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Elie Wiesel Chapter 6 Analysis

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Elie had struggled with his relationship with God frequently throughout the book. In the beginning he practiced Kabbalah but in chapter 5 he doesn’t even want to acknowledge God’s presence. He had a complex relationship with God and he wavered in his beliefs. His relationship with God is important because we see how hardships can change someone's belief and how easy it was for him to put the blame on God. During chapter 5 it was the end of the Jewish year and the prisoners got together and prayed. Elie joined in and sat, but instead of praying he contemplated how God was there for them. On the other hand, in chapter 6 he prays that they will be safe and make it to Gleiwitz. He knew that God was with them and would protect him, but he couldn’t fathom how millions of Jews were being killed under God’s …show more content…

God and religion are very important in the book. In the beginning, we saw Mioshe who had a huge impact on Elie. Then in the camp we saw many prisoners pray and seek after God. There was even a Rabbi who prayed and worshiped God. Their religion played a major role because they were persecuted and murdered for believing in the Jewish faith. The men, women, and children in Auschwitz tried to find some peace by believing that God would have their backs, even if it meant enduring this hardship. Personally, I know what it is like to have a wavering faith in my relationship with God. It can be really hard to thank him and rejoice in him when I am going through a tumultuous time. It's easy to go to God and worship him when life is easy, the real test of faith is going to him when you're faced with tragedy. During Covid, I found myself becoming depressed and questioning why God was putting me through the ringer. Why did he make the entire world shut down, and keep us isolated from one another? I found myself becoming angry at him and wondering if God was even there, if he knew what was going

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In the book, Elie is struggling with his faith in God. Throughout the book he is going back and forth between how he feels with God, and how could God ever let this happen to them. Elie writes “For God's sake, where is God?”(65). Elie was so lost over the fact that God wasn’t there to help him and to get him out of this terrible situation. At this point Elie is really questioning his faith in God.

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He didn’t think that he would make it out, or that he would live. He started to give up on religion. In the beginning of the book, it told us how Elie was studying a new type of religion, and how he was way above his age level with religion. But, he stopped believing that there was a god, and he stopped praying and celebrating the Jewish holidays. He thought that if there was a god, he would have helped them by then.

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(Wiesel 4) Elie has asked his father to learn more about his religion, as he desired to increase his devotion. He was motivated, and his devotion was strong, before his capture. “We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image,”(Wiesel 14) Ellie explains how he still felt Gods presence while entering the camps. Even when he first faced the reality of what was happening, he still believed that God was in control and was still a part of him.

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They were invested in their faith and it was a huge part of their life. When they were struggling or going through hard times they would turn to God. They continued to see terrible things happen and most of them would pray because of the things happening around them and to them. When these things continued to happen they started to ask themselves why God wasn't doing anything. One day Elie asked himself, “Why should I sanctify His name?

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Elie didn’t see a life without God, to him it was unimaginable. About a year later, the Germans had invaded Transylvania and were currently moving Elie and his fellow Jews into concentration camps. While leaving the haven of his home town, Elie prayed to God, on page 20, he says, “Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion have mercy on us…”. After they arrived at the camp, Ellie was ripped away from the innocence that he and God walked together in. When the Jews arrived at the concentration camp, humanity seemed to slip right out of grasp, opposed to when they first arrived at the camp.

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The torturing and suffering caused is what widdles down the belief, and this present throughout the novel. Only the strong and the ones who have most faith would survive, yet at the same time, if they didn’t originally have faith, they could’ve avoided the concentration camps

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While also making him cold, and almost unsympathetic. Elie was a smart and very religious boy. He believed God was the one thing he could count on. But soon he became a god-fearing man, who could not understand why something of such horror would happen to such an innocent family. In the beginning of the novel, the author

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After a hard day at camp Elie is lying in his bunk when the other prisoners start to sing. He questions why they are singing praise to God while they are being tortured because of him. Elie also wonders why God doesn't come and help them. He tells us " I was not denying his existence but I doubted his absolute justice."

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Elie wanted to believe in god but how would he believe in him if he hadn't shown them that he was there to let them free from their

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A few months after being placed into a concentration camp Elie had completely stopped praising and believing God. “As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against [God]” (Wiesel 69). Elie was fed up over the fact that so many Jews had been put through this torture and were still expected to remain faithfull, even when no efforts were being made to get them out. God was not answering any of their prayers, so why would he, or anyone else still devote his life to Him.

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“I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him.” (Page 69) This means that Elie is irritated of God not doing anything

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and it changed him. In the book, Night, the main theme, is religion and belief which is shown when Elie talks about the his strong religion and belief as a boy, his disconnection from religion, and the inhumane actions the Nazi 's caused. Having such a strong belief in something and then dramatically changing how you think, is a very significant event. During this time, many people questioned where God truly was. Even Elie was questioning where God was.

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In such a cruel place such as the one they were in, it is deemed to be impossible. Even though Elie’s connection to God was strong, it was still broken. So many traumatic events happened at the camp, it is almost impossible to keep track of them all. Being forced to witness all these horrible things everyday, with no sign of God made Elie question if there even is one. If there was a God he’d be trying to help the innocent Jews escape or at least something, and if he was not then should he even be regarded as one, was Elie’s view on the whole situation.

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