Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel wrote in one of the most difficult style writer can ever do: Put the worst human feelings, thoughts, and emotions into words. His purpose of writing a book “Night” was to show how he didn’t lose his faith during the Holocaust. And that’s overall theme of the book – faith. In the book, when Nazi took them to concentration camps, Elie thought: “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, snore to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” Little my little Elie began to lose his faith, this is hard to write in words when you are losing something that was with you for the whole your life (Wiesel 33). As the “long nights” passed, Elie still losing his faith: “Die today or tomorrow, or later? The nigh was growing longer, never-ending…” (#98). It was hard to write about death that …show more content…

Elie was beloved by his father: “… I understood that he did not wish to see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames…” (#33). As father loved his son, Elie showed the same feelings to his father: “As for me, I was thinking about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had alredy duffered so much, endured so much. This was not the moment to separate…” (#82). They both were supporting each other, they enforced themselves to live for one another, and that’s when Elie was gaining faith. But, after a while his father died: “They must have taken him away before day break and taken him to the crematorium…” (#112). It’s the most hurtful moment in a life and the most difficult thing to write about because when Wiesel saw his father were taken to crematorium. Surprisingly, Elie didn’t lose his faith, he thought that his father is “free at last” when he died. Surely, he was destressed, but it helped him in gaining