Thursday, March 8, 2012
Alicia Albuquerque Post #2
As I have continued reading Night, I have found myself more and more interested. Wiesel has been through so much, and is an increadibly strong person to overcome these tough times. One situation that particulary distured me was when Wiesel, a teenage boy at the time, had to watch adults and young children die. He was forced to watch the cerimonies of people being hanged and then had to walk by and make eye contact with the dead bodies. It got so bad that he started to question his faith. He wondered how God could such terrible things. He didn't understand how God could create terrible places like the concentration camps. Eventually he started to loose his faith. At one point, he even rebelled against God by not fasting when he was supposed to. Before the concentration camps Elie depended on his faith. He studied religion on a daily basis and prayed reagularly. He also follwed all the rules his religion believed in. Things must have been at their worst for a faithful man like Wiesel to give up on his religion. How could God do such terrible things? or create such terrible people? It was shocking to me how cruel people can really be. Before reading Night my knowledge on the Holocaust was very limited, but now my eyes are opened to the terrible times people had to suffer through.
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I also find myself learning a lot more from this book. I have obviously heard about the Holocaust before, but this book provides insight about their true feelings. As you pointed out some people lost their devotion to their religion and had to reassess their lives. Wiesel was forced to mature quickly at such a young age. I also hated reading the part about how they had to watch fellow Jews being killed. What I found the worst was how they had to pretend everything was okay and pass these individuals. It almost made me sick to think that not only were they killed, but that they had to suffer in front of everyone.
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