The book Night by Elie Wiesel shows how suffering and witnessing the painful deaths of many innocent lives can be the cause of loss of faith in the benevolent god. This book is taken in a horrible, inhumane place called the Holocaust. It all started when Moshe the Beadle stopped talking about God after he had witnesses the massacre of Jews by the German Gestapo; at that time no one believed him but time would prove them wrong. When Elie witnesses the horror of the concentration camps and what they do to people especially children he feels as if his God has been murdered right before his eyes. In the camp he sees an atrocity after atrocity, death after death.
When going through difficult times maintaining your faith is hard, but you always have to keep a little in order to get through it. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses Eliezer’s change in faith to show that when going through things, you have to keep your faith in order to survive. In Night, Eliezer goes into the Holocaust having to be separated from most of his family. He is left with only his father, having to go to concentration camps. Things throughout the Holocaust just kept getting worse.
The Holocaust affects Jews in a way that seems unimaginable, and most of these effects seem to have been universal experiences; however, in the matter of faith, Jews in the concentration camp described in Elie Wiesel’s Night are affected differently and at different rates. The main character, Elie, loses his faith quickly after the sights he witnesses (as well as many others); other Jews hold on much longer and still pray in the face of total destruction. In the beginning, all of the Jews are more or less equally faithful in their God and religion.
“You don’t understand... You cannot understand. I was saved miraculously. I succeeded in coming back. Where did I get my strength?
Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. It is the ability to bounce back, no matter if it 's an object or person. As Margaret Thatcher said, “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young Elie Wiesel and his family are taken from their hometown, Sighet, and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this book, Wiesel relives and tells the horrors and nightmares of what his friends, family, and himself went through while in the camps.
January 30th, 1933 is a date that will forever haunt the minds of many people of our world today. The Holocaust, a massacre where Adolf Hitler's Nazi army deliberately killed millions of Jewish people. In this span of time until May 8th, 1945, hope was lost, humanity was broken, and the faith of the Jewish was twisted in their minds forever. Many different people approach their faith very differently from others. Whether someones faith is in someone or something, there seems to be a spark of hope when someone considers their will to live with that faith.
After the life changing experience in the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Wiesel has lost his devotion in his Creator. Having a great deal of faith in God for many years and then losing it in a matter of months is difficult. For Wiesel he questions God multiple times about his ways before he lets his religion go. Even after though he continues to let his
Concentration Camps broke the will of many Jewish prisoners’ faith. They believed that their god had forsaken them, or that he never existed to allow such atrocities to be committed against his people. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s faith deteriorates rapidly in the concentration camps. Elie’s faith changed in that as time went on and hope waned, he first accused God of his crimes against his people, holding theocratic debates within himself. By the end of the Novel, he no longer seemed to belief in God.
Wiesel’s Diminishing Jewish Faith Throughout Night In Elie Wiesel's Night, Wiesel describes his and his father's experiences in the concentration camps and how this affected his relationship with God. Wiesel explainses the psychological degradation that the situation had on him. Not only was he abused, but he was also worried that he would be the next one to go. Before the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel was a 15-year-old boy who lived with his mother, father, and sister.
Wiesel is seriously bothered by the fact that God let the Holocaust happen to the poor Jews of Europe. Although some may say that Wiesel only got out of touch with his religion because he was trying to survive, Wiesel explains that his religious faith did start to decline to prove that in dire situations, when God is silent, one may distance themselves from religion. It
All life changing events seem to happen suddenly, but for the Jews during World War II they were eased into their eventual doom. German soldiers slowly started to occupy Jewish communities, then the Jews were forced to live in ghettos. Still the Jewish people stayed in their bubble of delusion. They convinced themselves that the Germans came to protect them and that it was a good decision to keep them with people like them. Normal everyday lives, like Elie Wiesel’s, were ruined by the cruelty of the Nazis.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said “such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.” As for the novel, Night, you read the struggles of people as they battle within themselves and their faith, we see how they become willing to sacrifice anything to stay alive. In the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel we grasp further learning about the Holocaust through the author's perspective. We're shown what difficulties the Jews, others have faced, and we see how ruthless they're treated . During his experiences in the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel loses faith in his fellow-man and in God.
In the Memoir “night” by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes his experiences of being stripped away from his home in Sighet. And the life of a concentration camp with his father. Because of all the experiences, Wiesel lost faith in God and created a very complex relationship with his father throughout the time living in a concentration camp. Prior to being in a concentration camp with his father, Wiesel was a very religious person. Studying his religion was his passion, and that’s all he would do in his free time But through the things he witnessed, Wiesel began to question his God.
Elie Wiesel suspects that God is letting him go through such a situation. Wiesel begins losing faith in God. For example, Wiesel stated,”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?....
Throughout the memoir, Elie’s faith towards God is tested, and by the end of the book his faith is reduced to almost nothing. In the beginning Elie follows all of the traditions of being a Jew but slowly loses his faith when he gets to the camp. Toward the middle Elie’s faith is really tested and is wearing down because he is fed up with God. At the end Elie wonders why he even believed in God and his faith is basically nonexistent.
