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Night By Chris Bachchan Quotes

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“My family is my strength and weakness.”- Aishwaraya Rai Bachchan. This quote is signifying how your family affects your life. Such as in the book Night, by Elie Wesile, shows Elies experience during the Holocaust in the concentration camp. He writes how his father had a major impact on staying alive while in the camps. Along with how his faith in God changes a ton throughout the book. Elie, throughout the book, questions his faith in God. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie proves Bachchan’s philosophy because his family impacts him through his only goal of keeping his father alive, along with how his faith in God was a struggle for him throughout all his time there. In Night, family impacts Elie Wiesel through his mental strength. When Elie's …show more content…

Not to remain alone.” (Wiesel 30). This quote impacts Elie as he just got separated from the rest of his family and he only has his dad. His only thoughts going forward is to never lose him. That's all he was able to think about. He doesn't want to lose the only family he has left. This had a major impact on his experience because of how focused on his only goal to not lose his father. This made him mentally stronger. Owing to the fact that he was so scared to lose his father, he was constantly thinking about staying alive. This is another quote that shows Elie’s dedication, of staying alive, Elie writes, “My fathers presence was the only thing that stopped me. 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 …show more content…

In the book, Elie is struggling with his faith in God. Throughout the book he is going back and forth between how he feels with God, and how could God ever let this happen to them. Elie writes “For God's sake, where is God?”(65). Elie was so lost over the fact that God wasn’t there to help him and to get him out of this terrible situation. At this point Elie is really questioning his faith in God. That's when Elie writes, “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?” (66). This happened on the eve of Rosh Hashasha. Elie is really showing his frustration with God at this point and is not quite sure if he can trust him anymore. When the diner was served, no one touched it. They weren’t sure if they should wait till after prayer or not. He was so mad, angry and upset at God for letting this event happen to them, he lost some of his faith in God.

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