Two Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel
Two themes in the novel Night wrote by Elie Wiesel, Elie has to go through his through most of his teenage years going through the holocaust which shows inhuman cruelty and the struggles of survival throughout the Holocaust.
An example of the theme of ‘inhuman cruelty and on page 65 it says “ Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows…” That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” I included these quotes from the book to show that people were being hanged left and right and none of the prisoners had payed no mind to them every hanging was indifferent to them. Until the young pipel was hanged, this made the prisoners asks questions as to where God was during these times of cruelty, when they needed him the most. It also made them seek answers as to the boy dying slowly from being hung, as a prisoner says “ This is where-hanging here from this gallows. . .” showing that the prisoner believed that God was in front of him suffering.
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As shown in the last paragraph you weren’t supposed to survive anything that the Nazi’s did to you, or even survive in the concentration camps, but a struggle for the Jews was to maintain their faith while they were going through these hard times through the Holocaust. Many lost faith in their God, many asked why they were left to suffer, many thought that God was testing them to see if their faith would remain strong through hard times. On page 65, it says “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows…” and on page 76 it says “ It’s over. God is no longer with us.”. These two examples show evidence that Jews struggled to maintain faith in God while going through the Holocaust and that they struggled to look for answers as to why he was not with them or helping
An example of the theme of ‘inhuman cruelty and on page 65 it says “ Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows…” That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” I included these quotes from the book to show that people were being hanged left and right and none of the prisoners had payed no mind to them every hanging was indifferent to them. Until the young pipel was hanged, this made the prisoners asks questions as to where God was during these times of cruelty, when they needed him the most. It also made them seek answers as to the boy dying slowly from being hung, as a prisoner says “ This is where-hanging here from this gallows. . .” showing that the prisoner believed that God was in front of him suffering.
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As shown in the last paragraph you weren’t supposed to survive anything that the Nazi’s did to you, or even survive in the concentration camps, but a struggle for the Jews was to maintain their faith while they were going through these hard times through the Holocaust. Many lost faith in their God, many asked why they were left to suffer, many thought that God was testing them to see if their faith would remain strong through hard times. On page 65, it says “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows…” and on page 76 it says “ It’s over. God is no longer with us.”. These two examples show evidence that Jews struggled to maintain faith in God while going through the Holocaust and that they struggled to look for answers as to why he was not with them or helping