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Concrete “ ‘ Faster, faster! Get on you lazy swine!’ yelled the Hungarian police. It was from that announcement that I began to hate them, and my hate is still the only link between us today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first of the faces of hell and death.”
Detail 1: Here we see how resentful of the Nazi’s and those working with the Third Reich, Elie is.
This shows the first bit of his rebellious nature. Although he feels a deep hate towards the nazi’s, the camps, the crematorium, and the work he never complains about it. Life under nazi rule is cold and hard, and complaints are just wasted breath and time.
Unfortunately it took Primo until he was a
Religion was important to Elie Wiesel even though he didn’t focus any time or energy on it. God had let him down and he constantly had to question god to keep his relationship alive. As he asked why and how, he was looking for a way to make sense of it. It was hard but surprisingly, out of the two or three references to god Primo makes sense of it and provides an adequate answer.
“He told me his story, and I have not forgotten it. It was a sorrowful, cruel and moving story; because so are all our stories, hundreds of thousands of stories, all different and all full of tragic sorrow. We tell them in the evening, and they take place in Norway, Italy, Algeria, the Ukraine, and are simple and incomprehensible, like the stories in the bible. But are they not themselves stories of the new bible.”
Maybe the holocaust is a new struggle. A new bible that allows us to learn from; full of stories of hardships and devastation which we use to keep from happening again. With Primo, religion was not of any importance. He was a chemist and believed in the scientific approach to life and existence. His form of Judaism is secular which takes a stronger belief in tradition rather than history and religion than more dedicated jews.
Detail 1: Here we see how resentful of the Nazi’s and those working with the Third Reich, Elie is.
This shows the first bit of his rebellious nature. Although he feels a deep hate towards the nazi’s, the camps, the crematorium, and the work he never complains about it. Life under nazi rule is cold and hard, and complaints are just wasted breath and time.
Unfortunately it took Primo until he was a
Religion was important to Elie Wiesel even though he didn’t focus any time or energy on it. God had let him down and he constantly had to question god to keep his relationship alive. As he asked why and how, he was looking for a way to make sense of it. It was hard but surprisingly, out of the two or three references to god Primo makes sense of it and provides an adequate answer.
“He told me his story, and I have not forgotten it. It was a sorrowful, cruel and moving story; because so are all our stories, hundreds of thousands of stories, all different and all full of tragic sorrow. We tell them in the evening, and they take place in Norway, Italy, Algeria, the Ukraine, and are simple and incomprehensible, like the stories in the bible. But are they not themselves stories of the new bible.”
Maybe the holocaust is a new struggle. A new bible that allows us to learn from; full of stories of hardships and devastation which we use to keep from happening again. With Primo, religion was not of any importance. He was a chemist and believed in the scientific approach to life and existence. His form of Judaism is secular which takes a stronger belief in tradition rather than history and religion than more dedicated jews.