- - - Are Eliezer's actions regarding his dying father honorable? Explain your answer.
- - - Why is the memoir called Night?
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- - Is the Holocaust the last major human catsptrophe? I mean,
seriously, this kind of thing couldn't ever happen again, right?
Explain.
i wouldn't say honorable. I would say more instinctive. Eliezer and the other prisoners are succumbing to animal instincts. If an animal falls behind, it is left behind. Also, when the siren for the prisoners goes off, Eliezer leaves his father because Eliezer is so used to responding to the siren. He can't help it, he is basically preprogrammed to do certain actions now.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is called Night because Eliezer's whole memoir in the concentration camps is dark. At night, there is no sunshine, or happiness. It is gloomy and mysterious. Eliezer doesn't understand how these actions can take place. He is not happy obviously. His life is ruined, his whole family is dead, what does he have to live for?
Last human catastrophe? I think not. ISIS over in the middle east is doing a mini version of this right now. They are not into the millions yet, but they are incredibly organized and know what to do or not do just like Hitler did. Could this happen again? With ISIS it is on its way. It happened once it could very well happen again. Will it be as successful? Who knows. Only time will tell.
ReplyDeleteEliezer’s actions regarding his dying father are in fact honorable, because he overcomes his selfish temptations and does his best to keep him alive. Eliezer gives away his ration and avoids providing his father with water (to keep him from dehydrating). He begs in vain to get the doctor to help, but while no help is provided, Eliezer still gave it all he had. Put in a situation like this, he is being a very honorable son and person.
The memoir is called Night because it is a metaphor for a very dark time in Eliezer’s life. In Wiesel’s description, he mentions the length of this darkness, always repeating the mention of how long the night was. This is an indication perhaps that the torture, suffering, and death of the Jewish people was seemingly endless. No matter the level of hope that anyone had, hanging on to life was futile, because like the day turns into night, any hopeful feelings would soon turn to despair. Any chance of future would soon diminish.
Human catastrophes occur every day. Reading the newspaper or watching the evening news is a good indication of that. One the size of the Holocaust will likely occur again, but when is unknown. History repeats itself, and human nature is unchanging, so given the right conditions, a large genocide will occur one day. It may not be for hundreds, even thousands of years, but eventually the Holocaust will be long forgotten just as the Dzungar genocide or the Circassian Genocide was to the world in the early 1900’s.
1) Eliezer's actions are very honorable at this point. For being in the state that he is, he could have easily given into the temptation to abandon his father. What keeps him from doing that is all of the other father-son bonds he saw that were thrown away. Sons like the Rabbi's saw their dad as a weakness and left him behind in the death march. When Eliezer saw that, he prayed to God to never do that to his own father. When other Jews in the camp would abuse his sick father, Eliezer would make sacrifices to keep him safe. Eliezer would give his father fod instead of taking it for himself, contrary to what others told him to do. In a situation that was so individually dominant, towards the end of his fathers life, Eliezer acted honorably to show respect and love.
ReplyDelete2) There is religious allusions throughout Night, but the most obvious one is why the memoir is actually entitled Night. The bible begins with the creation of Earth where there was complete darkness. This is why Weisel emphasizes the darkness that comes with the night, to allude to it being "Godless". He also mentions the night when his suffering is the worst. It was night when his father got the noticed that the Jews were being deported, when they arrived in Auschwitz, and when they began their death march from Buna.
3) Although I refuse to believe that something as terrible like the Holocaust would ever happen again, that is the enabler. The thought to people in America is outrageous because how often is it recognized? I am the first to admit that I am oblivious to the poverty and cruelty that occurs right outside the United States' door. But who is to say that was not the case for every 17 year old girl at the beginning of World War II? america shut the door before anything got inside. I am sure it was much more extreme back then, but there are countries all over the world right now at war with themselves. Even if there are not concentration camps set up across the world, there are people's own personal living hell. I cannot say whether the Holocaust will be the last human catastrophe because I can only hope that there isn't. People can only hope that the doors will not be shut if faced with a threat to humanity, but rather actions will take place to prevent repetition of history.
