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Examples Of Phycology By Elie Wiesel

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The scariest concept of human phycology is dependance. Depending on someone or something for security, hope, happiness or even just a simple favor. It requires complete trust and faith in that person, and by the time you know if they are reliable or not it is too late. Billions of people put their faith and trust in God, depending on and confiding in him with every challenge they face with confidence he will help them through life. However, God is a belief, not a person but just a philosophy, so what can build and destroy the connection people depend on? People tightly associated with their religion worship, live and die all in honor of their faith; dedicating their existence to their religion, in exchange for the will and hope to overcome …show more content…

He powerfully states “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within me I heard a voice answer: where is he? This is where - hanging here from this gallows.” (Wiesel 65) Elie uses this metaphor to admit he has lost his trust and hope in God’s abilities however he still believes in his existence. As the amount of suffering Elie endured continued to escalate, Elie questions why God would allow this to happen, and he feels abandoned by God; left for dead like a corpse in the gallows. Eventually he stopped relying on God to provide him with the strength to overcome his battle with the nazis. and finds his will to keep fighting for himself rather than …show more content…

There is only so much strain and damage the bond between a person and God can take before you begin to question if God really deserves your trust. The Novel night shows us that no matter how strong your faith in God is, your trust can still be tested by any insecurity. In the heat of the crisis, Elie’s trust in God was tested and as he continued to fail Elie, he was forced to lose his trust in God. Elie lost his only source of hope, he depended on God amid chaos, and God was not there for him. Possibly the biggest heartbreak for Elie was being deserted by God; the same God he confided in and depended on in full confidence that God would be there to help him in any situation Elie faced. Dependance is scary because even the tiniest sliver of doubt can make you question someone’s reliability; if you are left with no one to depend on, you have no choice but to face your battles alone, which is truly everyone’s biggest

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In the book, Elie is struggling with his faith in God. Throughout the book he is going back and forth between how he feels with God, and how could God ever let this happen to them. Elie writes “For God's sake, where is God?”(65). Elie was so lost over the fact that God wasn’t there to help him and to get him out of this terrible situation. At this point Elie is really questioning his faith in God.

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Elie has just heard a tale of a son betraying his father and prays to God to help him never cross his father after not believing in God for a long time. The author tells the reader, “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed” (Wiesel 91). This reveals that despite Elie losing all his faith in God, he recognizes he’s at his weakest and prays to God to help him. He turns to God at the moment he believes he needs him most. Elie’s decision to pray is a significant turning point in Elie’s identity.

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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.

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He goes through losing his faith in steps. The first step is him starting to question God. Elie has a brush with death and is returning from the crematorium and while he tries to rest he is listening to the science and seeing the smoke from the crematorium. Elie declares, “Never shall I forget that consumed my faith forever….Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and turned my dreams to ashes''(34).

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Elie's faith is tested many times in night. It is a struggle throughout the entire book and eventually it is lost and once it is lost you can never get it back. The first-time Elie's faith is tested is when he watches the baby's get burned alive in the dark of night when they first enter Birkenau. It is tested that same night as well when he thinks he is going to be burned alive but he still blesses god right before he thinks he's going to die. The next time his faith is when Elie’s faith was tested was on new year’s.

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The almighty eternal and terrible master of the universe, chose to be silent”(Wiesel 33). As they saw the horrible things that were happening around them, Elie started to question his faith in god. He is thinking why should he praise god if he was letting these things happen to his people, the people that he cares about so much? “For god's sake where is god… hanging here from the gallows,” (Wiesel 65). Elie saw the people that had been murdered or hung frequently, so much so, he started to believe that god was dead because no god would sit there and watch this happen.

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