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''He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity , that he was imagining things.''(Wiesel, pg5)

This event describes how Moishe the Beadle return decided after escaping the Nazis and try to warn the townspeople about the dangerous they face, despite his efforts to warn the community, they decide to dismisses warnings and continue with their lives choosing to ignore him.

This moment is significant because it shows the community's denial of reality and their unwillingness to face the truth. For Eliezer this is the first encounter with the looming threat of the Nazis, though he and the others have struggled to believe it. Moishe ignored warnings to represent a missed chance for the townspeople to prepare, making a tragic moment of lost hope. This event marks the beginning of Eliezer's loss of innocence and how he will start to question trust, truth and what lies ahead.

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The Flames And The Start Of The Nazi Threat

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The Flames And The Start Of The Nazi Threat

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''In front of us are those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight. We had arrived in Birkenau.''(Wiesel, pg28)

They are now seeing with their own eyes the flames that Mrs. Schachter mentioned so often during the train ride to Auschwitz. Now their in Birkenau.

This event is important because Eliezer is about to come across the inhuman atrocities that happen in these concentration camps. It is his first camp and here he officially begins his loss of innocence, faith, among other things. Here he will begin to ask an important question. "Why does God allow these things to happen to the people who have always loved him?" That weird smell of burning flesh will lead him to his first scene of loss of innocence. The flames that he sees could represented not only the flames that burn and kill the people but also represent the start of a fire that will burn his hope, faith, innocence and more slowly.

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''Never shall i forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall i forget those things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.'' (Wiesel, pg34)

Eliezer reflects on his first night in Birkenau, where witnessing unimaginable atrocities shatters his faith in god and marks the loss of his innocence at all.

This event is very important because here Eliezer loses and witnesses first hand the cruelty of the Nazis. Here he completely loses faith in his beloved God for allowing these things to happen in the camps. The traumatic events such as seeing the children dying in the flames and the treaty they are given in the camps change his way of thinking drastically, thinking that God abandoned him and he himself takes for granted the loss of his faith and innocence as well as his childhood. His words of "I will never forget" reflect how traumatized he is. His faith declines and the only thing that keeps him going is his own survival instinct and his father.

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"For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gal- lows..." (Wiesel, pg 65)

Eliezer witnesses the public execution of a small boy, a boy who is hanged for being associated with resistance activities. The boy's light weight causes him to struggle and suffocate slowly rather than die instantly. Eliezer and the prisoners are forced to watch him.

This event symbolizes the death of eliezer's faith in God the hanging of the innocent child represents the profound Injustice and cruelty of the Holocaust, make eliezer to rethink about his spiritual beliefs, is in this moment where he questions the existence of just and merciful god reinforcing one of the main themes in the memoir. This moment marks a turning point in Eliezer's internal transformation: he deepens his spiritual disillusionment by feeling abandonated by God. He begins to see the world lacking for a divine justice and purpose, marking a contrast with the religious and innocent child he was before the traumatic events and concentration camps. This event is directly related to the theme of the struggle against religious faith. The horrific image of the Hanged Boy becomes a metaphor for Eliezer's spiritual and mental crisis and highlights the cruelty of state violence, as the Nazi regime uses such acts of brutality to suppress rebellion and spread fear among prisoners.

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''There was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest

against Him.'' (Wiesel, pg 69)

The prisoners observe the Jewish High holidays of Rush-Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Eliezer is conflicted about fasting for Yom Kippur despite his religious tradition he chooses not to fast as a way to rebel against God from he believes has abandoned the Jewish people.

This event underscore Eliezer's growing loss of faith in the act of not eating during Yom Kippur traditionally a date of fasting. It has a symbolic rejection of the convenience between God and his people. It demonstrates Eliezer's shift from the devout believer to someone disillusioned and questioning divine justice. This moment further distances Eliezer from his former self, a debate about the believer boy, he feels angry toward god, whom he holds responsible for the suffering around him. This choice reflects his internal rebellion and a survival-driving pragmatism, as fasting in the camps could mean death. This event is connected to the theme of struggle with religious faith, his choice not to fast is a direct challenge to his faith in a coping mechanism to endure the horrors of the Holocaust. It has to do with the individual survival vs the collective good, Eliezer prioritizes his own physical survival over religious tradition and communal solidarity.

