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Change Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel once said, "I pray to the God within me that he will give me the strength to ask him the right questions.” Elie Wiesel was once strongly devoted to God, but throughout his journey in the Holocaust, his faith was challenged frequently. There are many times in the novel Night, where his change in faith commenced. Elie Wiesel went through traumatic events upon entering the concentration camp. He lost his family and saw monstrosities that caused a change in his identity. Ellie had to absorb every traumatic event in order to survive. His belief that God wouldn’t create such cruelty, changes because of his experiences during the holocaust; thus affecting his identity by confusing him and causing him to give up hope.

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Ellie believes his faith is strong, he keeps going despite separating from his family and becoming ill and tired over time. However, when he sees a moment before him that is unexplainable, a young Jewish boy hung for all to gaze at, he is startled. There was no ability to justify his God’s actions. His confusion manifests into pure anger, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel 43). Elie Wiesel keeps this memory as a constant reminder that his god does not exist. And all the devotion, prayers, and hard work to become perfect before God, were, “turned to dust.’’ Ellie’s faith was destroyed, and he found that truthfully there is no real power in this life, and there was only hope to drown the issues around him.

Subsequently, after hearing about Rabbi Elihaous’s son, no longer believing in God he falls deeper into the denial of God holding him. He also punished his self-faith because he doesn't want to betray his father because of inability of self-control. He conveys, ‘A prayer rose in my heart to the god in whom I no longer believed in. My God, Lord of the Universe, gives me strength” (Wiesel 97). His prayer implies that he is assured God does not exist. Yet, despite that, he prays; Ellie does not believe in god, he believes

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