Throughout history, humankind has been greatly affected by religion. It has brought people together, caused wars, and helped many people find themselves. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a personal memoir about the author’s experience as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. At the mere age of fifteen he was taken from his home, placed in concentration camps, sent on death marches, and potentially had his whole life stripped from him. Throughout the memoir, Elie Wiesel uses Eliezer’s change in faith to show the importance and difficulty of maintaining faith through hardship by prioritizing Eliezer’s communication with his god over his interaction with those around him. The text emphasizes how Eliezer’s entire life revolves around his religion
Introduction: Elie Wiesel was 15 years old, when he started to see and experience terrible things. He and his family were sent to concentration camps. Before his family's separation, Elie had faith in a God he loved and admired. All that changes as time goes on. Elie starts to see death roam around and devouring people.
Eliezer Wiesel, the author of Night, wrote the book with the goal of teaching his audience to never lose faith. As a Holocaust survivor, Eliezer faced obstacles that most of us will never have to face. These hardships however, did cause him to finally lose his faith in God. Throughout the book, Eliezer questions his faith. Because of the severe trial and adversity, Eli Weisel questions his faith in God, even though he was a faithful man before the Holocaust.
In conclusion, in the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes the suffering and adversity of Jews during the Holocaust in order to present how when faith in God is lost, a person can continue to progress in life or not, but they will only be able to if they have hope and faith in themselves. The book illustrates that without God, one must still be able to live a satiated life and be able to procure self-motivation. In the lives of Jews during the Holocaust, as well as people today, no matter what religion one has faith in, when faith in that is lost due to hardships, one must be able to find hope in other places. This is not to say that following a religion is useless, but instead to relay the message that in addition to faith in something else,
There have been many hard times in the world's history, some harder than others, like the Holocaust. In the book, “ Night,” by Elie Wiesel, the Jewish people went through rough times, sometimes without a break. This book is about Wiesel's experience during the Holocaust, from living in the ghettos, to almost going to the crematorium in Auschwitz (concentration camp). The struggle to maintain faith, was one of the biggest problems the Jews experienced, like when they worried about their future, families started giving up hope, and the prisoners had lost faith in themselves. This book gives a realization to how beneficial it is to maintain faith, through all times.
“All we like sheep have gone astray;we have turned -everyone - to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6. Everyone in life falls short of faith and walked away from what is most important to us. The novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a true story about Elie who was taken away from his home during the holocaust and brought to many concentration camps. In the story elie takes us on his horrible steps to survival.
Throughout Night Elie Wiesel makes a lot of connections relating to god like in the start of the book what he was trying to figure out his religion. Then he found Moshe the beadle. Finding him would help Elie with his journey to god. Although Elies finds Moshe the beadle he comes across different ways to find god.
However, as the cruelty and brutality of men lands on him and he feels it first-hand, the thought of his aging father going through the same makes him feel like he needs to do more in caring for his father. In fact, the thoughts and actions of care depicted, in this case, are fruits of his belief in God, as well as justice and humanity. This scenario is the exact opposite of an earlier event. At the point when Eliezer develops an interest in studying religion, Torah, and other Zionistic doctrines, his father has reservations based on Eliezer’s age. The part of the story shows care from the part of the father (Wiesel and Wiesel 104).
Edmund Burke once said, “Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference”. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie struggles to comprehend why God is letting such horrible things happen during the Holocaust, which in turn lessens his faith in God. He believes that no one, even God, should turn away, or show indifference to such a horrible situation. In this memoir, it is evident that Elie’s faith in God has changed.
Throughout the book “Night”, Elie battles with his faith and at times almost gives it up. Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night. Throughout the story, the holocaust proves that Elie’s faith is a necessary element for his survival. It preserves his sanity whether or not it is based in reality.
Elie’s love for his religion is shown when he explains that, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.” (p. 4) Almost all young children or teens would not want to study more religion than what is enforced. So, Elie’s stray from this general interpretation shows that he truly cares about his beliefs and wants to spend more time
60 million dead in World War II. 11 million captured and killed. All due to one man’s prejudice and hate. Adolf Hitler started a war over prejudiced ideals and beliefs. In that war: concentration camps, and in those camps: people like Elie Wiesel.
But eliezer has been taught that god is the only way that god is always watching you, that god is what created the very existence of this world that without god there would be nothing,because of this he has to believe what they teach the him from a small age because if not god will know, god will only bring pureness to those who believe in him .However his belief in this purity of god tends to get shaken by the evilness of the holocaust,the reader must understand that eliezer is just a young little boy he is innocent he does not understand,by watching what they do in these concentration camps he has to witness cruelty and pain but how in the world could this reflect god's divinity?Even so after the questioning and all that eliezer still believes in god because he comes to realize that in some of his experiences miracles have saved him, he asks a man named moshe “why do you pray?” and the man replies “I
"Why should I bless His name? What had I to thank Him for?” (Wiesel, 23). “Taking refuge in a last bout of religiosity… I composed poems mainly to integrate myself with God”. (Kluger, 111).
The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father
Elie Wiesel’s personal Holocaust experience and reaction to the cruelty enacted against the prisoners is ultimately founded in his religious beliefs. In the beginning of the novel “Night” one may see how Eliezer’s belief in God is absolute and he does not question it. In fact, when asked by Moishe why he prays he responds with “Why do I pray? Strange question. Why did I live?