Night4
Note: Although Night is not necessarily a memoir--as discussed in the "Overall Analysis and Themes" section--I will often refer to it as a memoir, since that is the genre which closest approaches the mixture of testimony, deposition and emotional truth-telling that is in Night. Finally: it is clear that Eliezer is meant to serve, to a great extent, as the author Elie Weisel's surrogate and representative. With alterations of minor details, what happens to Eliezer is what happened to Weisel himself during the Holocaust. Please bear in mind, however, that there is a difference between the persona of Night's narrator, Eliezer, and that of the author, Elie Weisel. Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Hungarian Jewish teenager. At the book's opening, Eliezer is studying the Cabbala, Jewish mysticism. His instruction is cut short, however, when his teache
The Jewish arrivals are stripped, shaved, and disinfected; throughout, their captors treat them with almost unimaginable cruelty. Eventually, they are marched from Birkenau to the main camp, Auschwitz itself, and eventually arrive in Buna, a work camp where Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. Under slave-labor conditions, severely malnourished and decimated by the frequent "selections," the Jews take solace in caring for each other, in religion, and in Zionism. But with the conditions of the camps, and the ever- present danger of death, many of the prisoners themselves begin to slide into cruelty, concerned only with personal survival: sons begin to abandon and abuse their fathers. Eliezer himself begins to lose his humanity, and his faith. After months in the camp, Eliezer--poorly clothed in the freezing cold--undergoes an operation for a foot injury
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Approximate Word count = 593
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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