Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

When someone has believed in such quotes like, “Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear, for I am your God. I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you. I’ll hold you steady. Keep a firm grip on you.” from the Holy Bible, Isaiah 41:10, it is very hard to believe that they will question these promises. It seems that Elie Wiesel had to believe those things in his God for him to truly be very disappointed in his faith and religion. He even went to the point of blaming and rejecting his faith. Unfortunately, for most people, faith is there to protect them from evil and guide them with a plan, but it may not always be that way. The fact that one can change their view on their god is very surprising. However, in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel loses his faith and starts to question his God about the Holocaust. Although many people stay strong in

He figured that his family and the rest of the Jews were just being transferred to somewhere else - that was in fact what the officers were telling them. Wiesel, along with other Jews recited the prayer that was among their religion - the Kaddish, while entering the camps and realizing the pain, struggle, and even death that was ahead of them. Wiesel demonstrates how people were so desperate for answers from their God that they even went against their religion rules. For example, “He didn’t answer. He was weeping. His body was shaking. Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don’t know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.” (Wiesel 33). This shows the desperation of the people to look for some help from their God. It is significant because even though reciting Kaddish by your lonesome self is against the rules...many did not care and still proceeded to do