Elie Wiesel’s “Night”- Journal Entry Essay

share is on Wiesels SideI am too elder, my son, he answered. Too old to start a new emotional state. Too old to start from scratch in few distant land (9)This snap where Elies father rejects his sons request to liquidate everything and scarper from the place where the extermination of Jews may occur, reminds me of a vivid conversation I once engaged in, with my two former(prenominal) North Korean grandparents.The Korean War (1950-53) and the Holocaust (1938-45) are in most aspects different, however, there is a heartbreaking similarity existing between the two incidents. That is, the pain of the victims gained from the withdrawal of the family.While reading this novel Night, for several times we questioned the primer coat why the Jews , despite hearing the Nazi plans of annihilating the entire population discharge throughout nations, didnt take chance to flee from the town. As we discussed in class, primarily, the Jews were skeptical that such inhumane incident would take p lace in the world, until they underwent the incredible agonies both physically and mentally. Secondly, the Jews simply were unable to find some place to leave for. Sure enough, they were unwilling to become homeless pull down under adverse conditions of life under the hands of the SS officers. (which they didnt require to be the holocaust)The first reason pointed above also applies to the families during the Korean War. resultant to the outbreak of war, young, strong men were forced to join the army in North Korea.This meant to my North Korean grandfather in his 30s, fighting against the southeastward Koreans was a patriotic obligation. However, he refused to fight, or support the government, and along the meeting of crowd he realized that the only way of escaping from the ordeal was to cease his home and flee to the in the south. Of course, he strongly urged his parents to come along with him. Nevertheless, they responded him by emphasizing him of their old age and their st rong will to ensure the pencil eraser of the house until the war ends. In spite of my grandfathers unless persuasion, they remained stubborn, and he could do nothing but to leave his parents behind and expire to a distant land.In the novel, I was indeed glad when the Wiesel family encounters theirformer maid Maria in Uncle Mendels house, Elie refuses her offer of safe hold dear in her village. Sure enough, if Elie and his brother went off with her, they might feel avoided the marvellous labor camps where their livelihoods were jeopardized. However, I feel that wouldnt be worse than the depravity of deserting ones own blood and flesh. Although we must take in con officeration of Wiesel witnessing his fathers death, he is aware that keeping concealment is the optimal choice that wouldnt exacerbate the situation, whereas my grandparents made the decision by themselves, to abandon their parents and friends with their own two feet. (though they werent aware that North and South w ould be completely divided)My grandparents have always regretted the decision theyve made. They felt full-bodied remorse in leaving their parents for their own good. My grandfather, for years, took alcohol as a catharsis to his mental pains, and my grandmother would frequently break into tears by the tragic separation and the gnawing guilt at her premature decision.For the several decades of their life, they have been hoping to see their loved ones again through the many channels of intercourse including telephone, letters, the media or family visits that existed in the recent years. Unfortunately, they never reached in contact with them. heading in mind the threatens of the authority of its propaganda, the government in Pyongyang is preventing personalised exchanges as much as it can, for they are unwilling to permit individuals from the estranged parts of the country to meet in person. For fifty years, they lived a life without hearing from their parents and relatives. My gra ndfather unfortunately passed away two years ago due to cancer, and his cemetery is located in the closest area to the redact between North and South Korea.Luck is on Wiesels side for he can stay with his father in the labor camps, which unimpeachably gives him a meaning to his life and thus he gains the hope, support and the reason to survive. If I were put in his shoes at the start of the novel, and had to grass a choice between labor camps and abandoning parents, I would have chosen the former categorically.