The Holocaust was a major event where about 6 million Jews were killed. The Jews weren't the only ones targeted during the Holocaust, Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals and gypsies. Elie the author of Night wrote the book so that people would know of the tragic event and learn from the mistakes and not repeat them.
For my book portfolio, I read the book, Night it is written by Elie Wiesel and published in 1960. The main character in the story is the narrator, Eliezar a 12-year old Boy living in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law. His parents are shopkeepers, and his father is highly respected within Sighet’s Jewish community. Eliezer has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa, and a younger sister named Tzipora.
This book is about the journey and personal experiences of one person during the Holocaust. The author told about each step that he took place in during the Holocaust from being invaded by the Germans and forming a ghetto to being starved and working, seeing the ones you love die and at last sweet victory of beating Hitler and not dieing.
I think that the theme in this book is that we can learn from our past so we don't repeat our mistakes. The significance of the theme is to show people that if we don't learn from the mistakes from the people before us what can happen.
Statement for the book is to show the people that we can learn from our past mistakes in history and not repeat them, this is shown many times throughout the book. First throughout the book the Germans don't treat the Jews like humans. When they give them small rations of food, don't give them very many clothes and stick them in cattle carts like cows. In the beginning of the book the Jews have trust that the Germans aren't going to come for them or even harm them if they do come. The last thing we could learn from and not repeat is loosing faith just like the Jews did during the Holocaust. Elie lost faith in God, Elie wondered if his father was slowing him down so if he was dead would he be ahead of the game? This theme relates because when your not treated like human, you loose trust and faith therefore showing that if something like this ever happened again we might live longer knowing we can keep faith.This theme is important now and has been through time.
America has learned from their mistakes but other countries haven't so they need make mistakes and learn from them.
For example Rwanda which is a recent event that happened in the 90's is where the Hutu's tribe in Africa tried to take out the Tutsi's. 800,000 deaths happened in 100 days.
We're supposed to learn from our mistakes like the holocaust and yet Rwanda happened only 14years ago.
Darfur which only happened in 2003 is massive group of women and children Many were kicked out of the country.
200,000 people died in Darfur because of disease, malnutrition and violence.
The author of Night wrote about his experiences. America has learned from the mistakes of the Holocaust, but many other countries haven't unfortunately so in order for genocide to stop, other countries must experience it for themselves and learn from their mistakes. Night is all about the Holocaust the theme in the book is important because it shows that if we don't learn from our past there could be another big genocide within the Jews. Another reason why the theme is important in history because we can learn from our past and not repeat the same mistake twice having another or multiple genocide's taking out big pieces of the population.
He shows the theme of the book very well, he talks about his own struggles through the Holocaust. For example the Germans not treating the Jews like humans, Among Elie and other Jews were tossed carts and driven miles away for days. There were people loosing faith in not only God but the people that were around them Elie lost trust that his father was going to make and the rabbi felt like it was the end and they were never going get out.
Everyone lost trust going from being oblivious and thinking the Germans weren't going to come and in the end thinking the Germans have every control over them. Elie lost trust in his friends and family when they started talking nonsense about dieing when they were so close to getting out of the concentration camps.
