Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

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William Frederick Halsey Jr., a navy seal of WWII, once said, “There are no great people in the world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the movie Life Is Beautiful, readers and viewers observe that when people are faced with great challenges, the belief in a higher power is shaken or proven in order to survive. The belief in a higher power is embraced in Life is Beautiful while it is rejected in the book Night. However, this is essential in order to get through their circumstances. After witnessing the pipel’s death, Elie's memoir reads “ ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where—hanging here for this gallows…’ …show more content…

It is shown that Elie no longer believes his god is with him by using phrases such as the soup tasting like corpses and the word hanging. This shows him rejecting his faith by using the word corpse because it shows he believes his God is dead. When Elie mentions in his mind that his God is dead, it shows how he is really starting to feel about his faith. It is communicating that this is the beginning of the end of his faith. On the last day of the cursed year, Rosh Hashanah, Ellie begins to get angry at God for letting all these bad things happen. Then, Ellie begins to not only dislike his God, but fight back against Him by fasting during Yom Kippur; “I did not fast... There was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against …show more content…

From the beginning of the movie Guido believes that a higher power is present. This is shown when he thinks it is density that Dora fell into his arms and then ran into him on a bike. This faith in a higher power is only strengthens as Guido goes to the concentration camp. This is where he uses the “magical hands” to make the dog leave the place alone where Joshua, his son, is hiding from the Nazi guards. This act shows how Guido is holding onto a higher power to get through these events. It is not necessarily the actual hands moving that gets him through these events, but the belief that if will work. Staying optimistic is important to Guido because it is the only way that Joshua will believe that they are playing a game . Instead of being terrified and hating the higher power, he embraces it and believes it leads to good things happening. This power keeps him from giving up on his family. This scene is also important because it shows even in the concentration camp, even after seeing hundred of dead bodies, he still has faith in a higher

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