His actions are not honorable. He sat there and watched his father die. He could not do anything to save him, but to leave him alone in a bunk gasping for air while just watching from afar is unacceptable. The camp changed everyone who was in it and made them selfish savages. It was not the people’s fault that they turned into that, it was the soldiers. There had to be some shed of humanity left in Elie that would have at least sat or slept with his father that night just to have him die with some peace and comfort.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is called night because it shows the dark devastating side of humanity. During this time period, the world was practically in the dark about what was happing to the Jews in the camps. It shows that loving one another is nonexistent; that evil takes form in humans and their actions. The starvation and deprivation that the Jewish had to endure highlights a dark time for the world. It is also called night because of the darkening of Elie’s spirits and faith. Before the camp he was a young man who loved his God. But as time progressed his personality kept becoming darker and his light was fading.
I do think it could happen again. Those who were involved were persuaded with propaganda and threats. Now that we have advanced as a society, that possibility is increased. It may not be as blatant as the propaganda that was used but it could begin as subliminal messages ensuing hate upon one particular group of individuals who may be different than others. Whether we like to hear it or not, everyone is the root of all evil. If one can change and persuade the mindset of millions it is certain that this could happen again. During the holocaust the US was slightly unaware of what was going on or did not want to be involved. That just shows that people are willing to put such evil out of their minds when it is not where it can hurt them. It is also shown that when one goes into power their people are afraid of them until the point where they are forced to submit in such places as Russia and Korea.
His actions are honorable in a sense. At the end Eliezer begins to mentally detach from his father, rightfully so. In the camp, it is every man for himself. We see on the train that the man's son beat him for his bread. There is no relationships in these camps because conditions are so life-threatening. There is only room to worry for yourself. So when Eliezer's thoughts of abandonment creep into his mind and he doesn't act on them, he could be considered honorable.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir continually uses the word night throughout the story. Night is the hardest time for Eliezer and his father. The night's seem the longest and hardest to bare. So this entire journey could be considered Eliezer's longest night explaining the title. Night is also the darkest time of the day. These events are the darkest time for the world and more personally, Eliezer and his father. So this book being called Night represents the darkness surrounding the entire memoir.
Yes the Holocaust was the last major human catastrophe. There is nothing in history like these events. There is nothing as murderous, that killed so many people. I do not think the world would even let such events happen again. The world has learned their lesson and nothing has been or will be as dark and evil as the Holocaust.
Eliezer’s actions with his father’s death are honorable. Since day one at the camps, Eliezer has remained by his dad side and helped him through every tough situation to keep him alive. He was his father’s support system. Even though he got frustrated with his father when he wanted to give up, he always pushed him to keep going and to stay strong because the day will come that they will once be free. Although he did forget about his father and left when he heard the sound of the bell, it was his natural instinct to react and obey the officers. He soon did realize he left his father but went back to look for him to make sure he is still alive. Since then he did everything he could to keep him alive by feeding him his rations and providing him with water. He accepted the fact that his father wasn’t going to live to see the end but still remained positive.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel mentioned many times within the memoir that “the nights seemed endless”. This line helps establish why he chose the title “Night”. Since the Jews have been tortured, beaten, shot, or cremated, the thoughts that ran through their minds constantly were “are we going to make it out alive or not?” The cold winter nights symbolized the lives of the Jews. It was a dark time where living conditions were so bare that even the chilling gust of wind could kill someone instantly.
History tends to repeat itself multiple times. I do believe that we have the power to cause this situation to recur again in history. Although it may seem like we mostly have everything under control, its wishful thinking. At any point in time this could happen. We may not want to believe it can but all it takes is for a couple countries to start war with each other and things can escalate from there.
Everything Eliezer did for his dad was very honorable. He did everything that he could to help him survive. He could have been selfish and keep his father's rations for himself. But he even tried to give his father some of his own rations to help him survive. This is very honorable.
ReplyDeleteThe nights during the Holocaust were described as very long and torturous. The nights are symbolic of the the entire story. Very long, torturous, and dark can be used to describe it. The nights and the time in the camps seemed never ending.
The 9/11 attack of the twin towers was another human catsptrophe. It may not be to the same scale of the Holocaust but it was still a catsptrophe. Many nations around the world contacted the US after this and offered support.
1. 1. Eliezer’s actions regarding his dying father are honorable considering the situation they are in. Throughout the memoir, he has a constant battle within about the way he feels about his father. He sometimes considers him a burden, but then comes to realize what his father really means to him. During the last day’s of his father’s life, he really does try and help. He gives up his ration of soup and bread and well as always be by his bedside. The most important, and most honorable, thing he does is give his father hope. This is a hopeless situation and Eliezer more than likely knew his father would die. However, he gave his father hope and told him they would soon be freed. This helped his father to continue to fight for his life. If Eliezer didn’t believe in him, he would have died much sooner than he did. The Holocaust made Eliezer a crueler man than he was before, but he was honorable concerning his father’s death.
