Night by Elie Wiesel provided the world with a deep and painful insight to the horrors within the German lines. Throughout the novel, many lines tugged at the heart strings of audience members because they depicted true thoughts of Jewish captives during this time period. Though most of the novel described life in concentration camps, three lines truly portray the feelings, emotions and mindset Jews had under the Nazi regime.
`Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes…` (Wiesel 34). This line shows the impact concentration camps had on Wiesel’s life, soul, and belief. As a child, Wiesel became Godless for he saw no God of his would allow this massacre to ensue. An impact of the life within camps was that his very soul shattered at the sight and smell of burning women and children, adults aging within a few days from malnutrition and exhaustion, and witnessing Jews everywhere being beaten, shot or dying of exhaustion. Another example of why his soul was murdered was how mercilessly he was beaten and whipped by Nazi soldiers. As his time in the…
As the novel progressed, Wiesel experienced changes and witnessed horrific events which inevitably forced a shift in how he viewed the world around him. Although many lines of the book described concentration camp life, a few lines provided the readers to truly understand how devastating this time period was to the Jews. One specific line said by Wiesel was that he had more faith in Hitler than anyone for he was the only person to keep his promises to the Jews, more so than God Himself. This was to show how the way of thought of the Jews had changed. To conclude, Wiesel’s memoir of his time in captivation by the German forces showed the world what it was like to live in a place where your soul, mind and beliefs would be shattered every waking…
