family because they never know what will happen, or how long they have to live. They need to be thankful for what they have because they could’ve had nothing, just like the Jews in “Night.” So open your eyes, and be thankful for what you have because sometimes you never know what you have until it’s gone. Don’t realize the greatness once it’s gone. Realize it now, and live your life to the fullest. Be thankful for what you have and not what others have.

I believe students should stiil study the Holocaust and read books such as "Night" in class. The Holocaust will always be a major thing in history and you cant just ingore it. This is one of the most tragic things that has ever happened in history today.Students should still be informed on what people have gone through not just because they where "Jews" or their religion but because of simple things such as their race or gender. The Holocaust  is just one of the largest killings and one of the more talked about things in our history that i belive should be taken seriously but should be talken about and I believe reading books is good because it makes it all the more real and easier for students to understand the full effect the Holocaust took on people.

Follow up to my other answer: Elie didn't have any emotion. He couldn't cry the tears yet he wanted to weep so badly. He felt as though he had to be storng and could not cry any tears in front of the SS soliders or any of the other of the men. With the death of his father, he saw himself as a "free" man as he didn't have his father to burden him any longer. 

              Elie's feelings towards his father begin to resemble that of the rabbi's son in that Elie abandoned his father when the camp was bombed.  Elie ran to save himself.  He did what he promised himself he would never do.  Like the Rabbi's son, Elie left his father to die so that the burden of his father would be lifted off from his shoulders.  This deception from Elie could have originated at the point in the story where Elie was mad at his father, rather than sympathetic, when his father was beaten by the man in the factory.  This was the first time that Elie should have felt sorry, but instead felt nothing.  Now he had abandoned his father, left him there to die underneath the raining bombs of the Allie forces.

               Students should definitely continue learning about the Holocaust.  The history of the tragic even should never be lost or forgotten for it is a stepping stone of what the future holds.  Without this event, the world we know would be completely different.  To shut this piece of history in the dark and discontinue the schooling of what happened in WWII would be a crime to those who lived it, like Elie.  To hide these events would mean that those who fell victim to these tragedies would die in vein.  This book would have been written for nothing if people stop hearing the truths of what occurred in this dark time of the world's past time.

BTW, this is over 4-5.

In the camps it is very rare for there to ever be compassion or diginity shown. It is absolutely cruel and a disgusting act against the jews in the camps. Despite how horrible the conditions seem to get, there is always some sort of compassion shown in the camp. For instnace, some of the Kapos can sometimes be nice and understanding. They have shown this by usually letting Ellie and his father stay together. This is most likely because they understand the bond between a father and a son. The soldiers also realized how important it was for the father and the son to be together. Another compasionate person was the leader who always brought his group extra cauldrons of soup. But the people who were uncompassionate out weighed the number of who were by a large amount. This made people give up hope and lose their dignity. The only time that some of the prisoners shed tears was when their were specific hangings of people they all liked. We also cant forget about the one man who told the prisoners how to pass the inspecton with the doctor. The girl who was jewish but said she was Aryan hepled Ellie out in the warehouse as well. So although there isnt too much compasion or digintity in the camp, there is alway some that could be handed out.

1A - Ch. 4-5

When Elie says that God is hanged up in the gallows, i feel as though it means that this instance shows a presence of God. This seems as though because while the rest of the victims died right away, the young boy still hung there alive for another half hour and the people were forced to walk past him after the executions. When Elie walked past the boy he was still alive and his eyes were moving and this is probably why the people thought it was God hanging up in the gallows. This particular part of the book just shows how much the dirty Germans do not care at all for the Jewish race. They do not care so much that they would hang young boys in front of a great number of other Jews to witness it and even make them walk past the lifeless hanging bodies to see the face of death. Hitler would stop at nothing to exterminate the Jewish race and by doing such deviant things like this, he is basically rubbing it in their faces to show them that they will be put to death as well. It shows that the Germans want nothing but for all the Jews to be gone and that they don't care how they are gotten rid of just that it is done. They even burned babies and small children. They didn't even se the Jews as human and basically looked at them as objects that needed to be gone and that served no purpose what so ever.

Rabbi Eliahou's son was selfish and didn't care about his Father. During the march, he ran ahead and left his Father. It showed his feelings for his Father. His Father was the opposite. He looked and looked all over for him to find him. He even asked Elie where he was. Asking Elie proved that he probably asked many others about him and showed how he was extremely worried and really wanted to find his son. Elie loved his father and showed it through his actions and constant contact and worry about him. He shared his rations and fought off people to help his father, putting aside how weak he was and how low his strength level was. At one point, Elie is told about his father dieing and to take his rations for he will receive a better use for them. Elie feels guilty and goes to find his father some soup. When Elie's father passes away, he feels relief. He knows he doesn't have to constantly worry about him. He feels sadness and trys to cry but he cannot. Elie knows his father is in as better place and is out of his pain and misery.