ReplyDelete2. 2. The memoir is called Night for many reasons. The first and most obvious would be the short poem that Elie incorporated into the beings of the story. He tells 7 different statements about his first night in the camp and how much it affected him. He will never forget that night and it has changed his life forever. Another reason this memoir is called night is because of the things that happen at night. The nighttime always seems to bring the scariest of things to Eliezer. The most mysterious things. The nights are what he fears he will make it through and they again affect him greatly. Lastly, the title of Night can be looked at as a metaphor for the lasting affect The Holocaust had on him. It was a dark time in his life that will leave a dark impression on him forever. He will always remember his thoughts of wanting his own father to die so he not longer had to care. The darkness of his thoughts and actions are expressed in this one word title.
3. 3. The Holocaust is not the last major human catastrophe. The Holocaust had camps of millions of people of the same race being killed. As history and the world have developed, camps like these can and will not happen. However, targeting and killing a specific group of people has most certainly happened and should be looked at as a catastrophe as well. The civil rights movement could be compared to this event. It was targeting African Americans, not necessarily trying to kill them all off, but put them in a different class than the rest of America. They were looked at as different and put to work, and many killed in the efforts to stop this just like in the Holocaust. The segregation of specific groups has gone on forever. The Holocaust is a major event because of the brutality, but other movements are revolved around the same cause.
1.) He survived long enough so that the SS would not come to his bunk and beat him as well, but as soon as they left, he went down and watched over his father for an hour or more until he fell asleep. I do not think it was courageous or honorable in that he should've stayed by his father's side while he was being beaten, but didn't. But it was the smart thing to do. He couldn't have stopped the SS from beating him, or kept his father from speaking, nor could he have stayed by his side no matter what. He did the right thing to do.
ReplyDelete2.) He calls the memoir Night to illustrate a few things. First, the fact that while all this was going on, the world could've stepped in and stopped Hitler from the start, but countries like France, Great Britain, and the U.S. felt isolated and didn't want to get involved in other countries' affairs. They stayed tucked away in the dark; Night. But that was not the main point of the title. Wiesel choose Night because Night always occurs when suffering is worst for him, and it's presence reflects Eliezer’s belief that he lives in a world without God. The first time Eliezer mentions that “night fell” is when his father is interrupted while telling stories and informed about the deportation of Jews. Similarly, it is night when Eliezer first arrives at Birkenau/Auschwitz, and it is night—specifically “pitch darkness”—when the prisoners begin their horrible run from Buna.
3.) Factually speaking, no. The Rwandan Genocide in 1994 in where almost a million people died in about a month is an easy comparison to make. But the Rwandan genocide was full of internal power struggles and the minority oppressing the majority, and political and social chaos ensued, added with a weak government on top of all that. Germany had none of those issues at the time. So if you just mean any old "major human catastrophe", no, the Holocaust was not the last. But if you mean a systematic extermination of a particular race or ethnic group by a nationally recognized government, no. I do not believe any country currently, with relatively strong international relationships among powers, the democratization of information with the Internet, the liberalization of economic and social policies worldwide in the last century, and historical hindsight, that another mass Holocaust is in the future for humankind. There will always be countries that will become so fed up with oppression from other major powers and economic hardship, they will rebel and revolt. They'll seek for truth, fairness, and justice. But I don't think the world will let another Holocaust happen. Not in my lifetime atleast.
Eliezer’s actions regarding his dying father are not honorable because half of him had turned into what he had hoped not to become, and this was to give up on his father for his own survival. He regretted feeding his father, because anything he gave him would be wasted because he was sure to die soon anyway. Eliezer also completely ignores that his father has been beat by an SS officer, because is afraid of what the officer will do to him if he stands up for his father. Eliezer also feels shame that when his father died, he did not cry, instead he felt relief because he no longer had to watch over him, and now he could worry only about himself.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is called Night because Wiesel describes both the physical darkness and how his soul has grown to become dark, as well. From the time he entered the camp when he saw a truckload of children being slaughtered, Wiesel realized how cruel people were treated in the camp. He finally experienced all the rumors he heard first hand, and noticed how real everything was. Also, by watching a child being hung in the middle of the gallows, Eliezer had come to the conclusion that God was dead, and that an all-powerful being simply could not let something as horrific as this take place. Wiesel also noticed that the nights seemed to be endless, as he mentioned countless times throughout the memoir. The constant torture, and the death march they were forced to take in the middle of winter, proved how difficult it would be to survive in the camp, and that relationships with anyone would be difficult to maintain because of the constant struggle for survival.
