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18 lip 2013 · Where is God when a child is shot in Newtown or hung in Auschwitz or killed in an American drone air strike or for that matter dies of cancer? I don’t know. There is no answer. Talk of God...
Eliezer comes to believe that a just God must not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. “Where is He?” Eliezer asks rhetorically, and then answers, “He is hanging here on this gallows.”
‘Never Shall I Forget’ by Elie Wiesel is a harrowing passage recounting his first night at the Birkenau concentration camp in Auschwitz. Read Poem PDF Guide
One of the main themes of Night is Eliezer's loss of religious faith. Throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that he cannot reconcile with the idea of a just and all-knowing God. At the beginning of the narrative, Eliezer declares, "I believed profoundly."
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illu-sion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God' s image. That was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals. Other passages from the original Yiddish text had ...
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Poem analysis of Elie Wiesel's Never Shall I Forget through the review of literary techniques, poem structure, themes, and the proper usage of quotes.
