David - Blog post #4

Why have you come here?

Tell me, why?

May His name be celebrated and sanctified

The Almighty,

the eternal and terrible Master of the

Hundreds of men were crawling with him,

scraping their bodies with his on the stones

Thousands of lips repeated the benediction,

bent over like trees in a storm

Soon I wouldn't even be seeing them,

I would be one of them

I listened as the inmate's voice rose;

it was powerful yet broken,

amid the weeping, the sobbing,

the sighing of the entire "congregation"

Some were silently weeping

Wallow in your despair

Deep inside me,

I felt a great void opening

David Blog Post#3

Hitler listening to the Germans  salute his name.

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When reading pages 23-84 of Night by Elie Wiesel, a lot of strong emotions were evoked. This part of the book is a roller coaster emotionally. I am happy that Elie and his dad survive, but so sad that the other Jewish people die. “Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face. Afterward, we were given permission to go back to our block and have our meal. I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever. . . .” (Wiesel 62). The reason that Elie says the soup tastes good is because he is thankful. He is thankful that he is alive because he could be dead.

Although Elie was thankful to be alive, he and many other Jews started losing faith in God due to the death and torture they witnessed. The reason they lost faith in God is because they could not comprehend God letting this happen to them. "God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves.”(Wiesel 45). Saying that God was testing them was one of the only ways the Jews were able to keep their faith. You must have a strong will to be able to maintain your faith during a time like this. ”For God's sake, where is God?wnd from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows. . . .”(Wiesel 65). Elie says that God is in a concentration camp hanging from the gallows. He says this because there is no way God would let this happen. God would not simply sit back and watch all of these people die.

David Blog #1

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an emotional tale about the Holocaust. The first chapter of this tale begins before the start of the Holocaust. At this part of the story, the Jews could not fathom the fact that Hitler would do any of the terrible things he did. To a certain point, they were being quite ignorant to the clues in front of them, because they did not want to believe what was happening. When Hitler transported the Jews to the ghettos, they kept living happily like nothing happened. “Little by little life returned to “normal”. The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact we felt this was not a bad thing.”( Weisel 11).

Night by Elie Wiesel was very emotionally moving especially when they were liquidating the ghettos. They were taking all of the Jews out of the ghettos and taking them to concentration camps. The Nazi’s made most of the Jews lose hope. This happened when they were all thrown out of their houses. “My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible. As for my mother, she was walking, her face a mask, without a word, deep in thought.” (Wiesel 19). Elie said that it was the first time he had seen his dad cry. This puts him in a state of shock with the weight of the situation really coming down on him. Wiesel’s writing made me empathize with Elie and feel badly for him. I cannot imagine the pain he suffered.