Running head: NIGHT LITERATURE RESPONSE PAPER !1
Night Literature Response Paper Zuleyma Hercules College of Saint Mary
Night Literature Response Paper !1
Night Literature Response Paper
One of the the most devastating parts of our history is known as the Holocaust. The book
Night is written by Elie Wiesel, who narrated his own story during the early 1940’s as a young boy named Eliezer, located in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. In the beginning of the book, rumors spread of the horror Hitler has inflicted on the Jewish people, such as the Gestapo or the German secret police that took charge of the Jewish train and led them all into the woods, where they were slaughtered. At first the Jews thought it was merely a myth told by Moshe the Beadle (Eliezer’s teacher). Jews were forced to dig enormous graves for themselves and shortly were killed by the Gestapo. In the early 1940’s, Nazis took over Hungry and forced all Jews into small ghettos within Sighet and were later transported to Birkenau or the entrance of Auschwitz. The separation amongst gender and whether an individual is able to work or be killed immediately proceeded. A horrifying episode took place where Eliezer, and his father stumbled on a
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The question that hit home was, “Where is God” yet the only response was complete silence throughout the scene (2017). Eliezer feels that God’s silence demonstrates the absence of the divine compassion; as a result, he ultimately questions the very existence of God. Another type of non-action portrayed in the novel was when Eliezer’s father was beaten by the Nazis and no one did anything to help, especially Eliezer in not assisting his own father when