- - - While Eliezer witnesses many hangings, he
decides to describe two in particular.
Why are these two hangings so important to him?
- - - When the young boy is hanged, a prisoner asks,
“Where is God now?” Eliezer thinks to
himself, “He is hanging here on this gallows . . .” What does this statement mean? Is it a hopeful, fearful or angry statement?
- When these people died, so did any normalcy Eliezer had left. He is no longer an innocent young child. He has seen and been shaped by evil. He can no longer return to the normal life he had. There is no turning around, this is his world now. He is almost a new character now. He remembers these two specifically because that was a changing moment for him.
ReplyDelete- I have to say it is an angry statement. Eliezer was, hopeful, that maybe God was going to save him or save the other prisoners. Surely God would not let such atrocities just happen. However they do happen, and Eliezer loses his confidence in God. After seeing the two hanging, and God has done nothing that Eliezer can see, what is the point of believing? God hasn't stopped any evil yet, he has not made anything around Eliezer better. God has failed Eliezer, so he might as well have hung himself on the gallows, because he is dead (spiritual) to Eliezer.
The first hanging that Eliezer described was his first encounter with it in a concentration camp. He said that it no longer bothers him that he lives in a place where thousands of people die daily in the crematoria but this particular hanging bugged him the most. He described him as being a young boy who was bigger than he was taller with more muscular. Eliezer made it seem as if this boy had just arrived at the concentration camp because of his better health. I believe that what upset him the most was that the young boy got caught for stealing more soup and is now giving up by knowing the consequences that come after his crime. The young boy could of lasted a lot longer than what had happened but since he did not stay strong on the inside, it shows that many are giving up hope as soon as they reach a challenge in their lives. The second hanging of the other young boy affected Eliezer by showing him that there is still hope in situation and that God is looking after them. Since the little boy was too light and the hanging did not completely kill him off quickly, he described him as being God.
ReplyDeleteI believe Eliezer's comment is hopeful. Since the little boy came in and out of life and did not die off as quickly as the others, it shows that there could still be a hope for everyone suffering. God is with them and helping them get through these hard times. It shows they shouldn't give up completely because there could have a good outcome to this devastating event. It almost reassures Eliezer that he is doing the right thing by staying strong and sticking by his faith.
1) The two hangings are important to Eliezer because they are the ones that impacted his identity the most. The first was significant because it was the fist hanging he had ever witnessed. It was a young boy close to his age but much stronger than Eliezer. What stood out to him though was how solemn the boy was, not frightened. This is significant to Eliezer because this is the point where he realized that he will too soon be numb to all of his emotions. It was present whenever his father was being beaten that Eliezer was more angry at his father rather the guard beating him. Now however, it was staring at him in the face as he walked by the hanged boy. The second description of the hangings was the one with pipel, the young boy. This is significant to Eliezer because there was so much emotion involved with this murder. Not only were all the Jews moved to tears, but some of the German SS were seen with grim emotion. Eliezer points out that rarely were there tears at the hangings, but as everyone walked past the young boy, they wept. It could have been because he was still alive moving around or because pipel was known as the sad-eyed angel and his innocence was taken from him.
ReplyDelete2) This statement means that Eliezer has completely changed from who he was at the beginning of the memoir. Before he was sent off to a concentration camp, the only was to describe his identity was faithful and religious. Now however, this statement suggests to the reader that he has lost all of who he once was. When he says that God is hanging in the gallows, he is implying that his God is dead. This is the point in the memoir that he has forgotten his old identity. It also implies that because his childhood identity revolved around religion, along with God dying, his childhood has died as well just like the little boy. This statement is neither hopeful, fearful, or angry. Instead of being the thoughtful boy he once was, Eliezer has changed into a passive and emotionless body. He describes that the only thing that mattered was food so the realization that he lost his faith was not very important to him at that point.
