Elie's life

In World War II and the diseased mind of Hitler were the factors the led to the Genocide. People who were not the superior race in Hitler’s opinion didn’t deserve to live. Jew’s were the targets of the extermination. To establish his plan Hitler created Concentration Camps, where people were forced to work. Those that were considered useless became fuel for the gas chambers and crematory. Hitler’s long-term goal was to wipe out all the Jews. In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author retells the unforgettable distress and suffering that he goes through while he is in the concentration camps. In this novel, Elie helps us realize and visualize the brutality and madness of the camps and SS officers. His struggle for survival and the horror that he is exposed to changes his life forever. Elie’s experiences at the camp have a dramatic impact on his faith, his relationship with his father and his innocence.

Elie says something very strong “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never I shall forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget thos

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36) At the beginning when Elie is just getting the taste of the life at the camp, he won’t even touch the soup, because it is too spoiled.

Another change that Elie under goes is his relationship with his father. Elie had no way of escaping the horrors that hunted him through out all his life. Those were only some of the brutal events that went on at the concentration camps. His own suffering and that of other people made him question is there God, in who he believed in for so many years. When the hunger and suffering increases it makes him grow up very fast, and then he eats anything just to survive. Elie feels like God betrayed them, and he stops praying to the one he always prayed to. That must have been horrible for him, being abused in such an inhumane way and not being able to do anything about it. As they spent more time on the camp they both grew weaker, do to the lack of nutritious food and excessive amounts of work. He wonders why has God abandoned His people, and why is he letting so many innocent people suffer. I felt that I was giving it up against my will”. Fortunately Elie and his father survived, or was it unfortunate? If they gave up death would become their way of escaping. Even though he loved his father with all his heart he also found him a big burden; he became relived when his father died on January 29.

Approximate Word count = 1130
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

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