Sunday, January 24, 2010
Job and Wiesel
To begin with, it is true that both Job and Wiesel believed in God strongly. Even after they underwent a lot of suffering, they still kept praying for God. However, eventually, both of them started to wonder why those things were happenning to them, which is one of the similarities. In other words, they once lost their faith in God, yet I take it for granted that they think in that way since they are humans. On the other hand, the most significant difference is that while Job got everything back and even more at the end of his story, Wiesel seems to be still suffering for what happened to him since he never got what he lost during the Holocaust such as his father back.
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It seemed to me that Wiesel ended up loosing all of his hope within the camps and his suffering. Job and Wiesel had different things the innically held on to. Job was only relying on God. Wiesel started out with God and his father, but soon lost all hope in God and his focus and his purpose in life was to stay alive for his dad. Once he lost his father he was just living. I completely agree with the statement at how Wiesel still seemed to be suffering even after he was rescued.
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