The Holocaust was not the last major human catastrophe. Many people simply could not believe the events that took place during the Holocaust, and that nothing like this would ever happen near US soil. However, shortly after WWII ended, African Americans were truly beginning to be fought for, to have equality throughout the nation. However, numerous riots occurred during peaceful protests, leaving countless African American men, women, and children beaten or dead. Also, Also, in the Middle East, ISIS has been slaughtering hundreds of innocent people by beheading, and even setting a large group of children on fire. The problem with society today is that actions like these are forgotten, or are put aside. If society keeps this up, history is doomed to repeat itself.
1.) No they were not honorable. One of the first things they were told was that the only way to survive was together as comrades. They told each other that they would only survive together. Keeping one's word should have been a huge moral dilemma, since it was one of the few morals he could keep pace with. Eliezer had the strength to outrun his father and be trampled, so he could have had the strength to attack the guards. It was wise for him not to do so, but he shouldn't justify his actions by saying he was too weak.
ReplyDelete2.) One potential reason is because of the multiple times he describes the nights as being terrible and endless. At the beginning of the book he says it started the longest night of his life. The real reason however is because it covers the physical darkness of the events and the darkness of the soul. Eliezer thinks of how bad he is becoming, and shows it by ignoring his father or by leaving him in the run, or by ignoring his father's punishment. It captures the evil being done by the nazis and by others who poorly treat the inmates.
3.) Who says that this is the last human catastrophe. We are certainly capable of doing this to ourselves again or possibly worse since the development of weapons of mass destruction. It would only take one person with power who goes unchecked and becomes drunk with power or who seeks out a misguided goal like Hitler did. We have not evolved past war in the past 70 years. We have evolved past how much of it is shown to the public, and not because of government dissent, but because we have grown weak in what we can "handle" viewing. Humans are so egotistical both from an evolutionary standpoint and a personal one that they believe in the illusion of power. Power only exists so long as those under subjegation grant those in power with that power. When they get that power they abuse it and then the ruled fear them. Then they refuse to revolt and the power just gets passed on to the next idiot, who may trick society into thinking he's not so bad only to do all his dirty work behind a curtain like taking extra money. The point is that as long as we keep handing around power, this can still happen again.
ReplyDeleteThe last thing that Eliezer would have desired from their experiences under the Nazi regime was to escape with anything less than his entire family, returning to a life or normalcy and serenity that they had long ago forgotten. But life was not so forgiving, and the reality that he met became apparent from the first separation of him from his mother and his sister. Of all people, Eliezer did not want to see his father succumb to death the same way that the others did. Just as they adapted to the sorrowful scenes to which they had been made witness, they knew that they had no choice but to accept their fate. Eliezer felt the shackles relinquish their grip ever so subtly when his father passed away, but it was not in vain. He harbored no ill will, although he wished to forget the thought that pulled him to leave his father to die. He did so to honor his father's wishes, and was therefore honorable in that right. This question then brings up the idea of whether or not death can be honorable. Take for instance military men that died trying to stop the Holocaust, and all those that have died in vain to oppressors that held them down. It all depends on the causation they had to expend and accept their mortality. What cause had given them, the oppressors, the right to stray so far from the path of neutrality, to conceive the notion of the final solution? The actions that killed Eliezer's father were not without misery, and were heinous in every right. But Eliezer's reaction, his willingness to overcome the weakness of sorrow that hung him over the shadow of Death, that is honorable. His ability to overcome everything, even the death of his family; it all shows his resolve to live, to succeed his family, and to stand tall even when his bones show through his skin.
ReplyDeleteMen have come to both fear and dwell in the night. Since the beginning of time, men clung to the light above to surface their hours of sweat, labor, and effort to survive. But times have since changed. Not only has the time passed, and have we evolved to exist in between those times, but there is no longer a reason to wait for day to illustrate the sufferance and experiences of men. Eliezer's experiences happened in the seemingly perpetual darkness that blotted his vision, masking him of his identity throughout the novel. The title not only illustrates the covering of his identity, but also the shadow of Death that is symbolized by the veil of night over the earth. The silence of night stands for the silence of the world that at first ignored the sufferance of these fallen people, and choose to allow it continue without their intervention. Night is draped over the entirety of the novel for its literary purpose, and for the solitary confinement reflected in Wiesel's real life experiences in that terrible time.
