Elie Wiesel Book Report
From the beginning of the book, it strikes me how brave and passionate Elie Wiesel is. To be a 13-year-old boy and studying the Jewish religion intensely at time when it was dangerous to be Jew shows great passion and dedication to me about his character. His bravery is also shown when on the train to Birkenau and in Auschwitz when in front of his father he continues to stay strong. Reading about how the Jewish people of Sighet had housed Nazis reminds me of the hospitality certain Native American tribes gave to the settlers and the settlers abused that generosity like the Nazis did. While Elie and his family are all burying things they don’t want to give to the Nazis, I think it represents in a larger picture all the memories and the childhood
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The illusion he mention disappearing when they leave the wagon is true. Their fate is a true reality and all hope that this was all ‘never going to happen’ is now gone. When walking towards the crematorium, the babies and adults alike birth being burned instigated the first feelings that how God isn’t as just as he once thought. This makes me think that in some ways people are wrong about the Nazi legacy. While they did inevitably lose the war, they did succeed in somewhat of a larger scale: destroying the idea of the Jewish religion and God’s mighty for some of the prisoners. I also think that Elie Wiesel talked about how his father didn’t show his emotion to his family at all to put into perspective of when he cried, just how unbelievable all this was for Elie. My favorite part of the book so far is the break when Elie talks about the affect seeing the crematorium had changed his view of God. I like it because it shows such a raw emotion and how the Holocaust had put such lasting effect on his life. I wonder how my faith would be after witnessing such horrors. This ordeal makes you angry of how humanity could be so vile and indecent. While Elie talks about how he remained silent when a member of the Kappo hurts his father, it reminds me of how Elie in the preface says that silence was a key to the Jews being abused for so
The illusion he mention disappearing when they leave the wagon is true. Their fate is a true reality and all hope that this was all ‘never going to happen’ is now gone. When walking towards the crematorium, the babies and adults alike birth being burned instigated the first feelings that how God isn’t as just as he once thought. This makes me think that in some ways people are wrong about the Nazi legacy. While they did inevitably lose the war, they did succeed in somewhat of a larger scale: destroying the idea of the Jewish religion and God’s mighty for some of the prisoners. I also think that Elie Wiesel talked about how his father didn’t show his emotion to his family at all to put into perspective of when he cried, just how unbelievable all this was for Elie. My favorite part of the book so far is the break when Elie talks about the affect seeing the crematorium had changed his view of God. I like it because it shows such a raw emotion and how the Holocaust had put such lasting effect on his life. I wonder how my faith would be after witnessing such horrors. This ordeal makes you angry of how humanity could be so vile and indecent. While Elie talks about how he remained silent when a member of the Kappo hurts his father, it reminds me of how Elie in the preface says that silence was a key to the Jews being abused for so