In the autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the author endured and survived the Holocaust. He experienced many horrid events that were expressed throughout the novel. Weisel explained in detail many of the incidences that changed his life and he thinks about to this day. The way he and his father were treated while at the concentration camps made them numb to physical and emotional pain and the experiences that they suffered through during the Holocaust changed their perspective on their religion. Society believes that memories reflect the good times we like to reminisce on, but for Weisel, in the book “Night”, he reminisced on having to let go of everything he’s ever known, losing his family, and treated cruelly because of his religion. Many quotes in the book show the brutal time Weisel had to encounter. While in Auschwitz, Weisel, his father, and many other Jews were treated as if they were not even human. Even in such a short amount of time of being at the concentration camp, Weisel became indifferent to the pain caused by the Nazis and at times inmates as well. When Weisel’s father …show more content…
While in the concentration camp, on the day of Rosh Hashanah, Weisel became angry with God because of the suffering he allowed to happen to his followers. Weisel started to doubt God when he thought, “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?” (Wiesel 67). Weisel’s religion is the reason he had to face all of this agony and he is questioning his faith all together because he was put in this position of his family, friends, neighbors, and he himself suffering for their own