Write a two to four well-developed paragraphs explaining in an objective summation of the following:
Writing Prompt: How does Eliezer's faith in God change throughout Night? Please provide specific examples of how he begins to doubt his faith.
What is the "world's" responsibility in matters of inhumane treatment of others?
For your next paideia seminar, what is a goal that you would like to improve on and why?
Elie's faith in God has changed dramatically throughout the story. When Elie was still in Sighet, he strived to learn more about his Jewish culture. He wanted to be mentored at a very early age, and seeked for one, that is why he began talking to Moché the Beadle. When entering the concentration camp, Elie's faith in God gradually disappeared. He no longer felt the need to praise him, God gave no reason for Elie to pray. Elie thought, " Why should I bless his name? .. What had I to thank him for ?", he thought that him being brought to the concentration camp was God being angry at him and being absent. Even to this day, Elie says he's still angry with God, but still does pray occasionally.
ReplyDeleteThe worlds responsibility is to be more kind and loving. Elie said in a interview with Oprah that, he wrote the book to prevent anything like the Holocaust to occur again. It was a horrible time in the world and we should never let anyone have that much hate towards another. We are all created equal, and that is how we should treat each other. So it is up to us ( the world ) to never let history repeat itself. Elie is trying to protect those from such a harsh burden, because no one should deserve it. The world should learn to love and respect everyone, we will always be the same, and should use our voice and speak up ( since Hitler didn't allow anyone to voice it back then ).
For the next paideia seminar I would like if we had created some questions before hand. I feel as thought if we were given more time to make the questions , we could have had deeper conversations. The deep conversations at the end of the seminar were really fun, because everyone voiced their opinions and got to say their point of view. So if we were given more time, it would have been great. Also I would have liked for it to last longer, people had more questions, and we would have more topics to cover. Those 10 minutes we had to use for the social, could have been another discussion. My goal is to talk a lot more, because at the very beginning i was really quiet. Also to not interrupt, it was sort of hard to have a say when everyone is trying to talk.
Elizer's faith in God begins to be shaky after Moshe the Beasley comes back and tells him about the awful things that happen to him when the nazi's took him away.Yet Eliezer's faith remained but then when he a arrives at the camp he starts to re think his faith. Witnessing a young pipel die by hanging was the "last straw" for Elizer's faith , he no longer longer celebrated Jewsish holidays . After these incidents Elizer became faithless . He believes that he the god he believes wasn't shining his light the one time they truly needed it.
ReplyDeleteThe worlds responsibility in the book night was to save the Jewish people ,gpysies , and others going through the the suffering known as the holocaust . Although they did help , there is evidence that the American government as well as others knew and didn't do anything. I believe they should have rallied together as counties and stop hitler together as one.The worlds responsibility was and is to make sure this never happens again.
For our next paideia seminar , I would like to go deep with in the questions I ask for the class. I felt like my questions were surface level and maybe next time I would love for them to be deeper. I want them to be deeper so that the discussion could be deeper and maybe more conversation could come up .
Eliezer's faith in God changes throughout Night by what he experienced in the Holocaust. In the beginning Elie wishes to have a greater understanding of his religion and asked his father if he could have a Master to guide him, but his father said he was to young to venture into mysticism. He does find a teacher though, his name was Moché the Beadle, the spent long hours talking about the cabbala and read the Zohar over and over again. Months or years after Elie and his family were sent to concentration camps and separated, he was yelling and getting angry with his father for not being able to march in step and being continuously hit or beat by the SS men. Another time where Elie's faith is destroyed is when the angelic pipel was hung for not speaking when interrogated, Elie and many others saw the pipel as an angel but Elie saw him also as God, and these SS men had killed God in Elie's eyes and that was when Elie's faith had been truly destroyed.
ReplyDeleteThe "world's" responsibility in the matters of inhumane treatment of others is to stop it from happening and not repeat history again. Instead of ignoring what is happening like America had done in the 1940s, we should stop this cruelty, or nothing was ever learned from WW2. If we cannot learn from the mistakes of others and try to prevent them from happening, then history will repeat over and over again, never ending and never Changing. The world should work together to prevent problems from repeating again. For the next paideia seminar I would like to improve my interaction with other students and expressing my ideas better
Elies faith in god goes from one extreme to another he is a devoted Jew to an atheist almost which I think is strange. I still don’t understand how he could change so much the thing I keep asking myself is was he really a devoted Jew or was he just one who believes one life is going good. It seemed as if once things got hard he gave up and stopped believing in god but when it was all over he believed again because he didn’t have any problems. That to me make me think he wasn’t a true believer in god. He starts to doubt his faith when the new year begins most men were praying not elie he said he could not pray to a God that was letting something like this happen to him and his people. Then when the boy from Warsaw was hung he seemed to show sighs that he believed in god because he was grateful that he was not the one being hung. The next sign was when the young boy died he was at a point where he didn’t believe because he thought that the boy’s death was pointless and began to pray. I think its crazy how much he switch’s back and forth from believing to not believing.
