"Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"Where is God now?"
And I heard a voice within me answer him:
"Where is he? Here He is-- He is hanging here on this gallows. . . .""
This is another quote of Elie Weisel questioning his faith. This is a thought that takes place after Elie Weisel and the other Jews are forced to witnessthe hangings of three men. Two were adults, and it was actually normal now to see adults being hanged, but there was a little kid no more that thirteen who was also hung. In the book he says that when they passed by him he was so light that he was still alive, grasping for air. Out of that whole page I chose the segment above, because of the incredible poetic power that it has, it moved me when I read it, and I felt that it would be a key element to the rest of the book.
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