Elie Wiesel Reaction To Night

The book, Night, was written by Elie Wiesel to show people what the holocaust was really like. The Nazis put Wiesel through concentration camps starting as a young boy. As the time in the camps went on, the Holocaust continues to grow where more victims pass away. The loss of these victims declines the conversation of the experience. Elie Wiesel decided to write the book Night, to have an emotional connection with his readers, so they wouldn’t be able to forget the holocaust. His main goal was to not let anyone forget about the holocaust after all the survivors of it are dead. Wiesel made me feel that I was in the situation myself, the way he made the reader feel when talking about going to the camps at the beginning I felt a connection to the characters. I had a really good image of the characters in my head while reading which really made me feel a good connection as well.

“My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man (N68). And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him (N69).” Wiesel had always shown his great love for God through the entire book until now. He grew up in a religious household and lived his life in a way that was glorifying to God by keeping God first. At the beginning his father seemed really religious and always talk about his love for God. Near the end of the book however, Elie mentions nothing about his dad even mentioning. I think if his dad was an honest faithful man that no matter the situation he would be encouraging faith at the hardest times. I wonder if Elie forgot these discussions with his dad because times were so hard or if they actually never happened and he wasn’t as religious as I thought he