Still today many books are still very important to many surroundings, they have tons of abilities and can hold a spot in your head forever. This book called ‘Night’ is definitely important especially to the writer Elie Wiesel. He was a huge survivor of a horrendous and frightening real-life event that took place in 1941 and 1945 known as the Holocaust or Shoah. The Holocaust took place in the broader context of World War II where Germany invaded Poland. It was a genocide that carried out during World War II and Jews were targeted among other groups. Others that were killed as well were many like Romani people, ethnic Poles, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents, homosexuals, also Jehovah's Witnesses. Mostly any group that didn't match the behavior of prescribed norms were targeted. Throughout the text ‘Night’ and the film ‘Schindler’s List’, the protagonists Elie and Oskar both undergo immense character development through the suffering they experienced during the Holocaust, proving that trauma affects everyone differently.
Several ways that Elie developed throughout the book: before being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, he experienced many of the scars and horrors of the Holocaust. Elie is a devout Jew and dedicated his whole life studying the Talmud and the Zohar. Elie spent the majority of his days worshiping God and praying in his local synagogue but mostly learning the secrets of the Kabbalah from Moishe the Beadle. Eventually Elie’s faith was being consumed by witnessing live infants being thrown in a crematorium. Elie started to lose faith in God, as well as his relationship with his father was changing. He never defended his father when he could have and he started to see his father as a liability rather than someone he should respect. The changes only intensify as Eli is forced to endure even more horrific events at the hands of his captors.
Several ways that Oskar developed throughout the book. At first, he’s just another wealthy German businessman, a loyal member of the Nazi Party. He was known as a very cruel and selfish person; Schindler was presented to be the number one and the idea of him being able to help or save others was simply unthinkable. Over the course of the film, he starts to realize he was losing touch with who he really was and understood the evil from the good. Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunition factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Almost every day we have many issues with virtue. Including deportations, fights or arguments or protesters. People protest every day to get their thoughts out even if another person doesn't believe the same as them. People have the right to do many things but sometimes something small can turn into something big so fast. Elie in the book ‘Night’ expresses virtue and also changes because he is constantly believing in God and knows he’ll always have his back but other times he starts to wonder. Elie has watched many hangings and because of that he changed his whole internal voice because he was so traumatized and scarred of the situation.
The book ‘Night’ brings World War II to life in a very blunt way. It wasn't drawn out or meant to horrify, it simply shows people the brutal reality of the oppression the Jewish people have had to experience. Elie changes several times and Oskar does in ‘Schindler's List’, changing is something everyone does but you eventually have to realize who you really are. ‘Night’ uses an unprecedented tone to not only the story of the camps, but the story of a life in captivity and the post-traumatic stress and memories that will carry with Wiesel for the rest of his life. This story balances a greater understanding of religion, Jewish and the Jewish history.