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Volume 18:7 July 2018
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Portrayal of His Childhood and Adolescence in Select Writings of
Elie Wiesel

S. Vinoth Kumar, Part-time Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. S. Ganesan


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Abstract

Elie Wiesel was a man with a versatile personality. He was a Romanian-born Jewish American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and above all, a Holocaust survivor. Wiesel has always championed the cause of minorities and victims of oppression; apart from his Jewish concerns, he focused on the Bosnian victims, the apartheid victims in South Africa, the Sri Lankan Tamil victims and so on. He has authored 57 books. Most of his books deal with his Jewishness and on his experiences in the concentration camps. No wonder that Wiesel’s writings are often autobiographical, his having been a helpless victim and witness to the Holocaust. He has dealt with various phases of his life, starting from childhood. This article analyses Wiesel’s works— Night and All Rivers Run to Sea: writings on his childhood and adolescence with the help of relevant theories. In his Night, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the parent–child relationship, as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver (Night, Wikipedia). In All Rivers Run to Sea, taking the title of his autobiography from Ecclesiastes, Elie Wiesel presents the important people and events of his life, beginning with his childhood in Sighet, Romania, and culminating in his 1969 marriage in Jerusalem (All Rivers Run to Sea, Wikipedia).

Importance of Childhood

Childhood is necessarily the first and the happiest stage in the life of every human being. Out of the twenty-four hours, most of the child’s time will be spent sleeping. The child gives meaning to the existence of its parents, but the child need not and cannot find a meaning to its own life at this stage. It is also a stage in which the child gets recognized for everything it does. Every child comes to this world as an angel with no thoughts about the future struggle it is going to encounter in the world. All the basic necessities of the child are taken care of by the parents and this interaction leads to trust or mistrust. The child cries immediately after birth because the outer world is strange, and the people are strangers.

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S. Vinoth Kumar, Part-time Ph.D. Research Scholar
P.G. & Research Dept. of English
H. H. The Rajah’s College (Autonomous)
Pudukkottai

Dr. S. Ganesan
Associate Professor of English
H. H. The Rajah’s College (Autonomous)
Pudukkottai

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