Explain 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.
The memoir,"Night", is about Elie Wiesel's journey from being a spiritual boy who spent his days studying scripture to becoming hardened and unspiritual during the Holocaust. During his time is the camps, he witnesses things that make him doubt the existence of God and humanity because of the horrible he saw. He says, " I believed profoundly. During the day, I studied the Talmund, and at night I ran to the synagogue" at the begging of the book. However towards the middle he says, "Why, but why should I bless him...every man is very strong, greater than God!". His doubt in God soon turns into disdain. "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God". He witnessed so many things that made him doubt whether God was really there or if he just didn't care.
I like how you added the part of the book that was really the turning point of it all, with the "never shall i forget those moments that murdered my God". That really breaks down the overall beginning of his complete loss in faith
I like the way you supported your answer with quote from the book. I 100% agree with your answer. i also liked that way you said his experiences changed him which is completely correct and I agree with that too.
At the begining of the novel, Elie was a very religouse boy, so religous that he cried when he prayed, but when he saw the atrosatys of the holocost, he relised that god eather wasn't with them, or didn't care. When the Pipet died, that was the last straw. If there was a god who cared about us, why did he have to die. Elie's god finaly died for good that day.
I agree that the Pipel was kind of the last straw since his face was refereed to "angelic". I am a little confused when you say he saw the "atrosatys of the holocost."
I believe he meant the atrocities of the Holocaust. I do agree thatthe Pipel was the last straw. He was the Jews only shred of hope and when he died their faith died with him.
In the beginning of "Night", we see how faithful Elie is to Judaism. For example, he would constantly be studying the Talmud and the cabbala. "I continued to devote myself to my studies. By day, the Talmud, at night, the cabbala." (18) We see his character development rather quickly. It was in chapter 3, the arrival at Auschwitz, where Elie first began to question his faith. "For the first time,... thank Him for?" We can see that he is wondering why God would let suh horrible things happened and he still hadn't experienced the worst of it. We also see him becoming unemotional in the same chapter (3). "My father was suddenly... he red mark of the man's hand." (48) Even he began to notice how much he had been affecting in the very first night at Auschwitz.
I like how you mentioned Elie's character development because I think that it's a very important part of the memoir. I also like how you chose quotes that were close together to show how quickly Elie had changed.
I like how you gave evidence from the book that focused on Elie's spiritual development. I also like how you mentioned Elie's father. Since it seems that Elie's father's opinions and actions during this time seemed to also influence Elie's transitioning.
In "Night", Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead and unemotional man because of his experiences in the Holocaust. He starts out praying to God, wishing to explore the Cabbala, while his father shoots it down, he instead has conversation with Moshe the Beadle about religion. When Moshe the Beadle was forced to leave and came back, and told about his experiences, he never spoke about God anymore, only of what he saw because he had given up. When the rest of the Jews of Sighet were put into the cattle cars he started doubt his faith when someone was reciting the Kaddish, he felt a revolt and asked "why should be bless him.... who was silent." He then claimed that he ceased to pray, because he doubted his absolute justice.
In "Night" Elie has a huge change spiritually, mentally and physically. Elie was a very religious boy in the beginning of the book. During the chores of the book he started questioning God and he stops believing in him too. He starts to stop believing in God when he goes to the Concentration camps and faces death face to face. He sees his own people get killed and he couldn't do anything about it, He was powerless. He changed mentally because he saw death face to face. He started think just about his father and his survival. His mentality change because of all the things that he went through. He also changed physically because the Nazis only gave them soup and bread.
I believe that by you personifying death it seemed even more scary than it actually is. By saying that Elie was face to face with death multiple times shows me that death is not something to mess with.
Before the Holocaust Elie was a sensitive boy who devoted his every day to his religion and studies. Once at Auschwitz he was seperated from his mother and sister andstayed close to his father. As he sees the crematories and the bodies he hears the Jews around him praying to God. The prayer of death "May his name be blessed and magnified..." in this instance he rebelled. Elie wondered why he should bless his name.The All-Powerful and Terrible,was silent. Then when the Pipel died he completely abadoned his faith. He became nothing but a stomache. Somehting that needed to be fed. Even when he was beaten, when his foot had gotten infected, and when his father died he felt nothing. He had become an emotinally hardened man. One that was unconscious of everything, just a body that moved itself, just a body that acted for nothing and no one but itself to ensure it's survival.
