Night Chapter 5 Quotes

When noah's generation displeased you, you brought down the flood… but these men here, whom you have betrayed, whom you have allowed to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, burned, what do they do? 10,000 jewish prisoners gather to attend the solemn service, surrounded by electrified barbed wire. I felt like kissing him.

I was the accuser, god the accused… i stood amid the praying congregation, observing it like a stranger. As in the telephone call to billy on the night of his daughter’s wedding, when vonnegut sits silently on the other end of the line. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth. chapter 6, pg.

Eliezer wonders, angrily, where god is and refuses to bless god’s name because of all of the death and suffering he has allowed.

For eliezer, paradise would be an existence without such awful regimentation: For eliezer, paradise would be an existence without such awful regimentation: Whenever i dreamed of a better world, i could only imagine a universe with no bells. (chapter 5) every aspect of the prisoners' lives was controlled, and the signal for each activity was the ringing of bells. They had not written me down.” page 72 “‘don’t talk like that, father.’ i was on the verge of breaking into sobs.