Elie Wiesel's Night
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Madame Shacter was screaming about the fire, the huge flames and
the furnace that she could see. Then she was begging the people on the
train to believe her but instead they gagged her and tied her up. In a way,
Madame Shacter was prophesying about the crematories at the death camps,
the huge flame ....
Middle of paper
.... felt a revolt arise up in me. Why should I bless his
name? The-Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was
silent. What had I to thank him for?" (p. 44)
Although Elie is saying how he should not be blessing God's name
because he was silent when the Jewish people needed him most, he still is
reluctent to say that no God exists. Afterwards though, he does recite the
words of the Kaddish.
"Some talked of God, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of the Jewish
people, ....
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Word count: 986
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
