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What Is The Moral Of The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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The book Night, a true story by Eliezer Wiesel, explains the horrific journey he and others had during the time of the Holocaust. It explains how harsh the Jews were treated in the concentration camps. The discrimination Elie Wiesel and so many others were faced with based on their looks and beliefs is very unacceptable and it’s important because many innocent lives were taken which is important to understand that the whole act of the Holocaust is a senseless act and should never nor any other similar tragedies take place again. Elie Wiesel and the others involved in the terrible journey of the Holocaust were treated with full disrespect in ways that they were brutally beaten, separated from loved ones, starved, and killed in such brutal ways. Elie Wiesel as well as others made the choice to have hope and keep their faith strong or to be overcome by evil keeping in mind that a person’s faith can be …show more content…

In the concentration camps, evil and fear was all that was around, which led Elie Wiesel along with many others to act out their evil side, rebelling against God by losing all faith. Through hard times, they viewed it as a way to honor God for the way of life he presented them. (Jewish Learning). While Jewish people were in the concentration camps, they looked to God as their protector and provider. Into the story Night, when Elie Wiesel along with many others were at the concentration camp in Auschwitz, the Nazi’s forced all hostages to march in a line towards a ditch of burning bodies. Everyone began to recite the Kaddish prayer for those who died besides Elie. “For the first time I felt a 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.” (31) Elie witnessed innocent Jews being murdered, without any savior from God which led Elie to lose faith in

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