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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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After reading page four this passage immediately stood out to me as peculiar. I have never heard of, or witnessed, someone crying during prayer, and it presents itself as an extremely unorthodox response to the situation. Although, I can only wonder if he cries because he feels such a deep connection to God in those moments, or because God has yet to answer his many questions and it’s frustration that is causing the tears. (74 words)
This moment truly marks the end of Elie’s childhood as he must now take the role of an adult to help himself and his family through these tragic times. Yesterday he may have been a young boy running around the streets with his schoolmates, but tomorrow he will be a man who must fend like an animal to survive. As time goes on he will be forced to skip monumental moments in …show more content…

He just can’t simply wrap it around his head why the Lord would allow for millions of His followers to be tortured, beaten, starved and killed in brutal forms. This idea infuriates him, along with a few others who have also begun to question God’s purpose and motives. Judaism had once provided them with vigor strength and reasoning to fight through the pain, but why put up with endless beatings and lack of food if God isn’t planning on saving them from their captors? These thoughts are what raced through so many heads during the moments when they had become fully encompassed in pain, although Elie has one more reason to withstand the torture; his father. (140 words)
Elie has become comfortable with the concept of his own demise at this point in the novel, and finds it could be an escape from the constant pain he suffers. He understands that death is a reality, and is in the near future. Despite this, he continues to fight for the sake of his father, whom he believes wouldn't be able to survive without his assistance. (66

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Due to the horrific circumstances, Elie changed both physically and emotionally. He started to not care about anyone or anything, he thought his father was a burden, an he became very skinny and he thought that his body was holding him back. At the beginning of the story, Night, Elie cared about his father and everyone he knew. He was always making sure that him and his father were doing the right thing.

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Throughout the memoir Night there many instances where many of the people in the concentration camps were treated inhumanly, cruel, or degrading or were subjected to torture. When Eli finds Idek and a young Polish girl together together intimately, he starts to laugh and this angers Idek to where he promises to get him back for not minding his business (Wiesel 57). Later on in the same page of the book, Wiesel goes on to say that “They brought a crate” (Wiesel 57) and he was then forced to lie down on the crate while he felt “the lashes of the whip”(Wiesel 57). This is incontrovertible a violation of article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states that No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman

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Throughout most of the story he is battling with his faith, going from cursing his God to praying to Him a few pages later. Clearly, the Holocaust took a toll on Elie’s faith as well as his state of mind. After his time in the concentration camps, however, his faith in God completely

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Elie's faith is tested many times in night. It is a struggle throughout the entire book and eventually it is lost and once it is lost you can never get it back. The first-time Elie's faith is tested is when he watches the baby's get burned alive in the dark of night when they first enter Birkenau. It is tested that same night as well when he thinks he is going to be burned alive but he still blesses god right before he thinks he's going to die. The next time his faith is when Elie’s faith was tested was on new year’s.

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why do you go on troubling these poor people wounded mind , and their ailing bodies. this passage right here shows the discomfort that he feels with god and the people he is affecting around him and he become more unfaithful. Elie begin to lose all hope in God when his father

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When things got heard he first question why his god would let this happen, how cold he see this and not do anything about it. After conflict within himself asking himself if he should still believe or do what he must to survive, to eat what they were given in “The Day of Atonement” Elie ate that was his second sign of rebellion against his God. In the end his only motivation to survive was his father but when he also left him he had nothing left to have faith in. He wondered what was the point of surviving if is father ,his only family, was not their with him. In the last moment of conflict juliek’s song helped have a bit of faith in God.

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