Merciless
Forgiving someone who hurt you is you begging for them to not hurt you again. It’s almost as if you’re shouting out, “Have mercy on me,” even though they wouldn’t do the same for you. Even though they wouldn’t even think to forgive you or spare you even the slightest. The hurt that they unleashed on you without any proper reason but just out of pure hate is ruthless. When you forgive them, you’re only validating the damage that they’ve done. You’re basically saying. “I’m sorry for you hurting me,” leaving them with no accountability to take. Throughout Night, Elie will be faced with a lot of antisemitism that will make him question his character and even God himself. The suffering was so bad that sons abandoned their fathers to survive.
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For example, slavery is still downplayed by the modern day society, some racists still believe that slavery wasn’t that bad due to the constant sugarcoating of it in history. The sugarcoating is so strong that the modern day society believes that they’re ancestors are forgiven and they feel as though we must forget or “get over” slavery. It's so strong that this allows for the modern day society to not take accountability for their ancestors, instead they help follow out with their ancestors goals as the new discrimination is covert. Which is why there are plenty of different ways to put down black people without gaining any consequences, like police being allowed to harass black people because of the color of their skin. Like schools targeting and punishing black children because of the color of their skin. Like judges giving black men the highest sentence because of the simple fact that they are darker. In the end black people still are looked at to apologize for society’s wrongs and at the same time forgive them. Then, the cycle repeats black people get hurt even more and we still have to apologize, until soon it's normal for horrible things to happen to black people then there is no more apologizing. This is called …show more content…
One particular incident that made him question himself was when the SS guards brutally beat his father and he ignored his fathers cries for help. When he heard the cries for help from his father, he didn't move in fear of being beaten as well. It even angered him that his father cried out for help, which shows the holocaust making the sons go against their fathers and become selfish. After the incident, Elie stated, “I shall never forgive myself. Nor shall I ever forgive the world for having pushed me against the wall, for having turned me into a stranger, for having awakened in me the basest, most primitive instincts.” (50). This shows Elie not choosing forgiveness because he chose himself over his father, him choosing forgiveness upon himself would only validate the damage that had been done to his father. Also he could just be desensitized to the
Is it not perplexing to think about what the Holocaust was like? Elie Wiesel knows from first hand experience. He survived in a concentration camp and was freed by American troops after about a year. Wiesel recounted his experiences in his memoir Night. Students should continue to read Night because the anecdote shows what the Holocaust was like, it shows many of the historical events of World War II as they relate to the concentration camps and many important aspects of Jewish culture.
In the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel, he and his family were taken from their home in Sighet, Transylvania. This memoir takes place in around 1941, a few years after the Holocaust began. The first event that led to all of this is when Moshie the Beadle and the foreign jews were taken to dig their own graves. Elie and his family were transported in cattle cars to a concentration camp, called Auschwitz-Birkenau. Once they got to Auschwitz they read the sign that's above the gate, the sign said “ARBEIT MACHT FREI.”
“The Holocaust, the state sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany… is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism” (USHMM). Elie Wiesel is one of the many Jewish people affected by the Holocaust. Night is a memoir about a Jewish boy named Elie during the Holocaust. Readers follow Elie as his hometown is turned into a ghetto, as he’s sent to concentration camps, and as he is walking on a death march. Throughout the memoir Elie is faced with the death of his loved ones, and deals with the cruel situations on a daily basis.
He questions why he has to be thankful and bless God’s Name. Elie vowed his first night to never forget the moment that killed his God and his soul, and turned his dreams to dust. He would never forget, even if he was condemned to live as long as God himself (Wiesel 32). Elie states he will never forget the horrors he saw. They killed his faith in God, because he believed that in their moment of need God had abandoned
That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me..." (54). Not only being complacent but also blaming his father for getting beaten by the Kapo is demonstrative of the influence of the Nazi’s dehumanization on Elie’s
Elie was beaten countless times by other people. No one was safe from the anger and hatred that fueled the Nazis. But what stood out to everyone in the camp was the tragic death of the young boy who was hanged. His death lasted longer and the horror the others had to witness as they walked away. Nothing could be done, this moment is where Elie no longer believes his religion.
Holocaust has been a horrendous genocide during the second world war which must not happen again. Since Hitler desired to demolish all the Jewish people, he commenced to eliminate them by setting up the concentration camps and it consequently led to over 6 million Jewish casualties. Although there was a mass murder during the holocaust, some Jewish people have successfully survived and one of them is Elie Wiesel who has written a novel, “Night.” In the story, it reveals the cruelty of Nazis who incinerate Jewish children in a furnace for fuel. As Elie and other Jewish people approach to the camp in a packed train, they sight smoke from an incinerator and starts to smell burning flesh.
He feels fear that there is no God that will save him, that no God will ever help him out of this horrible tragedy. Elie lost all of his faith in God and then felt bitter towards him, Elie
Elie’s reaction seems to be shocking since he is blaming his father for being a victim, rather than Idek, who takes out his anger on prisoners who have done nothing wrong. He seems to have no compassion for his old father, instead all he can care about is getting away and saving himself. This lack of
Even in the wretched situation that the Jews were going through, Elie prays that he himself did not think like the son that he would stay by his father. Elie, who still had his innocence and was not yet aware of the changes in his life, had a major shift of opinion later on in the book when he wrote “if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn't he have avoided Idek's wrath?” (Wiesel 54) Elie had lost his identity and himself but that was what living in a concentration camp had made Elie turn into and eventually his survival began to mean
He feels as though he has been subjected to an unforgiving world with unforgiving experiences, and this make him start thinking about forgiveness as something that cannot take away his pain and as something that does not benefit him in any significant way. Forgiveness becomes a greater challenge when Elie perceives his assailants as people who are incapable of empathy and in turn
This quote shows that Elie not responding to his fathers last words stayed with him after years. The guilt he felt for not responding to his fathers words never left him because part of him is angry he didn’t respond to his father that
The Holocaust has affected people horrifically especially the less fortunate. The book Night, narrated by Elie Wiesel shows the experience of a young Romanian boy being a prisoner in the Holocaust. Based on the terrible treatment of the less fortunate as seen through the elderly and children in the book Night and the antisemitism in America, it is clear that humanity is essentially not good. Throughout the book Night, it is shown that humanity is essentially not good through the horrific treatment of elderly people.
Suffering not only forces people to make inhumane decisions but it also causes people to lose hope and give up on themselves. In this section of the book, Elie describes a time where he was devastated to see his father beaten and hurt in the camps. Throughout his time in the camps, Elie saw and heard the abuse that was given to people in the camp killing his hope. The biggest turning point in the story was when he saw his father getting beat. When Idek “began beating [Elie’s father] with an iron bar … [Elie’s] father simply doubled over under the blows, but then [Elie's father] seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning”
Racism In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night he goes threw the holocaust and the horrible things that happened to the people in the concentration camps. Elie was a jew who lived in the town of Sighet. He was put in a ghetto at the age of 15 in the year 1944. He then spends time working hard and trying to survive for his father until the day of his father's death on january 28, 1945 just months before his liberation on April 11, 1945.