Comparing Farwell To Manzanar And Night

By using repetition in his book, Wiesel is able to emphasise the terror that had occurred in the camps. To illustrate the horrors of the camp, Wiesel wrote “Never Shall I forget that night, the first night in camp ... Never,” (Wiesel

Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.

Based on both books, the reader can conclude all those during the time lost faith. Though The Book Thief is fiction, it could potentially be a reality. Elie Wiesel was directly introduced to the cruelty of the world. Being taken from his home, separated from his family, and suffering throughout his experience, he could no longer view the world as a peaceful place. Liesel Meminger was introduced to cruelty much slower. She suffered from the beginning by losing her mother to a camp, and the death of her brother. Both characters had suffered from sheer cruelty. Elie Wiesel states, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days?” This direct quote indicates he could not longer accept God as a faithful figure. In The Book Thief, Liesel slowly began to lose faith in humanity. Though Liesel was not fully aware of what was going on, towards the end of the book she realize the cruelty of humanity.

Faith is something that everyone should have. Faith isn’t something that you can just throw away and expect to get it back in the future easily. No, faith is something that can't be gained easily once lost. In the book Night, a boy named Elie starts to lose faith as days pass while he is in the concentration camp. He loses faith in himself, and others. Elie losing faith could be a really bad thing that could’ve resulted in him harming himself.

mentally and physically because of what they experienced during their time in the camps, which

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he loses faith in God. ¨But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises¨ (Wiesel 69). Wiesel is losing faith in God and not believing in him. Wiesel believes that he could still pray for God, even though he thinks God does not answer his prayers. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are losing faith in God and disbelief.

In both stories, Farewell to Manzanar and Night, both Jeanne and Elie experienced abuse that affected them mentally and physically from guards or their own people. This caused them to stop believing in their faith. In Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne met a group of nuns and began to spend a lot of time with them. This led her to discover god, and became so interested that she even considered getting baptized. Unfortunately, her father would not allow this and never was baptized. This turned out to be good because her, “faith in God and in the Catholic church slipped several notches at that time” (Wakatsuki Houston and Houston 118). This happened because the conditions in the camp were significantly decreasing and no longer put her faith in god and began to question Catholicism overall. Elie was also put in a similar situation when his own people were being hung. Not only did he begin to question his faith, but others did too, “‘Where is merciful god, where is he?’ someone behind me asked. … Behind me, I hear 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…’” (Wiesel 64-65). From this point

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

The memoir named Night by Elie Wiesel shows how The Jews in the concentration camps would be treated so horribly, that they had to lose their minds, there was no alternative. All it would take was a little time at their personally created hell and eventually they would fall apart. As time goes on they seem to shatter, be it the death of a loved one in front of them or the beating of them everyday. The story in whole being about how Wiesel was moved to a concentration camps and all the horrors inside them, and how they changed his views of life at the time.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the main message is that many people are losing faith in each other and everything. Once someone lose their faith, they lose their faith in God and they start to just give up on what their main focus was. People can start losing their faith once they see things that should be seen. It starts to scare them and their faith is lost. Elie started to slowly lose his faith once he was separated with his mother because he was brought to a place where inhumane things were happening. Once people start to lose their faith, they start doing things that leads to the loss of humanity.

Amazed and frighten and in need of help, wondering if he is there or not. In need of faith but not sure if he should believe or not. If believing in him will save him or not. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie begins to lose his faith in God. he began to realize and understand that God can’t answer every prayer.

He was only a teenager when he and his family were forced out of their homes and into the barbarous concentration camps. He told stories of the things he experienced and witnessed; babies being shot, people being thrown into incinerators, children being separated from their families, and people who were ready to kill over a single morsel of bread. “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children.

The conditions in the camps were so terrible that they drove the poor Jews who lived through it into madness. One such survivor published his experiences in a book entitled Night. Elie Weisel, the book's author, reports of conditions so horrible that he lost his faith and his sense of humanity. Weisel and his

In Farwell to Manzanar, Papa has an ever changing personality. When the bombing of Pearl Harbor occurs, Papa is sent to a camp in North Dakota. After nine months of being there, Papa travels back to his family at the Manzanar Internment Camp. What Jeanne remembers is the tough but loving father that taught her in her childhood. When Papa arrives at Manzanar, Jeanne runs up to him and, “hugged him tighter, wanting to be happy that my father had come back. Yet I hurt so inside I could only welcome him with convulsive tears.”(p.46) After being away from his children for so long, Papa has been changed into a stern and strict man, hanging on to his wills by a thread. The effect of being held captive for so long transformed Papa into a new person,

In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, he writes his doubt in his faith and independence in the first part of the memoir. For example, the narrator showed his doubt in faith when saying, “Why did I pray? What a strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”(page 4) This shows the author is naive and unsophisticated, Elie was a boy who wanted to dedicate himself in faith and learned Kabbalah with Moshe. In addition, everything changed since Moshe expelled from Sighet and all Jews transported to the concentration camps, the writer started to demonstrate disbelief in God. At the end of the chapter, Jews dropped on the ground and asked God to save them from Germans but Elie didn’t mention anything, “Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite