Throughout the book there are many instances of hope. A main one was when they hoped for was that the liberation would happen before they moved camps again. The first case of this is people in Sighet announcing and reassuring "The Red Army is Advancing with giant strides... Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to" (Wiesel 8). Even from the very beginning the Jews were not losing hope. Eventually some people do start to lose their hope. Elie learns this when another sick inmate says to him “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (Wiesel 80). This inmate might have started off as a very believing Jewish person, but after all he has gone through in the camps he has lost all faith and decided the only truthful person in this world, at this time, is Hitler himself.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Hope
Throughout the book there are many instances of hope. A main one was when they hoped for was that the liberation would happen before they moved camps again. The first case of this is people in Sighet announcing and reassuring "The Red Army is Advancing with giant strides... Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to" (Wiesel 8). Even from the very beginning the Jews were not losing hope. Eventually some people do start to lose their hope. Elie learns this when another sick inmate says to him “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (Wiesel 80). This inmate might have started off as a very believing Jewish person, but after all he has gone through in the camps he has lost all faith and decided the only truthful person in this world, at this time, is Hitler himself.
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