Prompts:
1.) Pick a phrase from what you are reading that made you think. Interpret what the author meant.
2.) Analyze what motivates the authors behavior.
The book that I'm reading is called "Night" by Elie Wiesel. A phrase that I made me think in the book was, "I had to become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames...my soul had been invaded-and devoured-by the black flame." This quote made me think a good amount. It made me think how we should not take everything for granted. The author, as a child, was very pious. Later, when we has put into a concentration camp, where he experienced many traumatizing moments, he became to take his attention away from God. This was mostly due to the fact that he saw that things were not getting any better. In fact, they were getting worse. This all made me think that we should not take our freedom for granted. Or anything for that matter because it can be taken away from us at any time.
There have been many things that have motivated the author during this period in his life. One of those things, although it had a very negative impact, was leaving God behind. During his time in the concentration camp he experienced horrible things such as: his father getting slapped and beaten, getting whipped, seeing a hanging of a child, and much more. In time he began to seperate from God because he didn't think that he was there for them, that he abandoned them and left them for dead Every event that happened seperated him from God more and more.
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