1) Throughout the story Elie and his dad have looked out for each other.  During the final evacuation Elie’s dad starts to get weaker and weaker every day.  When they get to the final camp his dad can barely move.  Elie keeps caring for him every chance he gets.  As his dad gets closer and closer to dying, people start telling him to only worry about himself because there is no hope for his dad.  Elie has been fighting this urge to stop caring for his dad.  When they first got to the camp and the alarm went off, they started running to the barracks and Elie forgets his dad for the first time.  After that he was mad at himself for acting like the Rabbi’s son and ignoring his dad.  After Elie’s dad dies he only cares about his own survival.  He just works, eats, sleeps, and repeats. 
2) It is very important that students study the holocaust and read books about it such as Night, because if we don’t learn about history it will repeat itself.
 

   I do feel that students should continue to study the Holocaust because it shows that we all have a pretty good life compared to back then. We take what we have in life for granted. Most of us im sure haven’t been starved and beaten to death for years. We always complain about what we have and how we want more but we don’t know what its like to have absolutely nothing. We also take advantage of our family life. We haven’t been split from our families boy, girl. We haven’t and to sit there and watch are family members die right in front of us. We havent had to watch innosent people sit there and be torchered and killed. We haven’t had to look in the mirror and think will I die today? We haven’t had to be torchered for something that we believed in. The book night shows all around to be greatful for what you have. I would recommend the book night to because the author explained everything very well. It wouldn’t be easy to share every detail of your life like that. It was an overall great book and I would read it again.

Almost 70 years after, we are still studying the Holocaust.  This is an event that the human race will never forget.  I believe that the Holocaust was a learning experience for the human race.  We continue to study the event for forever.  When studying the Holocaust, there are many things to look at.  People study Hitler’s power and influence to make sure a leader doesn’t make the affects that he made.  Everyone wonders how humans could let something this horrific happen, but evil is prevalent every day.  In today’s world, approximately 43 million innocent children are killed every year by abortion.  The most important thing that we must take from the Holocaust is noticing the evil things that humans have done before and make sure that we don’t let something like this happen again.  Look at what happened and figure out what needs to be fixed in today’s world.  It is also important to always remember the people who had to suffer during the Holocaust.  That is an important reason to keep reading books like “Night”.  As humans, we need to respect and honor those people.  It would be good idea to pray for the people who had to endure this pain.  Let the Holocaust be an example for us and our future.

1) Even though Elie is disgusted by his actions and feelings and by the actions and feelings of the Rabbi’s son, towards the end of his relationship with his father he begins to have many of the same feelings and, in some cases, same actions. He begins to feel that his father is only a burden for him and that he is only costing him effort and food. They both begin to feel as though all their father is doing is holding them back and making it more difficult for them to survive. As he begins to lose his father the block head tells him he should forget about his dad and take his share of the food, too. Though Elie does not do this he does contemplate it, only to be stopped by what guilt he has left. During his father’s final hours the roles of the two switch, the child becomes the father and the father becomes the child. Once his father dies, Elie doesn’t weep, instead all he can feel is that he is free. He was forced to take on the “burden” of caring for his father and now, even though he feels guilty to think so, he feels that “burden” lifted off of his shoulders and he is free of it.
2) Yes, I believe that students should continue to study the Holocaust and read Night. I believe this because no matter how horrible history can be it is important to understand it and to revisit it. It also shows people of today’s age just how good we have it and how blessed we really are. It also shows how strong these people were when they went through their never ending night. I also feel that by reading the book Night students can get a picture of just how horrible it really was. When reading a history book it is harder to get these pictures, since they are often not as descriptive and they were not written by eyewitnesses. So by studying the Holocaust and its horrors it shows us just how horrible, judgmental, and dark mankind can really be. By understanding these horrors we can take steps to better our lives and to try and make it so something of this horror never comes again.

Elie suddenly feels like his father is in the way like the way Rabbi Eliahou’s son felt about his father.  Elie always has to look after his father and make sure is he okay.  When his father dies, Elie felt free.  He doesn’t have to take care of him anymore.  He doesn’t have to worry about getting into the same group as him anymore.  He can just worry about himself now.  He doesn’t always have to be waiting for his father.  He can’t hold Elie back now. 

            Students should continue to study the Holocaust and read “Night” in school.  They should know about what happened in history.  How horrible it was then and how good life is now.  Students need to understand all the pain and suffering people went through.  They need to be very grateful for how wonderful life is now.  There are no concentration camps, and no one is killed or hurt for no reason.  Everyone is treated fairly now. 

