“Night” by Elie Wiesel Essay

Have you constantly been separated from your family? What if living wasnt guaranteed? The holocaust killed over eleven trillion people. The purpose of the holocaust was to eliminate the entire Jewish race. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family were separated. Elie was forced to take care of his father while his mother and babe were killed. The Jews freedom, identity, and sense of hope were taken from them to make the Jews sense less than human. Is freedom really free?In Night, they lost their freedom when the Germans made a new edict that stated, All Jews are prohibited from leaving their put up for three days under penalty of death (page 10). in any case, the Germans stated that, From this act on, you Jews are under the authority of the German Army (pages 23-24). Without the Jews freedom they couldnt fight back. With that in mind, the Germans took aside the Jews sense of hope as well. In order to do this, however, the Germans practically starved all the Jews to dea th At that moment in time, all that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup and cheek of stale bread (page 52). The Germans also killed most of the Jews for little things like backtalk, victorious an extra ration of food, or pilfering from the kitchen. To make the Jews feel less than human, the Germans took a representation their identities. They did this by taking away their name and referring to them as only a number. They even tattooed that number onto their skin. This was so the Jews would not forget that the Germans were of more time value then they were, and that Germans were expenditure more than just a number and worth more then Jewish people in general.Another way was by placing them all in one type of surrounding (concentration camps). Also by forcing them all to wear a yellow star to hand over the world that they were Jews. By doing that they were hoping to eventually break them down and make them feel ashamed for being Jewish. This is what the Jewish people went th rough, and the hardships every single Jew moldiness go through to, hopefully, see the sun tomorrow. Freedom is of no phthisis anymore. Identity has vanished into thin air. The Jews sense of hope turned into ashes along with them. If you were there, in Elies shoes, would you want to keep on living?