Elie Wiesel Resilience In Night

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In Night, Elie Wiesel uses details to portray his resilience through the hardships of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, Wiesel has a religious dilemma in which he begins to have doubts on whether God is there in the deathly stressful struggles of the Holocaust. During his first night in Auschwitz, Wiesel sees the “flames that consumed my faith”(34). Wiesel has experienced and witnessed numerous horrors already on the first day, like the immeasurable amount of people that have been thrown into the crematorium. Towards the end of their time at Buchenwald, Wiesel’s father dies one night and is carried away. He gets no tomb and “No candle lit in his memory”(112). If Wiesel’s father died at home a candle would be lit in memory of him, because