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Examples Of Conflict In Elie Wiesel

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Elie is faced with decisions that will change his very outlook on life. Elie is conflicted with himself, trying to hold onto his faith. Elie’s distrust for the Nazis pressures him to leave Auschwitz on a relentless journey with the Nazis. Elie’s father is giving in to Death and Elie has to decide for himself if he will help his father to survive or let him pass. In world war two, the Nazis and the concentration camps they occupy were bred for one reason, to cripple the Jews and eliminate their kind. Elie loses a piece of himself when he gives up his faith. When Elie is younger he identifies himself with God, studying Jewish texts, like the Kabbalah, and he searches for a purpose through God’s will. After months of enduring Auschwitz, Elie states, ”Where he is? This is where, hanging here from this gallows…” (Page 65) He resents God for not acting, when the young boy was hung that was when God died. Elie’s whole being is about needing something to believe in, but now his God has chosen not to act and Elie turns his back against Him, cursing …show more content…

Elie and his father firmly believed that if they stayed that Hitler would keep his promise and finish them off, so they marched. “We are the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything- death, fatigue, our natural needs.” (Page 87) Overpowering their will to live, they move sleepless through the night. Elie wants to give up, he ponders to himself about death and just letting the soldiers shoot him, his father is what keeps him fighting to live. “I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” (Page 87) For his father Elie would keep himself going; he knew that his father could not go on if he died, if Elie lived then there would be a chance that his father would too. Elie and his father’s bond of love and family was too great to break them

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And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...”. I wasn’t really surprised how Elie reacted when he found out that his father died because he wasn’t that same boy in the beginning of the book. Also he takes it as if it were a pain of his back. And I don’t blame him for his reaction because throughout the book, he has to do a lot for his father could live, by teaching him things like how to march, and what to do with the selection, etc, and even when they took his father from him in the selection, he took the risk of going after him and making a panic that made everybody get out of hand. And now that his father died, I can understand that Elie worrying of his father if he was dying, or a SS guard was going to kill him, or prisoners killing, or because his health was bad, wasn’t going to be a Problem or something to think about anymore.

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He was broken. Elie’s father was the only one that kept Elie from giving up, but his father died. Elie’s world shattered around

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(29). Elie running after his father even though he knew, or thought, he was going to die. Elie shows that his father needed him, so Elie was there for him. All Elie wanted to do was be with his father. That's one way Elie displayed that family is the only reliable constant in a crisis.

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“And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: free at last!...” (Weisel 112). When the Jewish people of Sighet, Transylvania were first being transported to concentration camps, Elie and his father were separated from the rest of his family, never to see eachother again over the course of the book. Elie’s strained connection is exemplified when his father, his only family member remaining with him, dies. Instead of feeling depressed, or even the tiniest bit of sadness, Elie does not feel at all.

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He was running next to be, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die.” (86-87). Elie was so tired mentally and thought he couldn’t keep going, but due to his fathers presence, is the reason why he is

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Elie: Throughout the book we see Elie change from a relatively normal teenage school boy and into a emotionally hardened young man who has become so accustomed to death that he rarely gives it a second thought, even if the person dying was a friend . This change took place because of the tortuous conditions that the Nazi´s subjected him to and that he lost so many family members and friends along the way. My passage shows Elie at a time when he is just starting his journey, yet you can tell that the concentration camps and the Nazi´s have already had a very serious effect on him. ¨He must have died, trampled under the feet if the thousands of men who followed us.

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Eliezer Wiesel loses his confidence in god, family and humankind through the encounters he has from the Nazi death camp. Eliezer loses confidence in god. He battles physically and rationally forever and no more accepts there is a divine being. "Never should I overlook those minutes which killed my god and my spirit and turned my fantasies to dust..."(pg 32). Elie endeavored to spare himself and asks god commonly to bail him and take him out of his hopelessness.

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It becomes clear that Elie’s father will die without the care and attention he is providing him. Eli becomes conflicted over the fact that it is becoming too difficult to keep his father alive. Elie admits he believes, “Yet at the same time I thought crept into my mind: If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself”( Wiesel 106). Elie begins to face the issue of either choosing his survival or to continue fighting to keep his father alive.

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In a life full of atrocities and cruel treatment is it possible for decent people to turn into heartless brutes? In the novel “Night” answer to this question is exposed to the young eyes of Eliezer Wiesel. In this novel Elie describes his experience in the Jewish concentration camps of Auschwitz. In these camps, the prisoners were faced with extreme brutality facing inhumane torture. “The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain..

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Over 13 million people1/2 of them being jews, lost their faith in being alive over a span of 5 years. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, characterizes the loss of faith of the Jewish population during their time in the Ghettos, concentration camps, and travels between camps. Almost six million Jews lost their faith in their god during their time in the concentration camp. Most Jews were trying to hold on strongly onto their belief in their god, but others started to rebel against their god and started to forget about their religion and just focus on survival. Elie first loses his faith when he is first being transferred to Auschwitz, and they are on their way to the crematory, and Elie 's father recites the Kaddish prayer of the dead, that 's when Elie realizes that he could die any day now.

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Elie's faith is tested many times in night. It is a struggle throughout the entire book and eventually it is lost and once it is lost you can never get it back. The first-time Elie's faith is tested is when he watches the baby's get burned alive in the dark of night when they first enter Birkenau. It is tested that same night as well when he thinks he is going to be burned alive but he still blesses god right before he thinks he's going to die. The next time his faith is when Elie’s faith was tested was on new year’s.

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The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.

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Families should always be important to you no matter what. Elie and his father are in a very rough spot because they are in concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. They are going through times trying to survive in the camp so they would have to stick together. “Listen to me, kid. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp.

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World War II had been raging for two years and was bout to enter Sighet. The Germans attempted to commit genocide on the 'lesser ' races, particularly Jews. Through the brutality witnessed, acts of selfishness, the death of his father, and the loss of his faith, Elie changed. Elie became a young man with a strong sense of mortality through it all. By the end of the war, Elie claimed to see himself as "A corpse contemplating me."

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The adversities at Auschwitz and Buchenwald caused Elie to lose faith in God.  Before being transported into Auschwitz, Elie was a boy who deeply believed in God and had absolute faith in God. Elie 's first seeds of doubt in God came when he was  transported into the camp and separated from his mother and sister. The other prisoners began reciting the Kaddish, but Elie got agitated when they gave thanks to God, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me.

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