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Forgiveness In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Forgiving For What? The book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a book about Elie’s experiences in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald with his father during the Holocaust. Now as we know, they both have had to go through traumatic sightings such as people being sent to the concentration camps, people dying while walking in the cold, seeing a friend give up and soon to pass away, and babies and little kids being burned alive. This is too much to forgive. All these traumatic sightings really changed Elie as a person and I say that forgiveness is not always necessary for happiness. Not only does it hurt you more and more if you keep on having to forgive just because you want to keep a similar feeling, but once you forgive …show more content…

Turns out he was right since he then stated that there was a truck that drew closer and unloaded something in the fire and then he realized there were little babies being thrown into the fire. Elie soon started to question himself, asking “ Was I still Alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” You could already tell that he was traumatized from this and this is where my argument goes, this shouldn’t even be forgiven in the first place. How would any of the things that he has seen ever be able to be forgiven for. Even if anyone does forgive this, the damage has already been done. It has already affected many people anyways so there’s no point in forgiving if there is no reasonable thought …show more content…

I have had conflict with this one person that has made me overthink and overdue many things thanks to the worries that they have given me, and even if they apologized, nothing was ever the same as it was before. Even if I apologized, I wouldn’t even feel happy about it. I overthink certain things and when I think of apologizing, I get scared because I never know what they could have said. Every apology I made either came to a good conclusion or never ending arguments and hatred. So why even apologize even if you aren’t happy after it ends? It’s better to try to escape everything before it gets even worse, not to apologize. And for people saying that when you apologize, there is closure. Well what happens if there isn’t? There’s no point in trying to apologize if things isn’t going to be the same leading to discomfort and unhappiness between both

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