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Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Imagine that one day, everything that you and your family had worked for was taken away. You had to leave your home and go to some unknown place for some unknown reason. Think about the fear rushing through everyone around you, but you can’t do or say anything about it. Elie Wiesel and many other Jews had to go through during the Holocaust. In the book Night, Elie explains his journey through the concentration camps, he attempts to show readers what pain and suffering that had occured in them. Elie was taken from his home in Siget along with his family, however his mother and sister were separated from each other very quickly. Because Nazi’s stripped Elie of his humanity, he questioned his faith which ultimately left scars that would last …show more content…

In the book they were hanging a boy and many people came to watch.As he was hanging there and Elie was watching he was thinking about his faith and the Rabbi's that were struggling to still pray to a God who may not even be there. As Elie is eating his soup he is thinking to himself, "For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows…" (65). This shows that because of all of the trauma and terrible things he has seen throughout this experience he has lost his faith that there is a God out there watching over him. "But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger."(68) He finally had come to the conclusion that God was not there and that he had to deal with this with only the people surrounding him. He no long thought there was someone looking out for him. The Nazis cruelty pushed him the his breaking point, how could God let them do …show more content…

Even when the Jewish people were warned what was to come they chose to ignore what was happening, they didn’t believe that people would torture them. After the first night of camp Elie knew that this experience was something that would stay with him for the rest of his life, "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." . Even though it was just the first night, everything he saw was horrific and something no person should ever have to live with. As the seasons went on the camps got worse and worse. "A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets. We were given bread, the usual ration. We threw ourselves on it. Someone had the idea of quenching his thirst by eating snow. Soon, we were all imitating him. As we were not permitted to bend down, we took out our spoons and ate the snow off our neighbors' backs. A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow. The SS men who were watching were greatly amused by the spectacle."(96) Everyone is breaking their back in labor while

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