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Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

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Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?” “(Wiesel pg 66).” Elie asks these questions as he sees more innocents peoples death thinking that surely if god is the master of the universe he should help but he doesn't and elie takes this as a sign of cowardness. More questions arrived to elies mind as people started to praise his god asking “Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be …show more content…

As his father groaned once more Elie heard: "Eliezer” as he saw that his dad was still breathing—in gasps. Yet for the fear that consumed him Elie didn't move showing the progression of how much he changed his kindness and caring self gone consumed by fear. During the tomb he did not weep and prayers were not spoken no memory his last word being the call for Elie but Elie did not answer and deep down he knew that if he searched the recesses of his feeble conscience he might have found something like free at last! That showed again that now all that Ellie cared about was his freedom a drastic change in what he cared about before which mainly was his god and family but now his faith in his god is gone and his care for his dad vanished as well consumed by fear and his want for freedom. Later on after his dad death Elie cared about nothing as if nothing mattered anymore and to him nothing did. On April 5th, the wheel of history turned the loudspeakers transmitted an order from the camp Kommandant: all Jews were to gather in the Appelplatz. And Elie realized this was it the time hitler was about to keep his

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