One is a child and one is a very large man. The child shows the brutality and the heartlessness of the Nazis. It also shows the hope for any kind of humanity shown toward the Jews is gone. The large man also shows that there is no hope left for revolt within the camps. Because of the control they have, it’s a sign to the Jews that the grip of the Nazis runs deep and cannot be intimidated. They’re important to Elie because of what each of the individuals represents. The child being the death of humanity and the large man shows how tight the grip of the Nazis is over the people.
ReplyDeleteThe statement that Elie is making refers to how all hope in being rescued by the god he loves is gone. He is in disbelief in the hanging of the young boy. The life of the boy was in the hands of god and the guards. The guards took that life on their own while god still had a hand on him. That hand died with the boy giving death to any hope that god would save him. That is why Elie references as god is hanging on the gallows along with the child with fear.
Each of the two hangings is important for different reasons. The first hanging was a grown man who had been accused of stealing. Eliezer describes this hanging in particular to show how numb the people had become to these executions. They have come to focus only on their own survival not that of others. During the hanging Juliek whispers to Eliezer, "this ceremony, will it be over soon? I'm hungry." This shows that their main focus is their own needs and they are completely desensitized to the violence of the camp. The second hanging has a greater meaning with Eliezer. This was the hanging of an innocent thirteen year old boy. This was so significant because this was the moment in time when god died in Elizer's eyes. He does not understand how god can exist in a world where an innocent child is murdered. This also could show the loss of his innocence. He has changed drastically from when he first entered the camp. He came in a devout Jew with total faith in his religion. He now has lost all faith in god and humanity.
ReplyDeleteThis statement means that Eliezer believes that god died on the gallows with the child. He has lost complete faith in god. This is a statement of anger because he does not see how a god could exist in a world where an innocent child can be murdered so inhumanly. The death of this child brings out an emotional out pour which had become rare in the camps. This was a significant moment in the book because it was the true low point of Eleizer's faith in god.
1. Eliezer describes these two hangings in particular because they have affected his life the most. The two that he describes involve a young man around his age and an even younger boy. He understood that people died in the camp everyday in terrible ways, but never experienced it like this before. With seeing the two boys in front of him take their last breath, Eliezer’s innocence has been taken from him. Everything from his childhood and being a boy is now gone because he has witnessed horrific things such as people dying in front of him by a noose. His faith was taken from his as well. He is simply a product of the concentration camp and will have these memories forever.
ReplyDelete2. The statement about God hanging on the gallows is a proclamation of anger coming from Eliezer. He is comparing the little boy’s death to that of Jesus. They both died in similar ways with suffering. Eliezer experienced this first hand when he realized the boy had not died right away. He had to walk right by him and see the pain he was going through. This situation made Eliezer no longer believe in God. He does not understand how a God can exist in the cruel world he is experiencing. He has used this confusion as anger and hatred toward God and his faith as a whole. His faith is gone as a result of Auschwitz.
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1. The one hanging that stood out most to Eliezer is the one involving the child. The death of the innocent child represents the death of Eliezer’s own innocence. Eliezer has become a different person since the beginning of the holocaust. He has officially lost all faith, and is beginning to lose his sense of morals as well. He even admits that he lives only to feed himself. Survival has become his main goal, he feels no pity for anyone. The other hanging he described was when the dentist who wanted his gold crown was hanged. Eliezer said that he felt no pity for that man, and that he was happy it was happening to him. He said that he could use his crown for his own use such as getting bread. Eliezer also felt no pity when his father was beat. Instead he became mad at his father for not being able to learn.
2. I believe what Eliezer said was an angry statement. Eliezer comes to the conclusion that God must not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. When he says, “He is hanging he on this gallows” is enacting the murder of god. He has officially lost all faith and is becoming a different person than he was in the beginning of the book.
