Elie Wiesel Effectiveness

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“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. And yet, I sense their presence. I always do..,” (p.118). In the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel a Jewish man that survived the Holocaust unlike so many others. “And how many devout Jews endured such death?” (p.xx). His writing is highly effective because it summarizes his life just like so many other Jews in that era. He writes about his experiences in the many different kinds of concentration camps. From doing light work and short days, to hard and heavy work and long days. This all went under the governing of Adolf Hitler during the World War II. It shows the power that one’s voice can have in sharing the pain that was caused in our history, all because something was not ideal for one man. One man that corrupted many others into believing his “ways”. Elie goes on to write about the barest means and ways of living they endured throughout their days in camps. Elie Wiesel’s book Night was and still is, highly effective due to the fact it is written about the Holocaust and mass murders that’s …show more content…
It is highly effective because it summarizes his life and lives of so many other men, woman and children. His writing makes you feel like you are right there enduring all the pain caused by Adolf Hitler. It shows the true power of one’s voice, “The child who tells us his story here was one of God’s chosen. From the time he began to think, he lived only for God, study the Talmud, eager to be initaled into the Kabbalah, Wholly dedicated the consequence of a less visible, less striking abomination, yet the worst of all, for those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly faces absolute evil?” (p.xix). This quote describes innermost thoughts and feeling that they were going though. It portrays the evil of one man verses the greater

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