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Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

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Grace Trost Night by Elie Wiesel March 30, 2015 Book 1. I would've said to him,"If there really is a God then he would send mercy as it is necessary, but if there isn't then what is the point of wanting to die to escape this place because if you see death as a relief because you would be going to heaven, but if there is no God then there is no heaven to go to. You just have to hang on and believe that God will save you when the time is right. God is just testing our faith and we need to stay strong so that he will have the joy of going to heaven and being with him once this is all over." If I were in their position then I would say those things because I wouldn't want anyone to stop believing and to just give up, but I think that I would've stopped believing in any God and I believe that God certainly did abandon them. I …show more content…

I think that he was able to survive not through his faith, but through just being strong. I also think that all them knowing, or trusting at least, that their liberators were getting closer and they only had to hold on a little bit longer. I think that some had just automatically given up because they believed that they were never getting rescued so they just thought,"What is the point?". You definitely had to be strong to survive both mentally and physically, but you would also need to keep that belief that you will be free at some point again. I think that staying alive through selections was obviously physical, but other than that I think that it was all a matter of mental strength. Staying sane enough would be very important. Some was luck, some was physical, but most of it was mental. Just thinking and reading about what he went through, I don't think that I would've survived as much as I would've wanted to. I wouldn't be mentally strong enough to be able to trick my body into keeping going. I think that that says that I'm not very mentally strong and that I don't believe in my God in bad situations enough to believe that he will save

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