He explains how in the first hanging, the people are very casual of the situation. Some even asking "when is dinner" rather than mourning over the death. Eliezer explains the soup that night was extra tasteful. The second hanging, was of an angel little boy. Not only the Jews, even a executioner was sickened by this hanging. Seeing a little boy so powerless and so beautiful was truly horrifying than any other scene. That mourning was loud and plentiful. That night, the soup tastes horrible. These hangings both show the attitude changes in the prisoners. How they can can go from so casual of seeing death to mortified of it.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a hateful one. The Jews no longer believe in God after all the horror they have gone through. The sufferening of so many and such innocent people make it impossible to believe in God. From eliezer saying this, he is telling the readers "God is dead".
--- The prisoner who was condemned for stealing during the raid provided no fearful emotion during the hanging. If anything, he provided a sense of increased hatred towards the Germans to everyone watching. Eliezer was upset during this execution. He was more than likely happy that he was not up there, one reason the soup may have tasted better than normal. However, the execution of the small boy was a killing blow to everyone, especially Eliezer. It was the point in which Eliezer lost everything he knew about God inside of him. To Eliezer, God died with the boy on the gallows.
ReplyDelete--- I think it is a fearful statement. Like I mentioned in the previous question, this statement inside of Eliezer signaled the complete collapse of his religious identity. If God could not save the boy, than surely he would not be able to save Eliezer. After this moment, Eliezer is a changed boy, a completely different person than he was when he left home.
The two hangings described are engraved in Eliezer's mind because they were intended to be. The Nazis had to keep order and fear present in the prisoners at all times, and an up close and personal hanging was a very effective way of doing so. Eliezer mentions these hangings because they had a powerful effect on the way he thought about things. For instance, his devoutness to his religion was obviously tested and severely altered by these particular hangings, or they would not be so brutally detailed by Wiesel.
ReplyDeleteThis leads into the second question, because not only is God "hanging here on the gallows", but so is Eliezer's faith. Eliezer has lost all sense of integrity at this time in the book. He is loosing his belief of God completely. Eliezer and many others wonder how God could let a child die in such a terrible setting. Eliezer is wondering if perhaps this is the death of his belief as well as the death of his God. If Jews follow a God that could allow this to happen, they might as well all die in the same manner and welcome hopelessness.
Wiesel witnesses several hangings in Night. He his not effected by many of these except for two. The first significant hanging is of a boy named Pipel. Pipel was a young boy who had hardly experienced anything in the world yet. He had many more years to live. When Wiesel saw him die, he felt bad and sorrowful. How can a child commit a crime and be punished so severely for something that he did not understand and may have not even committed. This hanging affected Elizer so much that, even his faith in god started to fade. The second significant hanging was of a man from Warsaw. He said that this had deeply upset him because he knew of how much suffering the man had went through going in and out of three concentration camps. The only reason the man was convicted and killed was for stealing a few simple items and the Nazis were so unforgiving. The man reading his crim read very sternly and all of this made Elizer feel remorseful.
ReplyDeleteI think that the man who made this statement was more confused and fearful than anything else. All of the prisoners see a helpless boy being hanged right before their eyes for something he did not even understand. Even some of the Nazis did not agree with the hanging of an innocent child. I think seeing this makes many of Jews very confused on why god would let something as cruel as this happen to such a young boy who has hardly experienced anything being so young.
1. After witnessing some hangings of adult prisoners, Wiesel stated that he found “the sound excellent one evening”. He was an adult and did not care that he was hung. He was a dentist who worked for the Nazis. Eliezer felt sort of happy but sad. For the second hanging, the child was a young and innocent Jew who did not deserve to die that way. His death was slow and painful unlike the dentist who was greedy. When the young boy was hanging for more than a half hour, Eliezer asked himself “Where is God?” wondering why the young innocent boy deserved to go like this.
