Night
Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a devastatinglytrue story about one man's witness to the genocide ofhis own people. Living through the horrifyingexperiences in the German concentration camps ofAuschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie sees his family,friends and fellow Jews starved, degraded, andmurdered. The entire scenario is witnessed through theeyes of a fifteen year old boy, who laterre-encaptures the entire ordeal as an adult. One of the principal theories in this book is howElie, a boy of strong religious faith, (as well asmany Jews) lost their faith in God because of theatrocities that were forced upon them in the Germanconcentration camps; and the most notable of them all,the death camps Auschwitz and Buna. At a young ageElie took a strong interest in Jewish religion as hespent most of his time studying the Talmud, and otherJewish religious writings. Eventually he meets Moshethe Beadle, a fervently religious man, who instructshim more in depth of the ways of the Talmud andKabbala. Through Moshe's instruction, he is taught toquestion God for answers. Later Moshe is sent away toa camp and upon his return to Sighet presents the
The word, from the Greek genos, meaning"race," "nation," or "tribe," and the Latin cide,meaning "killing," was coined after events in Europein 1933-45 called for a legal concept to describe thedeliberate destruction of large groups. ' The differencebetween racism, racial profiling, etc, and genocide,is that these problems are the facts which lead to theacts of genocide. Redemption can not be achieveduntil the first part of redemption, forgiveness, iswithin the grasp of all those who suffered, includingElie. e religious foreshadowing of what will soon occur later in thenovel. Conceptually, the acts of the Nazis wereunavoidable by anyone, including God, allowing theirpreordained evil to spread. Racism is anideological, structural and historic stratificationprocess by which the population of European descent,through its individual and institutional distresspatterns, intentionally has been able to sustain, toits own best advantage, the dynamic mechanics ofupward or downward mobility (of fluid statusassignment) to the general disadvantage of thepopulation designated as non-white (on a globalscale), using skin color, gender, class, ethnicity ornonwestern nationality as the main indexical criteriaused for enforcing differential resource allocationdecisions that contribute to decisive changes inrelative racial standing in ways most favoring thepopulations designated as 'white. " This "corpse" is Elie's body, but it hasbeen robbed of its soul. According to the Merriam Webster Collegiatedictionary, evil is defined as 1 a : morallyreprehensible : SINFUL, WICKED b :arising from actual or imputed bad character orconduct 2 a archaic : INFERIOR b : causing discomfort orrepulsion : OFFENSIVE c : DISAGREEABLE3 a : causing harm : PERNICIOUS b : marked by misfortune : UNLUCKY. This is similar to the losssuffered by people all over the world. In thecase of WWII, through racial propaganda, Hitlerconvinced the Nazi party, as well as most of Germany,that the Jews were responsible for the monetary plightof Germany because of their religion. In the OldTestament, God grants Adam and Eve their lives,despite their loss of the Garden of Eden, in returnfor the mark of original sin. By the end of the war, Elie loses all of hisfaith in God and his fellow man, and this is the mostdifficult obstacle to overcome when he is released. In Elie's time, the conceptor pre-ordained evil is very apparent. "Racialprofiling" occurs when the police target someone forinvestigation on the basis of that person's race,national origin, or ethnicity.
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