Explain the following statement using examples from the text: During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.
This statement is meaning Elies faith became extinct after he started to experience death and tragic incidents from people he adored. Elie started off with things he worshiped such as his father by his side , his gold teeth , and his shoes . After the SS took his belonging that kept him going , his faith started to become extinct and his feelings also . When the little pipel that resembled God got hung because of a simple reason of not making his bed , Elie started to loose faith here first . As days and years went on , Elie and his father were closer to being separated from each other . When Elie and his dad became separated , Elie really lost all emotions he had because his father was all he had to keep his life going through this hard time . During the beginning of the camp , Elie had his father by his side so he had some encouraging moments , so that way he knew he was going to accomplish what he needed in order to survive . When his father was taken and no longer by Elies side , he felt he had idea how survive without him right there . Elie just began to feel unwanted and felt no need to keep going when it was going to be harder than before . So knowing that Elie could be in the same situation as the pipel , someone he viewed as God really brought his spirit down . Without having no type of spirit , you cant really cooperate properly . When he lost everything he admired , he became unemotional and loss of faith .
When Elie Wiesel had faith he spent all of his time studying jewish text ,but once he was in a laboration camp his views started to change slowly. The more he experienced or witnessed is when his faith started going away. The first night he started questioning god. "why is this happening to us and where are you to save us?" ,but yet Elie Wiesel was left in the dark. Later on in the story two men and one child was going to be hanged in front of everyone ,but not too many people cared for the 2 men. No one wanted to see the young child die. The child had a face like a angel in distress ,so this meant the child represent god and being pure. When it was time for the executioner to kill the boy, he refused. When the boys bucket was kicked it took 30 mins for him to die. everyone screamed where is god ,and Elie heard a little voice "god is right there" mean he is dead. Elie lost all faith that night ,and we can tell because the soup taste like dead corpse unlike it tasting sweet then before.
This statement is saying that Elie's faith in the beginning of his time in the Holocaust was very strong and as he went on he started to lose his faith. An example from the text, in the beginning when his faith was strong is "Thank God! You are still alive!". This shows that Elie's faith was strong by him thanking God that he was still alive. Later in the text two men and a young boy were going to be hung, nobody wanted to see the young boy hung. The executioner refused to execute the young boy. The young boy remain hanging there alive for more than half an hour. "For God sake, where is God?"and a voice answer to that saying "This is where- hanging here from this gallows"and "That night, the soup tasted of corpses". This show that if that young boy hanging there was god and god was about to die then Elie's faith was about to die to. That night Elie's faith died.
Elie Wiesel slowly loses his faith as time goes on and the experiences he witnesses. In the beginning he was strict on his faith, he worshipped with his family and studied the bible a lot. Once he was on his was to the camp is when his faith started to decline. He started to question his faith, and start focusing on himself. It all really started when he saw his god, Pipel had been hung. After that he started to question his faith, "For God's sake, Where is God?". Once that had happened he started to stick and rely more on his father. He always looked for him and that was the only thing keeping him going after the death of Pipel. It started to progress even more once he saw his father get beat and he did nothing to stop it. "My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent." From that point on Elie started to stick to himself, and became "spiritually dead". He had lost all his faith from that time on.
Elie Wiesel changed from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man because of what he was experiencing and witnessing during the Holocaust. At the beginning of the story, Elie Wiesel was a religious little boy. Every day, Ellie would study Talmud. He was very much interested in his studies during the day and would never miss praying to his God every night at the temple. Even when the news reported about the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad, Elie was still devoted to his studies and at this time, he had a tremendous amount of faith in God. As time passed by, Elie and his family was separated and had to transport to a concentration camp. Elie got to stayed with his father at the concentration camp but his mother and sisters were apart from him. All he had that was precious or important to him was his father, his gold crown tooth, and his shoes. When his valuable gold crown tooth and precious shoes were taken away from him, he was really upset and disappointed. However, he still had his strength to keep going and still had faith in God. What slowly changed Ellie from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead and unemotional man was when the SS guards hung the young Pipel who had a face of an angel. I think the boy's death made him lose his faith in God because children are precious and are supposed to be love by God. Ellie thinks about how miserable it was that God allowed the young Pipel to died and the Holocaust to happen. This made him believe that God had abandoned them or his God was killed or had vanished.
