Tragedy In Ellie Farel's 'Night'
Bad things happen to good people. Tragedy takes an emotional toll on everyone involved. Situations like loss or being exculpated often leave a person feeling hopeless. Therefore, just because someone physically survives a tragedy doesn’t mean they aren’t scared emotionally. In the memoir Night, Ellie Wisel writes about how the concentration camps and/or the whole situation have made him and many other people suffer physical, emotional, and mental changes. These changes affected Ellie in such a way that he just gave up after a while. He no longer felt or wanted to feel. He had no emotion towards death or tragic things. “My mind was invaded suddenly by this realization- there was no more reason to live, no more reason to struggle (104).” I
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But the fact that he just craws over dead bodies that went into the war with him. These dead bodies could have been his friends; they went in there with the same odds to live. And he is just walking over them like they are nothing, with no emotion at all. But what this solder didn’t know, that this one decision he was going to make fighting for other innocent people, was going to kill him emotionally forever. This quote is representing all the other people that suffered from emotional death, but were not in the concentration camps. Even the soldiers fighting for the prisoners suffered from some type of emotional death. In today’s world if someone suffers from emotional death, it could be caused by a loss, an accident, or even if they have ever been miss treated and/or abused in some sort of way. The people in today’s world and the people from the time of the Holocaust have similar things in common. Like when they suffer from emotional death they see nothing. They have no response to anything or emotion to important and/or tragic events. They don’t see why they are here or why they even matter. But in the concentration camps, the
But the fact that he just craws over dead bodies that went into the war with him. These dead bodies could have been his friends; they went in there with the same odds to live. And he is just walking over them like they are nothing, with no emotion at all. But what this solder didn’t know, that this one decision he was going to make fighting for other innocent people, was going to kill him emotionally forever. This quote is representing all the other people that suffered from emotional death, but were not in the concentration camps. Even the soldiers fighting for the prisoners suffered from some type of emotional death. In today’s world if someone suffers from emotional death, it could be caused by a loss, an accident, or even if they have ever been miss treated and/or abused in some sort of way. The people in today’s world and the people from the time of the Holocaust have similar things in common. Like when they suffer from emotional death they see nothing. They have no response to anything or emotion to important and/or tragic events. They don’t see why they are here or why they even matter. But in the concentration camps, the