Night vs. Job
When I was a Junior in High School, a new girl came around during the middle of the first semester. Having minimal knowledge of her and who she was, my only impression was her reaction to her very first assignment-a research paper on the Holocaust. She responded with great fear and extreme difficulty. In fact, she finally earned special exemption from the assignment. Her reaction stupefied me. I knew that the Holocaust dealt with repulsive subject matter, but I figured it was so far in the past and so isolated to the modern age groups that her reaction was somewhat immature. However, that was only what I thought before having read Night. I now see it for what it was. Elie Wiesel was more than just a mere observer of the Holocaust; He was a participant in its most dynamic stages, from beginning to end. It was so bad for him that, by the end of the book-or rather, much sooner-he loses his faith in God that he so firmly grounded at the beginning of the book, before the drama began. He learns to view life from the most pathetic perspective available to human form-that is, a perspective which has allowed him to become desensitized to all kinds of death, pain, and suffering. No longer is he bothered by insignificant issues t
The greatest way to die is for Him. Page 64 records his thoughts: "When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, you drove them out of Paradise. He is so good at pulling together pieces from all over the place that the result is far from coherent in my mind. He will invest in nothing that circumstances can change, death can stop, or does not last forever. However, as text proves, mercy was always given eventually, and they survived. This is an example of similarly dreadful circumstances, but with a much different reaction. Soon enough, however, their innermost nightmares became reality. Even a small thirst bothers me extremely, and really, that is hardly anything compared to what Eliezer and Job had to endure. In the end, there is only one purpose. Why is it that people often turn their backs on God in times of great stress? Eliezer informs us of his reasoning. There is no need for a repeat of what one has already heard (and what obviously has not worked). The Jews probably could not have imagined that they would be the subjects of such a piece of history. As a Jew, I can imagine how personal it would seem. But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!" Here we have really good people, God-loving, God-fearing people, being eradicated.
Common topics in this essay:
Elie Wiesel,
God Simple,
God-loving God-fearing,
Holocaust Titanic,
Junior School,
Paradise Noah's,
God Investment,
Eliezer Job,
faith god,
Adam Eve,
eliezer's father,
god's plan,
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