Questions (Night)

1. Wiesel’s childhood home is Sighet in Transylvania2. Cabala is a kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

3. When young Wiesel spoke of the truths of the world he was talking about faith and understanding of god and his word as well as the devotion to god that he felt existed in everyone. What Wiesel was ignorant of when he thought of these truths was the cruelty that can exist in many humans.



4. Moshe the Beadle was significant because he too had high beliefs in god and when he was deported his devotion to god was crushed because of what he saw, Moshe had no reason to survive but he didn’t give up when all seemed lost he went back to Sighet and he tried to save the people but they didn’t believe him. Moshe signifies what happened to most Jews concerning the loss of his beliefs and way of life. Moshe explained to Wiesel that, as he said “Man questions God and God answers. But we don’t understand his answers. We can’t understand them. Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will find true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!” he also explained to Wiesel that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer and that man raises himself toward god by the questions he asks him. When Moshe comes back to warn everybody he tries especially hard to convince Wiesel I believe this is because of the innocence that Moshe saw in Wiesel and the devotion that Wiesel had in his beliefs and god.



5.When Moshe comes back to warn the people they don’t believe him from how Wiesel describes their attitude towards Moshe it seems to me as if they are trying to protect themselves from the horrifying truths that are unraveling their world.



6.Madame Schachter was a wife and a mother, she eventually went out of her mind and began prophesizing, trying to warn the Jews she was traveling with of their fate. Madame Shcachter was in many ways very similar to Moshe the Beadle, both Moshe and Madame Schachter had the best interest in mind for their friends. They both knew what was going to happen but neither could make a big enough impact to save those whom they cared about from a tragic fate.



7.The passage on pg 32 is a very moving passage, the fact that someone could turn another’s dreams to dust and deprive them of the desire to survive and live in success is so sad. And that a child so young as Wiesel was introduced to such a harsh reality at such a young age that he begins to believe that living is a condemnation is horrifying.



8. Wiesel's theology changed considerably since he lived in Sighet to the time when he was welcome into Auschwitz, he used to devote himself to god and believe in him without a doubt, but as he continued on his journey he sees things that make him change his mind and lose faith. the rest of the novel makes up this passage, he no longer believes in god, his existence doesn't matter to him and even when the liberation occurs he is still, spiritually speaking, trapped.

9. Wiesel’s understanding and belief of god changes as he goes through different periods of his life that influence him greatly. He seems to be most angry with god and the circumstances he is in when he is interned in Birkenau (reception for Auschwitz)he has no feelings of anger of any emotion at all at the end of the novel when he is liberated but he no longer cares.
In page 1 he shows much devotion to God and His beliefs
In page 31 he is rebellious to the belief that God is almighty
In page 63 he has disgust for the control that God has over the minds of others
And in page 87 he announces that he no longer believes in god

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11.From the content of Night it seems to me that the horror he experianced could not be explained to the extent that he felt they needed to be so that the people could grasp the tradgedies that occured to these Jews.

12.Night is a memoir of a tradgedy of the disgusting cruel kway that many people treated Jews in this timan and how much people suffered because of their beliefs.