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Unconditional Love in Literature

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A generation of “unconditional love” would still produce “Hitlers” because personalities are based on personal experiences, and societies will always hold evil, and prejudices. Take, for example, Elie Weasel. Elie Weasel was raised in a strong Jewish home where his parents cared for him and loved him. Then Elie was forced to go to a concentration camp where he barely made it out alive. Due to these horrific events, Elie Weasel wrote the inspiring novel of Night, where he describes the shocking events he had to endure while the rest of the world went on with their lives. In Elie’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, Elie commented, “I (Elie) belong to a traumatized generation” (Document E). Before the Holocaust, Elie was raised in a loving a caring home, it was only prior to the Holocaust that he was “traumatized”. This event molded Elie into the compassionate person he is today, it is because of this inhumanities that he suffered that Elie Weasel is so humane. Additionally, when Elie Weasel was in the Holocaust, he came to appreciate every little thing that God gave him every day. In today’s day and age, everyone is concerned about what the next greatest phone is, which celebrity committed some wrong this time, what they should wear, or what they should look like. In contrast, Elie was only concerned about stale bread, soup, and survival. Even in absolute turmoil, Elie held on to his faith even when there seemed to be no God left to have faith in. “Have we ever considered the consequence of a less visible, less striking abomination, yet the worst of all, for those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly faces absolute evil?” (Document D). Elie, even faced with absolute evil, held onto his faith. This would be a difficult task to accomplish, given the fact that the Holocaust was a mass murdering of a certain race, Elie’s race. Also, consider Elie raised in a compassionate home where he was loved and nurtured. If he had had the opportunity to stay in that home, Elie would not have endured the events of the Holocaust, and it would have made him a completely different man. He would not have had the same ideas and morals that came about from surviving the Holocaust.

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