Example Of Antisemitism In Night By Elie Wiesel

Merciless

Forgiving someone who hurt you is you begging for them to not hurt you again. It’s almost as if you’re shouting out, “Have mercy on me,” even though they wouldn’t do the same for you. Even though they wouldn’t even think to forgive you or spare you even the slightest. The hurt that they unleashed on you without any proper reason but just out of pure hate is ruthless. When you forgive them, you’re only validating the damage that they’ve done. You’re basically saying. “I’m sorry for you hurting me,” leaving them with no accountability to take. Throughout Night, Elie will be faced with a lot of antisemitism that will make him question his character and even God himself. The suffering was so bad that sons abandoned their fathers to survive.

For example, slavery is still downplayed by the modern day society, some racists still believe that slavery wasn’t that bad due to the constant sugarcoating of it in history. The sugarcoating is so strong that the modern day society believes that they’re ancestors are forgiven and they feel as though we must forget or “get over” slavery. It's so strong that this allows for the modern day society to not take accountability for their ancestors, instead they help follow out with their ancestors goals as the new discrimination is covert. Which is why there are plenty of different ways to put down black people without gaining any consequences, like police being allowed to harass black people because of the color of their skin. Like schools targeting and punishing black children because of the color of their skin. Like judges giving black men the highest sentence because of the simple fact that they are darker. In the end black people still are looked at to apologize for society’s wrongs and at the same time forgive them. Then, the cycle repeats black people get hurt even more and we still have to apologize, until soon it's normal for horrible things to happen to black people then there is no more apologizing. This is called

One particular incident that made him question himself was when the SS guards brutally beat his father and he ignored his fathers cries for help. When he heard the cries for help from his father, he didn't move in fear of being beaten as well. It even angered him that his father cried out for help, which shows the holocaust making the sons go against their fathers and become selfish. After the incident, Elie stated, “I shall never forgive myself. Nor shall I ever forgive the world for having pushed me against the wall, for having turned me into a stranger, for having awakened in me the basest, most primitive instincts.” (50). This shows Elie not choosing forgiveness because he chose himself over his father, him choosing forgiveness upon himself would only validate the damage that had been done to his father. Also he could just be desensitized to the