Throughout the book “Night”, Elie battles with his faith and at times almost gives it up. Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night. Throughout the story, the holocaust proves that Elie’s faith is a necessary element for his survival. It preserves his sanity whether or not it is based in reality.
At first, Eliezer's confidence is a result of his studies in Jewish religion, which show him that God is all around on the planet. He additionally discovers that nothing exists without God, and that, actually, everything in the physical world is a "radiation", or reflection, of the heavenly world. Eliezer has grown up accepting that everything on Earth mirrors God's sacredness and force. His confidence is established in the thought that God is all over the place, constantly, and that his godliness touches each part of Eliezer's everyday life. He accepts that since god is great, and god is all over on the planet, this must imply that the whole world is great.
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He can't envision that the inhumane imprisonments' inconceivable , remorselessness could conceivably mirror the holiness of god. He thinks about how an amiable God could be a piece of such bad habit and how he could allow such pitilessness to happen. His confidence is just as shaken by the remorselessness and childishness he sees among the detainees. Elie sees that the Holocaust uncovered the childishness, and pitilessness of which everyone including himself is able. On the off chance that the world is so nauseating and unfeeling, he feels, then God either must be appalling and remorseless or should not exist