      The Holocaust was a major piece of history in the 20th century.  But why is it important to learn about it? That is plain and simple it is important to study the Holocaust so that we can prevent the past from repeating itself tomorrow.  There is a saying about history, and that is, "Those who ignore the past are doomed to relive it.”  Studying the Holocaust is the besting way to prevent such a thing from ever happening again. We need to study the types of people who led Germany to such hatred and annihilation.  So we can make sure these people will not rise to power again and possibly have a race or religious group exterminated.  Also, it is important to learn about the holocaust and history in general so the same mistakes are not repeated.  We may think it is impossible for such a thing to happen again, but even the Jews in the holocaust didn't believe that such a thing could happen. Yet it did. They were warned that the Nazis were coming, but didn't believe what the Nazis would. We should learn from this.  In additions from the lessons we can learn, the Holocaust was a major event in history.  Specifically in World War Two.  It was a tragedy the world will not soon forget.  Another saying about history is, “History repeats itself.”

Elie’s feelings start to change just a little. He still loves his dad and wants to be by him yet he thinks about eating his share of bread. He does this because his dad is about to die and it says he doesn’t even need it. When his father died he was sad but he knew he had to continue on. The sad thing is just a few days after his dad died everyone at the camp was rescued. That made it even worse. It is the same with the rabbi because both father and son stick together. It strengthens Elie when he sees those 2 together. I think schools need to keep teaching about the holocaust. It teaches us about the history of the world. Even though it is a horrific event in history, we still need to know about it so we know what happened. It is also good to read books like night in our classes. It gives us a 1st person take on what happened. Overall I think it is a good thing for us to learn about the holocaust. The book night was a good book.

Yes, students should continue to study the Holocaust.  A great way of doing so is to read this book, Night.   Students should continue to study the Holocaust, because it shows how not only achievements (like finding a country), but also suffering has made up the world today.  It shows how much segregation there used to be.  The study of this topic proves to students what the people before them, in some cases their ancestors, and went through.  It also proves to them how much one persons opinion and actions can change a country and how many lives it can take.  In this case, Hitler, as we all know, was the brain behind this tragic operation.  He was literally the root of all evil.  With that being said, it truly does show others how much one person can change things so much.  With taking that information, the students should use that knowledge in their future to better this country, unlike Hitler.  Another reason the Holocaust is a good topic to study is because, with my understanding of not only my opinion the opinions around me, the study of this subject keeps the students intrigued.  Also, I find reading a story from a survivor, like the book Night, is a better option too.  Reading a book makes in easier to comprehend.  Plus, it makes the situation and the facts of the matter seem more real than they would if you were reading out of a history book.  With that being said, I believe keep furthering students’ knowledge of the Holocaust is a good idea. 

I firmly believe that learning about the holocaust is one hundred percent needed in school. It huge part of the history of the world. To cover that would be about just as bad as never learning about how America became independent. Without the knowledge of holocaust, where would everybody be? Maybe something like it could happen again. All the people who suffered horrible things would be forgoten about. Those millions of inoccent people who died, well i can't really say for nothing because they really did die for nothing, but they would just be forgotten forever. Also, when the holocaust is taught, another substantial historical event goes hand in hand with it: World War 2. This could be one of the biggest historical events that has ever happened to the world. It just seemed like such a substantial thing that can never go unheard of. Right after that the U.S.A became a world power house and sort of a big brother figure to everyone else rather they liked it or not. Now I don't know if i agree with that part, but the holocaust and world war to definatly needs to be taught to all students in the U.S.A. It is a massive chunk of history that tells an incrdible story of all who inahabitted the world at that time. So many lifes were lost. It also teaches a lesson of how horrible and cruel the world can actually be rather people like that thought or not(hopefully nobody enjoys the thought of millions of Jews dying).

Ellie has always said he would stand by his father the whole way.  He always said he would never stop fighting for his father.  When Ellie sees the Rabi’s son completely abandon him he is completely beside himself.  He doesn’t know what to do, think, or say.  All he knows at this point is that he has said to himself he will never leave his father.  He would stand by him through his suffering, no matter what.  Perhaps this is what was going through the Rabi’s sons head in the beginning too, but things changed for him.  Elie’s father grows weaker and weaker.  Eventually he leaves his father.  In this way he has much of the same journey as the Rabi’s son.  In the beginning he said it would never happen, he would never leave his father.  Although, as the journey grows harder and harder this motive changes and for a moment he leaves his fathers side.  He watches his father die, and each day he is slipping further and further from him.  When the day comes that his father takes his last breath, Elie has a sense of relief.  Now, he is alone on this journey.  Each of the persons, his family, that he looked to for strength are now gone.

1.Elies attitude and feelings towards his father start to change as time goes on. When his father becomes very ill he wants him to die to take the burdened off of his shoulders. He still loves his father very much but he realizes both of their lives would be better if he wasnt suffering anymore.The Rabb'is son got tired of his father to because he knew he was old and would slow him down. Elies thoughts about his dad turn into this also along with the Rabbi's son.When Elies father dies he feels relieved. He is free from the burdened of his old dying father. He was trying to put food in his own mouth and felt obligated to feed his father before himself. He feels like he can worry about himself now. he said in the book thast he should be crying but he isnt. He realized this was good for him and he could go on now.

