Elie Wiesel

“The heat, the thirst, the pestilential stench, the suffocating lack of air- these were as nothing compared with these screams which tore us to shreds. A few days more and we should all have started to scream too.” (Wiesel 17) 1933 to 1945 was a time that no one could imagine and definitely something that no one ever wants to repeat. The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying times of history that will be remembered always along with it’s 17 million victims. Elie Wiesel and his family were a few of those victims. Elie and his family were split in the very early stages of the segregation leaving only him and his father to fend for themselves. After surviving such a traumatic experience, Elie went on to write and memoir about his experiences …show more content…
We see how he struggles to keep his faith and the moments where he questions it. In the first two pages of the memoir we come to learn that religion is very important to Elie and he goes into depth of wanting to learn more about his religion. He is very eager to learn of the Zohar, but when asking his father to teach him of it his father simply refuses and tells Elie he is too young. Elie is determined and finds Moché the Beadle as his new teacher. Throughout his journey between Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie witnesses many brutal and heart-wrenching scenes that then cause him to question his faith in God. Many of the Jews around Elie pray while he thinks of other things, "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless his name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 22) Within this quote Elie uses many adjectives, including one contradictive adjective, and capitalizes these adjectives as well. By doing this he emphasizes these words giving off a heated …show more content…
He witnessed killings, starvation, selections, the loss of his family, but in the end he made it out alive. He managed to keep his sanity despite his major losses and went on to tell his story in his memoir Night which will always be a significant role in remembering the tragic history of the Holocaust. Through his storytelling and his use of literary devices and tools, we were able to feel and extract the emotion that he felt by allowing the readers into his mind during the time of the Holocaust. The sorrow, the anger, the hurt that Elie had felt was also truly felt by the readers. The feelings that were portrayed in this memoir will help us all remember and hopefully never repeat such a tragic event ever