ReplyDelete2. The statement that Eliezer makes when the young boy is hanged and a prisoner asks “Where is God now?” he thinks to himself “He is hanging here on this gallows…” means that God is hanging in front of them. He has seen too many bad things happen to the people around him at these camps and to himself also. He is losing faith in God when all of this is happening and wants to know where he is while these awful situations are going on. He says this line out of hope, hope that God will come around and save the poor people who have been treated badly. In section 2 of “Night” they were constantly hopefully from the beginning. Eliezer describes the camps as “good conditions” which illustrates that he wanted to keep hope alive. When stated this statement in section 3 however Eliezer begins to lose all hope while trying to still hold on to God and his trust. He does not believe that God will save him anymore from the SS members forcing him and other Jews watch children and adults die in front of their own eyes. This statement demonstrates that they are in despair and no long have good expectations.
I believe these hanging are important to him because they make him have different aspects when it comes to his faith. When the first boy was hung, he told of how he was upset with the boy's hanging meanwhile he has seen many people hung and showed no emotion. The boy's last words were "Long live Liberty! My curse on Germany! My Curse!" I believe this embarked faith with the hope that liberation would one day come and that spirits weren't totally broken. The younger boy that was hung provoked a different feeling in Wiesel. The little boy that was hung was kind, generous, and had an innocence about him. When the boy was hung, there was weeping among the inmates and it showed how someone even as young as him were treated with no mercy. Savageness was among the old and young alike. The hanging of this boy made Wiesel lose faith. A man wondered how God could let something like this happen, and Wiesel replied by basically saying God wasn't there. This shows how Wiesel lost faith greatly.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a stament of anger. Wiesel was a boy who devoured himself to God strongly, and tried clinging to his faith throughout his struggles. Although, the constant suffering made him lose faith and caused him to be angry at God. He wondered how God could let something like the Holocaust happen. The hanging of the boy was an example of how Wiesel lost his faith in God. The stament Wiesel said to them man after the hanging depicted that God had no action in what happened.
I believe that he focuses on these two hanging specifically because it starts to show how the concentration camp is changing him. He is experiencing new cruel changes in his life. For him to watch these two hangings he is starting to lose faith in everything that he believed in before especially during the young boy's. He gets very emotional during these two hangings because of the cruelty he is watching unfold before his eyes.
ReplyDeleteThis statement to me means that Eliezer is saying that he believes there is no God anymore because the Germans have killed him along with the Jews too. This is the point of the story where he really begins to lose all of his faith. He really has no hope anymore after seeing all the awful hangings. This can be shown as a fearful yet more angry statement. It is fearful because he is losing hope that he won't survive if God can't. He is angry though because all of his prayers are not working and he thinks God is betraying him instead of protecting him most likely.
The two hangings Eliezer describes are so important to him because they helped him realize the change in human emotion among the inmates. As he describes, death was a daily occurrence in the crematoria of Auschwitz and Birkneau, and it no longer affected Eliezer or the jaded inmates. The first hanging Eliezer witnesses, however, begins to spark some emotion inside him once again. Though the other inmates are still selfish and only worried about themselves and when the hanging will be over so they can eat, Eliezer becomes deeply upset. When the little pipel is hanged, this change that Eli experiences with the first hanging occurs within everyone. Throughout all of the hangings, no one had cried, but during the hanging of the little pipel, every inmate was weeping. No longer was everyone selfish. They felt sorrow for this little boy because he was hanged for something he might not even have understood. That night the soup tasted of corpses because everyone had finally broke free of their jaded state and felt some human emotion and sorrow for others again.
ReplyDeleteWhen Eliezer answers the prisoner by saying that God is hanging on the gallows, he is fearful. This statement is his implication that "God is dead". If God is hanging on the gallows with the prisoners, he has been murdered. With all that Eliezer has witnessed, he no longer has any faith in God. He fears that God has died and there is no longer anyone to believe in. He believes that if God were still alive, none of this devastation would be happening; therefore, he as lost all hope and assumes that God has died alongside his followers.
