Elie was never able to see his mother or sisters after that day. Hitler is the reason why all the babies were killed and the reason why Elie started to lose faith in God. When he first arrived God and his father were the reason he did not give up. He prayed to god because it was his insic to pray. However, after he saw everyone dying he question
This example shows that Elie still has faith in his God and still believes. Later on in the story he starts to question God and his existence once Elie finds out
Elie was faithful and did what he was supposed to do. He wonders why God would punish him and so many others by letting them suffer and be killed. In class we talked about people losing their faith in the Holocaust and that if you lose your faith you have nothing to hold on to and
To tell the truth, Elie’s beliefs before the Holocaust is very spiritual, godly and orthodox. He used to spend most of his time at the synagogue temple worshiping his God. Since he always cried while praying a man named Masha the Beadle asked him why he prayed and Elie’s thought it was a very strange question but he still answered him with a confused face on his look as if he had known idea what he was saying. Elie’s said why he lives and why does he breath he said again he doesn’t know.” I succeeded on my own finding a master for himself in the person of Mash the Beadle’’.
God had not helped Elie even after he would sing his praises, “We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises.” Elie was tired of God’s silence, he did not show him mercy with all that he endured. The destruction, the death, the conditions ruined his faith and any hope he had
He didn’t think that he would make it out, or that he would live. He started to give up on religion. In the beginning of the book, it told us how Elie was studying a new type of religion, and how he was way above his age level with religion. But, he stopped believing that there was a god, and he stopped praying and celebrating the Jewish holidays. He thought that if there was a god, he would have helped them by then.
They were invested in their faith and it was a huge part of their life. When they were struggling or going through hard times they would turn to God. They continued to see terrible things happen and most of them would pray because of the things happening around them and to them. When these things continued to happen they started to ask themselves why God wasn't doing anything. One day Elie asked himself, “Why should I sanctify His name?
Belief and Faith is a “double-edged sword” to the jews, it cuts both ways. It keeps them alive, and at the same time makes them oblivious, and leads to their suffering. Over time, Elie’s belief in god, diminishes and eventually he questions God’s existence extensively and at point, Elie is infuriated that even though they are being tormented and enslaved, the Jews will still pray to god, and thank him, “If god did exist, why would he let u go through all the pain and suffering (33). This is a major point in the ongoing theme of faith and belief, because for once he is infuriated with the thought of religion in a time of suffering. Throughout the book, with the nazis ultimate goal is to break the jews and make dehumanize them and if anything, their goal is take and diminish their belief.
While all the other Jews were praying at the Appellplatz on Rosh Hashanah, Elie thought "I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man" (68). The killing and torture led Elie to, even on Rosh Hashanah, doubt his faith in God and humanity. He lost his faith as a result of how he didn't understand how God could let this happen. He refused to praise a God who lets factories of death thrive uncontested by the public.
This is saying that his faith will never fully be restored because he cannot get over what happened to him during the Holocaust. He felt very guilty about questioning God, but because he lost his identity and his faith is a big part of his identity, he really couldn’t help it. Elie’s loss of identity is important in this book because it shows how the Nazis didn’t view the Jews as humans and even the Jews began to not see themselves as human. It's important to learn and read about this to truly understand what the Jews went
Toward the end of the memoir, Elie still finds himself going back to his religion and says “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed in” (Wiesel 91). Elie has come to accept that he doesn't want to believe in God, but deep down he still does. He physically doesn't, but emotionally and internally he still has that connection with God even if he doesn't want to. He will always go back to God because Elie knows he still has faith in him even if he doesn't want to admit it. He finds comfort with God, but after experiencing cruel moments in the Holocaust he finds himself questioning
Wiesel (63). Whether or not this is true, Elie has a reason to feel this way at this moment because of the horrific things he has seen. You can easily tell that Elie has lost his faith by seeing how he acts, how he thinks, and what he tells Rabi. As we read this book, there are many points when Elie loses his faith even
and it changed him. In the book, Night, the main theme, is religion and belief which is shown when Elie talks about the his strong religion and belief as a boy, his disconnection from religion, and the inhumane actions the Nazi 's caused. Having such a strong belief in something and then dramatically changing how you think, is a very significant event. During this time, many people questioned where God truly was. Even Elie was questioning where God was.
In such a cruel place such as the one they were in, it is deemed to be impossible. Even though Elie’s connection to God was strong, it was still broken. So many traumatic events happened at the camp, it is almost impossible to keep track of them all. Being forced to witness all these horrible things everyday, with no sign of God made Elie question if there even is one. If there was a God he’d be trying to help the innocent Jews escape or at least something, and if he was not then should he even be regarded as one, was Elie’s view on the whole situation.
“How could I believe, how could anyone believe in this god of mercy” (77). Elies saw how others were starting to lose the faith in God. He started to think if there was a god why would he let these things happen? The Jews didn't just lose their faith, but themselves and loved
