Night blog post Chapters 1+2

Questions 10+2

In the first two chapters of  Night, there was one particular quote that made me  question the power of knowledge. When Moishe was explaining the significance of god, it made Eliezer believe that “Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer” (Wiesel 5).  This quote made me reconsider everything that I ever thought about knowledge and questions. As I was thinking I sought to find the significance and meaning for the author to include this quote in his novel. I realized that this quote is supposed to show the reader that there will always be an answer. Also these beginning chapters where almost identical to the novel Between Shades of Grey while was written in the same style: a story of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Between Shades of Grey began with Nazis soldiers invading a Jewish Ghetto and allowing people 10 minutes to pack up their stuff, which would be only taken from them later on. 

A connection that I had during these chapters was having them transferred to Auschwitz, and I remember learning about the German Concentration camps in History. Especially in Schindlers List, we saw the worst of the cremation centers and the ovens where they would kill mass amount of people. Luckily Eliezer was not sent to Auschwitz to be put in the ovens, he was there to work, and he had survived. A topic that I found important in these chapters was hope. That people preached that if there was no optimism then there would be no purpose to life and no perseverance to survive these tough times.