Placed in late 1930s to the mid-1940s at the time of the Holocaust, the entire book, entitled Night speaks of killing sprees and unjustified death. A massacre of innocent people, and deaths of over six-million is a loss of innocence. Not only were these people murdered in cold blood, but the fact that something as horrific as this could happen in the world, no one truly believed that man had become this evil, brought a new form of terror to everyone. The horrifying truth that people could treat others as if they were feral animals.
Seeing the definition of the word innocence gives off the impression that it is only for children, playing hopscotch in a school yard, with missing front teeth and shoes untied because they have not yet acquired …show more content…
“The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. (Wiesel 11).” In our society there cannot be a loss of innocence without gain of knowledge. No thinks that bad things will happen to them until they do.
At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is so strong that when asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” But during the Holocaust, Elie struggles to hold on to his faith. In the beginning of the book it is learned the Elie’s faith is a product of his studies in Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, which teach him that God is everywhere and that there is nothing that exists without the presence of God. Eliezer has spent his life believing that everything on Earth reflects God and his holiness. However, his faith is irreparably shaken by the inhumane evil that he witnesses during the Holocaust. "Never Shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes." (Wiesel 34). But what hits him hardest is not just torture that was brought on by the Nazi’s it is
Seeing the definition of the word innocence gives off the impression that it is only for children, playing hopscotch in a school yard, with missing front teeth and shoes untied because they have not yet acquired …show more content…
“The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. (Wiesel 11).” In our society there cannot be a loss of innocence without gain of knowledge. No thinks that bad things will happen to them until they do.
At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is so strong that when asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” But during the Holocaust, Elie struggles to hold on to his faith. In the beginning of the book it is learned the Elie’s faith is a product of his studies in Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, which teach him that God is everywhere and that there is nothing that exists without the presence of God. Eliezer has spent his life believing that everything on Earth reflects God and his holiness. However, his faith is irreparably shaken by the inhumane evil that he witnesses during the Holocaust. "Never Shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes." (Wiesel 34). But what hits him hardest is not just torture that was brought on by the Nazi’s it is