January 30th, 1933 is a date that will forever haunt the minds of many people of our world today. The Holocaust, a massacre where Adolf Hitler's Nazi army deliberately killed millions of Jewish people. In this span of time until May 8th, 1945, hope was lost, humanity was broken, and the faith of the Jewish was twisted in their minds forever. Many different people approach their faith very differently from others. Whether someones faith is in someone or something, there seems to be a spark of hope when someone considers their will to live with that faith. Although, if that faith is lost a person may not have a stronger desire to live with the pain from past, the pain during the present, and the pain forever in the future. Night, a novel based on a true story of a Holocaust survivor named Elie Wiesel. Elie was taken into Auschwitz when he was a young boy, the book goes through his time in concentration camps and his survival of …show more content…
Szpilman is in Warsaw during the Holocaust, being separated from his family and living alone is truly difficult as he portrays it himself. Although Szpilman never gave up, he kept fighting through the awful massacre for one reason, the piano. "Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe," (Szpilman). The Nazi that found Szpilman knew deep down that Szpilman needed help. It was interesting that the Nazi helped him after the fact that Szpilman proved that he was a pianist. The General found potential in this musician, and he knew killing him would not be the right thing to do for a man with potential. Having true faith also allows people to follow their paths that they may take in life. Faith can make good things happen, Szpilman piano skills kept him alive. Since Szpilman stuck to his piano, and held on to his hope that he would play again, it was his faith in the piano that was keeping him through the