Never Lost, Only Impaired
Imagine this, you are beaten because you did not make your cot properly. You give your last ration of bread to your child, since they are the only thing you have left to hold onto. You are stripped of your clothing, valuables, and of course your faith in everything you have ever believed in. You ask yourself, who would want to even think about this happening to them? Ladies and gentlemen, this is how people were suffering daily during the Holocaust. Nowadays, no one knows or cares about those that history. There are even ones out there that choose to consider this catastrophe bogus. Most people living today did not experience the Holocaust in first hand; some have read about it and others have visited the concentration camps. Too many individuals take the Holocaust subject lightly because they do not know what it was like to suffer so much that you begin to lose your faith in everything. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses
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“And so he remained for more than a half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was red, his eyes not yet extinguished (p. 65).” A child is hung and millions of Jewish people are forced to not only walk by him, but stare at him and try to learn a lesson on attempting to get an extra serving of bread. Elie asked at this moment where God was due to the fact, nothing was being done to stop these people from doing such horrific things to such innocent human beings. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me (p. 115).” Elie never got to see himself in a mirror during the time period he was in camps. Little did he know, he was suffering on the inside and outside. Symbolism provided a whole new view of the experience of his faith being