ReplyDeleteAs I would define a catastrophe is any event that brings disorder, chaos, or inhumanity to a scenario, people, or culture, that tends to inhabit varying degrees of evil. Catastrophes occur everyday through atrocity, existing over seas in Russia and Ukraine, as well as in the cradle of civilization in the Middle East, and the havoc stirred by ISIL, ISIS, IS, or whatever they decide to go by at the time. Along with that, political catastrophes ensue daily (not unlike what birthed Hitler's rise), greatly upsetting the balance of peace in the world. In Africa, and in other undeveloped countries, mass genocides continue to occur while the world sits at arms length, involving themselves in a completely passive-aggressive manor. For instance, the U.S. is happy to send Israel war equipment but refuses to put boots on the ground. The Holocaust is by no means the last major human catastrophe, especially factoring in natural causes, man-made disasters, and the other elements of the earth that aim to bring it down. However, life is only as brief as a single, long night. It requires us to learn to see through the darkness and make it to the light of the next day. Only then can we see life for what it truly is, and survive through all the darkness that plagues our humanity.
ReplyDeleteI believe his actions are honorable because he stayed with his father until the end. He made sure he gave him his ration of food and water even though he could have ate it himself to increase his odds of survival. Although he had thoughts of abandoning his father, this could have been a way for him to accept his father's death. His decision to stay by his father's side throughout their entire time at camp is honorable.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is called Night for the reason that the most suffering occurred at night. This was the time when he felt the most alone and scared. The first night at Auschwitz is the night that changed his life. That was when he had first seen the crematorium. This was the moment in time when he had first begun to lose faith in God and his will to live. The night also symbolizes his life without God. God brings light to the world and his continual description of the night is meant to describe how God is no longer in his life.
The Holocaust was not the last major human catastrophe. There have been many genocides that have followed this event. In the 1990's there was the Rwandan Genocide. In this massacre, the major ethnic group of Rwanda killed thousands of people in the minority ethnic groups. They blamed them for the problems in the country. This was similar to the reason for the Holocaust. These events continue to occur because there will always be hatred in the world.
--- I believe that his actions were honorable. Eliezer obeyed his every command and wish before he died. Some of his actions, such as giving his father the water may bot have been the best thing to do, but I agree that if his father wanted it, he should have gave it to him to ease his suffering in his father;s mind. The only questionable action was when Eliezer just watched as his father was beat by the SS officer. Eliezer knew how weak his father was, and maybe it would have been better to not intervene. I think Eliezer is beginning to understand that at this point his own survival is what matters most, and all along, his dad just wanted him to survive, so I think looking after himself was honorable, as it what his father would want.
ReplyDelete--- For the more obvious reasons, we hear the reference to night so much throughout the story. Probably the most notable reference to it was on the first night, when Eliezer breaks out of his story to recount the horrifying experience that first night in camp. Most of the deadly situations seem to have taken place at night, such as the death march. Also, another reason this memoir is called night may be due to the fact that the abandonment of Eliezers faith, led to a world of darkness known as the concentration camps. Eliezer eventually recovered his faith in God after the holocaust, so I believe the memoir is called Night due to the fact that the loss of his faith led to a dark, inhumane fight for survival with no help from God.
--- I cannot say, as I obviously cannot determine history, but I'm not going to say it couldn't happen again. Times have changed, technology is advancing, and if something like this was to happen again, it could be stopped sooner than the holocaust. To me, I feel like something like this would be highly unlikely, but then again, I do not know history or if it will repeat itself.
I believe they are honorable for the most part. Throughout the sickness his father suffered, Eliezer cared for him. He brought him soup, water, and tried to encourage him, even though it didn't seem to work since his father was so ill and battered. Although, a couple of actions Eliezer did regarding his father made me wonder. I understand that Eliezer had rules to follow concerning sleep, but I feel a little more compassion could have been put towards his father.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is called night because the nighttime symbolized suffering throughout the text. During the long and awful march the prisoners of Auschwitz had to run, it was nightime, and Eliezer made note of it. Night in the story represents a loss of hope and that more struggles and horrors were to come.
