![]() ![]() ![]() The following succession of events is fast and tragic. Eliezer is amazed by people’s unwillingness to admit the obvious – war has come into their town, and optimistic considerations are not reasonable. Even when German cars appear on the streets, they do not lose heart and keep thinking soldiers will not hurt them. However, the community remains optimistic and does not believe that the German army may take an interest in a distant small town. The situation is getting very serious” (Wiesel 7). The Fascists are attacking Jewish shops and synagogues. There are anti-Semitic incidents every day, in the streets, in the trains. One of Eliezer’s friends returns from the capital with disturbing news: “The Jews in Budapest are living in an atmosphere of fear and terror. German troops enter the territory of Hungary in 1944. He wants them to hear him and understand what a terrible tragedy the Jewish people is experiencing. Yet, what Moshe really needs is far from their assumptions. What is more, people in town refuse to believe his words about what he has had to go through thinking he needs pity. Joy has disappeared from his life he does not smile or sing. The author points out changes in his personality. Moshe is the only foreigner from the town who managed to escape this fate and return home. All foreign Jews are driven out of the town and slain with terrible cruelty. Meanwhile, warfare remains a distant nightmare that everyone knows and cares about, and the fire that is burning Europe scorches Sighet, too. The communication between these two people, a child and a grown-up, serves as moral nurturing for the boy. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 2). For Eliezer at that state of mind and soul praying as talking to God is as natural as breathing: “Why did I pray? A strange question. The author focuses much on the characters’ attitude towards religion and the space that this faith occupies in their souls. He also mentions the respect that the Jewish community had for this person: “They often used to consult him about public matters and even about private ones” (Wiesel 2). He was more concerned with others than with his own family” (2). There was never any display of emotion, even at home. Wiesel introduces this character with the following words: “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. Eliezer’s father discourages his inclination to study the cabbalistic views considering him too young for this. He was a past master in the art of making himself insignificant, of seeming invisible” (Wiesel 1).Įliezer is interested in studying cabbala, and that was the common ground that has made him close to Moshe the Beadle. Nobody ever felt encumbered by his presence. “Generally my fellow town’s people, though they would help the poor, were not particularly fond of them. Describing the attitude of the fellow-citizens towards him, the author writes: Being curious and possessing an acute mind, Eliezer spends a lot of his time communicating with Moshe the Beadle, who works in the synagogue and has a humble life. He is a religious person studying Talmud, and faith plays a distinct part in his life. The narrator, Eliezer, is twelve at the time when the story opens in Sighet in 1941. Night tells the reader about Wiesel’s experience in the Nazi concentration camp shared with his father that took place at the closing period of the war, 1944-1945. It is the first part of an autobiographical trilogy reflecting the author’s outlook and evolution of his perspective on God, life, death, and humanity in general. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Prize winner, illustrates the great tragedy of living during wartime. That is why books, songs, and films showing the events of that sorrowful period are still attractive for the young generation, provoking sympathy and compassion for those who had to be part of the story. This war took lives of millions of people and traumatized the whole generation that saw things no one on earth should see. The wounds left by the second one, which ended almost 70 years ago, still hurt. Nevertheless, the 20 th century witnessed two devastating world wars. ![]() War is inhuman, unnatural and impossible to understand. However, there are lessons that are too bitter to learn. ![]() People say that any experience is useful, since one can draw conclusions from any situation, whatever painful it is. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather Condition ![]()
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