within yourself!" (Wiesel 2-3) In the beginning‚ before the Jews of Sighet were evacuated Elie was very devout. During the day‚ he studied the Talmud and at night he ran to weep over the destruction of the temple. One day‚ Elie came home and asked his father to find him a Master to teach him the cabbala even though he was much too young to learn it‚ soon he found Moshe the poor man and he taught Elie the cabbala. (Wiesel 1-3) One day
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In “Night” written by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie struggles with his faith. In the beginning of the book Elie’s faith is pure. When Elie was asked why he prays to god‚ he responded with‚ “Why did I pray?... Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”(Wiesel 4) Elie’s faith was unbreakable. His faith was so strong as a result of being in a Jewish family and being taught to pray and study Judaism daily. However his faith was put to the test during the Holocaust. Elie starts to doubt his faith by witnessing the
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The book Night by Elie Wiesel describes his time in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s life before The Holocaust was studying the Jewish religion day and night. During the day he would go to school to study religion and at night would go to the Synagogue to pray. He did the exact same thing every day. He was static and unchanging. But when he was forced into the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland‚ he had to adapt for it. This was the only way he would survive. EIie had
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that their friends‚ family and religion were being taken from them. In the book “Night‚” the author‚ Elie Wiesel‚ recounts how he survived the Holocaust and what effects it had on his faith. By the end of the memoir‚ Elie had lost his faith in himself‚ in mankind and in God. It can be believed that Elie lost his faith because he could not sense that his God was helping him in any way‚ shape or form. Elie gave up hope because he felt that God had abandoned him and‚ as such‚ he would now abandon his God
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the beginning of Wiesel’s story he has almost no relationship with his father. His father was more involved with the Jewish community‚ and it left no time for him to spend time with his son. They worked together to help him learn Jewish tradition. Elie recalls that his father was: “more concerned about other people than he was with his own family”(Wiesel 4) However‚ the horror’s of the camps made
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Elie Wiesel states “For in the end‚ it is all about memory‚ its sources and its magnitude‚ and‚ of course‚ its consequences.” The holocaust was the discrimination against the Jews from separation from their families to persecution to murder. This event happened during World War 2 around 1933 to 1945‚ in western Asia. Hitler believed the Jews were the cause of all Germany’s problems and felt superior to them. My Holocaust sources will be coming from Night‚ Auschwitz Death Camp‚ "To the little Polish
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Ultimately‚ Night by Elie Wiesel was a whirlwind of emotions. Although the most prevalent emotion displayed throughout his entire memoire was fear. This memoire exemplifies the most disturbing of fears experienced by the victims during the Holocaust: Fear of the certainty of losing each other was indefinite‚ as was fear of pain experienced‚ and lastly fear of death. Although fear of pain and death were always existent‚ the captives of these work camps were always fearful of losing friends and
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author‚ Elie Wiesel conveys a powerful memoir of inhumanity‚ death and loss of faith to the reader. Throughout the novel the protagonist endures extreme and brutal circumstances which causes him to lose faith in god. The inhumanity and dehumanization acts Elie experiences causes him to feel mentally dead inside Through the eyes of the protagonist‚ the author emphasizes how the horrific and traumatic experiences he encountered dominated his mind making him feel mentally dead. Although Elie miraculously
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trauma and distress Elie Wiesel experiences as a prisoner in the concentration camps causes him to suffer from Holocaust Survivors Syndrome. First‚ Elie views his survival as luck. After seeing himself in a mirror for the first time in over a year‚ Elie writes‚ “From the depths of the mirror‚ a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115). The imagery of a corpse suggests that to Elie‚ his life barely continues. His comment suggests he might as well be dead after his experiences. Thus‚ Elie believes he survives
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was not easy‚ but Elie Wiesel did it‚ and wrote many books about it. He has won many awards like the Nobel Peace Prize. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust‚ wrote books about his experiences‚ and has influenced our society. Elie was born on September 30‚ 1928. He was born in Sighet‚ Transylvania‚ which is now Romania (“Elie Wiesel Biography”). The Wiesel family consists of Sholmo‚ Sarah‚ Hilda‚ Bea‚ Eliezer‚ and Tsiporah (Aikman). His was given the birth name Eliezer (“Elie Wiesel Biography”)
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