2. I think studying about the holocaust is a good thing for students to learn in school. Reading 'Night' has made me realize how blessed I am to not have to go through things like that. It is a part of history that changed a lot of peoples lives,along with the world. The good thing about reading this is you get to hear the story from a real survivors perspectave. When you hear these stories you get to hear the passion and anger they put into telling their stories. It must not be easy for them to do. I think all students should read 'Night' because of its deatails. I think its good for kids of any age to realize that we dont have it so bad now. When you hear these stories you cant help but think of how they felt during these times. I think all students should have some knowledge of the holocaust and the history behind it.

Question 2
We should definitely continue to read about the holocaust in our school today. Why you may ask? Well if we stop remembering the holocaust then who will? Already world leaders are telling us that it didn’t even happen.  The president of Iran announced that the holocaust never happened. Do sensible rational people know it happened? Of course but if the schools stop teaching it, than no one will ever remember it. Victims of the holocaust will die off eventually, and maybe they passed on the stories to their children. In America though, it is up to the American school system to hammer this horrible event into our brains until we never forget. When we talk about 911 we say, “Never forget”, it should be the same way with the holocaust. If we somehow forgot about the horrors of the holocaust then it could very well happen again. A new Hitler would rise up, and maybe enslave the Muslims or Catholics in concentration camps. Does anyone ever want that to happen again? No we can prevent a deadly cycle from happening by just one simple motto about the holocaust. “Never forget” 

Elie started to get pissed as his dad very easily for little things. When his father would slack, he would yell at him and keep pushing him. When his father grew weaker, he kept giving up. It was until they were running in the group of people that Elie really understood that his father couldn't get any better, or any stonger. When his father got trampled, he didnt want  to believe it was the end. I'm sure he hoped it all was a dream. Wouldnt everyone just hope and pray that its not reality? Well, Elie was very sad when his father died. He doesn't really know what to think at first when it happened, but he knew that it would only make him stronger. Elie knew that he should just stay strong, because thats what his father would do. All he ever wanted to do was make his dad happy, and he knew that even though his dad is dead he would still want the best for him. So, therefore, Elie kept pushing himself, and pushing himself, he didn't stop for anything. He was determined to live through all the tough times, and he did. I think students should still read the book 'Night' and learn about the Holocaust, for many reason. When reading night, when I imagined the things that Elie went through, I couldn't help but to think about how good my life really is. In all reality, you don't know how bad other's lifes are until you walk in their shoes. It also teaches people not to discriminate others for their race, religion, or looks. You cant judge a book by it's cover.

In the Jewish religion there are many rules that you have to live by. One such example is The Ten Commandments , which required that you be strong spiritually and mentally so that you could follow each one infallibly. This all changed once the Holocaust came. In the Holocaust there was only one rule Jews lived by. That rule is the rule of nature, survival of the fittest. A rule that was installed in us the day we were born, and that which comes from the very depths of our humanity. It’s not normal for humans to have to live by this rule specifically anymore though, and it’s only in desperate situations that this primeval trait is brought out in us. I don’t know of any situation from the past century more desperate then that of the Holocaust. Almost everyone who was a Jew was aware of and lived by this rule during this time in history.  It caused people to even go so far as to betray and abandon family members to follow it. And if you didn’t abandon everyone that you know people advised you to do so. Elie was told to abandon his father in one such way, “Listen to me, boy. Don’t forget that you’re in a concentration camp. Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else. Even of his father. Here, there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone. I’ll give you a  sound piece of advice-don’t give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There’s nothing you can do for him. And you’re killing yourself. Instead, you ought to be having his ration.”(Wiesel pg 105) This finally brought fully to light all of Elie’s dormant feelings. His feelings of anger, shame, guilt and weariness. Ever since he saw Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father, he’s constantly thought of abandoning his own. He’s thought of the relief, the food and the strength that he would have if he just let go of the weight his father was putting on his whole being. He feels guilty for thinking such things but in the end he couldn’t help it. No one could help it. I bet this thought would pass through all our minds if we were in the same situation. It’s just the way humans are, it’s the way were made. We were made to survive at all cost when backed into a corner. In the end Elie felt the exact feelings he thought he would when his father died. He made sure that he always remembered his father’s face at that moment though. That he would always remember how he felt about his father at that exact moment, and regret it with his whole soul.

Elie’s feelings start to change in the book. He began to think that his father is slowing him down and he doesn’t know if he should keep caring for him. Rabbi Eliahou’s son does something to his father; he ditches his father while they are running in the night. This is what made Elie start to think if he should leave his father. Elie thought that if he did leave his father than he could probably live longer. He then thinks that if it wasn’t for his father than he probably wouldn’t be alive. That is what makes Elie fight and care for his father every day and is always by his side. His father is what makes him fight each day and when his father dies he begins to feel guilty. Elie than believes that since his father had died he really has no point in living. He then starts to think that it is his time to die.
 

