A column of smoke stands before you, the smell of burning flesh ties a knot deep in your stomach. The horror that overtakes you as you stand face to face with death:Where is God? The same God you believed to guide your people out of the pharaoh's grasp. Was it he who let you suffer? You begin to pray on your knees, asking for forgiveness and repenting for your sins. Your mind drifts as fear overtakes you. You struggle to believe the Nazis have taken your family and now your faith. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel struggles to remain faithful and maintain his morals, through caring for his dying father when he is suffering, or his wavering faith in God’s grace. Wiesel uses these moments of desperation to allow us to become witnesses to …show more content…
The weight of the death camps caused the feelings associated with caring for Shlomo to change from fear to guilt to shame. “I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware I was doing it begrudgingly.” (107). The lack of resources provided during Wiesel's time in the death camps led to a change in demeanor, helping us as readers witness the horrors of the Holocaust. highlighting the brutality of the Holocaust while severing family ties. The need for self-preservation is the path to one's next food ration. Wiesel became "free at last" when he no longer had to share this one ration of food (112). As the flames of darkness would eventually extinguish, the pleas of the Jewish people went unanswered. How did this happen, did this happen? After the Holocaust, many seemed to deny the severity of the Nazi camp or even acknowledge the mass genocide from the destruction of the Jewish community in Sighet to the torture that the Jewish people endured. People who look at themselves and recognize nothing. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating