“The opposite of life is not death, it is indifference.” This is a quote by the famous writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was taken from his home in Sighet and placed in the world-renowned concentration camp in 1944 when he was only fifteen years old. He stayed in the concentration camp for two years until he was liberated by the United States Army in 1945. Wiesel's father, sister, and mother were all killed by the Nazis a few months before the liberation. Wiesel showed many examples of courage, being a caring person, and a faithful character throughout the entire memoir. Wiesel shows many examples of courage in the memoir. On page 33, as he was thinking of throwing himself onto the electrified barbed wire, he says, “Deep down, …show more content…
One good example of this would be on page 65 when someone near him cries, ”For God's sake, where is God?". Then Elie says, “From within me, I heard a voice answer: Where is He? This is where—hanging here from the gallows." This shows how in his mind, at this point in time, his faith was almost completely dead and cut off for him. As of now in the book, he has lost just about all of his faith, which is not a good sign, but he never loses it entirely. After this, he slowly starts to regain his faith. An example of Elie regaining his faith would be on page 77 when he says, “Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection. But as soon as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death.” This shows that even after all that Elie has gone through all of this pain and suffering, he still has a divine connection with God and he wishes that this man could have too because he believed that belief in God is what could have saved