In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there is many techniques used. Through the use of repetition/ syntax and personification, the author develops the first person narrator as being lost in faith. Even though he is lost in faith, as the story progresses, he realizes that there is faith and sees there is a god towards the end. One example of repetition would be when Elie says “why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 4). This is when Moishe the Beadle ask Elie why does he pray. Moishe also prays he just wanted to know why Elie had so much of a passion for praying. This example shows that Elie still has faith in his God and still believes. Later on in the story he starts to question God and his existence once Elie finds out …show more content…
This is repetition because he repeats “why did I” and adds an action at the end of the sentence. Repetition normally means the writer is trying to express his emotion. In this quote he is trying to express how important praying was for him. He said praying is equal to leaving and breathing. At this time in the story Elie understood God and accepted his existence. Later on in the story he noticed that God wasn’t helping them and started to lose what he used to believe in. An example of syntax is when Elie says “I had never asked myself that question. I cried because . . . because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew.” (Wiesel 4). This is when Moishe the Beadle asked Elie why he cried when he prays to God. Elie didn’t know the answer to Moishe’s question. This shows that God was a big part of Elie’s life. Normally people don’t cry unless something means a lot to them. This is at the beginning of the novel before he got put into the camp so he still believed in God. This
It no longer mattered. Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” After the events Elie witnessed in Auschwitz he was a changed man. He no longer felt that his life mattered. He was in disbelief that this “God of Mercy” could let these awful events occur.
Another time when Elie losses his faith in his god is when he started to question why were all these terrible things happening to him, and why didn 't he do something about it, “What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you do on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?”
Throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, the narrator, Wiesel, was subjected to changes within his ideals and religious beliefs. When Wiesel was first introduced to the book, he was a devout Jewish boy who loved his father and had his total faith in God. Over time, Wiesel began to change as a result of being beaten down almost every day and witnessing his fellow Jews being worked to death or simply killed for not being fit enough. "I watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.
Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? ,” (pg. 5). This contrast makes the reader think a great deal, and maybe challenges their own thoughts on God from how powerful the situation is; these inhumane things are being done so frequently, that it forces people like the Jews to revert to a
At the start of the book Eli is praying, but he is crying. His friend asks him why he’s crying. “Why do you cry when you pray? He doesn’t have an answer. Eli says, “ I don’t know, I had never asked myself that question.
When Elie says ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ and from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where-hanging here from these gallows…” (Wiesel 65) this is when we realize that Elie has lost his faith in god. Not becoming atheist but dropping the notion that god is wonderful and amazing and should be worshiped day in and day out and should be sacrificed for and prayed to and begged forgiveness of.
Why did I breathe?” His belief in God is great, and he cannot imagine living without faith in his divine power. But his faith is challenged by what he has to go through during the Holocaust. During the first night in the camp and during the hanging of the young pipel, Elie does battle with his faith.
“I ran off to look for my father. And at the same time I was afraid of having to wish him a Happy New Year when I no longer believed in it,” (Wiesel, 75). Earlier, Elie talks about how he felt powerful and stronger than God himself, now that he was free from the Almighty. He also talks about how he felt alone but strong. Later, he shows retaliation against God.
1. The Buna has a good atmosphere. People were wearing nice clothes, wandering and they had more freedom here. They were given new clothes. 2.
As for me, I had ceased to pray... I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45). It is apparent here that the effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish people’s faith was delayed on some level. Elie refuses to pray to the God that apparently abandoned him. This is personified when he says he doubts that God has absolute justice.
After such a long time without help, these people will start to question their faith and eventually, they will rebel against it. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of The Holocaust, Elie shows that faith is often lost in times of testing or trial. One example of Elie losing his faith is when he was questioning his belief in God. "I suffer hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and I see what is being done here.
In pages eight-five to one hundred-three, several events happened. There was another selection. This time, Eliezer and his father were split up, Eliezer in the healthy line, and Father in the not healthy line. Luckily, Eliezer case enough comotion to get Father to his line. After this, all of the healthy people were put into cattle cars with no roof.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. " Hope and an optimistic attitude are characteristics of a rational and humane mindset. Documenting how these ideals change throughout a period of time in writing can be done through various means of rhetoric including figurative language. In Elie Wiesel 's personal memoir Night, he incorporates similes and metaphors to effectively convey how the victims ' humanity deteriorated throughout the course of the Holocaust. Wiesel 's figurative language at the beginning of the novel conveys how the Jewish people followed commendable politesse and practiced reasonable behavior early on in the Holocaust.
The book "Night" has an incredible author than knows how to create a sense of excitement, suspense, and climax. Elie Wiesel has been pushed to the brink of his faith. While being contained on concentration camps, he was forced to give up his parents and belongings. Seeing innocent men and women being killed without any of the graves having headstones or any prayers being said. Striped of his pride and joy Elie slowly loses his faith in god.
Before the thought of being confined in concentration camp ever occurred to Elie, his life was one that was oriented around pursuing the divinity of his religion and being emotionally stimulated by this pursuit. When Elie is inquired by a local cabala practitioner, known as Moshe, about why he wept when he pray, Elie 's response is "-because of something inside of me that felt the need for tears." This response evoked from Elie shows that he is connected with his soul and is one that is so emotionally-inspired that he "felt the need for tears." In addition to the expression of his emotions, Elie describing his absolute demand for displaying his sentiments also show how connected he is with feeling the power of his own prayer. After all, Elie weeped over the loss of the Temple and ran to the synagogue every night just to pray, showing his undying, faithful