Night Essay The book “Night” best demonstrates how horrible the Holocaust was and how it affected billions of people's lives. This horrific event should never be forgotten which so ever. The Holocaust changed history and several people's perspectives. The Nazis managed to get away with so many things they did to the jews and nobody ever stood up. Instead people remained in silence, and inhumanity took over.
His belief was off and on through out the book. At one point he will be all out for his religion, but at other times he barley follows it at all. “I looked at our house, where I had spent so many years in search for my God,”(28) this was right before they were getting ready to be deported. After he got to the concentration camp, he got a sense of disbelief. From seeing and smelling all of the burning flesh of people.
That was the last straw for Elie. That was the last act that he could endure before realizing, or deciding, that there was no God, and even if there was as far as he was concerned “God died on the noose with that boy.” “My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.” Only in the lowest moments of his faith does he turn his back on God. Even when Eliezer says that he has given up on God completely, Wiesel’s writing conflicts with what Elie says he believes. Elie even refers to biblical passages when he denies his faith. When he
One of the major reasons for Holden’s depression is failing at many different things. Holden does not have any close friends to talk to and has a very hard time establishing long term relationships. Another cause for his depression is the death of his younger brother Allie, he has always thought that the world would have been better off if he had died instead of his brother. There are many reasons for Holden’s depression including multiple failures, having very few friends, and the death of his younger brother Allie. A large portion of Holden’s depression comes from failing multiple times.
For example in the novel he blames everything on God but in the article Elie realized everything was man’s fault. As the novel Night goes on, Eliezer is more angered and disappointed by what he sees every day in the concentration camps. “For God’s sake, where is God” (Night 65). When the pipel, a young child, is hung in front of the whole camp, Elie feels that it is his God who is hanging on the gallows, which symbolizes that is God who put them in this. Later on in the article Elie realizes that God did not do anything wrong.
Then the weak and old ones were separated from the young and strong. The weak and old were then killed. The Nazi army threw all the babies and newborns down the chimney where they were burned while everyone else watched. Elie came from a deeply religious Jewish community along with his father, mother and sister. Yet they were soon separated and headed into two different directions.
They attempted to kill all of the Jewish people. This is called genocide. Genocide is when a certain person or group (Nazis) tries to exterminate an entire race or ethnic group. They wanted to do this because the Nazis thought that the Jews were inferior, and they saw them as a threat to Hitler’s rain of terror. At this time there were 9 million Jews in Europe.
“The mother was beaten to death. She has dozens of broken bones, a fractured skull, and as you can see, she is not recognizable at all.” The detective was shocked by the brutality of the beating, “Jesus Christ!” he exclaimed. “What about the rest?” “Jim, the father. He was slightly starved, but the cause of death is dehydration.” “It’s like he just neglected him completely… left the bastard to die while killing the rest of ‘em.” The coroner moved to the next set of corpses. They stank and made the air smell rotten.
He was scared, felt lonely and wanted to do anything to stay alive. Elie learned from this whole devastating event in History. He didn’t continue to struggle as much as he did in the camps. He had no more family with him or alive. Elie was bitter in a way.
He had faults just like everyone else because nobody is perfect. As he got older his body could no longer complete the task he would ask it to do. This led to a welcomed and regretless death for the magnificent warrior called