The statement, "During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man" means that Elie Wiel's faith goes from being strong to not being there anymore. When Elie Wiesel was younger, he always wanted to know more and expand his faith. He strived hard to know more about God beyond what he could comprehend at his age level. He was very eager to study the Kabbalah, and asked his father. "You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world fraught with peril. First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend" (Wiesel 4). He was deep in his faith, and beliefs of God. The Holocaust greatly affected his faith. He even thought his God was dead and had deserted him. An example from the text is the incident that happened with the pipel. The hanging of the pipel had the biggest impact in the area of his faith. It clearly represented God's absence in the life of Elie Wiesel. The pipel's hanging or death was a symbol of God's death. His faith had been shattered by this because the pipel had a beautiful face, and looked like an angel; an aura of innocence, but they killed him too. Elie Wiesel loses his faith in that moment. "For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where - hanging here from this gallows..." Thant night, the soup tasted of corpses (Wiesel 65). Another example from the text is in Chapter 5 when Elie Wiesel was getting angry at a man who was praising God. He questioned why he should praise God. Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? (Wiesel 67). The just and loving God he knew as a child is dead to him. Another example from the text is when he started to blame God and had a bitter attitude about Rosh Hashanah. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long (Wiesel 68).
Elie Wiesel in the beginning of the book was really in tuned with god. In the book it stated that “I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.” His father tried to “drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from his mind” his father believed that was too young and wouldn’t be able to understand it. As the story unfolds and as Elie experiences all of these emotional draining events like getting separated from your own mother and sister and knowing deep down that you’ll probably never see them again does a lot to you. The hangings of innocent people became the new normal for him, except the hanging of Pipel, because it marked the moment that Elie lost all faith in god. After that he became emotionless he became just a body, no heart, no soul, .The only thing he had to live for was his withering away father.
In the beginning of the book Elie was a very spiritually in tune young boy. He didn't listen to his father, who had said that most Jews didn't take on the next level of religion until the age of 30. Elie was 13 years old when he found God. He had a very strong faith in God and was very strong in his beliefs. He didn't allow his father to stop him from getting salvation. He was one of those who believed that there was no particular age to learn about their God. He was very curious and was always thinking on a deeper level than most his age. During the day he would learn one thing, and then at night he would go to learn about Kaddish. He was very determined to learn more. By the first night of his stay in the camps he had lost his childhood. He was no longer mentally a child. And the longer he stayed in the camps the more of his faith he would lose. He saw extremely horrific and graphic things that he would never be able to un-see, and these things made it extremely hard for him to still believe that there was still a God. He no longer could believe that there was a God. Because he had been taught that their God was merciful, but it was no longer possible for him to believe that there was a God who would allow those things to happen. The trauma of the things that occurred took away his childhood. He had to lie and say that he was 18 which is legally an adult,so because of that he got treated as an adult. Which gave him no room for error. He knew that if he messed up once then he was gone. The faith he had once had in God had been replaced with fear and a feeling of being lonely. He no longer fighting for his faith. He was fighting for his and his father's life they were all each other had.
This statement is meaning Elies faith became extinct after he started to experience death and tragic incidents from people he adored. Elie started off with things he worshiped such as his father by his side , his gold teeth , and his shoes . After the SS took his belonging that kept him going , his faith started to become extinct and his feelings also . When the little pipel that resembled God got hung because of a simple reason of not making his bed , Elie started to loose faith here first .
ReplyDeleteAs days and years went on , Elie and his father were closer to being separated from each other . When Elie and his dad became separated , Elie really lost all emotions he had because his father was all he had to keep his life going through this hard time . During the beginning of the camp , Elie had his father by his side so he had some encouraging moments , so that way he knew he was going to accomplish what he needed in order to survive . When his father was taken and no longer by Elies side , he felt he had idea how survive without him right there . Elie just began to feel unwanted and felt no need to keep going when it was going to be harder than before .
So knowing that Elie could be in the same situation as the pipel , someone he viewed as God really brought his spirit down . Without having no type of spirit , you cant really cooperate properly . When he lost everything he admired , he became unemotional and loss of faith .
When Elie Wiesel had faith he spent all of his time studying jewish text ,but once he was in a laboration camp his views started to change slowly. The more he experienced or witnessed is when his faith started going away. The first night he started questioning god. "why is this happening to us and where are you to save us?" ,but yet Elie Wiesel was left in the dark. Later on in the story two men and one child was going to be hanged in front of everyone ,but not too many people cared for the 2 men. No one wanted to see the young child die. The child had a face like a angel in distress ,so this meant the child represent god and being pure. When it was time for the executioner to kill the boy, he refused. When the boys bucket was kicked it took 30 mins for him to die. everyone screamed where is god ,and Elie heard a little voice "god is right there" mean he is dead. Elie lost all faith that night ,and we can tell because the soup taste like dead corpse unlike it tasting sweet then before.
