Inhumanity In Elie Wiesel's Night
In the memoir Night , the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames”(Wiesel). There were getting little children and thrown to the fire . They experiences many other example of inhumanity are revealed. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause Loss of faith. To begin with, After he entered the camp, Wiesel started to lose his faith. He doesn’t pray as much anymore. “His mysterious ways , the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray” (Wiesel 45).Wiesel is starting not to believe in God, because all of the horrible things happening to
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In fact, he is becoming angry with God, because nazi’s are taking their family away or killing them. “Where 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 all this cawardis, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people wounded minds, their ailing bodies” ( Wiesel 66).Wiesel had enough with everything that is going on. He even talk to God in anger for not helping them. In conclusion, It shows that Wiesel loses his faith with all this brutality. Another theme in Night is that inhumanity causes Disbelief. The jews of sighet react with disbelief when they learn of the nazi’s inhumanity many of them. “But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen”(Wiesel 7). No one didn’t listen to him about nazi taking all the jews. Only one of them did believe. In Addition, all the jews got shock about all horrible death. Also even jews fighting for only a piece of food. “They jumped him. Other joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son”(Wiesel 102). Jews started acting crazy when
In fact, he is becoming angry with God, because nazi’s are taking their family away or killing them. “Where 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 all this cawardis, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people wounded minds, their ailing bodies” ( Wiesel 66).Wiesel had enough with everything that is going on. He even talk to God in anger for not helping them. In conclusion, It shows that Wiesel loses his faith with all this brutality. Another theme in Night is that inhumanity causes Disbelief. The jews of sighet react with disbelief when they learn of the nazi’s inhumanity many of them. “But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen”(Wiesel 7). No one didn’t listen to him about nazi taking all the jews. Only one of them did believe. In Addition, all the jews got shock about all horrible death. Also even jews fighting for only a piece of food. “They jumped him. Other joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son”(Wiesel 102). Jews started acting crazy when