Response To Night By Elie Wiesel

1. While reading the book Night I experienced some emotional responses. In the beginning I didn’t feel very much. Up until Wiesel lost his mother and sister I had very little emotion provoked. “ I didn’t know that this moment and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel 29) When I read that line I didn’t see Elie Wiesel leaving his sister and mother, I saw my mom and sister walking away from me. When he talked about the crematoria I asked the question, “why?” Why did people just let this happen and even commend what the Germans were doing? I can’t even imagine what the crematoria must have looked like or meant from the prisoner’s point of view. When Wiesel questioned himself if he should still feed his father I …show more content…
The book Night teaches people a lot of different lessons. One of them is that you can’t take everything you have for granted. When Elie is home before he goes off into the concentration camp he has no worries other than what he is going to study. Once he goes to the concentration camp he has to worry about his next meal and job and beating. He also had to worry about his fathers’ life. I think that as time passes the human race has gotten better on how to prevent and stop horrific things like this from happening. We have also slowly become less hatful and more loving as time moves on. We have learned to see things from different points of view to see more of the big picture. Today in church we were talking about racism. He asked us if we see racism in our culture today. Most all of us agreed that there was still racism in our country. We acknowledged that we had gotten significantly better on the situation of racism but there is still a ways to go. We have also gotten slightly better at accepting others religions instead of telling outsiders that they are wrong. Before, people would go to different countries and throw the people’s religion out the door and give them the “right” religion. Now, we are more accepting of