The Holocaust is something that took place in our history. It was a tragic time in the history of our world and something that can be interesting to learn about. It is something that we all need to learn about and something we can read about. The book Night is something that we can read to help teach us about the Holocaust. The book Night is something that shows us what it was like in the concentrations camps. When you read this book it is shows us what happened through the eyes of someone that actually experienced it and saw what happened. That is why we should read books about the Holocaust because it will help us understand what it was like to be a Jew at that time.
 

Elie’s attitude towards his father changes to be like Rabbi Eliahou’s son’s attitude.  When it finally comes time for Elie’s dad to die, Elie feels relieved that he won’t have to care for him anymore.  He is ready to move on with his life without his father holding him back.  Elie gave most of his food to his dad, which was hurting himself.  Their rations were so small that if anyone didn’t eat it all they would die of starvation.  His sympathy for his dad was a choice of between his own life and his father’s life.  Elie should not have felt obligated to give his rations to his father.   So when Elie didn’t feel the need to give his food to anyone else, he was happy.  When his dad died, Elie didn’t even cry.  His calmness and relief was very unnerving and showed how much he had changed throughout this book.  Elie is relieved because he no longer has responsibility for someone else’s life, he is ‘free’.  Rabbi Eliahou’s son had the same feelings when he ran ahead of his father during the march to the new camp.  They were both ready to be freed from the burden of their elderly, dying fathers.  The inhuman nature of the Holocaust can be seen through these two sons’ actions.  It is not natural for a son to feel relieved and happy at his father’s death.  

1)  Elie told himself and prayed for God to give him the courage to not be like Rabbi Eliahou’s son.  The head of the block had also reminded him of Elie’s own struggles.  He’s also in a concentration camp, and if he doesn’t watch his own step, something bad could happen to him let alone his father.  The man told Elie that here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else; that it doesn’t matter if you have a brother, father, cousin, or friends.  Elie really started to feel the toll of taking care of his ill father.  He was constantly asking Elie for some water, and Elie was constantly worrying about him.  Elie was becoming to think of him as a burden because he was giving him what little extra rations of bread he had and also some soup.  Whereas, Elie could be having two helpings of everything if he forgot about his father, but he didn’t because he cared. Still having his father alive was also giving him a reason to keep himself going as well.  The way he reacts when his father finally dies isn’t that of joy necessarily, but more of relief.  He mentioned that it pained him to not be able to cry or mourn his father’s death.  But he’s been through so much and had experienced so much death already that it’s sad to say that one more added to the list of people that he knew of who died didn’t quite make a difference.  And now, he didn’t have to think about keeping two people alive, just himself.  I guess you could say he was a free man!  But in this case that’s really not appropriate considering the circumstances…
2) The Holocaust was a very dark and obviously depressing time for millions of Jews.  Not even considering the war that was being fought at the time.  Sometimes I feel that many people take for granted the place we live in and the wonderful things that we do have.  Things we have now that at times seem trivial in our life and that are just so part of our daily routine that we don’t think about them much, food, communication, freedom of religion, etc., Elie and many other Jews would have died for. (Literally!)  I feel like students would feel way more grateful and thankful for the things that they have and the people in their lives.  Just try to imagine…..it’s a normal day with you and your family, doing everything you guys would normally do.  Just hanging out.  Then, all of a sudden people are barging into your business and your territory, telling you that you can’t do this or can’t do that.  Let’s say in this example that they are ultimately coming in and arresting you because you are Catholic.  Sound unfair?  I bet it did for the Jews.  Okay, so you’re taken to this camp and right off the bat you’re separated from part of your family.  Didn’t realize that just the other day you were having a grand ole time and not thinking that you would never be seeing any of your family ever again.  Picture you being parted from your sister and/or brother, father and/or mother.  You turn separate ways.  You are watching them walk to their death and even see them die.  This is how some of these people felt.  We really should be grateful for what we have.  Besides the fact that it’s part of history, we should know about these things.  I definitely think students should continue to study the Holocaust in school today.    
 

Yes students should continue to learn about the holocaust in school. i say this because history tends to like to repeat itself, in one way or another. to stop this we need to teach kids about what has happened in the past, especially about cruel things like this. the holocaust was a major part of history and we can't just let it die out and be forgotten, along with all the people that went through it. i dont know about you but i would rather people not be burned to death a second time in history for no particular reason other than not liking them. also so many people live in such a blissful world thinking that everything is perfect and nothing bad ever happens. well they need to learn that, yes, babies have been used for target practice, and sure people get trampled to death, and every once in a while a kid will beat his own dad to death over a piece of bread. history needs to never be forgotten and we need to continue to teach about the holocaust in school.

