Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis
Will Smith once said, "Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you, and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too." Will Smith proves hate is a bad feeling to have since hatred only leads to more hatred. In the memoir Night, Wiesel shares his story about his life in concentration camps, and how hard it was to obtain survival during World War II. Throughout the memoir, Wiesel develops hatred towards God for the genocide of Jews, and this hatred “consumes” his faith for God. Despite the fact that many may claim Eliezer's changing views of God did not affect his identity, Wiesel portrays how he begins to morph as his perspective of God changes throughout his journey from Sighet
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One event where Eliezer's view towards God changes is when Eliezer and his father arrive at the concentration camp. Eliezer overhears his father saying, "Yisgadal, veyishkadash, shmey raba… May His name be celebrated and sanctified… What was there to thank Him for?" (Weisel 33). Eliezer's views towards God change, so he is an angry prisoner of the Holocaust, with his anger directed towards God. The angrier Eliezer differs from the religious Eliezer who asks questions and gets mentorship from Moishe to gain true bliss. Furthermore, when describing the change in Eliezer, Wiesel uses symbolism to show his wavering view towards God. During the killing of the Dutchman's little servant, Wiesel says, "Behind me, I heard the same man asking: For God's sake… That night, the soup tasted of corpses" (Wiesel 65). While reminiscing, Eliezer shows his negative interpretation of the boy's killing. Wiesel lampoons God by saying God is hanging from a rope, just like the boy. Weisel says everyone loved the boy while the two men shout long live liberty. Also, the boy remains silent. Which is similar to God remaining silent as the genocide of Jews is developing in Europe. To elaborate, as Weisel sees God close to dead and silent, his identity changes since he has a more negative attitude towards life. When Eliezer is introduced to the new Holocaust system of Auschwitz, his view towards God changes tremendously. In the memoir, Wiesel states: “Little by little, we all sat down in the mud. But we had to get up… I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe" (Wiesel 38). Eliezer reveals that he is thankful to God for letting him keep the material items he possessed back in Sighet. Weisel looks up to God like a true devotee, and thanks Him for everything he receives in life, even if it is a little thing like
One event where Eliezer's view towards God changes is when Eliezer and his father arrive at the concentration camp. Eliezer overhears his father saying, "Yisgadal, veyishkadash, shmey raba… May His name be celebrated and sanctified… What was there to thank Him for?" (Weisel 33). Eliezer's views towards God change, so he is an angry prisoner of the Holocaust, with his anger directed towards God. The angrier Eliezer differs from the religious Eliezer who asks questions and gets mentorship from Moishe to gain true bliss. Furthermore, when describing the change in Eliezer, Wiesel uses symbolism to show his wavering view towards God. During the killing of the Dutchman's little servant, Wiesel says, "Behind me, I heard the same man asking: For God's sake… That night, the soup tasted of corpses" (Wiesel 65). While reminiscing, Eliezer shows his negative interpretation of the boy's killing. Wiesel lampoons God by saying God is hanging from a rope, just like the boy. Weisel says everyone loved the boy while the two men shout long live liberty. Also, the boy remains silent. Which is similar to God remaining silent as the genocide of Jews is developing in Europe. To elaborate, as Weisel sees God close to dead and silent, his identity changes since he has a more negative attitude towards life. When Eliezer is introduced to the new Holocaust system of Auschwitz, his view towards God changes tremendously. In the memoir, Wiesel states: “Little by little, we all sat down in the mud. But we had to get up… I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe" (Wiesel 38). Eliezer reveals that he is thankful to God for letting him keep the material items he possessed back in Sighet. Weisel looks up to God like a true devotee, and thanks Him for everything he receives in life, even if it is a little thing like