Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Night By Elie Wiesel

My first surprise during this reading was I read that there was a french wonen in concentration. My first surprise was that a women was working instead of being burned and the second one was that she was French, I did not know Hiltler had it against them also. When i read about Elie teaching hi dad how to march it upset me, not that he was teaching him how to march but the fact that the inmates were making fun of them, i would think that they should support and help eachother because they are all going through the same terror in their lifes.
I cannot believe that Elie had his tooth pulled out with a spoon, ouch!, i hate going to the destinst even to get them clean I am close to ask for anesthesia!. i can only imagine and tremble with his pain. When Elie caught Idek with that girl, i thought he was lucky because he did not get killed, that would have been enough to kill him, but i believe that God was really protecting him. I can not believe that they hang kids or anyone like this, infront of everyone and then made them look at them, offcourse nothing surprised me any more, how evil were they? my only thought is that i know they all got what they deserve. Because God will take care of them.
It was a great news when i read that one of the Comando that was nice to the Jews, I think that God put them for a reason and this was to help atleast some of the Jews, it is so sad that he got caught, i think that the weapons he was hiding was because he knews rescue was on the way and he wanted to help with the liberation. On page 65 there is a question about God, "where is he? and then Elie says " hanging here from this gallows" Did he mean that God was dying with the ones being hanged as in suffering with them and sharing his pain? or did he mean that he was dying with them because he was not powerful to fight against Hitler's army?
I understand what Elie is going through it is time of test and suffereing but he is blaming it all on God and God has little to do with this, he gives us freedom to act and say what we want and we decide if we want to follow him or the evil, God's purpose to put us on this world is to have us enjoy but also to test us to see if we truly love and respect him, and our punsihment and reward is awainting for us after life. This many thousands of Jews were just tested in a severe, cruel way, but the part that i find a little weird is that Jews follow what is to me the old testament in this old testament they know that God is a just God, before they had no "mercy" not to say that God is not mercuful, but after accepting Jesus Christ, is were we start learning of forgiveness and mercy and learing of a God that is less harsh and more loving, so i do not get why in this case Elie was not more prayerful and trustful of God. It does mention here how the old man that lost his faith, was the one that gave up and got elected, so Elie knows that it is important to cherish that hope and faith. Deep inside i think that Elie did not loose his faith, he was just mad and this was the only way to express it.
It must have been hard for many of them to say praise and talk about a God that is the owner of the universe and Earth and this was happening to them, but that only proved their love. I think that it is a bit ironic that Elie still does not realize that even if he did not feel he was being blessed by God, not many parents stayed with their children and they have been together so far even when they are in separate cells now they still see eachother, although i know that his dad will die, soon i think he is still blessed for now. I thought that it was so sad how people got elected, it felt to me that they were poultry at a supermarket or dogs at a pet shop, choosing who was good and who they did not need. For a minute a terror controled my heart and mind, i thought what if one day they decided to do this to all Mexican? one day they just said all Mexican report some place and we were given to order to give up or homes or our lifes? then after having chills, I said to myself, no this is 2008, they would not do this? and then i remeber this is exactly what Elie had hope on and look at what happened to them. This would be scary!
I cannot believe that they did not stay back on the infirmary, they could have been saved! this really got me so upset, they should have stayed, I know they were scared but they should have stayed. they would have ended their nightmare there.

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