1. When he initially recalls how the Rabbi’s son acted towards his father he was disgusted, and prayed that he himself would never do the same to his own father. As the end comes closer and closer Elie starts to focus more on his own survival and well being. He is there for his father and wants to stay with him, but part of him just wants him to die so the load is taken from his shoulders. When his father finally dies he doesn’t cry. I don’t believe it to be because he wasn’t sad because he was, he had lost his father. The only one that was with him through it all, but he had absolutely nothing left. He was a weak lifeless body. Skin and bones with no emotion, and or feeling left inside of him. Everything that he had once had was snatched away from him, and now I think his faith to live had become even more. Now he had to live, for his father.
2. It should absolutely be studied in schools today. Everyone should know the pain and suffering that these people went through. To me this book opened my eyes so much. I mean of course I’ve seen pictures and movies, and they are horrific, but to hear a story told by a survivor makes it so much more material, and realistic. Before reading this the only concentration camp, or death camp I knew was Auschwitz. I didn’t know there were so many. It shows you how truly lucky you are, and really gives you a slap in the face. It’s cruel and terrifying to learn about, but it truly is interesting. To know that such things happened in your world, and to wonder what if that was you?

(Question 2)

I do in fact feel as though all students around the world should continue to read the Book "Night". I feel this way because the happenings in this book are that of real life and a part of history and it does need to be addressed by society so people are made aware of it. Of course, there is the possibility that this could happen again anywhere around the world so if more people read about it there is a better chance of preventing it. Everyone should be addressed of this dark and gruesome time in history because it was a very big deal at the time and really should be made known. The actions that took place during these times were beyond horrible and were inhuman in every way possible and it can never be taken back and will always be a part of history. Around those times, the Germans had absolutely no respect, care, or regard for the Jews and didn't even see them as human or of any equality at all. People around the world need to know that this is so very wrong and should never happen. Everyone on this earth is equal no matter what they believe in, who they are, what they look like, or anything like that. It should be clear to people that no one should ever be treated as poorly as the millions of innocent Jews were and that it was wrong in every way. Every individual on this earth has a purpose in life so there is no reason that their lives should be cut short. During this book, Elie Wiesel goes through the toughest of tough times and just when he thinks the end is near, he pushes on and stays strong and brave enough to keep going. Everyone in the world should have this same attitude because there is no reason that we should ever give up and let our lives slip away from us.

Where do I begin? The cruel injustice of the holocaust, or should I hit a little closer to home? Hmmm… ok, so question one.  Eliezer is an incredibly strong individual.  However, the effects of the hell that was created around him caused him to become jaded and weak. At times he felt like he wanted to collapse from exhaustion, but he persevered and held on to his father. He believed his father would come through for him, never give up, and help Eliezer through the toughest of circumstances.  The father, in turn, needed Eliezer as someone to trust in, to hope in, and to empathize with.  When no one else was there to take pity on the old man, the father sought out the young boy as a refuge.  Through what seemed to be the natural empathy they both had, an unshakable relationship was formed between father and son, much like between a teacher and student. Eliezer saw another father and son relationship nearby, between a rabbi and his son.  They too were side by side until the very end, or so it seemed.  The son had realized for the longest time that his rabbi of a father had been weighing down his own chances for survival.  He sought to be rid of his father so that he might live.  Eliezer did not ever want to become that, to never be the student that abandoned his teacher, his father.  Time passed miserably as Eliezer and his father went through the horror of the death camps.  As time crawled by in its maimed agony, Eliezer began to notice a revolting truth: his father was killing him.  Yes! Oh yes! That was his new truth! He began to empathize not with his father, but with the son of the helpless, feeble, archaic rabbi.  The father had been the master of Eliezer’s man-made perpetuating hell.  In the last few weeks of hell that was the spawn of Eliezer’s father, Eliezer realized two very pertinent things.  Number one: his father was slowing him down, taking his attention away from surviving, and ultimately killing him.  Number two: the father was Eliezer’s will to live.  One could say Eliezer lived to cooperate with, impress, and empathize with his father.  The notion of wanting his teacher to die was a shameful one and would ruin the legitimate purpose of Eliezer’s struggles.  Yet, when Eliezer’s father passed, or rather, gave in to Death’s requests, Eliezer had a feeling of freedom, relief, and satisfaction.  He no longer had to worry about his teacher troubling him over the required needs to survive in their shared environment.  Both the student and the teacher could go their separate, yet different, ways of relief at the end of their equivalent trials of pain, unhappiness, suffering, and deprivation.

Question two.  Oh yes, students should continue to study the holocaust and especially the book “Night” in our modern times.  As it says on the very back of the book, records such as this awaken the memory of the holocaust and that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
However, aside from the complex history of the holocaust, students can draw excellent, if not much more insignificant, parallels between the book “Night” and our modern era, and can show empathy towards the story’s protagonist and author, Eliezer Wiesel.

