Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

“I had new shoes myself. But as they were covered with a thick coat of mud, they had not been noticed. I thanked God in an improvised prayer for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe.” (Wiesel 38). In the Memoir Night by Elie Wiesel he makes it prominent that throughout dire situations you cannot lose your faith or religion. Throughout the book there are many examples of those dying after suffering the loss of faith. Elie’s religion was a very important aspect of his life from a young age even to the point of pleading with his father for more knowledge. It is through his faith that he survived for such a prolonged period in the camp. Even after he saw hundreds of people die every single day. Witnessing the death of other prisoners was an especially common sight for Elie during selection. He writes “Poor Akiba Drummer if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering as divine test, he would not

Having family by your side was a very beneficial and substantial factor in keeping your faith strong. As Elie’s father’s health began to rapidly decline both Elie and his father started to slowly lose hope. While transporting from a previous camp they both saw Elie’s father’s friend Meir Katz. Meir Katz was a prime example of struggling after loss of a family member, as his son had died not too long before this incident. “ ‘Don’t give in!’ my father tried to encourage him, ‘You must resist! Don’t lose faith in yourself!’ But Meir Katz only groaned in his response: ‘I can’t go on, Shlomo!...I can’t help it…I can’t go on!’ (Wiesel 102). While Meir Katz’s breakdown was near the end of the war, he was still overcome with the loss of hope and death of his son. Elie also chooses to use lots of heavily emphasized quotations in the book. This emphasizes the gravity of significance of the