Discovering Elie Wiesel
By:Devante Downs, Gabby Atherley,Yosan Michael, and Chad Wyman
Before the Holocaust “…at night I ran
to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.”
Shows us his depth of his belief in God & faith
Wanted to Learn“Find me a master to guide me in the studies of the cabbala.”
Curious about his religion
Into the Holocaust “Belt and shoes in hand, I let myself be dragged off to the barbers“
Losing resistance
Life in the CampsChosen to live or dieAbused again and again
Camp Conditions“… steaming hot soup had been left, half full… a feast for kings…”
Starved
All Hope is Gone“We were all going to die here. All limits had been passed. No one had any strength left. And again the night would be long.”
Millions Dead
Goodbye Faith“Where is he? Here he is—He is hanging here on this gallows ….”
God is dead
Emotionless Beings Created by Holocaust “After my
father's death, nothing could touch me anymore”
Morale running low, Elie close to death
Nothing left
Life After the Camps “From the depths
of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes…has never left me”
Revolves around purpose of writing
Through The Story
Elie characterized as Jewish child
Goes teenage years in Concentration camps
Loses faith in God As other characters lose their
strong holds in story they die. (Stein of Antwerp and Family)
Elie saved by Russians after Father died
The Purpose Explains how horrible it was for
victims and to show it really did happen
“[Wiesel] knew [he] had to testify about [his] past but did not know how to go about it.”
To “testify” to the readers