Lies

In this post Monica, I really want to focus on lies. Lies, as clearly shown in the second section of Night, is a useful tool. It can make people believe what you want to believe. It makes people do what you want. But really, if I wanted to control a person, like the leaders of the concenration camps, I would lie. In Night, lies are used to tell the Jewish people that everything is going to be ok, when it clearly isn't going to be. When the cattle cars stop, the Jews bribed a citizen of a city to tell them what was going on. They are told that they have arrived at a labor camp where they will be treated well and kept together as families. That, is just one big lie. Just read this quote that Elie says about his first night in the camp. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."
What these people did was just absolutely horrible. What kind of people do this? They made them burn eachothers bodies also. The part that they were going to be kept together as a family was also a lie, because right when they got to the camp the woman in Elie's family were taken away and Elie said, "At that moment I did not know that that was the last time I would see my mother and my sister's again." It is just horrible. It's hard for me to put my mind around. Is it for you Monica? This kind of stuff, it just breaks my heart reading it. I feel completely awful for every single person that had ever been in those camps. It makes me wonder what is wrong with this world.