Kriti Dulal
Mr. Wonders, 3B
March 22, 2023
Written Segment - Professional Theologist
The Holocaust was an awful time in history. It was cruel, unfair, and inhumane. During this period of time, European Jews were killed and tortured by the German Nazis. This horrific event lasted from 1941 to 1945, but the effects that it had on the world will never be forgotten. One of the better things that came out of the Holocaust was the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel. As one of the survivors, he shares his traumatizing experience during the Holocaust. Elie explains to us what the Holocaust was really like. He talks about how he was separated from his family, how they would throw alive babies into pits of fire, how the men were forced to work in terrible
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Before the Germans took over Elie’s home city, he was very interested in a lot of religious practices and he even had a teacher that went by Moshie the beadle. Moshie taught him about their religion and their God. He was extremely invested in these topics and had a deep connection with God which makes him very affected by the theme that believing in God helps someone keep faith and hope. Elie could never imagine life without God but during the novel, Elie wonders “where is god?”. He witnesses so many innocent people, and even babies getting killed with no hesitation and he is confused about God’s purpose. He is wondering why God is letting these awful events transpire. I believe Elie was not one of the men who decided that this was God’s way of testing them and showing them love, but this theme still relates to him because everything that he believed in and studied was becoming questionable before his own …show more content…
Why do humans believe in God? Why do they have such great faith in something they cannot see or ever have the promise of seeing? Early in human history, there was no such thing. So how did it arise, and why? Humanity created the concept of God because they don’t understand many things about the world. How I see it, is that having something to be passionate about and to believe in helps people have a sense of control and appreciation. It lets them always have an answer to everything. This theme impacts our life greatly because it lets those who believe in God always have hope and it lets them believe that things will turn out alright. I think this concept is important because sometimes when you believe in something and focus on the positive, the negative hurts less. It affects my personal life because it's fascinating. I don’t believe in the concept of God and I feel He gets too much credit at times but I still find it extremely interesting that He has so much positive power over people. It's honestly
Night is perhaps the most important memoir written up to date. Written in 1956 by Elie Wiesel a holocaust survivor. Night remenaces at the dark times of the holocaust during the Nazi Regime in World War 2. It becomes a powerful text with a powerful message, to let everybody know what he experience and take into account that it should never happen again.
Elie Wiesel was bestowed a Nobel Peace Prize for his benevolent acts of peace. He wrote memoirs like Night, it depicts Elie Wiesel's life during his terrifying experience inside the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buma where the Nazis beat starved and killed 11 million people. Elie Wiesel is tortured emotionally and spiritually in the concentration camps of the Holocaust and as a result, is greatly altered Elie’s relationship with his god changes thoroughly throughout his time in the concentration camps. At only 12 years of age, Elie is deep into his religious studies and spends a large portion of his time inside the temple.
While also making him cold, and almost unsympathetic. Elie was a smart and very religious boy. He believed God was the one thing he could count on. But soon he became a god-fearing man, who could not understand why something of such horror would happen to such an innocent family. In the beginning of the novel, the author
Image result for elie wieselIn the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel wrote about how the Jews and the Gypsies were taken from their homes, their countries, friends, family, and was forced to dig their own graves. They were killed on the spot if they did not follow directions. Wiesel wanted to show how evil mankind can be, the way they were treated with hatred, disgust and looked down upon. They were treated like dogs. Wiesel is trying to teach that even though there is evil in the world, you cannot let go of your positivity, hope, and will to survive.
Elie felt they had killed his God and now there was no one to protect them from the evil that had manifested in the camp. Therefore, all of Elie hopes and dreams
Throughout the text, Elie creates a sense of normalcy in the camp by glancing over routinely details and emphasizing critical points that reflect his emotions. After the hanging of Pipel, Elie describes the soup that he ate saying, “That night, the soup tasted of corpses” (Wiesel 65). Wiesel describes the soup as being different from usual. The change of taste represents the feeling of Elie and how is full of sorrow after the hanging of Pipel. After injuring himself, Elie describes his food in the infirmary, “Actually, being in the infirmary was not bad at all: we were entitled to good bread, a thicker soup.
At one point, Elie uttered, "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us. . .”(p.20). Grounded by the idea of faith in his God, that He is everywhere, and that His divinity touches every aspect of his life. However, he was forced to witness the brutal reality of evil and suffering that the Germans were doing to the Jews. When he began to question his faith in his loving God, “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(p.34).
Elie has experienced so much pain. He thinks that dying would be a relief. This shows how depressed he has been and how he just wants to let go of it
A major theme of the last three sections of the novel is the loss of identity. Throughout the book, Elie and the other prisoners lose touch with who they really are, as Jews and as human beings. In the beginning of the novel, Elie is a devout Jew, focused on furthering his studies of the Kabbalah. However, as his time at the concentration camp progresses, he continually loses his faith in God. He doesn’t fast on Rosh Hashanah as a sign of defiance, and he frequently blames God for what is happening to the Jews.
Elie basically thinks that the camps are just a nightmare. He wonders how God, someone that he trusts and believes in could be part of such a killing in the concentration camps. His religion is also made fake when he sees a ton of in humanity happening in the prisoners. Elie says, “If all the prisoners were to unite to oppose the cruel oppression of the Nazis.
This quote shows us that Elie is frustrated with God for not doing anything about all the bad things that are happing to incent people. This shows that Elie still belives in God but is upset with him which later in the book he will loose all of his faith and even even believe in
They made everyone look at the young boy as he struggled to stay alive. A guy in the crowd had yelled hout asking where God was and to have mercy on all of them. Elie had basically lost all faith in that moment and said that God had died when the little boy had died. The Jews had lost faith in anything good happening to them anytime soon. They took the beatings and every other cruel and inhuman thing happening to them and work their hearts out.
Elie’s faith dies more and more as he experiences more violence and death. He doesn’t believe God could let something this horrible happen to a whole race of people, especially in the twentieth century. The cruel and inhuman treatment of the prisoners symbolize the atrocities and horrors of the concentration camps, this example of symbolism makes Elie question his faith in a benevolent
In the book, Elie is struggling with his faith in God. Throughout the book he is going back and forth between how he feels with God, and how could God ever let this happen to them. Elie writes “For God's sake, where is God?”(65). Elie was so lost over the fact that God wasn’t there to help him and to get him out of this terrible situation. At this point Elie is really questioning his faith in God.
The human compulsion to connect with the divine stems from the unknown. If man knew the answers to all questions, then he would not seek anything beyond his own reason. Divine intervention is an explanation for the unexplainable. That’s why man is so obsessed with prolonging life, cloning species, and becoming bionic- he wants to stop attributing purpose to anything divine. He is becoming his own god, answering to no one but himself.