In the autobiography, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the Jews were forced out of their homes; concentration camps. In the concentration camps there was only two options… you work or die. Most likely, death was your choice. Wiesel was only fifteen when he and his family were forced into concentration camps. He was in different concentration camps for a year so he’s seen a lot of disturbing things. Due to to the atrocities witnessed and experienced during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, a once deeply religious individual, loses his faith in God, himself, and mankind.
“For the first time, I felt anger rising in me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for.” Elie felt as though God was being unfair and extremely prejudiced for allowing such things to happen to them. His family was separated, innocent people were being killed, and nobody was doing anything to make it all stop. He felt like God, the most superior person in his life, should’ve done something to stop this from happening. Religion is very important to
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Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes…” When Elie was saying this they were headed to the crematorium. Elie wanted to electrocute himself to death by running into the barbed wire instead of slowly burning to death in the crematorium. In that moment he felt as though there was nothing else he could do. He knew he was going to die so he wanted to be over as soon as possible. There were so many bad things happening like children being used as target practice, families being separated, people being burned alive for no reason and no one could do anything about it. He didn’t want to believe these kinds of things were happening. He’d never seen such crime and violence like this before and he think it might be a nightmare of some