Ethan Underhill
Ms. Williamson
C&C English II Honors
17 March 2023
Impacts of Auschwitz: Loss of faith In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel takes a well-known event: The Holocaust, and sheds light on a little-known effect of dehumanization; Incidentally, Wiesel´s way of highlighting the Holocaust´s impact on faith establishes a much more personal connection with his audience. Even from a young age, Elie Wiesel devoted his life to his faith. Faith became as simple as breathing, just something that happened without thinking: ¨Why do you pray?¨ he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Stange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?¨ (4). Elie Wiesel thought of his faith as an integral part of his personal being. He held no questions of why. Wiesel just prayed and prayed. Without his
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Wiesel details his relationship with his faith early in his life to give context for the rest of the novel. Wiesel was once a man of great faith, a man of God. Auschwitz killed more than his spirit, Auschwitz killed Wiesel´s hope.
Auschwitz is well known as one of the darkest places in all of human history, but little is known from a first-hand account of real people who lived through the horrors of the Nazi Regime. Elie Wiesel experiences a feeling of abandonment and disdain. Wiesel shows his experience at Auschwitz through the lens of faith. Wisel scoffs at the idea of the Jewish people being ¨chosen by God¨ he remarks that they´d been chosen to be massacred: "Yes, man is very strong, greater than God. When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. When Noah's generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood… But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured,