What The Night Left
"The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future" (Wiesel XV). This quote taken from the preface of the new translation of the 2006 edition of Night is forceful and powerful and sums up the author's intention. Night is an autobiographical novel written by Elie Wiesel about his experience as a Jewish teenager in the concentration camps during the Second World War and the Holocaust. The young Eliezer became a witness of absolute horror, the death of his parents and younger sister, and also faced with the destruction of his faith in God. Eliezer struggled to survive against the most atrocious circumstances. Although, he left behind his innocence and ended up obsessed with the death and violence of which he has witnessed. Wiesel as a witness and narrator in Night wants to draw attention to the theme of the passivity and indifference of humanity, the dichotomy between the belief of the …show more content…
When Wiesel express, "Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways...I had ceased to pray...I was no denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice." (45). He argues the non-existence of God; he asks himself: How can he allow these atrocities to take place, the God in whom Jewish people believed so far with such fervor? Despite, his strongly religious and faithful, he nevertheless hesitates and rebels against a God who remains in absolute silence in the face of the inhuman reality of the Holocaust. Wiesel could not believe that man and also God was capable of made or allowed the horror of Auschwitz. He rose up against his justice, protested against his silence, sometimes against his absence. This dichotomy and the loss of his faith is manifested throughout the novel and is one of the most outstanding topics of this
"The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future" (Wiesel XV). This quote taken from the preface of the new translation of the 2006 edition of Night is forceful and powerful and sums up the author's intention. Night is an autobiographical novel written by Elie Wiesel about his experience as a Jewish teenager in the concentration camps during the Second World War and the Holocaust. The young Eliezer became a witness of absolute horror, the death of his parents and younger sister, and also faced with the destruction of his faith in God. Eliezer struggled to survive against the most atrocious circumstances. Although, he left behind his innocence and ended up obsessed with the death and violence of which he has witnessed. Wiesel as a witness and narrator in Night wants to draw attention to the theme of the passivity and indifference of humanity, the dichotomy between the belief of the …show more content…
When Wiesel express, "Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways...I had ceased to pray...I was no denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice." (45). He argues the non-existence of God; he asks himself: How can he allow these atrocities to take place, the God in whom Jewish people believed so far with such fervor? Despite, his strongly religious and faithful, he nevertheless hesitates and rebels against a God who remains in absolute silence in the face of the inhuman reality of the Holocaust. Wiesel could not believe that man and also God was capable of made or allowed the horror of Auschwitz. He rose up against his justice, protested against his silence, sometimes against his absence. This dichotomy and the loss of his faith is manifested throughout the novel and is one of the most outstanding topics of this