Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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“It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.” “(Webber).” This quote by Tammara Webber shows that no matter how much faith you have before in some situations it may go away in an instant making you not only wonder just how much faith did you lose and the lines of trust that was broken, but also how much you now doubt your god making you slowly grow as a new person gaining confidence as you start to go through more and more soul crushing hardships that make you think at what cost. Hard experiences that make you do and believe things you never thought you would of in your …show more content…

“Night” takes place around 1944 to 1945 during the peak of the holocaust near the end of the second world war in Germany and their concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Elie describes his life with his dad at the concentration camps, going through each painful experience starting with the beginning of his journey where he boards the trains to head to the concentration camps to his imprisonment and time in those concentration camps to finally, after his liberation where's he’s set free to go home a changed broken man with the tragic experiences he went through scaring him for …show more content…

In the beginning of Night, Elie has a strong faith in himself and his god, celebrating Rosh Hashanah with his community and family as jews while the German soldiers come in order to try and take power over the jews. The community gathered in private homes with every rabbi’s home becoming a house of prayer in order to not anger the German soldiers. Following the bible’s commands they drank,ate, and sang even when their hearts were not into it due to the Jews, but they still sang due to their strong faith and love for their god during each of the eight days of the Rosh Hashanah celebration. Then all of a sudden on the seventh day of Passover the curtain finally rose as the Germans arrested the Jew leaders from that moment on Elies life and faith changed through each day his life never returning to the joyful and peaceful way it was and his faith forever diminished,broken, and shattered. Later going to the ghetto in Sighet Elie and the other jews are slowly dehumanized being encircled with barbed wire as they complete the tasks in their daily lives as they tried to make life “normal” again making them lose faith in hope and themselves until two months later they get news that they must be transported. Until a few days later they are forced to walk with a sack their eyes slowly dying and color and hope draining from them. When

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