Night Chapters 5+6

 Question 7.

“All the earth and universe are God’s!” (67) This is very striking to me, for the last two chapters it described how much Eliezer has lost hope and how he doesn’t believe in god anymore. But then the author decides to keep bringing up the fact that we are all a piece of god and nothing can change that. I think the importance of bringing this topic back up was to change Eliezer into a believer and a preserver. Not only would bringing the topic of God change Eliezers views again it could do as much as keep his father and him alive by keeping faith and having motivation.  Since they had to evacuate Auschwitz it has given them hope that all of the torture they have endured will shortly come to an end because the Russians are liberating the area. And having another factor of hope included would allow Eliezer to do anything.

Another phrase that was intriguing was a metaphor. When Eliezer thought he was suffocating he “tried to rid himself of my invisible assassin” (94). I liked this metaphor a lot because it shows he was trying to rid himself of all the bad and the negative and only focus on the main goal of survival. This is different from before when he claimed he would never have hope again and that God crushed his dreams. That he finally realized there was something holding him back and now he can fight back and survive this madness. I think the author included this because having the main character overcome their obstacles would influence others to do the same.