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Commentary On Night By Elie Wiesel

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The quote that I picked from Elie Wiesel is “In every area of human creativity indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.” The quote talks mainly about how people who does not have sympathy, interest and concern in other people or to our own self. It also says that our life does not belong to us, but the people who needs it severely. The topic of this is to show how this quote reflected both in the past and the present. In the past, the book called Night is about a boy named Elie Wiesel told us a tragic story about how the things were during the Holocaust. We all know that from the start, he believed in God. …show more content…

By the time he suffered during the Holocaust, his prayers, religious characteristics, and faith were slowly disappearing. Seeing tragic moments about what he had been witnessed and experienced was hard to forget, for example: using babies as a shooting target, not eating for 3-6 days, getting beat up, and all the bad things you can imagine about. By in the middle of the book he started to think himself that he has to do it alone and not to care about everyone else that engulfed him. In the end, he accepted God’s challenge and learned to not give up. On the book, Elie is talking about a boy named Pipel who got hanged up by the SS officers. He said, “For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was red, his eyes were not yet glazed.” (Night 62) He then realized that the boy gave him a chance to not surrender and just keep it going. Why? Because of what the boy did; he’s like an example of God. Anyways, let’s talk about the present

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