Examples Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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There comes a time when everyone questions their faith due to a tragedy or visual tragedy they experienced. Elie Wiesel saw the effects of holocaust and experienced it Elie faith was very strong in religious matters he prayed and hoped that his god did this for a purpose and could forgive him but when he saw the effects were to harmful for just not everyone but himself. For examples the part of the book night in chapter 2 the burning baby’s/ baby’s being thrown into the pit of fire, the never ending work process, and the killings although his faith was strong it was almost vacant to him due to the effects he experienced. At the beginning of the war Eliezer was dedicated and absolute in his belief of God, but throughout the events of World War II his faith slowly starts to wither away. …show more content…

He also believed what the people told him about the transportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp he thought it was going to be as it told them but when he reached there he realized it was not true and I believe that was the first signs of losing his faith because he prayed about the subject of the transportation but it was not only him he got transported. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust with 6 million more and not only was the change hard for him he got separated from his family and only his soon was able to come with him Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz III-Monowitz, with his father where they were forced to work under deplorable, inhumane