Night-Response 4

Pages 62-80

"What are you my god, I thought angrily, compared to this afflicted crown, proclaiming to you their faith, their anger their revolt? What does Your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?" A part fo what Elie feels about God, something that is totally understandable. He was tired of the hateful way they where being treated, the intolerable Germans feeling superior to them . God was supposed to save them from every horrible moment they where to live in any moment of their lives. God was to save them, to stop this unbearable genocide.

While I was reading on the chapter I made a connection woth the bible which we are reading in class to Elie was very mad with God about everything he has done in the past years, decades and days. "And I, mystic that I had been, I thought: Yes, man is very strong, greater than God. When you were decieved by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of paradise. When Noah´s generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom you have betrayed, whom you have allowed to be totured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!" It´s impressive how convincing he can make such a simple thoght like this. He makes it believable and makes someway perfect for you to feel what he was feeling in that moment. He makes you understand the anger he was feeling towards him in that moment "I no longer accepted God´s silence" he was destroyed inside he was feeling like crap, he was loosing hope.

Probably the sadest part I´ve read in the book was when Elie thought he was going to be separated form his dad because he had been written to go to he crematory. Anyways the happiest part was when he found his dad sitting alone again, they werent separate. Elie makes his writing magic someway, he makes you experience his book as if you where living it.

QUESTions Answered

Where are we going?

In the last pages read the Russian army is getting near their concentration camp they are to be transported somewhere else. They don´t know where.