lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2008
Job and his similarities with Eliezer
To find the similarities between Job and Eliezer, you don't even need to be a skillful reader, you just need to read the book (Night). It is very clear, because the main character, Eliezer, says it. On page 42, Eliezer says " How I sympathized with Job! I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute justice." Job was a man with a lot of fate in God, he was perfect in that sense. Eliezer, a child with a lot of faith in God, who studied the Bilbe with Moshe the Beadle. The life of Job started to become very bad, and there is no explanation for what happens to him, he didn't do any evil, he neve broke a commandment. As well, the life of Eliezer starts to become miserable. It starts when they start to take away the Jews of Sighet. He loses half of his family. They start to beat all hte Jews, the food is scarce, there is a lot of trouble in Eliezer's life. But what did he do wrong, or what did he do to deserve this treatment? He never broke a commandment, he never said anything bad to God. This was only the begginig, the life of both these characters get worse and worse. All the sons and brothers of Job are killed, as well as his cattle and all his property. The only remaining familiar that Eliezer has, his father, as well is killed in a crematory. There is also a part that relates one with the other. After Job's property is all killed or burnt, he curses God. Well so does Eliezer. In page 64, "He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death? How could I say to Him: "Blessed art Thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe, who chose us from among the races to be tortured day and night, to see our fathers, our mother, our brothers end in this crematory? Praised be Thy Holy Name, Thou Who has chosen us to be butchered on Thine altar?" He doesn't deny God's existence, but he doubts his justice, just like Job, who never says God doesn't exist, but starts to lose faith in him. There is one thing that separates Job and Eliezer. After Job speaks with his friends, and talks with God, well he gets twice the property he had before, he gets new sons, and many more things. Eliezer never gets anything. He just gets worse. After the Holocaust ends, and he doesn't have a family, a hoame, all he gets is an illness. He needs to go to the hospital. Jobs life gets better, but Eliezer gets worse. This leaves room for interpretation, but I think it is because God wasn't the one who punished Job, it was Satan, but God never made anything to end the Holocaust, or at least not for four years.
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You quote a key part of the text!
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2 - Titles
So if I change my title will I get 3
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