Resilience In Boy In The Boat By Daniel James Brown

The main reason why Elie was able to survive was because he was strong in faith and could endure difficult circumstances. Strength and perseverance were certainly key ingredients of Elie’s survival as he used them to get through daily life at the horrid concentration camps. The novel reveals that these aspects created positive mindsets amongst the Jews, such as when the Jews were forced into confined ghettos, “people thought this was a good thing…We would live among Jews, among brothers.” Without these characteristics, many Jews would have forfeited their adventure against the Nazis, like when some Jews wanted some sleep, but Elie did not as he knew it was close to the end and that sleeping could have led one to death. Night represents much that is wrong with human nature, but also little that is right such as strength and

Family is something everyone cherishes, from the time you are born till the time you die. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, this is shown very clearly. This book follows a young boy named Elie through his struggle with the Holocaust. Elie is a jew who lived in a small Jewish community, but when people came and began changing the way they lived Elie decided to stay with his family no matter what happened. Throughout the book, Elie is put through much more grief due to staying by his father's side. Strong family bonds can sustain people through tragedy and hardship.

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

Joe grows as a character throughout the book, his life began at a very young age when his mother Nellie died of throat cancer, this left Joe growing up without having a good mother figure in his life. Not only that, but Joe was also really sick at a young age by contracting scarlet fever. So he would be staying at his aunt Alma’s home, where he was raised as a young child. Later on when he turned five years old, he went to go back to living with Harry and his newly wedded wife Thula. “Harry Rantz packed his family into his Franklin touring car and headed northeast, to the mining camp where he had been working as a master mechanic for the past year.” (Brown 71). The longer Thula and Joe lived together, the bond between them

In the Memoir Night. Elie Wiesel is mentally and physically dehumanized. Propaganda started to occur and people thought the nazis would kill them. Elie thought this was not Veritable. But The Humane/ optimist Jewish people that are kindly greeted by the Hungarians then are not allowed in the Synagogue to pray, then forced out of their homes, because the Nazis are prejudice and anti semitism against the Jews.

In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel spoke about his experience as a young Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps. During this turbulent time period, Elie described the horrifying events that he lived through and how that affected the relationship with his father. Throughout the book, Elie and his father’s relationship faced many obstacles. In the beginning, Elie and his father have much respect for one another and at the end of the book, that relationship became a burden and a feeling of guilt. Their relationship took a great toll on them throughout their journey in the concentration camps.

In the text, ‘Night’, Elie survives because he keeps alive the hope of survival. An example of this is when he lies about his age and his occupation. “’I’m eighteen’. My voice was trembling” (page 33), this quote is evidence that Elie lied about his age so he does not get thrown into the crematorium, for being too young. Another example of Elie keeping the hope of survival alive is when he outcasts his father and decides to eat his rations. Elie does this because he knows that his father is sick and dying and he cannot help him besides watching him slowly die. Because of this his father has become a burden for Elie, lowing his chances of survival, and when Elie’s father dies Elie feels free from that burden. “And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (Page 112), this quote evidence

In a Concentration Camp survival was next to impossible. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is a survivor of the holocaust who doesn’t have much of a relationship with his father. He has always felt that he was never important to his father and that his father cared more about the community than his own family. When Eliezer and his father are forced to count on each other, it’s a slow process for them to finally have a father-son relationship. Without each other they wouldn’t have survived for as long as they did and Eliezer would have lost all hope. A major theme in this story is how Eliezer and his father come together and build a relationship amidst their circumstances.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father’s relationship before the concentration camps consists of little emotion shared between each other; their estranged relationship leaves no room for them to show affection towards each other. In Sighet before the Holocaust, Elie’s father engages more with the citizens of the town than with his own family. Later, when Elie and his father arrive in their first concentration camp in Birkenau, they grow closer very quickly, relying on each other to continue their fight to live with the little food and harsh treatments. When Elie and his father live their lives before the Holocaust in Sighet, his father spends most of his time tending to the needs of the community and less to the needs of his family; however, when the two of them arrive in Birkenau, their relationship rapidly changes as his father plays the role of a supportive parent and Elie the helpful son.

One internal conflict Elie experienced was the loss of all of his family. While he was in the concentration camps, he and his father were the only ones in his family that were left. “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone,” which was stated on page 30, explains how he and his father were all that were left and his father would have to be there for Elie during that time. They fought hard together through the cold nights

Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.

Then, throughout the middle of the novel, the strength of family bonds of the Jews is tested. After the run, a Rabbi asks Elie if he had seen his son, Elie tells him that he had not. Then Elie realizes that he had seen his son on the run, but he does not tell the Rabbi because his son left him behind on purpose. The text states, “He had felt his father growing weaker… by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” (Wiesel 91). This is where the reader begins to see the toll that the concentration camps are having on the families. Elie includes this to show, that now, family members see each other as burdens rather than a blessing. Later in the novel, family members go as far as taking a life. One old man

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel and his father helped each other survive during the Holocaust. Life was easier because they had a reason to live for each other and to motivate one another to stay alive. An example is, when Eli and his father took the unsafe path, which was to go on the winter run, even though Elie’s foot wasn’t done healing. “Let’s be evacuated with the others” (Wiesel 82). They decided to choose the winter run because they didn’t want to be separated from one another. Another example of this was when Elie’s father was going to give up because it was too hard on

This book interested me because it is a great example of what so many people went through in concentration camps throughout Europe in World War II. So many books have been written about personal accounts of war hardships suffered by the Jews but so few capture the true problems faced by prisoners. The impossible decision between survival and family was a difficult one faced by many during this time. Elie had an unfaltering will to live when his father was alive with him but once his father died the reason for living disappeared. But he once was faced with the decision of helping to keep his father alive or let him die and have an extra ration of food. How can one be stuck with a decision like this and not choose survival? Only true unselfishness can cause you to help someone

Resilience is a class of phenomenon character by good outcomes despite serous of negative outcomes. Resilience is recovery or improvement of an individual’s mental or physical health following challenges. Resilience response to common acts across the life span. We all encounter a variety of challenges. Some of these challenges could be raising kids, divorce, loss of job, loss of a loved one, cancer, this are all things that considered human experiences. These challenges require humans to become more resilient. Resilience is foundation of resource such as flexible self-concept that permits people to change key features of the self-definition in response to changing circumstances. (Baumgardner, & Crothers,