ReplyDeleteThis statement is saying that Elie's faith in the beginning of his time in the Holocaust was very strong and as he went on he started to lose his faith. An example from the text, in the beginning when his faith was strong is "Thank God! You are still alive!". This shows that Elie's faith was strong by him thanking God that he was still alive. Later in the text two men and a young boy were going to be hung, nobody wanted to see the young boy hung. The executioner refused to execute the young boy. The young boy remain hanging there alive for more than half an hour. "For God sake, where is God?"and a voice answer to that saying "This is where- hanging here from this gallows"and "That night, the soup tasted of corpses". This show that if that young boy hanging there was god and god was about to die then Elie's faith was about to die to. That night Elie's faith died.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel slowly loses his faith as time goes on and the experiences he witnesses. In the beginning he was strict on his faith, he worshipped with his family and studied the bible a lot. Once he was on his was to the camp is when his faith started to decline. He started to question his faith, and start focusing on himself. It all really started when he saw his god, Pipel had been hung. After that he started to question his faith, "For God's sake, Where is God?". Once that had happened he started to stick and rely more on his father. He always looked for him and that was the only thing keeping him going after the death of Pipel. It started to progress even more once he saw his father get beat and he did nothing to stop it. "My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent." From that point on Elie started to stick to himself, and became "spiritually dead". He had lost all his faith from that time on.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel changed from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man because of what he was experiencing and witnessing during the Holocaust. At the beginning of the story, Elie Wiesel was a religious little boy. Every day, Ellie would study Talmud. He was very much interested in his studies during the day and would never miss praying to his God every night at the temple. Even when the news reported about the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad, Elie was still devoted to his studies and at this time, he had a tremendous amount of faith in God.
ReplyDeleteAs time passed by, Elie and his family was separated and had to transport to a concentration camp. Elie got to stayed with his father at the concentration camp but his mother and sisters were apart from him. All he had that was precious or important to him was his father, his gold crown tooth, and his shoes. When his valuable gold crown tooth and precious shoes were taken away from him, he was really upset and disappointed. However, he still had his strength to keep going and still had faith in God. What slowly changed Ellie from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead and unemotional man was when the SS guards hung the young Pipel who had a face of an angel. I think the boy's death made him lose his faith in God because children are precious and are supposed to be love by God. Ellie thinks about how miserable it was that God allowed the young Pipel to died and the Holocaust to happen. This made him believe that God had abandoned them or his God was killed or had vanished.
The statement, "During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man" means that Elie Wiel's faith goes from being strong to not being there anymore. When Elie Wiesel was younger, he always wanted to know more and expand his faith. He strived hard to know more about God beyond what he could comprehend at his age level. He was very eager to study the Kabbalah, and asked his father. "You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world fraught with peril. First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend" (Wiesel 4). He was deep in his faith, and beliefs of God. The Holocaust greatly affected his faith. He even thought his God was dead and had deserted him. An example from the text is the incident that happened with the pipel. The hanging of the pipel had the biggest impact in the area of his faith. It clearly represented God's absence in the life of Elie Wiesel. The pipel's hanging or death was a symbol of God's death. His faith had been shattered by this because the pipel had a beautiful face, and looked like an angel; an aura of innocence, but they killed him too. Elie Wiesel loses his faith in that moment. "For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where - hanging here from this gallows..." Thant night, the soup tasted of corpses (Wiesel 65). Another example from the text is in Chapter 5 when Elie Wiesel was getting angry at a man who was praising God. He questioned why he should praise God. Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? (Wiesel 67). The just and loving God he knew as a child is dead to him. Another example from the text is when he started to blame God and had a bitter attitude about Rosh Hashanah. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long (Wiesel 68).
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel in the beginning of the book was really in tuned with god. In the book it stated that “I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.” His father tried to “drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from his mind” his father believed that was too young and wouldn’t be able to understand it. As the story unfolds and as Elie experiences all of these emotional draining events like getting separated from your own mother and sister and knowing deep down that you’ll probably never see them again does a lot to you. The hangings of innocent people became the new normal for him, except the hanging of Pipel, because it marked the moment that Elie lost all faith in god. After that he became emotionless he became just a body, no heart, no soul, .The only thing he had to live for was his withering away father.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of the book Elie was a very spiritually in tune young boy. He didn't listen to his father, who had said that most Jews didn't take on the next level of religion until the age of 30. Elie was 13 years old when he found God. He had a very strong faith in God and was very strong in his beliefs. He didn't allow his father to stop him from getting salvation. He was one of those who believed that there was no particular age to learn about their God. He was very curious and was always thinking on a deeper level than most his age. During the day he would learn one thing, and then at night he would go to learn about Kaddish. He was very determined to learn more.
ReplyDeleteBy the first night of his stay in the camps he had lost his childhood. He was no longer mentally a child. And the longer he stayed in the camps the more of his faith he would lose. He saw extremely horrific and graphic things that he would never be able to un-see, and these things made it extremely hard for him to still believe that there was still a God. He no longer could believe that there was a God. Because he had been taught that their God was merciful, but it was no longer possible for him to believe that there was a God who would allow those things to happen. The trauma of the things that occurred took away his childhood. He had to lie and say that he was 18 which is legally an adult,so because of that he got treated as an adult. Which gave him no room for error. He knew that if he messed up once then he was gone. The faith he had once had in God had been replaced with fear and a feeling of being lonely. He no longer fighting for his faith. He was fighting for his and his father's life they were all each other had.