I think it is the last. I mean, it is possible for something like that to happen, but the odds of that happening are very small and being able to pull something like that off would be extrememly difficult. Nowadays, if a group were to try to do something like that, I think quick action would be taken against it, causing it to fall.
---Eliezer did everything he possible could up to his last few minutes of life. At his fathers last few minutes he could not help him because if he did Eliezer would also be beaten. So yes his actions were honorable because of everything he did for his father even though his death was inevitable.
ReplyDelete--- The book Night is called Night because it describes the events of the Holocaust. Night usually represents dark times while daylight means something happy. It turned Eliezer's life into one long night that in a way will plague him forever. Which is why the memoir is called Night.
--- One can hope that the Holocaust will be the last major human catastrophe but judging by human nature it most likely will not be. There is always going to be bad people like Hitler out there and all they have to do in manipulate their way to where they need to be. The quote, "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world," from the half life series actually describes this. If it happened once, why cant it happen again?
1) Eliezer's actions regarding his dying father are honorable, though not perfect. He seeks out the help of a doctor, then ignores the second doctor who he knows will be of no help, he gives his father his own soup and bread rations, he trades bread in order to sleep near his father, he stays near him as much as possible, he talks and listens to him, he gives him coffee and water. Could he have done more? Yes, he could have defended him against others, he could have been more attentive, he could have fought his desperate thoughts a little more valiantly. In retrospect, he feels terrible for all that he didn't do and say, but considering he was a starving person in a concentration camp at the end of WW2, I think that Eliezer did much more than most of his companions would have done.
ReplyDelete2) The memoir is called Night because Eliezer's entire deportation/Auschwitz/death March experience was like one endless night, filled with nightmare after nightmare. At night, one's perceptions of even the most concrete things change. Evil abounds at night: crimes take place, silence reigns. In these formative years of his growing up, Eliezer experiences a great change of perception of good and evil, right and wrong, because of his experience with the nazis. He experiences an evil and a silence hissen, as if by the veil of an endless and horrible night.
3) The holocaust is not the last major human catastrophe. As long as there are humans, there will be misunderstanding. As long as there are humans who live in a fallen world such as this, there will be evil and suffering and death. The same problems that fueled the holocaust and caused so many people to die, have not ceased to exist - religious differences still exist, a feeling of superiority still exists, weak and vulnerable human nature still exists, weapons and technologies still exist, the fear of the misunderstood still exists... There is no reason to believe that human beings who are still walking around with the same ingredients that caused the holocaust, could not cause similarly real and enormous evil. ISIS, in their decapitations and burning of children is no more gentle or understanding than the Nazi soldiers...
- No, he just got up and left because of a bell ringing. He left the man who had been there for him through everything. There is no honor in that. He may have been a bit of a hinderance to him but you still can not just leave your father to die.
ReplyDelete-The memoir is called Night because many of the events that take place in the book take place at night. Also in the night, we are our most fearful and our most vulnerable.
-This kind of thing could not happen. We have too much technology and we are too smart. Mass deportations are possible but not extermination like this. The only way a genocide could happen like this is if we went back to technology of before the 1800s.
I believe that his actions toward his father are honorable. Eliezer knows his father is going to die yet he is doing everything he can to keep him alive. He gives his father his soup and bread even though Eliezer needs to survive himself. His actions in this way are honorable because he could've just let his father die like the German man wanted him too but he didn't. He stayed with his father until the very end, the very last second that he died. He actually started to care more about his fathers survival more than his own at the end.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is called night because Wielsel always describes the night as never ending. Never ending can also describe how his days were in the concentration camps. He talked about how he didn't know the day from the night at times because his days were never ending. He is comparing the night to his time in the camp as never ending.
There is the possibility that something like it could happen again just not as big as this. I mean right now ISIS is trying to wipe out the Shah's. Although this isn't happening here it is sorta like the Nazi's trying to wipe out all the Jews. I don't think something as huge as this would be able to occur in the United States.
