Besides the brilliant descriptions found in Night and the feeling that I was walking in Elie's shoes, The Night opens a person's mind to the atrocities of the Holocaust and concentration camps. We take for granted, today, our knowledge of how many Jews were killed by the Nazis. Although we have a general idea of the kind of life people led in the concentration camps, people never really stop to think about what it must have felt like not knowing what was going on

Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the beginning of the novel, but grows weaker as time goes on. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, thousands of men came to attend services. Thousands of voices repeated, "Blessed be the Name of the Eternal!" Elie thought, "Why, but why should I bless Him? Because he had thousands of children burned in his pits?... How could I say to Him: "Blessed art thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe, Who chose us from among the races to be tortured day and night? Praised be Thy Holy Name, Thou Who hast chosen us to be butchered on Thine altar?" These statements showed Elie's lack of faith and made me

Many instances throughout this novel show how those in the concentration camps had to have faith and be strong. In order to survive, this was a necessity. Every week in Buna there was a selection process. The weak were sent to the ovens and the strong c

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Name Thou, God Besides, Hitler German, Kaddish Unlike, Elie Wiesel, Eternal Elie, Jews Elie's, Hashanah Jewish, Master Universe, , concentration camps, night written,
Approximate Word count = 623
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)