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the following statement using examples from the text: During
the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a
spiritually dead, unemotional man.
In the beginning of the novel, he is very religious and finds the most plain sailing tasks like prayer as important as living and breathing itself. An observant, young, innocent boy. But then Elie is taken to the concentration camps and is nearly immediately separated from his mother and sibling, left with only his father who stays with him for a surprisingly long time. Needless to say, the experience is traumatizing. He is acting and thinking the way no 15 year old should. It is as if his mind was shattered into a million pieces, each fragment too small to find. Elie loses nearly all emotions he had, and no longer trusts Yahweh because he didn’t help Elie nor anyone else when they needed it most. In fact, Elie even considered god dead when he saw a young child hanging from a noose, slowly strangled to death, a time spanning 30 minutes.
In a blanket statement, it means that Elie's faith was demolished by the holocaust. You can see this with the "Never shall I forget" portion on page thirty four. In this portion he starts to show tremendous amount of loss of faith. Though he was starting to lose it the page before, he bounced back a little bit. This is when the Jews were reciting Kaddish. He was angry at his God, and then said it for himself. If we skip ahead in time and pags to the young pipel being hung (page sixty four to sixty five), you can see that it was the final crushing blow to Elie's faith. The Holocaust was like a poison, sapping his faith, but this; this was the noose around the neck of Elie's faith just like the young pipel. If you look at the part "little boy" to "unemotional man" this is explaining how Ellie was broken down, not only spiritually, but also mentally along with physically. Focusing on the mentally portion, he was morphed with in such a little amount of time. He was forced to become a man, to survive, before he was even twenty. This cause a psychological breakdown on Elie's mind. All of this is because of the harshness the Holocaust put onto Elie.
In the beginning of "Night", Elie was a very observant child and very engaged in his study's. He was a very religious young boy; he loved to pray and was very interested in studying Kabbalah, which he learned from Moishe the Beadle. This all changed when all the Jews in Sighet were taken into concentration camps. Here, Elie was separated from his Mother and sister forever, and witnessed horrible things like the burning of children and women that made him question his faith. He was very angry with God and didn't understand why God was showing no mercy on the Jews, but he still recited Kaddish along with the other Jews. His faith wasn't truly lost until the hanging of the little Pipel at the gallows. All these tragic events he witnessed during the Holocaust led him to be the "spiritually dead, unemotional man" he is.
I'm the beginning of Night, Elie was a very religious young man who looked up to his religious mentor Moshe. He learnedany things from Moshe the Beadle like how to pray and the study of Kabbalah. This changed when Elie entered the concentration camp. He witnessedid many things that caused him to question his faith such as the crematorium, the hatred in the camp, the behavior of the guards, and the hanging of the young pipel. He was angry with God and felt he was the cause of it all. Elie felt that God wasn't there to save them which caused Elie to become spiritually dead and an unemotional man.
In the beginning of 'Night' Elie was a religious boy who praised God no matter his struggles. Elie prayed for himself, his family, and the strangers around him after they were forced in camps and on to trains. Throughout the Holocaust Elie wonders were his God is and even if he exists. You can see that this is changing Elie for the worse because he no longer defends and helps his father in times of need. By the fifth chapter Elie is a different person, he believes that there is no God coming to save him and the others ,and since God isn't saving them form these horrors God deserves no praise.
During the book night Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man, this happens because during the holocaust he witnesses many things that he never thought about in his life happen to people around him. For example in chapter five on page sixty-five “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.” This shows the death of his God in his eyes, as well as his transition from having emotions to having no emotion. Another thing that this did was change him from a boy to a man, no boy should have to witness all of the death and destruction he did and this experience changed him into a faithless, unemotional man.
In the beginning of the novel, he is very religious and finds the most plain sailing tasks like prayer as important as living and breathing itself. An observant, young, innocent boy. But then Elie is taken to the concentration camps and is nearly immediately separated from his mother and sibling, left with only his father who stays with him for a surprisingly long time. Needless to say, the experience is traumatizing. He is acting and thinking the way no 15 year old should. It is as if his mind was shattered into a million pieces, each fragment too small to find. Elie loses nearly all emotions he had, and no longer trusts Yahweh because he didn’t help Elie nor anyone else when they needed it most. In fact, Elie even considered god dead when he saw a young child hanging from a noose, slowly strangled to death, a time spanning 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteIn a blanket statement, it means that Elie's faith was demolished by the holocaust. You can see this with the "Never shall I forget" portion on page thirty four. In this portion he starts to show tremendous amount of loss of faith. Though he was starting to lose it the page before, he bounced back a little bit. This is when the Jews were reciting Kaddish. He was angry at his God, and then said it for himself. If we skip ahead in time and pags to the young pipel being hung (page sixty four to sixty five), you can see that it was the final crushing blow to Elie's faith. The Holocaust was like a poison, sapping his faith, but this; this was the noose around the neck of Elie's faith just like the young pipel. If you look at the part "little boy" to "unemotional man" this is explaining how Ellie was broken down, not only spiritually, but also mentally along with physically. Focusing on the mentally portion, he was morphed with in such a little amount of time. He was forced to become a man, to survive, before he was even twenty. This cause a psychological breakdown on Elie's mind. All of this is because of the harshness the Holocaust put onto Elie.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of "Night", Elie was a very observant child and very engaged in his study's. He was a very religious young boy; he loved to pray and was very interested in studying Kabbalah, which he learned from Moishe the Beadle. This all changed when all the Jews in Sighet were taken into concentration camps. Here, Elie was separated from his Mother and sister forever, and witnessed horrible things like the burning of children and women that made him question his faith. He was very angry with God and didn't understand why God was showing no mercy on the Jews, but he still recited Kaddish along with the other Jews. His faith wasn't truly lost until the hanging of the little Pipel at the gallows. All these tragic events he witnessed during the Holocaust led him to be the "spiritually dead, unemotional man" he is.
ReplyDeleteI'm the beginning of Night, Elie was a very religious young man who looked up to his religious mentor Moshe. He learnedany things from Moshe the Beadle like how to pray and the study of Kabbalah. This changed when Elie entered the concentration camp. He witnessedid many things that caused him to question his faith such as the crematorium, the hatred in the camp, the behavior of the guards, and the hanging of the young pipel. He was angry with God and felt he was the cause of it all. Elie felt that God wasn't there to save them which caused Elie to become spiritually dead and an unemotional man.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of 'Night' Elie was a religious boy who praised God no matter his struggles. Elie prayed for himself, his family, and the strangers around him after they were forced in camps and on to trains. Throughout the Holocaust Elie wonders were his God is and even if he exists. You can see that this is changing Elie for the worse because he no longer defends and helps his father in times of need. By the fifth chapter Elie is a different person, he believes that there is no God coming to save him and the others ,and since God isn't saving them form these horrors God deserves no praise.
ReplyDeleteDuring the book night Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man, this happens because during the holocaust he witnesses many things that he never thought about in his life happen to people around him. For example in chapter five on page sixty-five
ReplyDelete“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.”
This shows the death of his God in his eyes, as well as his transition from having emotions to having no emotion. Another thing that this did was change him from a boy to a man, no boy should have to witness all of the death and destruction he did and this experience changed him into a faithless, unemotional man.