Eliezer begins to suffer an internal conflict regarding the burden of his father during his last months in the concentration camps. At times, deep in his conscience something is telling him to wish that his father would just die so that he wouldn't have to worry about taking care of him anymore, but at the same time, Eliezer does not want to live without his father. He cannot see him go. Though his actions may not be entirely honorable, they are justified. With all that Eliezer has suffered, it is easy to see where his contradiction arises from. He needs to worry about himself, but his family love is telling him that he just cannot let his father die. The Nazis have almost made a corpse out of him, not physically, but mentally. His soul has died. He has become institutionalized, obeying all orders and sirens no matter what situation he is in. This is why he leaves his dying father when the bell rings without even realizing it. Eliezer cannot control the devil on his shoulder telling him to leave his father, but he at least suppresses it.
ReplyDeleteThe memoir is titles Night for obvious reasons, but also metaphorical ones. The obvious reason is because of how much Elie Wiesel mentions the nights within the memoir. He describes his first night and how he will never forget it. Several of his most significant moments within the memoir are centered within the night. The nights for Eliezer lasted forever because sunshine never showed inside the concentration camps. There was never happiness within the wretched place. It was dark and cold and unpredictable, just like the night. This is why Wiesel describes his nights as endless. For him, they never did end. Those nights were nights he would never forget.
Honestly, it is hard to say if the Holocaust could be the last human catastrophe. Though in a day like today it seems as though it could never happen again, nothing is impossible. During the 30s and 40s, a catastrophe seemed impossible to the Jews, yet it still happened. They often mentioned something like "This isn't the Middle Ages, something like this could not happen", but it did. Some humans are inclined to perform evil, and others aren't always inclined to stop it. No act of war or genocide is entirely preventable, and something like the Holocaust could definitely happen again. People can only hope that it is stopped before it gets as heinous and devastating as it was.
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1. Eliezer admits that deep down inside himself that he feels freed by his fathers death. Even though he hates himself for wanting to be rid of his father, he feels that the responsibility of looking after his father is lessening his own chances at survival. I think Eliezers actions regarding his fathers death is honorable because his father didn’t want to live. Eliezer did everything he could for him to try to keep going but his father already decided he wanted to die. Eliezer never abandoned his father, he was just to sick to go on. He gave his food to his father even though he was reluctant, which shows that he cares about him. He helped his father as long as he could and now he can focus on himself more to make sure he survives.
2. I think Weisel named his memoir “Night” because it was the darkest period of his life. In the book Eliezer says, "So much has happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense of time. When had we left our houses? And the ghetto? And the train? Was it only a week? One night- one single night”. I think this quote explains the name of the memoir because Eliezer felt that all the years he was in the concentration camp that it felt like one long night. Nights are dark and gloomy and I feel like that’s how he felt for all those years until it finally ended.
3. I think the holocaust is the last major human catastrophe. If people were singled out because of their race or religion, I believe that social media would call attention to it quickly for the world to see and take action against those committing deplorable acts.
1. Eliezer's actions are honorable to an extent. He did go and look for his father when he didn't see him , but the thoughts in his head were not honorable. He second guessed himself a lot during this period. He wondered if he actually wanted to find his father , did he want to be free? He felt ashamed after pondering on these questions , but managed to find his father in time. A couple of days later his father died of dysentery.
ReplyDelete2. I think Eliezer chose the name Night for his book to set a mysterious tone to the book and to also show people that these were the darkest and the most painful time of his life. He picked night as a metaphor for how he felt. After what he went through he probably felt alone, scared, angry. So he wanted to compare that to night time, were its dark,scary and eerie. The Holocaust was sad, depressing, and full of gloomy and "dark" memories like how the night sky is dark.
3. I think the Holocaust is the last major human catastrophe , or at least how the Holocaust played out. I don't think there will be anything like the Holocaust to happen now in modern times. There is to much technology and connections to other countries to let something so horrific to happen again. I imagine there will be something terrible that could happen in the future , but hopefully not as major like the Holocaust.
ReplyDelete1. His actions are honorable because he does whatever he can to try and help his father. He gets him food , water , coffee whatever his dad wants. Even when people are telling Eliezer that he should keep his food and his dad is dead he still tries to help him. He doesn't let him sit down outside because he knows that he will die, so he yells at him for him to get up. Therefore his actions are honorable.
ReplyDelete2. It is called Night because his attitude changes from day to night and he is constantly talking about his emotions at night time. That is why it is called Night.
3. It is not the last human catsptrophe. In today's time look at ISIS, they are killing inisant people for no reason. There have been other situations similar to this in other parts of the country so clearly this can and is happening again in some parts of the world.
