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Ryan Hutchinson
When living is making life hell just keep on moving forward. In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his catastrophic experiences as a child going through and handling the absurd actions of Hitler and his Nazi Army. He explains his experience through all of it from moving from his house to another ghetto, to going to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At just thirteen this was a life altering and extremely tragic event that occurred in his young life. Through all this his faith in humanity and God are tested, in which is very clear how it changed throughout the book.
The book opens with the Wiesel family, a loving family, in their apartment in the Jewish city of Sighet, where they were going about their everyday busy happily. Without any knowledge at all the German and Nazi Army entered into the city, and formed two different ghettos and pilled the members of the Jewish faith into them. Luckily for the Wiesel family the ghetto was formed within the grounds of where their apartment was, so they were able to stay in their home. This was only until they moved everyone out of this ghetto and into the one and last ghetto in the city. While in these ghettos Elie witnessed a lot of horrific incidents, which will forever be imprinted into his memory.
These incidents that were so gruesome and horrible that they literally effected how he thought of humanity and his faith in God. He was so scarred from these events that he was so confused on what humanity really was anymore. He had thought of all people to be good and had faith in everyone, before these events occurred. He had never thought that people or someone could be so cruel and kill people and put people into ghettos like these that were formed. Not only was his faith in humanity beginning to fall, but his strong faith in God and his Jewish faith was starting to diminish.

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