I like that you personified a stomach and made it represent Elie. It shows how Elie saw himself by using something, in this case the stomach, everyone knows what the function is.
This statement can be proved by multiple incidents in the memoir, such as how the reaction his father made while being deported, and the impact and slight shock it left on Elie. Page 28 "My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep. I had never imagined that he could."
Another instance is how seeing Madame Shachter's son crying out for her to stop screaming. "Her little boy was crying, hanging onto her skirt, trying to take a hold of her hands...... this shook me more than his mother's screams had done." Page 34
Finally, this quote which may well be the most impacting quote in the book, the moment Elie described his first night in the camp. "Never shall I forget that 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 these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." Page 43
Elie changes from the young, spiritual boy in chapter one to the spiritually dead man in chapter 9 through multiple experiences during the Holocaust. His spiritual belief is shown to be strong in chapter one when he makes the following statements "I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple." (Pg 1) Later on we see how Elie starts doubting God's love. The first time in chapter 3, "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?" He even goes as far to say his God is dead in chapter 4 "And I heard a voice within me answer him: 'Where is He? Here he is-He is hanging here on this gallows....'"
During the book "Night", Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man. This occurs 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. This caused him to change into a faithless, unemotional man.
The beginning of "Night" starts off by Elie being deeply devoted to his religious studies to the point where he wanted a master to guide him in his studies. Elie was also sensitive which was shown in the following quote "During the day I studied the Tal-mud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple" Pg 14. Elie as the Holocaust is occurring starts to question his faith after witnessing many horrible things such as babies being thrown into fires and hangings occurring. One thing that really affected Elie was when the Pipel was hung because the Pipel represented a symbol of hope and when he was hung Elie said God was on the Gallows basically dead and gone. As the story progresses Elie begins to care more about himself than his dad.
The memoir,"Night", is about Elie Wiesel's journey from being a spiritual boy who spent his days studying scripture to becoming hardened and unspiritual during the Holocaust. During his time is the camps, he witnesses things that make him doubt the existence of God and humanity because of the horrible he saw. He says, " I believed profoundly. During the day, I studied the Talmund, and at night I ran to the synagogue" at the begging of the book. However towards the middle he says, "Why, but why should I bless him...every man is very strong, greater than God!". His doubt in God soon turns into disdain. "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God". He witnessed so many things that made him doubt whether God was really there or if he just didn't care.
ReplyDeleteI like how you added the part of the book that was really the turning point of it all, with the "never shall i forget those moments that murdered my God". That really breaks down the overall beginning of his complete loss in faith
DeleteI like the way you supported your answer with quote from the book. I 100% agree with your answer. i also liked that way you said his experiences changed him which is completely correct and I agree with that too.
DeleteAt the begining of the novel, Elie was a very religouse boy, so religous that he cried when he prayed, but when he saw the atrosatys of the holocost, he relised that god eather wasn't with them, or didn't care. When the Pipet died, that was the last straw. If there was a god who cared about us, why did he have to die. Elie's god finaly died for good that day.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Pipel was kind of the last straw since his face was refereed to "angelic". I am a little confused when you say he saw the "atrosatys of the holocost."
DeleteI believe he meant the atrocities of the Holocaust. I do agree thatthe Pipel was the last straw. He was the Jews only shred of hope and when he died their faith died with him.
DeleteIn the beginning of "Night", we see how faithful Elie is to Judaism. For example, he would constantly be studying the Talmud and the cabbala. "I continued to devote myself to my studies. By day, the Talmud, at night, the cabbala." (18) We see his character development rather quickly. It was in chapter 3, the arrival at Auschwitz, where Elie first began to question his faith. "For the first time,... thank Him for?" We can see that he is wondering why God would let suh horrible things happened and he still hadn't experienced the worst of it. We also see him becoming unemotional in the same chapter (3). "My father was suddenly... he red mark of the man's hand." (48) Even he began to notice how much he had been affecting in the very first night at Auschwitz.
ReplyDeleteI like how you mentioned Elie's character development because I think that it's a very important part of the memoir. I also like how you chose quotes that were close together to show how quickly Elie had changed.