I don't think his actions are honorable but, I don't feel they are un-honorable. Elizer at this point of the story was like a trained animal. For example when Eli's father is laying down dying on the ground and Eli attempts to help but as soon as the alarm sounds to get into rank he forgets completely of his father and thinks of himself again. Being that his process is so embedded and familiar to him, he's practically trained to just do as told no matter what is happening in his life at the present time. Therefore I feel as though it's hard to judge his actions regarding his father as either honorable, or un-honorable.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason he called his memoir Night is because Night, is a time of day where everything is dark and mysterious, making events that are to come un-predictable, and mysterious. The author used Night as a title because this book takes place in a time when everything was dark and where there was absolutely no glimmer of hope, or joy.
I feel like things such as this happen all the time just not on a scale such as this. I defiantly feel like there are certain countries around the world that do have the power and the allies to do something such as this again. If a disaster such as the Holocaust were to happen again I don't think it would be on such a large scale. But horrific events could defiantly happen that are similar to the atrocities that happened in the Holocaust.
1.) I believe Eliezer's actions toward his dying father are honorable. He may have very selfish thoughts such as thinking that it would be almost a relief if his father did die. However, Eliezer does not treat him in this way. He does whatever he can. He says if he can't live on earth with his father there is no point. He doesn't realize until later that by giving his father his extra ration of bread or his left over soup, he's really harming himself.
ReplyDelete2.) The memoir is called Night because of how many references he uses about the Night time in the book. He'll say how the Night was endless. He used the word Night in his poem. He discusses the long 43 mile journey they went through at Night. I think he called it Night because at night, it's dark and gives an eery feeling. This is also how the work camps felt. They weren't pleasant and they were negative just like the way the nighttime can be.
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ReplyDeleteI don't believe that this was the last human catstrophe. Like we talk about all the time, everyone in them has evil. Some of us just hold it in or don't show it. Since the Holocaust we have had 9/11, mass shootings in schools, malls, movie theaters. These can't nearly be compared to the Holocaust but they're all forms of evil. Slavery was something that happened before the Holocaust which shows that this wasn't the first awful thing to happen to a mass group of people. It surely won't be the last, which is a very unsettling feeling.
-- I would have to say Eliezer's actions are pretty honorable under the situation they were under, he could not of saved his father but he did keep him alive the best that he could. He had a choice of giving his father his rations or keeping them both for himself, although he says he regrets it he still does it because he does try to keep positive through this whole thing. Even though he left his father when the sirens goes off you can't blame him if he didn't he also would of died which wouldn't help his father any way if you recall he thinks his father depends on him and hes not going to do much good if he is dead.
ReplyDelete-- The memoir is called night to show the darkness through everything just like night time. The darkness in the souls of the Nazis and the dark and evil they have pushed upon the jews, they succeeded in making some jews commit evil they never would of thought about doing before. They sculpted them into what they wanted them to be like.
--I think the world can encounter another human catastrophe, right now we are just desensitized to everything happening a school shooting is still sad but its not as shocking as it would of been years ago. Another example is ISIS because they are killing so many people with such ease and every day the numbers are increasing but nothing is happening yet. I feel as though the world is becoming more evil each day and one day there is going to be a huge human catastrophe.
1. Eliezer has very honorable actions at this point in the memoir. The way he cares for his father and never leaves him shows his traits. He could have easily left his father and tried to survive on his own without anything holding him back but he did not choose this. He chose to stay with his father even with the conditions he was in. Eliezer say the other Jews in the camp abandoning their fathers and Eliezer prayed to God that he would not end up like them. After seeing what the Rabbi’s son did to him, he wanted to stay with his father through the roughest times which shows how much of an honorable person he is.
ReplyDelete2. Throughout Night there is religious allusions however the bible begins with the creation of Earth and how there was complete darkness which is why the memoir got this name. Weisel emphasizes the darkness that comes with the night and shows that there is no God because of the dark, “Godless” he calls it. He also says how the night is when everyone suffers the most. When the news of the Jews being deported was heard, it was night time, when they began their death march from Buna, it was night, and lastly when they arrived in Auschwitz, and it was night.
3. I hope and hope that there will never be anything like the Holocaust again. It was terrible and sickens me to think about it. I am not too sure that is will be the last major human catastrophe even though I hate to say it. Putting people into different classes like we do and putting down people shows that it can lead into something big. The segregation will go on forever I believe. Something should not go to this extreme like the Holocaust in this day and age, however you never know what could happen with our generation and the things that we hear on the news.