The memoir “Night” is a recollection of a tragic series of events that the author, Elie Wiesel went through. Elie was put into the Ghetto in Sighet on April 18th, 1944, and was then transported to a concentration camp, when he was then moved to two others during the years he was imprisoned. He was liberated in Buchenwald on April 11th, 1945. Throughout Elie’s time in the concentration camps he lost his faith. At first, Elie wanted to study the Kabbalah and become a mystic. “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah” (Wiesel 4). Eile was very devoted to his religion and was completely ready to make his whole life revolve around it from a very young age. He had wanted to study the Kabbalah and come to have a complete understanding of the religion. He also used to cry every time he prayed, for a reason …show more content…
“What was there to thank [God] for?” (Wiesel 33). After just a few minutes of being placed into a concentration camp he was doubting God's existence. He was wondering how something so horrible could happen to him while he had been completely faithful and pure his whole life. At the same time he did not want to believe that God would have created something so terrible. A few months after being placed into a concentration camp Elie had completely stopped praising and believing God. “As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against [God]” (Wiesel 69). Elie was fed up over the fact that so many Jews had been put through this torture and were still expected to remain faithfull, even when no efforts were being made to get them out. God was not answering any of their prayers, so why would he, or anyone else still devote his life to Him. Elie also did not want to waste the little energy he had on something that had seemingly failed