Misery-----Night by Elie Wiesel
The autobiographical novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, describes his horrifying experiences and his physical and mental misery throughout the true event of the Holocaust. The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word "misery" as prolonged or extreme suffering. This word fits this horrible tale of murder and inhumanity to man perfectly. Elie suffers physical misery by starvation and certain types of tortures. Prior to his placement into the concentration camps, Elie always had food to eat everyday. Talking about his hunger, he says "At about noon they brought us soup: a plate of thick soup for each person. Tormented though I was by hunger, I refused to touch it. I was still the spoiled child I had always been. My father swallowed my ration"(39). During the transporting of the captives to Buchenwald, German workmen throw pieces of bread into one of the prison cars for entertainment. The prisoners become barbaric, trying for the scarce amount of nourishment. One man, desperately hungry, kills his own father
In addition to Wiesel's physical suffering, he also struggles to survive mental misery. At the beginning of the book Elie has a very strong faith in God and the Jewish religion, but this faith gets tested when the Nazi's move him from his small town. Elie does not have any choice but to deal with the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God at the early age of fifteen. As the days go by, frequent selections would take place. A man with a little stick decides who will live and who will die. To the right you live, to the left, you die. As Wiesel watches the evil that exists, his belief in the existence of God continues to deteriorate. During this, Wiesel asks, "Where is my God? Where is he?"(61). One day when Wiesel comes back from a day's work, he sees three gallows being assembled. The whole camp does not have any choice but to witness the hangings. Among the three people that would die that day, one, a young boy, in which Wiesel wondered what this innocent child had done to deser
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Approximate Word count = 693
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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