The three characters all share common experiences that help them grow. Anne, who is Jewish, faces many problems as she and her family hide from the Nazis in the annex of a building. Eliezer, a Jewish boy, faces his problems head on when he and his family are forced into a concentration camp. Then there is Liesel, who is not Jewish, but she hates them just as any Jew would for all the problems they have caused her. Anne, Eliezer, and Liesel face adversity during World War II and the Holocaust. Their experiences are influenced by their familial bonds. With these experiences they find out who they really are and they mature and try to overcome their hardships. From the very beginning Liesel had suffered many hardships in her life. From being stuffed into a train with her mother all the way to her foster family and friends being killed by bombs. One of the first things that affected Liesel was the death of her little brother. She would often find herself thinking about him, but even more so in her dreams, she would see him every time she closed her eyes. “In the night Liesel dreamed as she always did. At first she saw the brownshirts marching, but soon enough they led her to a train and a usual discovery awaited, her brother was staring again,” (Zusak 63). That shows that it is hard to overcome a loss of a loved one, but it wouldn’t be impossible. Now, Liesel has already lost two important people in her life in her mother and brother because of the Nazis and hates them with all the pain they caused her, but she would change and grow from these hardships. She would overcome and grow from those hardships. She would do that with the experiences she would encounter with her new family and friends. Going to a new place is hard for a youn... ... middle of paper ... ...is crown. This shows that he cares for his father a lot to try and teach him but when he could not learn he gave up the one thing he wanted to keep. “For God’s sake, where is God,” a man had asked when watching people being hung. Eliezer heard that and that made him question his faith again even more so when he said, “Where He is? This is where‒ hanging [there] from the gallows” (65), this shows that to him God is being hung and that he is dead so there is no point in having faith in him. To Eliezer if God was all mighty then was why “[has] he caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves” (67). He kept questioning it because why would God keep these concentration camps open even after all man does for him was to pray and worship him and all he does is betray them. That was what led him to believe “[That] man was stronger, greater than God [was]” (67).
Formerly, the idea of giving up faith would have seemed surreal when Elie was a strong believer in God. Nevertheless, after enduring all of the trepidation, dismay and shock through his voyage in the death camps, Elie truly does become angry with God and doubt His existence when the terrors of this nightmare come to a halt and he is freed at last.
Elie and Liesel live and survive during the time of World War II. Both characters face the harsh reality of the terrible period of time they are living in. The memoir, Night and the movie, “The Book Thief” share similarities and dissimilarities that make Elie and Liesel both stand out. Due to the loss of family, determination to live, and fear helps both of them survive the war, but depends on the different reactions, mistreated for different reasons, and hope.
The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is non-fiction, which is based on Elie’s experience throughout the Holocaust as a young boy. Evidently the protagonist of this book is Elie, and he explains in detail everything that happens as he was a young “normal” child, to when he escapes from the concentration camp years later. His life before the Holocaust was very different from his life during the Holocaust. This experience led him to grow quickly and have a different perspective of life and society. Everything he witnesses forced him to mature quickly at a young age and open his eyes to all the cruelty around him.
Wiesel and his father were harshly testing their bond as a family during the progression of their stay. It is remarkable how such appalling conditions can bring people together in ways unimaginable. Before Wiesel came, he never did much regarding his father. While they were at the camp, Wiesel couldn’t stand being without his father. Wiesel is surprised to see how the camp changed his father. He recalls on how one of the first nights at the camp, he saw his father cry for the first time. Wiesel’s relationship with his father has been so impactful on
Liesel Meminger was a very bright girl that didn’t have the resources to flourish. Her mother must hide from the Nazis because she is a communist and sends Liesel ...
Liesel’s mom leaves her with foster parents because she wishes to protect her from the fate she is enduring. The words Paula, Liesel’s mom, uses go against Hitler which resulted in her being taken away and Liesel to lose her mother and experience the loss of her. This shows Liesel experiences unhappiness because of the words her mother uses and Liesel’s misunderstanding of her mother's actions.
As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.
Max and Liesel firstly bond over reading; she practices asking him if the Mein Kampf is a good read and the fact they both had left close family before arriving to Himmel Street. Then Liesel discovers Max also has constant nightmares, “In their separate rooms, they would dream their nightmares and wake up, one with a scream in drowning sheets, the other with a gasp for air” (Zusak 219). Soon after Liesel asks Max what he dreams about
In most literature, the main protagonist often endures circumstances that spark mental, social, and physical changes and may cause unfathomable and permanent transformations. This is especially prevalent in Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel that depicts the hidden truth of life during the Holocaust. Wiesel discusses his life as a young adult in concentration camps and his experience with anti-semitism. Throughout the memoir, Elie Wiesel undergoes several dramatic changes, which are his loss of faith, his changing relationship with his father, and his loss of humanity; all of these changes relate back to different themes in this work of literature.
Eliezer loses faith in god. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust..."(pg 32). Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of his misery. "Why should I bless his name? The eternal, lord of the universe, the all-powerful and terrible was silent..."(pg 31). Eliezer is confused, because he does not know why the Germans would kill his face, and does not know why god could let such a thing happen. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(pg 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and courage to live.
Accordingly, to the book, Book Theif on page 86, Death says that liesel was a girl” with a mountain to climb.”what does this mean? In this situation Liesel is trying to live through the frightening Nazi Germany which most certainly creates a huge part of that mountain. However, she does has climbing partners. The three main points were on the three partners which were Huberman's, Rudy, and Max. They seem to help Liesel carry through the suffering and pain of being neglected by her own mother on top of that, She then is armed to live with her.
This is when Liesel is being dropped off at her new home without her Mother and shows that she is hurt and saddened by the losses of her family. She also feels sad that her brother had to die and not her. Liesel eventually starts to recover but continues to write to her birth Mother and sees visions of her dead brother in her dreams. Liesel is known throughout the book for speaking phrases such as “I cannot lose you”. Finally when she accepts that she will never see her family again another tragedy strikes. Bombs arrive at her home on Himmel Street killing everyone including her foster parents and best friend. Liesel survives the bombing but is once again left alone with the sadness of being a survivor. This is especially hard for her to recover from because she felt terrible being the only one to
Liesel loves Max; a Jew, while during the Holocaust. An example of this is when Liesel never stops searching for Max. Liesel also goes through the crowd of Jews to find Max. She even risks her life for him. Liesel gets nightmares and bonds with Max while he’s in the basement. She brings Max a newspaper so he can do crosswords. Both Liesel and Max love books, which they connect with even more. Max promises to give Liesel a gift for her birthday. Max also teaches Liesel about how to never give up. Max and Liesel love each other, even though they constantly live in fear.
Liesel experiences abandonment throughout her life, and the novel during a suppressed time in World War II Germany. Through her experiences Liesel’s learns to equate abandonment with love knowing that circumstance have forced her loved ones to leave her.
If you were in the main protagonists, Elli, shows and instead of your mom being paralyzed and dying it was your friend, would you help them the way Elli helped her mom or would you throw them out and let the SS guards kill him or her? In all the twists and turns of Elli and her family's life or death situations in the Holocaust they stay optimistic about surviving and telling their story of their lives. Sadly not everyone in her family made it but the people who did were reunited in the end. Throughout the whole book it left you on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen next and what Elli would do. No one ever thought that Elli would attack one of the SS guards. Do you think you could find light in the darkness in this kind of situation?