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The Night - Online Term Paper

The Night

In the book , written by Elie Wiesel, a quote that made me realize the horror people went through in the Holocaust was, "For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard a man asking: Where is God now?"
Besides the brilliant descriptions found in Night and the feeling that I was walking in Elie's shoes, opens a person’s mind to the atrocities of the Holocaust and concentration camps. We take for granted, today, our knowledge of how many Jews were ...

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changed for Wiesel and the rest of the Jews and how unexpected this change was. The book shows the progression of an innocent twelve year old boy whose life was devoted to studying the Torah and was changed to a life of terror. The book also shows how the German forces were so harsh at breaking the spirits of the Jews.
Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the beginning of the novel, but grows weaker as time goes on. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, thousands of men came to attend services. Thousands of voices repeated, "Blessed be the Name of the Eternal!" Elie thought, "Why, but why should I bless Him? Because he had thousands of children burned in his pits?... How could I say to Him: "Blessed art thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe, Who chose us from among the races to be tortured day and night? Praised be Thy Holy Name, Thou Who hast chosen us to be butchered on Thine altar?" These statements showed Elie’s lack of faith and ...

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Added: 1/18/2005 12:35:42 PM
Category: English
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