ReplyDeleteThe worlds responsibility to the inhumane treatment of others is that they seem to watch everything happen. Every time an inhumane act happens it seems like our people just seem to watch and let the person suffer. There seems to be a small group that cares the others just go with the flow and let it all happen. For the next paideia seminar, I would like to be able to ask one of my questions because last time I was unable too. I would also like for everyone to contribute because it seemed like only a couple of us were doing the talking. overall I really enjoyed this activity I think that we should do this more often because I feel like it gave us an opportunity to talk to our piers about what we have learned. I feel like doing this was better than just having to write a paper. It also helped some people come out of their shell and helped them open up. These conversations are very helpful and I think we should do these more often I am looking forward to the next one we do.
In the beginning of the book Elie was well immersed in his faith. He was studying the Talmud and wanting to study the Cabbala. Lies faith was really strong until he was taken to the camp. He said a little prayer because he thought he was going to die at the first selection, but he didn't. Over time he began to question God's presence. He thought to himself that if there was a God then he and his people wouldn't be going through what they were going through. A little ways after that the young pipel died. He faith really wavered there. "Where is he? He is here- hanging in the gallows". Then once his father died nothing matter. He was just an empty body.
ReplyDeleteThe world should strive to make sure that this doesn't happen again. The purpose of his book was to tell about his trials and to persuade the world not to let this happen again. He doesn't want to the world to be silent like they were when he was in the Holocaust.
In the next seminar I would like to speak more. I need to step out of my comfort zone (*cough cough* Ms.McClary *cough*) and communicate with others.
Elie's faith changes throughout the book Night because of what happened throughout the Holocaust. Before Elie was deported to the concentration camps he was really into his religion. Elie would study with a foreign Jew named Moshe The Beadle, they would sit and read the Zohar and talk about God. When the Jews were deported to the concentration camps Elie's anger grew more and more. He was being tested by God, so he thought God was mad at him. When Elie saw the Young Pipel died, Elie knew that God was absent. To this day Elie says that he is still mad at God for what happened, but he still prayes day by day.
ReplyDeleteThe worlds responsibility was to help the Jews out of this disaster, and be there for them instead of being silent. To keep this from not happening again then the world needs to stop all of the brutality. Everyone should love everyone in the world and shouldn't be trying to brig history back.In the next paideia seminar I would say maybe talk more and express how I feel about what the discussion topic. When I have an opinion then I should be able to speak up and out.
In Night, Elie’s faith is challenged in many ways. Elie faced many life altering decisions that made his life change. Before he entered the camps, Elie was a strong believer in god and his faith was very strong. He believed there was a god and he had faith that the God he believed in was watching over him. When he reached the camps, he began to realize that maybe what he’s been believing in this whole time wasn’t there. In chapter 4, Elie realized that his faith in God has been completely demolished. After witnessing the death of the young Pipel, who had the face of the angel, he knew that if god were real, he wouldn’t have let this happen to him.
ReplyDeleteIn the world outside of Elie’s, the people of Germany were claimed to do nothing and didn’t think to help the Jews and others in the concentration camps. Elie rarely ever spoke of the Germans outside of the camps. I personally can’t blame the Germans though. If they were to go up against Hitler, or any of the other Nazis, they would have been sentenced to death. They had no choice to help the Jew in the camps because they were aware of the consequences. And as for the rest of the world, I’m not sure where their responsibility lied. Lots of people knew about the situation, but chose not to do anything because they knew it would just start something else. But I think others were just being selfish.
I believe the Paideia Seminar went very well. We had a very good discussion about the book and what our thoughts and feeling were about it. My goal for the next seminar is to probably get more of my thoughts and feeling out. I would try to improve how much input i put into the discussion and what to say.
Elie's faith in god changed dramatically throughout Night. In the beginning of the story Elie was curious about his Jewish religion an wanted to know more so he started talking to moch'e the beadle. The concentration camps is what I say really changed his mind because he witness situations that he thought God would not let happen but it did.During that time his faith in God dramatically dissappear he started questioning him self. Why should I praised God when he hasn't shown up?Why should I part take in his teachings if he's not hear to help? Elie till this day is still upset with his god,but still pratice his religion.
ReplyDeleteThe world responsibility is to be more concerned about their surroundings an more thoughtful because in Oprah interview Elie said he won't night to help prevent anything like he holocaust to happen . Elie could have had his "Nightmare" ended earlier if America was more thoughtful an kind-hearted.
For the next paideia seminar my goal is to stay on time with my reading an take notes as I read. I was reading the book an understanding the book,but going into depth I was missing important parts an didn't realize it untill I got to class the next day. Taking notes as I read would be a goal an a priority next time.