Emphasis Preaching Journal
In Elie Wiesel's, The Town...
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In Elie Wiesel's, The Town Beyond the Wall, there is a rebellious character who
has profoundly experienced the lonely place of human suffering and who chooses not to
bear this in silence. He loudly laments, crying angrily to God that his fate is unjust,
indeed, that God is unjust. It would seem that he had fallen into the snare of temptation,
but he confesses, "I want to blaspheme, and I can't quite manage it. I go up against [God],
I shake my fist, I froth with rage, but it's still a way of telling him that he's there ... that
denial itself is an offering to his grandeur.
