Abuse Of Power In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the memoir and non-fiction novel Night by Elie Wiesel the author shows a hidden message. I feel that this message is that there are people who do horrible things, but no matter what, you can overcome something horrific you just have to be strong. The novel interprets that power can be used and abused, and power comes in many forms. There are people in this world that will abuse their power, they will harm human beings because of their opinions, but we have the power to fight, to stick by our beliefs, our family and our friends, we have the power to make sure these actions never happens again. Elie shows that the world isn’t perfect and it will never be, there aren’t perfect human beings, most can be cruel. Wiesel shows a reality that most
Through Wiesel's gruesome and horrendous experiences I feel a different connection toward the Jews, it is a very heartbreaking feeling that I have felt while reading this incredible piece of literature. When Elie felt that the Lord betrayed him, he seemed to have lost hope, but he kept going and fighting for his family. He fought for his father and his mother and sister's memory. I disagree that Elie felt free at last once his father passed and that he never answered his father in his last day with him, his last words were Eliezer. I hate the fact that his father had to die that way, without his son by his side, that he was punished for being ill. “My father groaned once more, I heard : “Eliezer…” “They must have taken him to the crematorium, perhaps he was still breathing.” I feel that you should always fight for your family no matter what, you shouldn't leave them alone at their weakest times, you must stay with them until the end. However, Elie had the power to fight for himself, even though those of a higher power wanted to weaken his faith, his hope, Elie fought. I feel that this connects to our everyday lives because sometimes there are people in this world who will try to weaken your faith and hope, but you have to keep fighting for yourself and others around you. No one can break you unless you let
Elie had to watch many hangings, however, once the young boy, a pipel was sent to be hanged it all changed. The pipel and two other inmates were tortured and condemned to death. When the three prisoners were upon everyone, many lost faith in the Lord. “Where is merciful God, where is he?”(64) Once the chairs were tipped over at the signal they all began weeping, the two men were no longer alive, but pipel still was. “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing…”(65) “And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.” The young boy suffered before his death, once everyone saw an young innocent boy killed, everyone's faith in the lord deteriorated. “For God’s sake, where is God?”(65) “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe , who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? “ (67) Here Elie is angry with the Lord, he is angry because he feels that he is betrayed. He