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Elie Wiesel's Religion In Night

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Elie, the protagonist in Night is very religious. His relationship with God is very loyal. He spends most of his time in Synagogue weeping over the destruction of the Temple. All of his attention is focused on religion. Wiesel is a devoted Jew, his whole life is focused on his religion and nothing else. All that would come to a halt. Wiesel is taken to Auschwitz camp where he starts to question God’s decisions. He hits a roller coaster of emotions during his time in Auschwitz which causes him to question his religion.
Wiesel spent all his time studying religion and not doing anything else. He was really deep into his culture. Wiesel was at an all time high when he was getting into his teens with his religion. The young Jew was on his way to becoming a son of God. This young man spent more time studying his religion than 25 of us today. “One day I asked my father to find me a …show more content…

Being young as he was and go through this stuff at a young age and was forced to not want to pray to God was a trip that he will never forget. Watching these tragedies to human nature would destroy anyone’s heart or soul. Anybody would have did what the prisoners did and especially Elie. No longer thinks of God as the master of the universe to allow such horrific things. War is a battle between two opponents fighting over something. In this case it was no battle but an extinction of a country. Just about at the end of his journey Elie loses his father. This incident puts the cherry on the cake and now has no will to survive or anything to care about. He no longer is out going and bright kid. After being rescued from the camps, later Mr. Wiesel would continue to live and put the experience of being in hell behind him and move forwarding this world. Some years later he wrote a book and spoke about his time in hell. Today 40 years later he is still traumatized by this. Mr. Wiesel is a survivor and in my eyes a

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