These two hangings are so important to Eliezer because they represent the killing his own innocence. He realizes that he is no longer the same person at the beginning of the Holocaust. His faith is diminished, and he begins to lose his morals. He begins to live only for himself, and no longer cares when he watches others beat his own father in the camp. Another reason the last hanging was so important is because all the prisoners wept. In a camp where wrongful death and torture of innocent people take place, prisoners became prone to sadness, and hardly ever cried. However, watching a child get hanged in the middle of the gallows was so shocking that everyone could not help but break into tears.
ReplyDeleteEliezer's statement means that God has been murdered along with the prisoners. This action caused him to question how an all-powerful God could allow such a gruesome murder to take place. His statement brings out his anger, and this brings him to an all time low in his faith. This event caused Wiesel to deny God’s existence, and doubt his faith.
The importance of the two hangings are showing the difference between a quick death and a slow death. The quick death represents the freedom after life. The soup tasted better after the quick death, this symbols that if it ended quicker it would be better. The slow death represents the slow miserable life through the concentration camp. This symbolized by the soup tasting awful. And the boy's slow death also symbolized the torture of the life they are living.
ReplyDeleteEliezer's thought meant that his faith in God is dying. This is a statement of fear. He is afraid that his faith in God isn't going to keep him alive for much longer, therefore he believes he is dying just like the boy slowly dying.
1.) These two hangings were of two young boys, like Eliezer, who had misbehaved and this explains why he did not fight back or lash out against the Nazis. They remind him that ge could be in their place. They also change his opinions. The first reminds him how lucky he is to still be alive and the soup tastes better that night. The second shows another moment of lost faith as his god hangs from the gallows. Its his second moment where the deeply religous child gives up on religion.
ReplyDelete2.) It is a statement of anger. Eliezer has a bitter taste in his mouth toward his God described when the soup tastes of corpses. Its another time when God was dead to him, since Eliezer thought that his merciful God should have saved the boy rather than have him suffer for thirty minutes swinging from the gallows.
--- The first hanging was routine. Its something everyone is used to in the camp. Eliezer used that hanging to lead up to the second hanging which really had an impact. The second hanging was different because it was a child who was hung. It showed him that the Nazis didn't care who you were. That they would kill anyone without a care in the world.
ReplyDelete--- The statement "He is hanging in the gallows" refers to the fact that god is finally dead to him. Eliezer has lost all hope. The fact that people could be so heartless to kill a child with no mercy, then force others to watch it, would make anyone lose all hope. It could also be interpreted as anger because god wouldn't help the child. So the phrase could be Eliezer exulting anger towards god.
1. Eliezer describes those two hangings in particular because they affected him the most. The first hanging was of a strong looking boy who Eliezer saw around and he could see that the boy had no emotion in his face and he remembered that specifically. The second hanging was of a little boy. That one took a toll on Eliezer and affected him emotionally , seeing the little boy hang on for his life reminded him of how cold and cruel the Nazis are and that they have no petty for any Jew regardless of age or health.
ReplyDelete2. I believe Eliezer is angry with God. Nothing positive is happening for the Jews and it seems to be getting worse for them. He feels as though he has been mistaken of Gods love for him and his people and that there really might not be a God. Him and his people are losing faith and the God they all beloved before is not blessing them and giving them any hope to survive.
1) These two events are significant because the people hung are of similar age to Eliezer and have committed no significant crimes to merit such treatment.
ReplyDelete2) The statement that God is hanging on the gallows points to Eliezer's belief that God, who is in everyone, has been also killed with this child. Also, how could a God who is all-powerful and all-merciful allow an innocent little one to be killed? Does God exist after all? For Eliezer in that moment, the answer is no.
