ipl-logo

Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

691 Words3 Pages

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.” We must take control of our own character and better ourselves through the challenges that life brings us. In Elie Wiesel's memoir “Night” his life change is shown through his traumatic experiences as a Jewish man living in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Before his arrival to the camp, Elie had dreams and goals of becoming a religious scholar. After, he lost his spirit and his only reason for living was to survive. Elie’s life changed enormously in his …show more content…

In the beginning, it seems as if Elie would never betray God or leave him. His heart and mind are centered towards God, but this may be just because life was going right for him. Wiesel shows his old faith to god on page 9 when he says, “Together we would read, over and over again, the same page of the Zohar. Not to learn it by heart, but to discover within the very essence of divinity.” With both of the samples from the text, Elie displays his strong everlasting faith in God. Also, it is clear to see that Elie was curious about God and wanted to learn …show more content…

Not only did his mother die during this time, but his faith in God did as well. Elie began to blame God for putting him in the camps, and for taking his mother and sister away from him. Wiesel displays his rebellion against God on page 69 when he says, “I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbid me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” Along with Elie having a new rebellion against God, he believes that God has betrayed him, and that if God truly did love Elie, that he would step in and help him get out of Auschwitz. Wiesel uses God as a scapegoat on page 67 when he says: Blessed be God’s name …’ Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm. Blessed be God’s name? Why, why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?
In this piece of evidence Wiesel is showing the reader how he believed that God was the reason for all of the issues that he was facing while in Auschwitz. In a universal context, this piece of the text shows how people will always try to find something or someone to blame whenever life goes in the opposite direction of the way that they want. Overall, Ellie’s whole faith towards God has become a hateful

Show More
Related
931 Words | 4 Pages

Chapter 5 During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a Spiritual and a boy with faith, to a cold hearted, spiritually dead emotional man. And throughout chapter we can see how he questions God, and also to do things such as a protest, or a sign to rebel against God. ”Why, but why should I bless him?Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his Mass grave? Because in His great might, he had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?”.

Read More
1697 Words | 7 Pages

Elie Wiesel saw no sense at being and keeping faithfulness to God. A book of life and death does not rests in the hands of God, but in the hands of the executioner. Author expressed himself from leaving his ancestral faith, showed hatred referring to the Creator, whom he loved and worshiped before finding himself in the camp. He (God) became a stranger; sometimes considered him an enemy. Meanwhile, religious life in Auschwitz was very intense, despite the enormity of humiliation, slave labor and fear for survival during selection to the gas chambers.

Read More
694 Words | 3 Pages

At the concentration camp, at night some of the other prisoners would talk of God and how He works in mysterious ways. They believed that they were being tested of their faith. Elie had a much different view of God after all he has been through because he "...was not denying His existence, but I doubted his absolute justice"(45). Elie still thought that God existed, but now he did not think God had power over everything. He believed if God had power over everything, then he would have prevented all the evil things that the Nazis did to the Jews and his family.

Read More
487 Words | 2 Pages

Wiesel changes vastly throughout the book, whether it is his faith in God, his faith in living, or even the way his mind works. In the beginning of his memoir, Wiesel appeared to be faithful to God and the Jewish religion, but during his time in concentration camps, his faith in God wavered tremendously. Before his life was corrupted, he would praise God even when he was being transferred to Auschwitz, but after living in concentration camps, he began to feel rebellious against his own religion. In the book, Elie

Read More
1146 Words | 5 Pages

Elie, once so faithful, is one of the first to lose faith in God due to the horrific sights he sees. After witnessing the bodies of Jewish children being burned, Wiesel writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). He quite understandably has begun to doubt that his God is with him following the sight of the supposedly chosen people’s bodies being unceremoniously burned. Elie, though, was perhaps not a member of the masses with this belief; in fact, some men were able to hold on to their beliefs despite these horrendous sights. Also near the middle of the book, Wiesel reflects on the faith of other Jews in the face of these events, saying that “some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come.

Read More
448 Words | 2 Pages

He feels almost anger that the others still put faith in God. He feels that God is lesser than man, that Man is stronger because they still worship God after all they have been through. He felt that he “was the accuser, God the accused.” This is the final stretch, and Elie no longer believes in God or religion.

Read More
588 Words | 3 Pages

He bitterly thinks that God is showing cowardice by not aiding His people in their troubled times. Although religion is one of the most important components in Elie’s life, this is quickly stripped away when the traumatic events around Elie occur. By the way he angrily thinks about God’s absence during the difficult times, it can be inferred that his faith in God is decreasing with each passing moment. Wiesel shows that the deaths around him causes trauma in which his emotions and his mind are implicated. The trauma that he experiences pushes him to the extent of questioning the one constant component in his life, which is God.

Read More
1049 Words | 5 Pages

Change. Change is an ordinary process in life that allows humans to evolve as individuals, societies, and as a species. Yet, not all changes are the same. Not all changes are equal. The effect of getting a new job is different than the effect of losing a job.

Read More
703 Words | 3 Pages

On page 66, Elie writes, “What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies.”

Read More
760 Words | 4 Pages

Imagine believing so strongly in something and then being let down, or thinking that you were wrong to believe. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie felt as though he had lost his religion and beliefs. “I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep of the destruction of the Temple,” (Wiesel, 14). This quote shows how strongly he believed before experiencing the hardships of the Holocaust

Read More
737 Words | 3 Pages

In the beginning, Elie was more of a strong religious being with a wealthy home to surround him. He followed normal prayers and practise of the normal Orthodox Jewish religion, but gave out that soft emotional element on his spiritual actions, ‘“Why do

Read More
904 Words | 4 Pages

It is estimated that 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel somehow managed to beat those odds. Sadly there was no one there to save Elie, the protagonist of Night, from the misery and distress that he would experience as he went through the Holocaust. He survived harsh beatings, sickness, hunger, thirst, dysentery, and all the other forms of death that plagued his environment. All this would not come without a toll on who Elie was as a character, causing him to undergo a dynamic change.

Read More
1230 Words | 5 Pages

Faith is such an important part of life. It is the drive, the motive to live, to breathe, to feel. When faith is lost, so is the reason to exist; life is lost in oblivion. Faith is a truly powerful weapon and as the story of Eliezer 's life during the Holocaust is played out through this book, a first-hand perspective is gained of what someone can do to cause questioning of faith and how people respond, whether by strengthening faith or losing it entirely. Eliezer is hit with every hard trial imaginable within a year of his life and eventually withers and hardens into this completely new person than the boy he was when he first stepped into that cattle car expelling him from Sighet, his home, and life.

Read More
1098 Words | 5 Pages

Words are the garb of people’s thoughts. Words can be very powerful and influential both in the society and among people, because whether or not someone choose the right words could change someone's life forever. Brilliant examples of power of words took shape in world’s history. A holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, who survived the concentration camp, wrote a book ‘Night’, as well as he introduced his acceptance speech to different people all around the world. He sought to restore the amicable and tolerate society where there is no place for such a word as ‘hate’.

Read More
611 Words | 3 Pages

Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?”(Wiesel 68) Wiesel clearly is losing faith in God because he has seen babies burned alive, families killed together. Wiesel blames God for what has happened. Additionally, Elie Wiesel is not thankful for God anymore because he is not in Auschwitz helping him and the rest of the Jews. Wiesel feels anger towards God.

Read More

More about Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Related Topics

Open Document