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Elie Wiesel's Night - Example Papers

Elie Wiesel's Night

Madame Shacter was screaming about the fire, the huge flames and
the furnace that she could see. Then she was begging the people on the
train to believe her but instead they gagged her and tied her up. In a way,
Madame Shacter was prophesying about the crematories at the death camps,
the huge flames and the furnaces that turn the Jewish nation into ashes.

"I believe profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I
run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." (p. 13)

Elie Wiesel was a child of such high religious values, who at the
age of just twelve, before even Bar-Mitzvah, wanted to delve into Jewish
mysticism. As he states, he was studying ...

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should not be blessing God's name
because he was silent when the Jewish people needed him most, he still is
reluctent to say that no God exists. Afterwards though, he does recite the
words of the Kaddish.

"Some talked of God, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of the Jewish
people, and of their future development, but I have ceased to pray. How I
sympathised with Job! I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His
absolute justice." (p. 57)

Again he talks about the way how he doesn't deny God's existence
but he only says at a time like this one, God should be helping.
"....and I heard a voice within me answer him:

"Where is he? Here He is - He is hanging here on this gallows..." (p. 77)

I think what Wiesel is trying to say here is that his last hope for
God to redeem the Jews from the Natzi regime just died with the boy on the
gallows.

"What are you my God? I thought angrily, ‘compared to this afflicted crowd,
proclaiming to you their faith, their anger, ...

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Added: 8/5/2005 10:05:09 PM
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