“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” This is what Elie Wiesel about his experience in the German concentration camp for the Jews. This place was called Auschwitz, it was created for the purpose of wiping out all Jewish people in Europe. It would eventually be liberated by the American and Russian armies in 1945. In Elie’s novel, Night, he shown the world what he dealt with on a regular basis in order to warn people not to rewrite the past.
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We are suppose to keep the faith in God and also the faith in ourselves to keep going on with our lives. At one point in the story Elie says, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. 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” (Wiesel, 61-63)? Elie went on to the concentration camp saying, “ I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (Wiesel, 175). Wiesel went through many hardships while in the camps of Auschwitz and remained to keep his faith throughout the whole year and a month of being in all three Auschwitz concentration camps with his dying father. Keeping the faith became important because Elie seen what losing faith would do to a man in the camps. In conclusion, Elie wanted all of his readers to remember to keep the faith to help you through your …show more content…
Night teaches the reader the importance of keeping the faith, the negative role of silence, and also the remembrance of the Nazi’s crimes to the world. The Holocaust and also the concentration camps were very tragic events and places throughout Europe. Elie recently died on July 2, 2016 due to unknown reasons but had health issues prior to death. Elie wanted his readers to stand up to crimes/ events that are like this and he also wanted silence not be heard of. He wanted everything bad reported and told to the world, so that events like these can’t happen
We are suppose to keep the faith in God and also the faith in ourselves to keep going on with our lives. At one point in the story Elie says, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. 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” (Wiesel, 61-63)? Elie went on to the concentration camp saying, “ I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (Wiesel, 175). Wiesel went through many hardships while in the camps of Auschwitz and remained to keep his faith throughout the whole year and a month of being in all three Auschwitz concentration camps with his dying father. Keeping the faith became important because Elie seen what losing faith would do to a man in the camps. In conclusion, Elie wanted all of his readers to remember to keep the faith to help you through your …show more content…
Night teaches the reader the importance of keeping the faith, the negative role of silence, and also the remembrance of the Nazi’s crimes to the world. The Holocaust and also the concentration camps were very tragic events and places throughout Europe. Elie recently died on July 2, 2016 due to unknown reasons but had health issues prior to death. Elie wanted his readers to stand up to crimes/ events that are like this and he also wanted silence not be heard of. He wanted everything bad reported and told to the world, so that events like these can’t happen