Night: Truth of Questions

    Night Essay:

       Questions can always be answered. We all come though a time were things need to be resolved. In Night, Elie confronts lots of questions form his surroundings. He starts to experience lots of answers and go through many problems. Elie's central conflict is underlining the truth about God and 

His existence.

     Elie is confronted at a point where only he can answer his own questions. Questions that he confronts. Moshe the Beadle made Elie understand more about God, “Man questions God and God answers. But er 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 the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself,” (Wiesel 3). Moshe the Beadle is trying to guide Elie through his own life. The only thing that will keep him going is his own belief, not others. God is not everything, and he should not only count on him to live on. Moshe is trying to explain to Elie that the answers that he is waiting for is within himself. No one else is trustworthy and the only person that he should trust his himself. Elie struggles with who God really is. He starts to go through a period of time where things start to make sense.

     At the concentration camp, Elie experiences many conflicts that deals with death. Within this experience, he has lost hope in the existence of God, and why he isn't here to help them, “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name?” (Wiesel 31). Elie starts to realize and his feelings start to develop. He doesn't have an idea who God is. He starts to question himself, why he should bless God. He asks himself, if God is really that important and if he has even done anything to help them. Elie is confused about the suffering that they are experiencing. There was a point where the his image of God has vanished, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust,” (Wiesel 32). Elie has always thought that God was always besides him, but his hopes just vanishes like ashes. The concentration camp turned his whole life around and made him realize reality. His life just ended like there was no more hope, but just survival. His dreams turned to fear because of he sleeps, he might not wake up at sun rise. Because he trusted God so long, he doesn't know how to create his own steps to move on forward.

     Elie denies himself from God. He would pray to him, but denies that he is ever there. Where they are in trouble and in desperate need, people asked, “Where is God now? And I heard a voice within him. He is hanging here in this swallow,” (Wiesel 61). They believe he is dead and he is the cause to this suffering. The people feel that they should not worship him. How could he have let a child die like this without helping. Elie is confused about the things that were done and if they were meant to be. He experience many conflicts, and every single conflict has a connection to the questions that were asked. It was like Moshe was always beside him asking him these questions so that he could realize the truth. Near the ending, even though he has no more hope for God, he prayed, “And, in the spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heat, to that God in whom I no longer believed,” (Wiesel 87). Elie felt something, but he wasn't sure. Maybe this is Gods message to him. He might have arose in that moment of his life and in that point, God appeared for him. Elie has no more hope for God and his existence doesn't matter to him anymore. Whatever God does will not impact him. He has found his own answers and he doesn't need God to be beside him.

     Elie has discovered many answers to the existence of God. Answers are only found within himself. He has grew to understand him much more better. Elie was pulled into his own belief and he no longer believed in God. God was just an excuse. The this that can help you put one foot in front of the other and walk though the path of life is our own soul.

Response Post: "The Stupid Question"

This is something that I found in Amber's blog that I thought was very interesting:

"If you don’t understand something, then ask someone else about it and you can learn by asking the question, even if it sounds ridiculous.  Asking questions to try to understand things you don’t understand is the equivalent of opening new doors to new explorations and opportunities."

     I really agree with what Amber said. Teachers would always ask us to ask questions in class even though it is stupid and everyone know what the answer is, I would still never speak up. I don't know why I have this feeling, but I do not ask much questions in class. I would mostly end up asking my friends at the end of the class so that I could understand. Sometimes I think that I am bothering class time when I ask a question, so I would always shelter them in my mind and find out the answer by myself.

   

     I agree that asking questions can help you learn, but it can also help other students as well. Subsequent to no one asking questions in class, students would not learn a lot. Questions are mean to be asked, not kept inside. I think that we learn from each others questions because we all think different. I have personally learned a lot from what people ask in class because they would ask questions that are what I need help in. Then when the teacher explains it, I get a clear understanding of that subject. Thanks to all those questions that I am so successful in class, but I think that I have to learn how to ask questions later on because it will be very helpful.

     I think that we should not let our fear conduct our minds when we are in need. I have let my fear control me many times and I have not been able to break away from it. We should not be afraid of our fears, but our fears should be afraid of us. We have more power than them. Now I think that I should keep this thought in mind and let my questions run free. I will try to ask more questions instead of telling my friends to ask. I need to be more brave so that I could be able to speak up for myself because my friends are not always there to help me when I am in need.