DeleteI like how you gave evidence from the book that focused on Elie's spiritual development. I also like how you mentioned Elie's father. Since it seems that Elie's father's opinions and actions during this time seemed to also influence Elie's transitioning.
DeleteIn "Night", Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead and unemotional man because of his experiences in the Holocaust. He starts out praying to God, wishing to explore the Cabbala, while his father shoots it down, he instead has conversation with Moshe the Beadle about religion. When Moshe the Beadle was forced to leave and came back, and told about his experiences, he never spoke about God anymore, only of what he saw because he had given up. When the rest of the Jews of Sighet were put into the cattle cars he started doubt his faith when someone was reciting the Kaddish, he felt a revolt and asked "why should be bless him.... who was silent." He then claimed that he ceased to pray, because he doubted his absolute justice.
ReplyDeleteIn "Night" Elie has a huge change spiritually, mentally and physically. Elie was a very religious boy in the beginning of the book. During the chores of the book he started questioning God and he stops believing in him too. He starts to stop believing in God when he goes to the Concentration camps and faces death face to face. He sees his own people get killed and he couldn't do anything about it, He was powerless. He changed mentally because he saw death face to face. He started think just about his father and his survival. His mentality change because of all the things that he went through. He also changed physically because the Nazis only gave them soup and bread.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you said the Elie felt powerless. It must have been horrible and mentally draining to see all of the things that he did.
DeleteI believe that by you personifying death it seemed even more scary than it actually is. By saying that Elie was face to face with death multiple times shows me that death is not something to mess with.
DeleteBefore the Holocaust Elie was a sensitive boy who devoted his every day to his religion and studies. Once at Auschwitz he was seperated from his mother and sister andstayed close to his father. As he sees the crematories and the bodies he hears the Jews around him praying to God. The prayer of death "May his name be blessed and magnified..." in this instance he rebelled. Elie wondered why he should bless his name.The All-Powerful and Terrible,was silent. Then when the Pipel died he completely abadoned his faith. He became nothing but a stomache. Somehting that needed to be fed. Even when he was beaten, when his foot had gotten infected, and when his father died he felt nothing. He had become an emotinally hardened man. One that was unconscious of everything, just a body that moved itself, just a body that acted for nothing and no one but itself to ensure it's survival.
ReplyDeleteI like that you personified a stomach and made it represent Elie. It shows how Elie saw himself by using something, in this case the stomach, everyone knows what the function is.
DeleteThis statement can be proved by multiple incidents in the memoir, such as how the reaction his father made while being deported, and the impact and slight shock it left on Elie. Page 28 "My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep. I had never imagined that he could."
ReplyDeleteAnother instance is how seeing Madame Shachter's son crying out for her to stop screaming. "Her little boy was crying, hanging onto her skirt, trying to take a hold of her hands...... this shook me more than his mother's screams had done." Page 34
Finally, this quote which may well be the most impacting quote in the book, the moment Elie described his first night in the camp.
"Never shall I forget that 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 these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." Page 43
Elie changes from the young, spiritual boy in chapter one to the spiritually dead man in chapter 9 through multiple experiences during the Holocaust. His spiritual belief is shown to be strong in chapter one when he makes the following statements "I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple." (Pg 1) Later on we see how Elie starts doubting God's love. The first time in chapter 3, "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?" He even goes as far to say his God is dead in chapter 4 "And I heard a voice within me answer him: 'Where is He? Here he is-He is hanging here on this gallows....'"
ReplyDeleteDuring the book "Night", Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man. This occurs 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. This caused him to change into a faithless, unemotional man.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of "Night" starts off by Elie being deeply devoted to his religious studies to the point where he wanted a master to guide him in his studies. Elie was also sensitive which was shown in the following quote "During the day I studied the Tal-mud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple" Pg 14. Elie as the Holocaust is occurring starts to question his faith after witnessing many horrible things such as babies being thrown into fires and hangings occurring. One thing that really affected Elie was when the Pipel was hung because the Pipel represented a symbol of hope and when he was hung Elie said God was on the Gallows basically dead and gone. As the story progresses Elie begins to care more about himself than his dad.