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“Night” by Elie Wiesel is a true book about surviving the holocaust, It’s a truly touching book that represents the meaning of perseverance. We often see the SS talk to the Jews like they are literal dogs, Which eventually demeans the Jews and takes away their humanity. ’’Faster, you filthy dogs’’ (pg.85) an SS soldier shouted to Jews while they were being transferred to a different camp. This is a further representation of how the Nazis were greatly disrespecting Jews and taking away their hope for life. We also read very early in the book as a Nazi soldier says to the Jews “If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs’’ (pg.24) This is to instore fear in the Jews and to scare them into working because then they knew the consequences if they chose not to.
Throughout the novel, we often see how the Nazis put off the basic human requirements of the Jews in hopes that they would die faster. In the concentration camps, the living conditions were horrible and very few people were able to sustain life. The Jews were fed extremely small amounts of soup that sometimes had no ingredients at all. In one part of the novel, we read about how one man gives up his life for a serving of soup. Elie Wiesel writes, “We never thought to admire him…. Poor hero committing suicide for a ration of extra soup…in our minds, he was already dead.’’ (Pg.59)
Prisoners were forced to face extreme conditions while not wearing the right amount of clothing but it was assigned by the Nazis so they had to wear it. Elie Wiesel talks about how the Jews used what little hope they had left and persevered through the cold. ‘’We had transcended everything, death, fatigue, our herbal wishes. We were more potent than bloodless and hunger, stronger than the weapons and the desire to die…’’ (pg.87) Elie Wiesel is describing how the Jews still had hope, and deep inside they knew that they still had faith and perseverance. The Jews stayed under Nazi control and still managed to survive by some miracle. Elie Wiesel is one of the few who managed to survive the horrible grasp of the Nazis and the holocaust and he lives on to tell us about his traumatic experiences and the effect the Holocaust had on him and many others.
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