Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout the memoir, Elie Wiesel is faced with multiple gory sites that test his faith. A major one was the hanging of the young boy, the pipel. Not only did that event affect Elie, but it affected the whole concentration camp. The Nazi’s intended for it to be a threat or warning to the prisoners; however, the prisoners felt as though the perpetrators crossed the line with the hanging. Although they did kill thousands of people on the daily basis, the hanging of the child was seen to be the cruelest of cruel acts just to prove a point. Elie felt as though the Nazi’s killed God themselves and said, ““Behind me, I heard 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

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