The Night :: Essays Papers

The NightCharacters Moshe the Beadle was one of the first of the Jew to be taken away that Elie knew closely. Moshe then escaped the massive ditches of death and was able to upshot to Sighet to tell them of what the Germans were doing. The rest of the people even Elie, thought that he had kaput(p) mad, so he pitied him.Oberkapo was apart of the 52nd cable unit at Buna who was Dutch. He also sabotaged the PowerStation. He had stocks of arms and was found and arrested. He was tortured for weeks, and never gave names of who else was involved. He was then transferred to Auschwitz.Madame Schachter she was one of the ladies on the submit to Auschwitz that was having illusions and screaming out loud on the train that there was disregard outside of the windows. Everytime she that, the other people being gullible as they were, would interpret out the window. They soon tired of this, so they tied her up and gagged. The ordeal continued as she was able to free herself from her restraints and began yelling again. The other work force finally smacked her around a little bit to knock a little common sense back into her, as her 10 course old son watched and tried to comfort her. She must have been hapless from terrible dehydration.Akiba Drumer He is a man that puts all of his faith into god, no matter what is happening at the moment, he believes that god will preserve him or protect him. He doesnt want to open his eye to the reality of things, where he could be the next one hanged in the midpoint court of the camp as an example of their relentless power everyplace them. He even calculated that their deliverence was to be only a hardly a(prenominal) weeks away, I think people began to tire of him as Elie did who realized that if their was a true god, they would have to be so many suffering manage they were.SettingsSighet This is the town that Elie came from with his family in the country of Transylvania. It was a moderate town that was principal ly Jews at the time.Auschwitz The camp they were first taken to when they were deported from their recent country. It didnt count to be all that bad in the way they treated them personally, unless the camp itself killed them.