Losing faith is like clearing off a foggy windshield. The true pain and suffering of the world are revealed. During the Holocaust, the SS would often force prisoners to witness the deaths of fellow prisoners, to scare them into obeying the SS and to show the prisoners what would happen to them if they did not follow orders. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism and metaphors to show the theme that suffering will weaken religious faith.

As everyone returns from work, they notice three gallows. Elie sees “three black ravens, erected on the Appelplatz”(Wiesel, 64). A black raven is a very common bird. In many cultures and religions, a raven is a symbol of something bad to come. Each black raven represented each inmate that was