The Importance Of Freedom In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it is told from the authors point of view and how the Holocaust not only affected him as an individual but others as well. Wiesel talks about how such a horrific event could happen to such incent people. As well as the disturbing events that had occur during this time period in history. He talks about how he had been separated from his mother and sisters, which left, him and his father to fight to stay alive. The book talks about how the only thing that had been keeping many alive during that time was ‘Hope’. Hope that their family members were still alive. Toward the end of the book Wiesel watched the death of his father. He then goes on and talks about the aftermath of the Holocaust and how he could no longer …show more content…
Freedom means to have the ability to make our own choices. Freedom is a wonderful gift however it comes with a great deal of responsibility. The choices that we make in life may result in disaster. If there would be no possible result for disaster toward human freedom, human choice would not be free. We must focus on following in God’s footsteps and rules, being the ten commandments. If we do not abide by this that is when sin comes into play. Disbelief or untruthfulness towards God can result in sin. Another way to look at sin is when people fail to achieve the intentions God may had for them. An example of sin is the Adam an Eve story, God strictly told Adam and Eve to not eat from the tree. However, they disobeyed God’s word and had ate from the tree anyways. This soon lead to separation between God and people as well as a separation from one’s self. This is where the origin of sin came to be. There are many consequences in life when it comes to sin. It not only affects and influences us as individually but as well as our relationship with one another. Most importantly sin puts our relationship with God into jeopardy. There are two different types of sin they are, Mortal and Venial Sin. Mortal Sin which is also known as serious sin this is when you commit a sin intentionally. This can potentially break that convent or …show more content…
I the book Night this is what the main characters had to do. They had to have Faith in the Lord that everything was going to be okay, and that this was all happening for a reason. Which it was it was strengthening their Faith towards God and putting all that they had on the line, they gave up everything just like Jesus had done. Not only did Jesus give up his life for that reason but he was willing to suffer so that he could be with God in Heaven. For those few people who survived the Holocaust may look back on the event and ask why they had not died like the others had and what they should take away from that experience in their life is that God faces us with challenges which creates us to be stronger in the long run and make you look back on what you just made it throw and learn from that challenge or obstacle that you had in life. Since we have Faith in God we ask him to guide us in the right direction to live a loving and fulfilling life that he wanted us to. Believing in God and having faith in him is a huge commitment in life. Agreeing to follow in God’s footsteps and hoping and relying on him to guide you through life on the path he wants us to is a big step. When agreeing to do so you are committing to be in a relationship with