People tend to walk a dangerous path in spite of its treacheries. For all the times that many are asked whether or not they fear death, not a single answer to that question could ever amount to their true feeling because they have never been subjected to that circumstance. Nor could any person even conceive of the pain felt, not just physically, but faithfully and spiritually by the victim. Eliezer's oppressors are no longer tearing off scabs - they are digging out the scars. No matter that Eliezer and many others in his block evaded death, but they were dutifully aware of the horror being conducted around them. That is the very reason why the first hanging that he mentions is particularly upsetting to him. Eliezer mentions how the man had survived 3 years in concentration camps, hanging on and doing well for himself as much as one could do, and yet through all of his evasions, he was caught for theft. Death had barred his escape, and meanwhile other unfortunate souls were dying in the crematoriums, thousands every day, he had been singled out to die in front of the prisoners that were gracefully given life. Eliezer says, choked by sadness, "The thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz and Birkenau, in the crematoria, no longer troubled me. But this boy, leaning against his gallows, upset me deeply." It was a sign of lost hope, disparity among an ongoing scene of demise, one incident after the other. While the thousands died every day, none felt as real as the ones that he was forced to watch, as though it was a promise, a tool used by the Germans. As if lives were so expendable as to be thrown away to make a statement to already frightened prisoners. The second hanging that Eliezer describes hits him hard because of its sheer, inhumane discipline. The boy, younger than most prisoners, did not die immediately as the noose fell upon his neck. He hung there, gasping for air as all life trickled out from his body, slowly, painfully. He did not die right away. He was strung along, writhing, hoping for the pain to dissipate so that he could escape the darkness that blotted him. Even the SS guards, the might of the German regime, were anxious about the hanging. The man that recited the ritual could not partake this time. For a moment, a sliver of humanity seemed to adorn the murderous war machine. But it, just as hope itself, seemed to flutter and vanish as fast as the color of the boys eyes began to fade...These instances that Eliezer, and Wiesel himself, had to witness and look upon undoubtedly still hang over him to this day, just as the gallows' shadows hung over the guilty. These memories etched into his mind more prominently than the others that become so wrongfully routine in their. unending misery.
ReplyDeleteThe statement made by the precarious dwelling within Eliezer traces back to his moments with Moishe the Beadle, who told him his belief that God dwells in everyone, to them their own identity that searches for answers through the God within them. Those words that arouse from his tattered, tortured soul challenged God in his proposed absence. It is unacceptable to him, in all that he had studied and learned of his faith, that God would stand by and allow these abhorrent displays to continue without his intervention. It means to claim that even He cannot control the evil found within that place. In all of this horror, Eliezer felt that the God within him is not just dying, but is still writhing, gasping for redemption and salvation, just as the young boy grappled for life when the noose failed to take his life immediately. As life faded from his eyes, which the prisoners were forced to look into before he died, the God within him, connected to the God within all of them, Jews alike, seemed to hopelessly dissipate. Eliezer is beginning to become indifferent to the routine display of misery, however, these events are still new to him, and however his mind tries to cope with the inhumane nature of it all, he grapples with it in any way he can reason, even by defeated and denouncing the religion he is imprisoned for believing in. Eliezer, though not physically strung by the gallows, feels a part of him dying with the young boy. A part of him had died upon his entrance into his segment of the Holocaust, but the rest was hung with the young boy in the shadows of the gallows. The emotions within him are still very prominent, as I believe him to have exhibited hopelessness and fear not only in God, but it may have even made him believe stronger in man's ability to overcome the obstacles without God's presence - a cause of action seen time and time again in the Bible and in counts of history. People turn away from Him when times are dark, and they turn toward other methods to rationalize the pain and make amends with the sorrow. Emotions have fled Eliezer's body, although they still exist, writhing and hurting inside his murdered soul.
ReplyDeleteThe two hangings are important in showing the difference of a fast death and a slow death. The fast death shows the release of troublesome and worries in the after life . The soup he had tasted better after the faster death, this shows that if ended faster it would taste a lot better. The slow death shows that the hopeless life in a concentration camp. This showed by the soup then tasting bad. The boy's death was slow showing how horrible it was to live in the camp.
