"The Eternal Night" - essay describing the difference in Eliezers reactions to the two hangings, in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
Title: "The Eternal Night" - essay describing the difference in Eliezers reactions to the two hangings, in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 676 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"The Eternal Night" - essay describing the difference in Eliezers reactions to the two hangings, in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
Category: /Literature/World Literature
Details: Words: 676 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
During the Holocaust in which millions of Jewish men and women were deemed fit for death by a prejudice. As told in "Night" by Elie Wiesel; Eliezer, a young boy from Sighet was forced to endure one of mankind's most horrendous atrocities. He witnessed the daily suffering and death of humans during his time in the Nazi concentration camps. He had grown apathetic to the withering away of mortal life. However, his reaction to the
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his suffering followers doing and saying nothing, ultimately meeting his end at the hands of Nazi Germany. Eliezer was exposed to an uncaring silent God, the daily executions of Jewish people which numbed his compassion, and eventually the murder of his own deity at the hands of the Nazis. Eliezers troubled thoughts will never stray far from the day they hanged the sad-eyed angel, the symbol of his omnipotent God, hung limp upon a gallows.