Book Report
Katelyn Bourg
Foundations of Religion and Faith
Ms. Denyer
October 24, 2014
Elie Wiesel is a survivor from the holocaust. The book is narrated by himself who is a teenager with a Jewish background. He lived in a town called Siget in Transylvania with his mother, father and his three sisters. The Jewish people had to wear yellow stars .One day the town he lived in was forced to move into ghettos and then eventually moved into small ghettos. They were then herded like animals into cattle cars, eighty persons in one cattle car and they were taken away. They were in these cattle cars for twenty four hours; they were not given any food or anytime to get out. They were living in their own feces. Soon they arrived at Auschwitz,
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From the knowledge from what I know about the Holocaust nobody knew it knew the extent of what was going on until it was too late. Eventually the American Army liberated the camps that were left at that time. Nobody was really letting it happen because nobody knew exactly what was happening. The world knew that the Holocaust was happening but for example, nobody knew that they were burning bodies for no reason. Now days we know the extent of how horrible things were happening.
2. Elie gave up on his faith while he experiences the “Kingdom of Night”. He felt like God wasn’t doing anything about it and he didn’t understand why God would let something this horrible happen. Elie wanted to know how God could be a part of something so cruel. Elie lost his faith while in this part of his life.
3. When Elie received the Nobel Peace Prize he did have faith. He believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and even in His creation. Without it no action would be possible. Elie believed now even though while he was going through the time of the holocaust he didn’t. Elie is thankful for the life he was given, he was able to share the story from a time in history that we would not be able to understand without people who were a part of the