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Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The story Night the Jews are exposed to an uncaring, hostile world, which leads to destruction of faith and identity within the Jewish communities. The Jews are not expecting to be treated so awfully, but they are not willing to do all the things that the Germans want them to do. Near the beginning of the memoir, by Elie Wiesel Moche the Beadle undergoes a loss of faith after witnessing horrific acts of inhumanity. The Jews were treated as if they were trash on the street. No one felt the need to say anything because they felt they would be beaten even more. “ Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow”. Even though everyone was being abused, no one said anything about it. The abuse continues. After a substantial amount of time spent in the concentration camps, many Jews lost faith, especially after enduring the brutality of the camps. While in the concentration camps, the Jews went through many horrific beatings. They had to watch their family members get beaten and could not do anything about the situation. “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live”(). Every time ones family members were beaten, their family members felt tremendous pain, because they could not do anything to help their loved ones. Eliezer continue to go through the Holocaust. He goes through many things that one would never think a kid would have to go through. After witnessing the …show more content…

They feel that God should be right by their side blocking every destructive thing that is being thrown their way. Even though they feel like God is not there, he is always there. He just wants to hear the Jews cry out to him. God only put his strongest survivors through the toughest battles, so he was just preparing the Jews for better things to happen in their life. Also the Jews trails could have been to help someone else get through what some of the Jews had already

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It's hard to believe that innocent people were being tortured and killed based on their religion. During the Holocaust about 6 million Jews were killed. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Elie, a young religious boy who wrote about his experience during the Holocaust. Throughout his experience Elie’s relationship with God develops from being strong prior to the Holocaust, to weakening when arriving at the camps, and completely losing his faith in God at the end.

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Elie, once so faithful, is one of the first to lose faith in God due to the horrific sights he sees. After witnessing the bodies of Jewish children being burned, Wiesel writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). He quite understandably has begun to doubt that his God is with him following the sight of the supposedly chosen people’s bodies being unceremoniously burned. Elie, though, was perhaps not a member of the masses with this belief; in fact, some men were able to hold on to their beliefs despite these horrendous sights. Also near the middle of the book, Wiesel reflects on the faith of other Jews in the face of these events, saying that “some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come.

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Eliezer loses his faith throughout his experience because of all the tragic events he goes through. The other Jews of the camps didn’t see the amount of cruelty that he saw. During the book, Eliezer sees the babies being burned to death and he immediately questions why God would let anything so cruel happen. Later, he went through a violent public lashing. There were many other moments in the book where bad things happened to him, including when he was split from his mother and sister.

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How do you react when your faith is being tested? For Wiesel in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel the reader witnesses the loss of faith. The response of Wiesel faith was effected by the surrounding he was faced with. The foundation of his beliefs was questioned by the events he saw. Thus as time passed more individuals began to lose their religious behaviours.

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Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?”(Wiesel 68) Wiesel clearly is losing faith in God because he has seen babies burned alive, families killed together. Wiesel blames God for what has happened. Additionally, Elie Wiesel is not thankful for God anymore because he is not in Auschwitz helping him and the rest of the Jews. Wiesel feels anger towards God.

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