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Forgiveness In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Forgiving For What? The book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a book about Elie’s experiences in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald with his father during the Holocaust. Now as we know, they both have had to go through traumatic sightings such as people being sent to the concentration camps, people dying while walking in the cold, seeing a friend give up and soon to pass away, and babies and little kids being burned alive. This is too much to forgive. All these traumatic sightings really changed Elie as a person and I say that forgiveness is not always necessary for happiness. Not only does it hurt you more and more if you keep on having to forgive just because you want to keep a similar feeling, but once you forgive …show more content…

Turns out he was right since he then stated that there was a truck that drew closer and unloaded something in the fire and then he realized there were little babies being thrown into the fire. Elie soon started to question himself, asking “ Was I still Alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” You could already tell that he was traumatized from this and this is where my argument goes, this shouldn’t even be forgiven in the first place. How would any of the things that he has seen ever be able to be forgiven for. Even if anyone does forgive this, the damage has already been done. It has already affected many people anyways so there’s no point in forgiving if there is no reasonable thought …show more content…

I have had conflict with this one person that has made me overthink and overdue many things thanks to the worries that they have given me, and even if they apologized, nothing was ever the same as it was before. Even if I apologized, I wouldn’t even feel happy about it. I overthink certain things and when I think of apologizing, I get scared because I never know what they could have said. Every apology I made either came to a good conclusion or never ending arguments and hatred. So why even apologize even if you aren’t happy after it ends? It’s better to try to escape everything before it gets even worse, not to apologize. And for people saying that when you apologize, there is closure. Well what happens if there isn’t? There’s no point in trying to apologize if things isn’t going to be the same leading to discomfort and unhappiness between both

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Elie was faithful and did what he was supposed to do. He wonders why God would punish him and so many others by letting them suffer and be killed. In class we talked about people losing their faith in the Holocaust and that if you lose your faith you have nothing to hold on to and

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The “perpetrator” then reflects on their comment and feels guilty for it then transforms their attitude so they aren’t the “bad guy” anymore. I believe that forgiveness allows the perpetrator a chance for inner transformation and “to escape the whirlpool of wrongdoing” (Matthieu Ricard- 236)that they may feel caught

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He could not believe that God would put him in such a terrible position, watching dozens of people he used to be friends with get brutally beaten, starved and even watching them walk to the crematorium awaiting their certain death. After a while Elie

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Many Jews who considered themselves staunch believers in G-d, even in the face of tragedy, had their faith tested, and often destroyed, after experiencing the Holocaust. Many could not sustain faith in a G-d who would allow the Jews to suffer such horrific events on such a large and organized scale. The world knows Elie Wiesel, one of the most famous and prolific Holocaust survivors, for his brave and candid writings about the Shoah. His book Night documents his experience in Nazi concentration camps as a teenager during the Holocaust. Before the war begins, Wiesel is a devout Jew who refuses to defy or even question G-d. Throughout the novel, his faith stretches, morphs, and almost disappears.

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Before he and his family were sent to the concentration camps, Elie was described as a loving, smart, and caring boy. But as months go by in the concentration camps he slowly begins to his emotions for other people, which definitely affects the way he thinks mentally. In page 112 he stated, “I did not weep, and is pained that I could not weep. But I was out of tears”, which displayed Elie’s inner emotions and meant that he didn’t have enough in him to feel sad because he went through so much during the concentration camps he felt emotionally tired to feel anything. The day after his father died he said, “Since my father’s death nothing mattered to me anymore,” meaning he had nothing to live for or no one to care for anymore.

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Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes ... children thrown into the flames (Wiesel 32).” Elie did not understand how people were doing this to others, this was the beginning of Elie’s lost hope in humanity after seeing this. During this, he also begins to question his faith in God, with anger he asks, “Why should I sanctify His name?

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Eliezer represses the thought of them so much that it was like they had never existed in the first place. Near the end of the memoir something similar happens, Elie’s father gets incredibly sick to the point of not being able to get out of the bed he lays in,, he calls for elizer to breing him water over and over again ending up annoying an officer to come over and beat him. Elies watched the as the officer beats his father but does nothing even as his father calls for him, when the officer is done beating him Elie watches as his father breaths and mumbles for an

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The holocaust was one of the most devastating events that more than six million Jews lost their lives to. After the events of the second world war the population of Jews around the world was less than four millions. Among the very few people that survived the concentration/elimination camps Eliezer Wiesel was among them. While many people wanted to forget and never talk about the events of the second world war, Wiesel wants the whole world to know what atrocities the Nazis put the Jews through. So in the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the author demonstrates the destruction caused by the Nazis in the Holocaust through the themes of family,faith and strength.

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The need to forgive and be forgiven is inherent to the human spirit. Perhaps it emanates from human beings’ tendencies to falter or do wrong. Sometimes people do wrong to others or to God depending on their beliefs, and other times people feel that they have been wronged. In this case, forgiveness is a tenet of the human spirit that has been propagated from generation to generation, and whose role in assuring individual peace cannot be underrated. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel who is a holocaust survivor depicts the evolution of forgiveness in his spirit by documenting a transition which starts at a point where he is able to ask for forgiveness and to forgive to a point where he questions forgiveness and becomes skeptical about it, and finally

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Upon entering the concentration camp, Elie is greeted by the crematorium, a circus of flames. He witnesses a truck unload babies, dumping them into a ditch to be burned. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). The spectacle engraves itself permanently into his consciousness. He thinks of it constantly and it eventually consumes his mind, both during his time at the camp and long into his adulthood, following him even until after liberation.

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