“We could bear nearly any pain or disappointment if we thought there was a reason behind it, a purpose, to it.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Many I[…]
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Loss of Passion-Night Personal Response
“Changing direction in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.” Max Lucado After finishing the novel, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, I found myself overflowed with emotion. Every single Jewish person in the novel[…]
A Silent Night – Personal Response
Reading through Night, I found myself on board a roller-coaster of emotions. With my own experience of learning about the events of the Jewish Holocaust, truth be told, I had never really found myself quite[…]
An Everlasting Night- Night Personal Response
“At six o’ clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald” (Pg: 115). Alas, the Jews were set free yet Eliezer was still engulfed in the tortuous pain of the[…]
Night Response – In the Face of Hopelessness
In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel I originally thought that I wouldn’t find much interest in the novel, but as I began delving deeper and deeper into the novel I became more engrossed into[…]
Analysis of Moishe the Beadle – Night Response
“They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.” (Pg.3) A man as awkward as a clown who lives an impecunious existence is not typically a character[…]
Until we meet again, my God- Response to ‘Night’
Until we meet again, my God Humans are odd creatures. We believe that a divine higher power controls us and fates. This higher power is God. And surrounded by God is religion. A way to[…]
Mental Imprisonment – Night Personal Response
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton While I read Night, I kept waiting and waiting for the Jews[…]
Corpse – Personal response to Night
I don’t know who I am. When I was younger I was all-knowing in the aspects of myself. Any and every question was always met with a distinct, to the point answer. I always knew.[…]
Night Personal Response- Irony of fear
“Fear is an idea-crippling, experience-crushing, success-stalling inhibitor inflicted only by yourself” – Stephanie Melish Night: This novel takes on the task of addressing and describing the indescribable, through the horrific account of an innocent witness,[…]