Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

If you were being forced upon a lifestyle of being threatened to change your faith, punished if you didn't do physical labor, watching death was mandatory and eating stale bread and dirty soup as a meal everyday would you have hope that you were going to make it out alive. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel an unforgettable story about a Elie himself and the journey he faces during the holocaust. Elie and his neighborhood are quarantined by Germans into ghettos. Later the Jews in the ghetto are taken to concentration camps where they go to work and live. His life has become so challenging that he begins to give up hope along with many other prisoners. Throughout the terrible times that Elie has to go through a big part of his life begins to

Seeing these people die was a very scarring thing and most were unable to watch. It had a significant impression on them. Every Day they saw these things and it seemed unreal. Elie once said, “I pinched myself: Was I alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent.” (pg. 32) When he said this he meant that it was unbelievable that these terrible things were happening right in front of them. Nothing was stopping them and people were just watching it happen. Seeing this happen to many friends, family and loved ones it made many lose hope because so many were dying. Most of these events had death involved in them. All the prisoners were forced to watch hangings of other Jews and if they were to look away they were to be punished. At first seeing the deaths of others touched them greatly but after seeing it so much and it happening everyday they soon became kind of used to it. Until one time when a hanging touched the prisoner greatly. Elie was majorly impacted by having to watch it. When explaining it he said, “...He remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death...we were forced to look at him at close range... He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet

They were invested in their faith and it was a huge part of their life. When they were struggling or going through hard times they would turn to God. They continued to see terrible things happen and most of them would pray because of the things happening around them and to them. When these things continued to happen they started to ask themselves why God wasn't doing anything. One day Elie asked himself, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”(pg. 33)They questioned God and wondered why he wasn't doing anything when such horrible things were taking place. Many began to doubt their faith toward God since nothing was changing and if anything things were getting worse. Some of the others thought about it as redemption that was going to come, but others just gave up on their belief in the Jewish faith completely. Elie was one of those people and he said, “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred my Job! I was not denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.” (pg. 45) Elie had prayed the whole time these