Night Elie Wiesel Journey

Elie Wiesel stepped out a changed man with a determination to carry on and speak the voices of the dead, in an attempt to awaken the rest of the world from its slumber of hazy ignorance. He also came out a lonely survivor, silence finally consuming his father at the end of it all. That was not his only loss however; although he still acknowledges the existence of a God, it does not necessarily mean he is still faithful. He used to burn as bright as a star, but by the end, he was nothing more than a spark of what he used to be. The Holocaust deeply affected Wiesel’s faith. In his book Night, he described how he felt in his first day of camp: “In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking
He wants people to remember their mistakes so they could learn and restore humanity. Writing has also helped Elie on a personal level because it provided him with an emotional relief by catching the swarm of thoughts and questions swirling around in his head and trapping them on paper. He wants the whole world to know that it is not okay to just stand by and continue a “normal” life while others took pleasure in slaughtering human beings by the millions! “…Will the individual learn? Every single human being is a unique human being. And therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity,” Elie had stated in his interview. Near death experiences caused him to grow and evolve as a person, allowing him to learn important virtues and lessons in life. He chose to teach those lessons to the world, and his works and efforts earned him a Nobel Peace Prize. The real prize, though, was his speech, for it enabled him to communicate his message with a much wider