It’s an impediment to memory that should be feared. It’s something that is inevitable and yet must be rejected. It’s the only logical solution to human cruelty and genocide.

What does Wiesel mean by “God … covered His face in order not to see” (par. Wiesel suggests that God was so horrified by His own creation that He could not look; His people “betrayed” (par. 6) Him and created something unnatural and wrong.

The following text is a Nobel Lecture, given by Elie Wiesel, on December 11, 1986. In this text, Wiesel focuses on the importance of remembering the past in order to provide a foundation for a better world.

What happened to Akiba Drumer? He gave up on God and died because he had nothing left to live for.

Dr. Mengele was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Known as the “Angel of Death,” Mengele’s words sentenced countless prisoners to death in the gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp.

Why is the wooden floor of the block cleaned before they leave? The prisoners were told to keep it clean so the liberators don’t think they lived in a pigsty. What did the men do on the eve of Rosh Hashana? They held their prayer service and later wished each other a Happy New Year.

What stares back at Elie at the end of the novel? Elie’s reflection stares back at him, described as a ‘living corpse’.

As Elie snoops around the camp he finds Idek with a polish girl. After wards he is punished with 25 whips on his back. The image of him being nervous and sweat running down his back shows that Elie loses his innocence by being unable to count on his father to save him anymore.

No, Elie Wiesel did not lose his leg. After walking for almost forty-two miles in the snow, on the way to Gleiwitz concentration camp, Elie’s foot…

Wiesel writes that he did no weep for his father’s death. He felt guilty for his lack of emotion, but he was “out of tears.” The exhausting nature of life in the concentration camp has left him without the ability to express or even feel the most basic emotions.

The last camp Elie and his father live in during the Holocaust. Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald of dysentery on January 28, 1945 and Elie is liberated by the American army from Buchenwald on April 10, 1945.

Why does Elie, some years later, ask a lady not to throw money out to the poor? Because the kids were hurting each other for the money, and it reminded him of his fellow prisoners doing so for food. How is the passage describing the fight over a piece of bread in the open cattle car one of both horror and sadness?

Elie tries to get his father to a doctor and give him food. What happens to Elie’s father when he continues to ask for water? The other inmates get mad because of his groaning and his dysentery just gets worse due to the water. they didn’t feed them because they were going to die soon and it would be a waste of food.

Confined to his bed, Eliezer’s father continues to approach death. He is afflicted with dysentery, which makes him terribly thirsty, but it is extremely dangerous to give water to a man with dysentery. Eliezer tries to find medical help for his father, to no avail.

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The most intense feelings of shame and guilt occur toward the end of the novel when Elie’s father is close to death. He has dysentery, and he refuses food and water except for when Elie forces him to take it. Elie resents his father and even contemplates stealing his father’s ration of food and water for himself.

Q. Why does Elie feel ashamed when he woke up the day after the alert? He told Elie that he loves him. He told Elie where the gold and silver was hidden.

As Elie looks in the mirror after not only his long stint in the camps, he sees a corpse with hollow eyes staring back at him.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.

Having and Losing Faith in God One of the main themes of Night is Eliezer’s loss of religious faith. Throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that he cannot reconcile with the idea of a just and all-knowing God.

Elie’s only concern becomes to live and get liberated from the camp. What do the prisoners never think of after being liberated? The prisoners never think of revenge after being liberated. Elie calls himself a corpse, after he looks in the mirror.

Once the liberation took place, all the prisoners wanted was to eat. Elie recounts the events that happened after they were freed. Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. Later on Elie gets sick from something in the food.

Let’s face it, the story Moishe had to tell was grim beyond compare. Who would want to listen and believe the tales of such atrocities? It was easier for the townspeople to dismiss Moishe as crazy than it was to acknowledge the very real evil insanity that was about to overtake them.

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