Wednesday, November 10, 2010
NIght by Elie Wiesel
This book showed me how hard and incredibly strong the people that had to indoor the Holocaust were. With their lack of food and the Nazi's lack of humanity toward them, it showed me that the people who made it through the Holocaust were not a force to be reckoned with. They had been mentally and physically but up to the challenge and although they may have thought they would never survive they did, and they mastered life's greatest challenge. It showed me the strengths that humans can pull out and how strong we can really be. And in the end when situations like that occur it is truly the survival of the fittest and you have to give it everything you've got.
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Ah yes, good old Elie. I really enjoyed this book when I read it, even though it was quite depressing. But human beings are incredibly resilient creatures, and can endure so much. It was amazing to read what he had gone through, and what those around him as well were forced to outlive.
ReplyDeleteI think you make a good point- that in tough times you see how strong humans truly are. But also there is an element of luck don't you think? That some people who made it through through the Holocaust, although physically and mentally tough... were also just plain lucky.
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