new blog #3- Jackie Mednick

I think that an important theme in Elie Wiesel’s book Night is identity. So far, Elie has written that the victims of the holocaust have lost their identity. Families have been separated and broken apart.  People are not dressed well or at all. “The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead. Only a few ‘well-dressed’ inmates were wandering between the blocks.”(47) Everyone who was in the holocaust lost all of their valuable possessions. Just a simple pair of shoes can mean so much to a single person. “‘ All right,’ he said. ‘I can arrange it. For a pittance: your shoes. I’ll give you another pair. I refused to give him my shoes. They were all I had left.”(48) The Jews had to follow instructions or else they would have been punished. They were almost like puppets.