Elie's faith is tested many times in night. It is a struggle throughout the entire book and eventually it is lost and once it is lost you can never get it back. The first-time Elie's faith is tested is when he watches the baby's get burned alive in the dark of night when they first enter Birkenau. It is tested that same night as well when he thinks he is going to be burned alive but he still blesses god right before he thinks he's going to die. The next time his faith is when Elie’s faith was tested was on new year’s. He hated god at this point. When everyone was praying around him he was not praying but instead thinking. The last time his faith was tested and the time he lost his faith in god was when the piple also known as the sad eyed angle was …show more content…
When Elie says ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ and from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where-hanging here from these gallows…” (Wiesel 65) this is when we realize that Elie has lost his faith in god. Not becoming atheist but dropping the notion that god is wonderful and amazing and should be worshiped day in and day out and should be sacrificed for and prayed to and begged forgiveness of. One that is already believing cannot simply stop believing in something like that. But one can change is opinion on and view on Elie’s faith was tested many times in Night. There was many a time where he questioned god and his belief in him. After going through so much he eventually lost his faith. Elie has gone through so much that his faith or even his will to live and survive after his father died are all gone. The Nazis may not have killed Elie but they killed all of his family and they killed his former self and changed him so much in such a small amount of