Religion, it may not be for everyone. Some may not care or believe in it, however to many it is. It's often the most important thing to some and what keeps them going to live a happy life. They say it's a part of them and that they will never stop believing and lose their faith. Unfortunately in some certain situations that may change. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses his memoir to share his experience about a dark period of his time. He was just an ordinary twelve/thirteen-year-old boy that stayed true to his religion and studies. His faith in god was always strong and had never wavered. However, all that started to change later in the book when he was sent to a concentration camp, Auschwitz. He spent countless days in misery. His faith in god started to weaken due to no result of anything getting better and lack of hope. One's belief can make a huge impact in one's life but once it falters, it leads to a dark path of loneliness, despair, and betrayal.
In the beginning of the book, Night Wiesel described himself as a religious person
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Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.” (Wiesel, 34). At this moment in just a short period, he had already begun to change. Just witnessing what this camp has done and doing too many of these poor innocent people and no one doing anything to help them triggers his emotions. Which continues to lead him toward this battle of losing faith and wondering why isn't God doing anything or whether he was real or not since this was going on. He (god) was the one who is responsible for everything this world is doing. The longer he spent at the camp the more his faith becomes non-existence. There was always something to blame god about. The almighty being has just left them to suffer and go through all this pain. All there was is