" Where were you, God of kindness, in Auschwitz? What was going on in heaven, at the celestial tribunal, while your children were marked for humiliation, isolation and death only because they were Jewish? "
Eli Wiesel is hands down one of my favorite authors of all time. After reading Night several times this exerpt is a great enlighteing as to how Wiesel felt currently in the aftermath. I believe his emotions and doubts are normal and should be expected. As he questions God or the Master of the Universe, the emotions can be felt through each word. He basically has the same take as Rodriguez does in Silence whenever they are seeing all the suffering from the people who are supposedly God's "chosen" people. Wiesel wants to renounce his faith yet cannot make himself do it because of tradition and his childhood faith. He also defends God by saying there was no way of stopping a place like Auschwitz because of it being man-made and seeking to not only perscut the people but God as well. His response to just leave a question mark I feel is appropriate since even though he was given the answers of its in God's plan and we cannot question him a tragedy such as that brings about tremondous doubt.
I feel the question mark is appropriate as well. Because only God will know the answer.
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