The hanging of the boy is symbolic for the Jewish race because the way that kid dies, sums up what exactly happened to them. They Jews were taken, like the boy and made to suffer a slow and painful death. That kid didn’t die right away. He hung there and people that were walking by had to watch it all happen. Like that boy, the Jews were made to suffer for a very long and slow painful death. They had to suffer that for numerous years as Hitler tried his very best to exterminate that whole race. By putting them in all types of camps, they were hanging in that space between life and death the whole time they were there. Needless to say that kid was suffering that same fate when he was upon the gallows. And with those sever punishments, it really was as if God was with them suffering. Because I think Elie means that the longer people were in the camps, the more they lost faith. They were always begging the question why.. Why would God let that happen to his people

Throughout the chapters, the characters are miserable forced in working in the concentration camp, some acts of kindness do happen. Most parts involve anger like the kapo hurting Elies dad and Elie, but sometimes some people do good things. Like when the French-Jew lady gave extra rations to Elie. It was a good noble act, and showed good humanity even in a evil place. But that one little act was priceless because she could've been killed or tortured if caught. He wasn't really shown kindness from Idek, but the prisoners probably felt sorry for him. Everyone also felt sorry for the pipel too. He was so young, and he also helped others out unlike other pipels. Everyone in the camp paid their respects to the poor boy. Some people even said that God wasnt with them because he was the biggest source of compassion with them. Another act was quick, but when Elie went up to his father and kissed his hands, a very compassionate emotional scene happened. Family ment the world to each other. The head of the block definately showed kindness, he promised that none of them would die except for him. It was kind because i think he sacrificed himself to save more of them. Although it was reversed later on, even though he did sacrifice himself for others. Also the sickly man tried to show kindness by giving Elie information on how to survive.                                                 pg 61 raucous

"For more than hald abd hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And wehad to look him full i the face. He was still alive when i passed in front of him, His tounge was still red, his eyes were not yet glazzed." (P.62 Wiesel) Obvisouly by this quote, there is barley any dignity in this book. But once in a while, there is. Okay, well i didn"t understand this part. But when the camp is bombed, they put all the prisioners in a "safe house". Why whouldn't they have just let them all die, they were going to eventually. I guess they were sick that way. They wanted every person to suffer and die. Compasssion was shown whe people shared their bread for the hungriest. The biggest scene of compassion was when the girl helped Elie. She wasn't even German! She helped out Elie and then later they saw eachother again. When they said the "death prayer" over the dead, compassion.After Elie's father was chosen in the selection, he ran to save himself, but in a way also saved his son. Elie at that point, could not go on with out his father. It was too soon. But in the end, Elie became strong enough for him and his father.

In the camp there were never any signs of compassion. The spirits and emotions of the Jews were taken away. Their leader, Idek, would have random anger spikes. One day, Elie was in his path, and he was beaten harder and harder with every punch.  Elie was covered in blood once the beating was over. A girl he worked with, who had never said a word, helped clean off the blood. She re-assured him. She said, “Bite you lip, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on...” (Wiesel, 51).  This stayed with Elie for a lifetime. Another compassionate person was his doctor. Elie began having a foot problem and had to have surgery. The doctor treated him kindly. Elie was able to eat extra food, and most importantly, sleep. Elie was surprised; he had completely forgotten normal people slept on sheets. Elie was grateful, the doctor was a Jew. Every little bit of kindness was always kept in the back of their mind. Although, everything in the camp was cold, sometimes a person showed a little warmth.

Dignity and compassion are absolutely unheard of words to describe most situations of the Holocaust. How can something be cruel and wrong be, at the same time, compassionate and dignified?  Despite the complete contradiction of these descriptive words there are some instances of human kindness. The Kapos and the heads of the camps allowed Ellie and his father to stay together.  The soldiers all knew how important it was for them to be together. Many of those in charge were always mean, but Alphanse, a Jewish German that was head of a camp, often brought extra cauldrons of soup for the children and the weak.  Also not all officials enjoyed treating the Jews like inhuman objects; a Dutch Oberkapo never once laid a hand on a Jew or even yelled at one.  Many of the prisoners had given up on all kinds of hope, leaving their heart cold and empty of compassion.  The only time Elie ever saw his fellow prisoners cry was when the Oberkapo was brutally hung.  Another head of camp Elie worked under, gave them advice to run to the S.S. and doctor inspection. So they wouldn’t look pale and ill, and saving them from being sentenced to death.  Compassion among prisoners was also prevalent, the Jewish girl pretending to be Aryan, gave Elie a ration of bread after Idek beat him. When Elie’s father was kept back on the block, the Kapo and prisoners reassured him that his father would be okay.  People showed compassion towards Elie, however, we do not see many instances in where he showed it back. Despite the instances of compassion and dignity; the many hangings and beating created a burning fire of hatred removing any feelings of compassion for Elie.

In the first 40 pages of the book, not very much compassion from anyone was shown towards anything. They were forced to work in crappy conditions, in any kind of weather. The conditions were not the only terrible part. The Jews also had to deal with the work, lack of nourishment, and all the other stuff.  But later on in the book, the people in charge, start being a little more compassionate. For example, they receive thicker soup, or more bread, or lighter work.  Another example of compassion is when the Jews got to have Christmas off. The concentration camps as a whole become better. The veterans told them about how they used to be worse and it is now like paradise. All of these things are ways  that human compassion and dignity are shown in the book.

