Finding Humanity In Elie Wiesel's Night

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The Holocaust will never be forgotten, and neither will the stories from those who survived. There are many similarities, differences, situations, and reasons as to why they are even being one of the voices. When we started the “Night” unit, it was Kitty who introduced us to Auschwitz, but ended with the corpse staring back at Wiesel after his descriptive journey through hell and back. They both survived, and wanted to tell their story. They deserve to have their story to be heard, not just listened to, and our world needs to change so it won’t happen again. Kitty was still a teenager, just as Wiesel was, and I think that is the most captivating. They were both around the same age, living in the same camp, separated by gender. If you weren’t …show more content…

When Wiesel and his bunkmates were told by the block leader to wash the floor, “so that they’ll realize there were men living here and not pigs.” The block leader wanted them to clean it for the next prisoners to know that they weren’t giving up. Another main theme was the struggle of maintaining faith, and losing it. This happened throughout the book with the majority of the people in the story, almost all of them. It started with Moshe the Beadle, and then Eliezer himself. He stayed in that camp and watched everyone die around him, and his faith began to falter. He began to wonder if there was even a God anymore, and if there was, why was God letting all of this happen to them? The night the soup tasted like corpses, Elie states: “Here He [God] is- He is hanging here in the gallow....“ That might be one of the reasons that Wiesel told his …show more content…

It’s almost like we are taught to stand aside and let the problem fixes itself. It feels as if we are taught to turn our head until it affects us personally. It’s not just students bullying other students, it’s our whole country. We’re supposed to help each other, become stronger as one and help bring each other together. We’re supposed to be a support system, not to let each other face our problems alone. Teamwork makes the dream work, and it’s hard to do that when other countries, people, families, communities, discriminate each other and kill each other for who we are. As we were saying the other day, nipping it in the bud can help stop it, but obviously we’re not nipping it hard enough. If we get enough people in on it, we can stop it completely; we can reteach anyone and everyone that anyone on earth deserves to be