“In a dark time, the eye begins to see” (Theodore Roethke). In humanity, there comes a time in one’s life when innocence vanishes due to an horrifying experience or an improvement of knowledge about the world. Originally, all Individuals are innocent, but it is turmoil and the hardships an individual encounters that is the source of the valuable virtue to perish. In some instances, innocence may be lost in one’s life before it is meant to be lost. Night, by Elie Wiesel is a devastatingly true story about his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Eliezer’s innocence declines as God's silence continues in a time of oppression as well as the existence of silence that appears in Eliezer’s voice. The suffering Eliezer experiences
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Eliezer is left to wonder God's true humanity towards people in dire situations as the cruelty continuously occurs. During the brutal hanging of the Pipel, a young boy, Eliezer says “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within [Eliezer], [Eliezer hears] a voice answer: ‘where he is?’ this is where-hanging here from this gallows..”(Wiesel 65). Eliezer’s innocence disappears after witnessing a child, a few years younger than him, linger between life and death. From the horrors of the hanging, Eliezer’s faith falters. As Eliezer witnesses this atrocity, he refutes his belief of a connection with God and contends that God does not live in the concentration camps. The absence of God in the face of oppression denounces the remaining connection to his childhood beliefs. Eliezer wonders how God could let the mass murder of millions of his fellow jewish communities occur. At this moment, Eliezer no longer believes in an amity between God and himself. As well as the silence of God, Eliezer experiences a loss of innocence through the silence in his voice. After Eliezer arranges to stay near his father, Eliezer's father begs for water but “the officer came closer and [shouts] to him to be silent. But [Eliezer’s father] did not hear” and “dealt [Eliezer’s father] a violent blow to the head” (Wiesel 111). Eliezer’s innocence disappears as he watches his father, a strong man, …show more content…
After a long odyssey from the Synagogue, Eliezer and his father arrive in Birkenau around midnight to the smell of burning flesh. As the Jews move though Birkenau, they stumble upon the open furnaces where “[s]omething [is]being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold:small children. Babies!....children thrown into flames” (Wiesel 32). Eliezer begins to realize the horrors that surround them as he witnesses the Nazis burning babies by the truckload. Eliezer’s innocence shatters as he witnesses children thrown into a pit of fire. The darkness of the concentration camps overpowers his belief in a unconditional devotion to God. Eliezer realizes that humanism is nonexistent in the world of the crematoria in concentration camps. As well as the suffering from the crematorium, Eliezer experiences a loss of innocence from the death march to Gleiwitz. As Eliezer and his father begin their journey in the pitch darkness of night, Eliezer witnesses his friend collapse due to the inhuman conditions of the run. Eliezer observes as Zalman, a polish boy, fall to the ground and die by being “trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed” (Wiesel 86). At his young age, Eliezer undercovers the cruel side of the world that no child should unveil until later on in their life. His innocence disappears as the darkness of the night kills off his friends
Eliezer is left to wonder God's true humanity towards people in dire situations as the cruelty continuously occurs. During the brutal hanging of the Pipel, a young boy, Eliezer says “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within [Eliezer], [Eliezer hears] a voice answer: ‘where he is?’ this is where-hanging here from this gallows..”(Wiesel 65). Eliezer’s innocence disappears after witnessing a child, a few years younger than him, linger between life and death. From the horrors of the hanging, Eliezer’s faith falters. As Eliezer witnesses this atrocity, he refutes his belief of a connection with God and contends that God does not live in the concentration camps. The absence of God in the face of oppression denounces the remaining connection to his childhood beliefs. Eliezer wonders how God could let the mass murder of millions of his fellow jewish communities occur. At this moment, Eliezer no longer believes in an amity between God and himself. As well as the silence of God, Eliezer experiences a loss of innocence through the silence in his voice. After Eliezer arranges to stay near his father, Eliezer's father begs for water but “the officer came closer and [shouts] to him to be silent. But [Eliezer’s father] did not hear” and “dealt [Eliezer’s father] a violent blow to the head” (Wiesel 111). Eliezer’s innocence disappears as he watches his father, a strong man, …show more content…
After a long odyssey from the Synagogue, Eliezer and his father arrive in Birkenau around midnight to the smell of burning flesh. As the Jews move though Birkenau, they stumble upon the open furnaces where “[s]omething [is]being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold:small children. Babies!....children thrown into flames” (Wiesel 32). Eliezer begins to realize the horrors that surround them as he witnesses the Nazis burning babies by the truckload. Eliezer’s innocence shatters as he witnesses children thrown into a pit of fire. The darkness of the concentration camps overpowers his belief in a unconditional devotion to God. Eliezer realizes that humanism is nonexistent in the world of the crematoria in concentration camps. As well as the suffering from the crematorium, Eliezer experiences a loss of innocence from the death march to Gleiwitz. As Eliezer and his father begin their journey in the pitch darkness of night, Eliezer witnesses his friend collapse due to the inhuman conditions of the run. Eliezer observes as Zalman, a polish boy, fall to the ground and die by being “trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed” (Wiesel 86). At his young age, Eliezer undercovers the cruel side of the world that no child should unveil until later on in their life. His innocence disappears as the darkness of the night kills off his friends