The hanging of the boy just goes to show how gruesome Jews were treated. Being hung has to be one of the worst possible ways to die. It is long lasting and just flat out inhumane. Not only is it bad for the embarrassed recipient of such torture. All the other Jews were forced to look at the person being hung straight in the eye as they were approaching death. The Nazis were just trying to scare them all and leave them wondering if they would be next. Just imagine being in a place where you were not even given a chance to be energetic yet everyday your amount of work depended on if you would survive. After awhile it would really catch up to one and leave them closer than ever to death. Seeing this left them all the more irritated and hopeless. With this image in their head escaping alive seemed all the more impossible. Living another day seemed pointless at times. The only thing there was hope to be had in was God and family and God seemed not to be an option. One of the only hopes was to die in the least painful way possible. When that is ones only hope in life you know that they are not living good. It would take one strong person to handle and endure what the Jews were forced through.

2)  The men kept asking, ”Where is God?  Where is He?”  Elie answered that question in his heart.  He said to himself, “Here He is—He is hanging here on the gallows…”  When that boy was murdered, the men lost faith in God.  They did not understand how God could allow a child to be killed right in front of their faces.  Not only did they kill the boy, they made him struggle for his life before.  They felt that God was no longer with them and had abandoned them.  Elie completely lost all respect for God at this point.  The hanging of the child is a symbol of the Jewish race because children symbolize innocence.  The Jews were innocent.  They did not intentionally try to harm anyone else but they were punished.  Children are helpless most of the time and so were the Jews.  They could not control their fate.  They just had to go with the flow no matter how unfair it was because they had no control over the situation just like the boy.  They feared their fate would be the same.2)  The men kept asking, ”Where is God?  Where is He?”  Elie answered that question in his heart.  He said to himself, “Here He is—He is hanging here on the gallows…”  When that boy was murdered, the men lost faith in God.  They did not understand how God could allow a child to be killed right in front of their faces.  Not only did they kill the boy, they made him struggle for his life before.  They felt that God was no longer with them and had abandoned them.  Elie completely lost all respect for God at this point.  The hanging of the child is a symbol of the Jewish race because children symbolize innocence.  The Jews were innocent.  They did not intentionally try to harm anyone else but they were punished.  Children are helpless most of the time and so were the Jews.  They could not control their fate.  They just had to go with the flow no matter how unfair it was because they had no control over the situation just like the boy.  They feared their fate would be the same.

 What Elie means when he says that God is hanged upon the gallow of the young pipel is that God is going through this whole entire journey with these Jews. He is undergoing the suffering and pain that all of his people are going through. God was up there with those dying prisoners. He was with them and weeping with and for them. This is symbolic for the Jewish religion because the Jews believed in God and all of his miraculous ways. but they also believed that God was with them always. They would often sing or chant to God to help them feel his presence. With all of the bad things happening in ELie's life, i think that he believed that even though it was a tough time for everyone, and everyone had to suffer, God wasgoing through all of the suffering that His people were. God especially went through the suffering of watching his people fall under the temptation of Satan. The Jewish religion was very symbolic, but the followers and believers were very strong in their faith. The followers knew God was with them in their journey of struggle and hardship.

Very little acts of human "dignity" occured in this section of the story, or even in the camps themselves in reality. The "compassion" that is shown throughout this story has consisted of a few less beatings or an extra crumb of bread. We have truly never seen a real act of kindness given to any of the Jews that were suffering through this horrible fate.

When Elie says that God was hanged with the young pipel, he means that the idea of God and the hope that it gives are slowly being killed off by the SS. All the hope and soul of the Jewish people stuck in  these camps are being destroyed day in and day out. As they witness their brothers and sisters being brutely killed by hangings, beatings, and starvation, the will power of the Jews is being wiped out. Their hope in God and the salvation he will bring is being diminished by the atrocitys that the Nazis are commiting. Even when an Allied air raid hits the camp that they are being held at, the little spark of hope they recive is extinguished.

Throughout Elie’s days in Buna he surprisingly meets many compassionate people. When he first gets to the factory and is beaten so badly and the “French” girl comforts him giving him bread to ease his pain. Another showing of this is in his two friends that stay by his side, and help him to stay hopeful. He also encounters many of his leaders like the man who told him to run so he looked alive and well to avoid the selection. He also had the man who was with him in the hospital. He was always giving him advice, even though not always reliable he was still trying to help Elie. Last but not least he always had his father. No matter what his father was there for him. He gave him his knife to protect him, he would give him extra rations of bread, and he would take beating after beating to see his boy survive. Elie loses his faith in God because he does not see his work present in his days. Maybe these few people were God’s way of showing him that there is still good left in this world. These are tiny little seeds of faith that Elie just has yet to realize. If I were him I probably wouldn’t see them either I would be solely focused on the horrific things I saw daily. But even through the thick overpowering fog there is sunlight awaiting him. Whether it be near or far, Elie will one day reach it, and in doing so he will regain his faith in God.