In every religion, the holy text, or the preachers, ask you to believe in some form of a God. Most people can blindly follow and believe in God without question. Then there are those who cannot aimlessly worship a possibly fictional God. The struggle comes when there is no proof, no evidence, of God or anything that He ever did. During the Holocaust, an estimated six million Jews struggled with their faith in every concentration camp, including Elie Wiesel. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, diction, and characterization to expose his internal battle with believing in his faith, and seeing others battle with their faith. When Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old, he and his family were taken from their home by the Nazis, and taken to their first
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A prime representation of characterization is in the character Akiba Drumer. Akiba Drumer was a very religious man, a Jewish man, who used his faith to get through the work and pain the concentration camps brought upon them. “God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if He punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more…” (45). Ultimately, it was the cause of his death. Akiba came to a point in his life at the concentration camp where the work became too much, and the rations became too little. He no longer had anything to believe in, to live for, he lost his faith in God, and it lead to his downfall. “Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection” (77). There are success stories of survivors from the Holocaust who believed all the way through and made it to the light at the end of the tunnel. There are also stories of tragedies, of those who lost their faith and along with that, their will to live, like
A prime representation of characterization is in the character Akiba Drumer. Akiba Drumer was a very religious man, a Jewish man, who used his faith to get through the work and pain the concentration camps brought upon them. “God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if He punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more…” (45). Ultimately, it was the cause of his death. Akiba came to a point in his life at the concentration camp where the work became too much, and the rations became too little. He no longer had anything to believe in, to live for, he lost his faith in God, and it lead to his downfall. “Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection” (77). There are success stories of survivors from the Holocaust who believed all the way through and made it to the light at the end of the tunnel. There are also stories of tragedies, of those who lost their faith and along with that, their will to live, like