Repetition In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

“There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate”. But what if you have to get lost before you find your true gate? Fourteen and Jewish, Elie Weisel comes face to face with death as he gets taken away from his home and thrown into the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His relationship with God fluctuates throughout the story due to many things such as his departure from people dear to him, his silence from God, and the things he denied that later affected him greatly. While reading this, you will see Elie’s faith oscillate as he fights to survive the torture and persecution of the Holocaust. In the book “Night”, Elie Wiesel will be exposed to the abysmal side of the world

When things start to get tough, humans will naturally either run, fight or hide, but it only takes so long before someone can’t fight anymore. On page 13, the author says “Tell us. Tell us what’s happening! Say something… At that moment we were so anxious to hear something encouraging, a few words telling us that there was nothing to worry about”. In this section, Elie was talking to his father after the council meeting. The repetition of “Tell us” helps the reader infer that Elie is sensitive to silence. When you’re eager to hear something, it can defeat you when all you hear is silence. On page 33 Elie really starts to question his God. He says “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”. Elie no longer wanted to sanctify his God because he felt that God was no longer listening. He felt that God no longer cared for

Moishe the Beadle told all the Jews of Sighet about the horrors he saw in the Galician forest, but no one believed him. They were in denial of the fact that the Germans were coming.... they were nothing to mess around with. They denied the truth not knowing that later, they would face it. Once the Jews were actually taken away, they couldn’t understand it. They were questioning God asking “Why us!”, “How could this happen?”, “What God would do this!” The author made sure to add this detail because it foreshadows the Jews later lose of religion. Horror. Some people will fight against pressure. But others may crack against pressure. In “Night”, the main character Elie cracks against pressure. He let it run over him like a pickup truck. When Elie arrived at Auschwitz that's when he began to lose faith. He saw the smoke and the big gaping holes in the ground. He smelled the horrendous stench of the camp. And saw the miserable, despondent faces of his fellow Jews. Everyone was horrified and most didn’t even know something like this could happen. From the killing of the babies, to the Jewish men being led to their death cage. On page 33, as they stood in the middle of the camp, Eliezer says, “My forehead was covered in sweat. Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes.” The world has seen a lot of horrible things, but