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Summary Of Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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chapter 1 unexpected, It fits well because no one believed moishe the beadle he kept on warning people what he saw and how they treated him and how they will come he and do the say to all of you if you stay stay here but no one believes him and when they come they still treated them nice. they got scared when they said they were going to be deported some were and that's when they got scared.

chapter 2 won't shut up, The lady would not shut up and kept saying that she saw fire and smoke. She would keep doing this every day and night she kept on scaring kids and finally to older boys started to beat her first not hard but then they kept getting more intense and more angry but hey would stop screaming her son would sometimes cling on to her …show more content…
Eliezer thinks that man is strong, stronger than God. During this year’s Rosh Hashanah, unlike all previous years, Eliezer is not asking forgiveness for his sins. Rather, Eliezer feels himself to be "the accuser” God the accused. The word spreads that selection is coming up. Eliezer’s block leader gives the prisoners some advice about passing selection basically look vigorous and don’t be scared. He make it through but his father is put on the list of unhealthy he screams and shouts during the fight his dad and others manage to get to the line that stays in the camp.

Chapter 6 You can't stop won't stop running, The prisoners aren’t marching, but running through the snow while the SS yell at them to go faster faster faster! The SS will kill anyone who can’t keep up. One time Eliezer’s friend Zalman got a stomach cramp. He stops for a second to try to relieve it and he ends up getting trampled to death by all the prisoners. When Eliezer falls asleep, his dad wakes him and warns him not to fall asleep it’s dangerous to sleep in the snow. To sleep means death. Eliezer remembered seeing the Rabbi’s son running beside him, looking back and leaving his old, weak father …show more content…
but there happy it means more room for them.A German workman by the train tracks throws some bread into the train car. The German watches, amused, as the men fight each other to the death to get the bread. A son kills his own father for a piece of bread. During the night, somebody tries to strangle Eliezer. The man in charge of the wagon Meir Katz manages to save him. A hundred prisoners had gotten on the train only a dozen get off. Eliezer and his father are among that dozen.

chapter 8 Feeling guilty, Eliezer for a moment wishes that his father would die so Eliezer would only have to look over himself. Eliezer searches for his father for hours but can’t find him. He prays for a minute Don’t let me find him. Then he feels guilty. The block leader tells Eliezer that he should stop taking care of his father here in the concentration camps, it’s every man for himself. Eliezer feels guilty that he even considers this. In the morning, his father’s body is gone. Eliezer hopes that his father wasn’t taken to the crematorium before he stopped breathing. Eliezer cannot cry, which disturbs

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