forgiveness

In Simon Wiesenthals Novel The Sunflower he uses the termonology “God is on leave.”(wiesenthal 9) This brutally discribes Simons feeling to what the world is doing to him.He says that at first “it is impossible to break a man's firm beilef,”(wiesetnthal 9) but he slowly gets worn down from all the opression. I believe that if you truly believe in your faith then you wouldnt fall. You would hold on to that faith till the end knowing that if you gave up on your faith then you have lost your last comfort. But when you condemn that faith saying that “God is on leave”(wiesenthal9) then you really didnt ever truly believe in that faith. Later on Simon says that he meets a man names Boleck. Boleck “indured the most inhuman treatment”(wiesenthal80) because of his faith. Yet “his faith was unbroken.” (Wiesenthal9) Boleck shows that God is not on leave, only their faith was broken. They were overwhelmed by the sheer inhumane treatment that the nazis did to the Holocost victims.Many people fell off their faith during the hollocost but those who truly believed in their faiths used them to get them through the terrible times.