Ms. Labbe Body paragraphs with sufficient/relevant details to support your thesis 60
Freshman English CP
December 2, 2014
At least one quote from the novel used in paper 10 An Experience to be Shared
The Holocaust is such an awful event in history, some might wonder why a person would share such a hardship with the world. Elie Wiesel is a jewish teenager alive during the Holocaust, he survives going through camps with his father Shlomo Wiesel who is in his fifties. The father and son rely on each other throughout most of their journey. Elie
Wiesel put his story out there through writing, he did this for a few reasons: to make his story known, to make people aware of the mass killing of all the Jewish people, and lastly to share his misfortune throughout his experience and what he would face.What Elie thought is life would change quickly and dramatically, what he thought were family would be separated, what he thought his body was would become a corpse, and who he thought men were, were just vultures and murderers.
Wiesel’s life was simply uncomplicated, up until the point where everything would change for him. He was part of a family and he knew God. Wiesel would spend his days worshiping God at the synagogue always wanting to learn more. God greatly present in his life, affected his choices. Then it all changed vastly. They would go from ghettos to camps in only a matter of time. And over time Wiesel began to doubt god and his faith wondering
why god would let something so harrowing happen. Wiesel often thought about this matter.
He realizes
"for the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The
Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the AllPowerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for" (Wiesel 33) .
Wiesel’s threes sisters Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora lived at home with himself and his parents. Wiesel never would predict nor imagine he would never see them again.
As they were evacuated onto the cattle cars they did not appreciate or perceive that this would be their last goodbye, how were they to know. As they stepped out of the cars onto the ground their family was torn apart from each other, Wiesel never to see his sisters and mother again. Through Wiesel and his fathers days in the camps they depended on only each other knowing they could not genuinely trust any others. Every man for themselves, fighting for their lives.
The conditions of the camps were harsh and unsanitary. Men worked all day long, only for a ration of food that still left their stomachs empty. Many died from starvation and dehydration. You wouldn’t even be able to recognize a person in the camp if you knew them because they