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''We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended

everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth.'' (Wiesel, pg 87)

Eliezer and the other prisoners are forced to endure a brutal death march through the snow as they are evacuated from the camp. They are physically and mentally pushed to their limits, running without food water or rest, many collapse and die along the way, Eliezer is driven by his will to survive and by his loyalty to his father who struggles to keep up.

This March symbolizes the dehumanization and suffering the prisoners endure. The imagery of running like ''automatons'' reflects their transformation into soulless beings, stripped of individuality and humanity. Despite this, Eliezer determination to stay with his father highlights the strength of family bonds even in the face of an unmaginable hardship.

This experience forces Eliezer to confront his own limits and reshapes his understandings of survival. He becomes more focused on his inmediate physical needs and his father survival, pushing aside other thoughts or emotions, this marks another step in his journey of densitiation and transformation into a survivor. It connects to the theme of individual survival vs the collective good as other prisoners prioritize their own lives over helping others. However it also highlights family loyalty over obligation when Eliezer refuses to abandon his father even as many others leave love ones behind.

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''In the wagon, where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes. An extraordinary

vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails.''(Wiesel, pg 101)

The prisoners are packed into a cattle cars on their way to another camp. During the journey a german workman throws a piece of bread into the car for his amusement prompting the starving prisoners to fight each other brutally for the bread.

The event reflects the complete breakdown of human dignity and morality under the conditions of extreme suffering, the fight for bread demonstrates how the Nazis cruelty has striped the prisoners on their humanity reducing them to a primal state of survival. The father-son relationship that ends in violence is a dark parallel to Eliezer's own loyalty to his father. Witnessing this horrific event rainforces Eliezer's disillusionment with humanity, he becomes more aware of how survival instincts can overpower family love and moral values. The event strongly connects to the theme of individual survival vs the collective good as a prisoners act selfish and violently to each other even against loved ones for bread. It connects into the theme of State violence as Nazis systematic dehumanization of the prisoners creates the conditions for such brutality.

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''I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the

recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!'' (Wiesel, pg 112)

Eliezer's father succumbs to dysentery, exhaustion, and a brutal beating from the prisoners and the guards. Despite Eliezer's efforts to care for him he dies in the night, Eliezer is emotionally and physically drained, he feels a sense of relief rather than grief as he is no longer worried by the responsibility of protecting his father.

The death of his father is a pivotal moment in the memoir, marking the final loss of eliezer's family and the last connection to his previous life. It underscores the devasting impact of the Holocaust on familial bonds and the human spirit. The death of his father leaves Eliezer alone and without purpose other than survive, it represents the culmination of his final transformation from a devout family orientation boy to someone focused solely on enduring the horrors of the Holocaust. This moment also signifies the near complete erosion of his human and emotional capacity.

It's connected to the theme of family loyalty or obligations, Eliezer struggle to care for his father demonstrates his devotion but his eventual sense of relief reflects the overpowering burden of survival in the face of an imaginable suffering. Individual survival vs the collective the good, As Eliezer's instinct to survive ultimately supersedes his grief.

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''From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.'' (Wiesel, pg 115)

The camp is liberated by the Allied forces after the SS flees leave the prisoners behind. Eliezer is freed but he is physically an emotionally shattered as he looks at himself in the mirror for the first time. He sees a hollow, unrecognizable figure staring back, a reflection of the profound loss of his human and identity.

This moment is deeply symbolic representing the physical and spiritual toll of the Holocaust. The ''corpse'' in the mirror signifies not only Eliezer's physical emanciation but also the death of his innocence faith, and former self. Liberation also means nothing to him because he has already lost everything inside the camps. Eliezer's reflection reveals the permanent scars of the Holocaust on his physique, although he has survived he has lost his family, his faith and the sense of who he once was. This moment solidifies his transformation into a Survivor who must now live with the weight of his trauma.