ReplyDeleteEliezer's thought meant that his faith in his God was diminishing. This shows fear among him. He is afraid that his faith isn't going to keep him alive for much longer, and that he is going to die like the boy.
1.) These two hangings were important to him because they were both of young boys just like himself. This hits home for Wiesel because this shows how quickly he could be killed for something as petty as taking an extra loaf of bread. The first one executed was also much bigger than Wiesel, making him feel even more insignificant and helpless than he already did. The first hanging that disturbs him makes his soup taste better because it makes him appreciate that he's even alive, let alone to be eating hot soup. The second hanging disturbs him because he see's the young boy,or 'pipel' hung, and calls his face "an angel in distress." He had been tortured, but refused to give any information, so the SS condemned him to death. The worst part for Wiesel was that the pipel was a light young boy so the weight of his body wasn't enough to snap his neck instantly, so he hung choking on death for half an hour.
ReplyDelete2.) By saying "He is hanging in the gallows..." he is referring to the God that was once so important in his life is finally dead in his mind. Although he is angry that his God couldn't save this young boy, the biggest feeling that came over me was an aire of hopelessness above all else. This shows that Wiesel has no one else spiritually to turn to and every moment from now until liberation is life and death. This makes his soup taste awful, referring to him being disgusted with his God.
The first hanging could represent Eliezer's father. His father's soul is already dead. He is simply a body now. When the boy is hung, he does not die right away. This could represent Eliezer and how his soul is still alive and he still has a fighting chance. It could also represent God and Jesus.
ReplyDeleteIt is a fearful statement because he feels God has already given up on them and has died. He has also given up on God. The spiritual relationship is shattered. He feels that God has abandoned them.
1. He explains how in the first hanging, the people are very casual of the situation. Some even asking "when is dinner" rather than mourning over the death. Eliezer explains the soup that night was extra tasteful. The second hanging, was of an angel little boy. Not only the Jews, even a executioner was sickened by this hanging. That mourning was loud and plentiful. That night, the soup tastes horrible. These hangings both show the attitude changes in the prisoners.
ReplyDelete2. I believe it is a hateful one. The Jews no longer believe in God after all the horror they have gone through. The suffering of so many and such innocent people make it impossible to believe in God. From Eliezer saying this, he is telling the readers "God is dead".
1. The two hangings are highlighted due to their stark contrast. The first is of an older boy, who when put to the gallows, remains stoic and has a very quick death. The second is of a young boy who is fearful, and does not die right away, meaning the prisoners have to slowly watch him die.
ReplyDelete2.The statement is a fearful statement, as Elizer thinks that God most likely abandoned everyone in the camp, betrayed their faiths, and that there is little to no hope for their survival.
Eliezer is not the same person as he was in the beginning of the book he has changed to a not so innocent boy anymore because he has been shaped by evil he remembers those to hanging in particular because it was a changing moment for him.
ReplyDelete--The hangings that occurred had different impacts on the prisoners and especially Eliezer you can really see how everything changed his view. The one hanging was fast and done with so fast no one seemed to care, actually they just watched payed their respect but did not say much about it they were more concerned more about when they were going to eat. Eliezer also mentions that the soup tasted better than usual which kind of makes me think that since the hanging was fast the person did not struggle and was finally free of the evil that they were being forced to deal with daily. Then when he witnessed the other hanging it was slow and seemed to be torturous. Everyone who watched grieved and actually spoke up this made them question their god, how could their god just let this happen? Eliezer then mentions about the taste of the soup again saying how it tasted like corpses.. I feel like he was trying to say that it was disgusting how their god could just let that happen. At this point they seemed to lose all respect and faith in god.
ReplyDelete-- When they all question where their god is Eliezer answers them in his head basically saying god is just watching and doing nothing. I think he said this is fear and anger especially because he relied so heavily on god and put so much time into worshiping him. He feels betrayed hurt and confused about everything that has been going on. This is important because he use to identify himself as a very religious boy, now everything is changing