Elie Wiesels's life timeline by CRISTOFER PAXTOR PAXTOR

1: Elie Meets Moishe the Beadle

cpaxtorp0001_ — 2023-11-17 18:59:32 UTC

"why do you pray?' he asked after a moment.

why did i pray? strange question why did i live? why did i breathe?...

From that day on i saw him often.He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer...

the real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself(Wiesel 4-5)

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This is the first deep conversation between Elie and Moishe the Beadle, the man who would have a brief but powerful relationship with Elie as his spiritual mentor. This moment is significant in the memoir because it establishes how deeply religious Elie is at the beginning of the story, before the Nazis arrive. At this time in his life, prayer is as important to him as breathing. In other words, it is essential.

Another reason this moment is significant is becuase Moishe teaches Elie a powerful lesson about the importance of self-reliance. He imparts that the key to survival, to life itself is not found in any book or temple, but inside the self. Through these experiences, Moishe represents a significant influence on Elie's personal and religious development.

2. crematorium

cpaxtorp0001_ — 2023-12-04 19:34:36 UTC

"I pinched myself' was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real. A nightmare perhaps. . . soon i would wake up" (32)

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This is when Elie arrives at the crematorium and watches people get thrown into flames and other inhuman things happening. this is an important part in Elies life timeline because its the first time he starts to see all these inhuman things happening and he is beginning to question if everything around him is real or just a bad dream

another reason why this is important is because this is when Elie also begins to question god, with everything going and everyone choosing to stay silent he feels anger towards god, he feels as if there's nothing to thank god for he shouldn't be thanking him for what was going on, Elie is beginning to lose faith in god.

The Camp

cpaxtorp0001_ — 2023-12-06 19:36:58 UTC

"thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm. Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would i bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night? because in his great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces?" (67)

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this is what Elie witnessed as he made his way to the camp, which had a huge affect on his belief of god, this is important because it shows how much hes changed at first all he cared was about his faith in god, but since the Nazi arrived he began to lose faith and eventually revolted

another reason why its important is because its when Elie completely lost faith, he no longer cared about anything, he felt as he himself was stronger than god, with all the prayers the Jews were repeating he was a complete stranger to them.

Elie's fathers death

cpaxtorp0001_ — 2023-12-13 19:42:13 UTC

"No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. he had called out to me and i had not answered. 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" (112)

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the death of his father really took a toll on him, he had no more hope in him, his mind wasn't able to feel anything towards the passing of his father, with everything that had happened him all those tears he shed he no longer had tears to shed for his father

another reason why this is important is because now with the passing of his father, Elie is alone, all he cared about now was his soup and bread and the times where he had dreams they were only about food.