Elie Wiesel; Through The Darkness

Wiesel’s life started out not very different from any other child, though his interests weren’t of the typical little boy. Instead, he engrossed himself in books instead of sports and loved a good game of chess, even if it meant playing against himself. Though he knew the Jewish people were a persecuted race, he always felt it was a far off conflict that wouldn’t effect him. It saddened him enough, however, that himself and two other friends, as young students, tried to evoke the Messiah to help their people. It was a tedious process ending in failure after failure and his two friends were quoted as losing their minds from frustration shortly after Wiesel left. (A Portrait of Elie Wiesel).

Wiesel, however, never lost his faith in his

Though this revelation brought him much joy, he was still unable to face the world. He threw himself into his studies, became very religious, and seriously considered attending music school to become a conductor. However, he never followed this dream and took a job" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||job|AA1VDw">job at a newspaper as a correspondent in Israel, then four months later, he became a correspondent in France as a Israeli journalist. Several years later, in 1954, Wiesel traveled to New York City. Shortly thereafter, his luck took a drastic downturn when he was hit by a taxi that had run a red light. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but rejected because he was listed as a refugee and therefore assumed to be poor. When he finally was accepted into a different hospital, he spent 10 days in a coma with numerous fractures. He would go on to make another miraculous recovery, though only after a very long period of time. (A Portrait of Elie Wiesel)

Today, Wiesel is married to a woman who translated most of his books. He is a college teacher who is able to chose what classes he will instruct and rarely repeats a course. He teaches everything from Plato to the bible and still enjoys writing his own works as well as teaching those of others. Though he will remain mostly famous for Night, Wiesel rarely writes about the Holocaust because he is afraid that too much literature on the subject will cause it to become routine to people. He doesn’t write about it to mourn for the dead, he says, and the Holocaust shouldn’t be remembered for them because it’s too late for their lives to be save. Instead, the Holocaust should be remembered for future generations—so that it can’t happen again. When he speaks about his crusade for human rights, he says simply that he believes in speaking out for others because nobody ever spoke up for him and his

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