Night
Shining through the dark night four years in a Nazi concentration camp has cast upon his life, Elie Wiesel submerges from the shadows to write a moving novel about being on of the millions of Jews in World War One. When you read Night the author takes you into several camps where you witness first hand the dehumanization and mass genocide of the millions who weren’t of Hitler’s, "Aryan," race. Although those long years seemed to harden his soul the innocence of a fourteen year-old boy still seeps through in a place that we can only imagine in our nightmares. The aspect of God is an enormous part of many people’s lives, but what if --- Even after someone has taken all of your possessions, and the lives of your loved ones, go so far as to take your belief in God away from you too? Because that’s wha . . .
Near, (Juliek), lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming corpse. " It was at this point when his thought of God, who he had come to embrace so greatly, was dead. Although the Nazis were able dehumanize and take so much away from Wiesel and the other prisoners of the Holocaust they weren’t able to steal away the things they truly loved. It was here that Wiesel met up with his friend Juliek and with him his most prized possession, his violin. After running without stopping from Buna to Gleiwitz all of the prisoners that had survived were crammed into one small set of barracks where many of the men were layered upon layered over each other, either being crushed, suffocated, or already dead from exhaustion. One of the most heartrending parts of the book was when one of these acts of love overcoming torture makes you realize how moving this book really is. He never felt any pity or emotion until one day where it made many of the prisoners ask the question, "Where is God? Where is He?" It was that day when a young boy was sentenced to be hanged along with two other men. As night began to fall over the death camp many tried to sleep on the mattresses of their dead companions when suddenly Wiesel heard Juliek’s, "Farewell to an audience of dying men. Half an hour later, when one of the captors signaled for the spectators to leave, the two men were dead but the child was still alive, "Struggling between life and death. What happened to those victims of the Holocaust and Wiesel in those years was a perfect example of mankind’s corruption and the evil that is harbored in us all. " Ever since humans have walked the Earth there has been happiness, love, friendship, but also pain, hate, and war. " It was then that Wiesel was able to answer the question on where their God was in his mind, "Where is He? Here He is --- He is hanging here on the gallows. What happened in World War One was the kind of corruption that must never be allowed to happen again. " The next day, "(He) could see Juliek, opposite, (Him), slumped over, dead.
Common topics in this essay:
Hitlers Aryan, Buna Gleiwitz, Near Juliek, World War, Holocaust Wiesel, Julieks Farewell, , Elie Wiesel, question god, concentration camp, world war, |
Acceptance Essays
