Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” Elie Wiesel in the book Night had to sacrifice many things and suffer numerous times for him to accomplish the challenging days that felt like an eternity during the Holocaust. He was forced to sacrifice the love of his family, his religion, identity and even food. Consequently, by giving up what he loved most, it has completely changed his outlook on what he should be grateful for in life. Whenever people have a life changing condition happen to them, immense or insignificant, there will be various outcomes. Eliezer’s life gets changed when his point of view on his religion goes from genuinely strong to completely gone. He had to sacrifice his religion to
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I thought angrily. How do you compare this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor peoples wounded minds, their ailing bodies? (Wegner 66)
Therefore in this passage, Elie is simply mad at God and loses his belief and integrity towards him. When he first came to the concentration camp, he used his religion as an escape, but his aspect of it has changed since so many horrendous things happen there. Not only did he lose faith in God, but he also started lacking a sense to helping people that are in need. In chapter 7, many people are packed tightly into a cattle car with little to no food. There are a few occasions in which food is thrown in there and the prisoners will act like wild animals just to get the slightest bit of food to live on. Eliezer is one to help but all he does is sit there and watch the people get torn to pieces by their own
I thought angrily. How do you compare this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor peoples wounded minds, their ailing bodies? (Wegner 66)
Therefore in this passage, Elie is simply mad at God and loses his belief and integrity towards him. When he first came to the concentration camp, he used his religion as an escape, but his aspect of it has changed since so many horrendous things happen there. Not only did he lose faith in God, but he also started lacking a sense to helping people that are in need. In chapter 7, many people are packed tightly into a cattle car with little to no food. There are a few occasions in which food is thrown in there and the prisoners will act like wild animals just to get the slightest bit of food to live on. Eliezer is one to help but all he does is sit there and watch the people get torn to pieces by their own