Violence In Elie Wiesel's Night

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The definition of violence is behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Violence is exactly what happened in the holocaust. In the book Night Elie Wiesel is about him surviving through the holocaust. The holocaust was an act of violence known as genocide which is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.Violence affected Elie and his father shlomo by taking them from their home and putting them in harsh conditions. This also inflicted mental damage to seeing that the last time he saw his mother and his sister he thought their separation was temporary. Him and his father were brutally treated while working. Elie was young when his family was taken to the concentration camps. He was only fifteen when he was taken him and his father had to lie about their age to survive. Elie and his father had to live in very …show more content…
Other struggles for Shlomo was his deteriorating relationship with his son Elie. Shlomo was getting weaker and weaker as time went to the point where Elie had to start taking care of him so the officers won’t kill him. The holocaust ended up costing Shlomo his life and many others in the holocaust. It was harder for Shlomo than it was for Elie he was older so it was harder for him to do the labor they were forced to. Elie said “ Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours”(page 39). Shlomo attempted to stay strong for his son Elie which eventually fails and Shlomo gives up. Elie said that “Shlomo was beaten so many times he just gave up and let them beat him”. Hope was beaten out of Shlomo until he was ready to give up and die. Shlomo was eventually killed just before they were freed as he had given up on trying to continue to