Night quotes part 3

"We received more blows then food; we were crushed with work."(Wiesel 83). 


I can't imagine how the narrator must be feeling right now. This quote really shows how hard the concentration camps were. The prisoners were hungry, overworked, and injured. The people in the concentration camps were placed there for no other reason then their religion. After a while the people would start to lose hope and become upset like Elie and his father show by this quote. The Nazis took power in 1933 and World War 2 began in 1939 so many of the prisoners had to stay in the camps a very long time.                                                                                                                    

"Patients will stay in the infirmary. They will not be evacuated." (Wiesel 87).


When you read this quote you can really feel all of Elie's emotions. His heart drops and he becomes scared of what will happen to him. He suddenly doesn't feel safe in the hospital anymore and wants his foot to be all better. Elie has a good reason to fear, because he knows that the doctor talking to him or, more likely, a solider will kill him. This was very common at concentration camps.  Prisoners were moved from one camp to another leaving behind the sick and wounded (who were seen as useless) to die. During World War 2 there was no safe place in a concentration camp--not even the infirmary.

Night quotes part 2

"Never shall I forget the flames which consumed my faith forever".(Wiesel 43). This quote really touched me because, it really shows the lasting impression that world war II left on Elie. Elie is feeling a wide range of emotions during this quote; he is scared, and nervous and he is unsure of what will happen to him next. In this quote he is referencing his Jewish faith and the crematory where they were burning people. The theme of this quote is once you see something like Elie did you never forget it.

"The Kapos beat us once more, but I had ceased to feel any pain from their blows". (Wiesel 45). This quote shows how much pain the Jewish prisoners were but through. Most of the German soldiers would not hesitate to hurt the prisoners. The German people thought they were so much better then the Jewish people, but really they weren't. To me this also shows the hurt Elie is feeling both physically and mentally.

Night quotes part 1

"Our terror was about to burst the sides of the train" (Wiesel 34). I have never been in a situation like the main character in the book Night is experiencing at the moment of this quote. A situation where you and a lot of friends and family are huddled in a train very scared, hungry, and thirsty, this type of feeling was very common during world war II. To me this quote is about the main character realizing that the scariest thing of all is not knowing what lays ahead for you.

" You'd have done to have hanged yourselves where you were then come here"(Wiesel 39). What gives you the right to talk to another person like that, do you think your better then everyone else? Those are the thoughts that ran through my head when I read that quote. My heart went out to all those Jewish people in a new place, scared, thirsty, and hungry being treated like dirt by a German officer. This quote opened my eyes to how bad world war II really was. I also think that if you had just arrived at the camp and an officer said that to you, you would feel really scared, I know I would.