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Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Importance of Faith in Night by Elie Wiesel Faith, as defined by Oxford Languages, is complete trust or confidence in someone or something. However, faith is much more than that. Faith gives life meaning, a purpose, a reason to live. The importance of faith is repeatedly demonstrated in Night by Elie Wiesel. To convey this, Wiesel allows the reader to establish a deep connection with Eliezer in order to understand his experiences of loss, as well as findings, of faith. In Night, Wiesel uses the motif of questions, expressive diction, and symbols of the loss of faith to express the idea that being deprived of faith will occur, but in order to overcome obstacles that one faces throughout their life, they have to be able to find new faith. …show more content…

As readers see the frequency of questions (which are all mostly related to religion) increase as we go through the book, it indicates the loss of trust and confidence in Eliezer’s religion, which is the basis of faith. Eliezer experiences an extreme loss of faith when he witnesses all the horrors of concentration camps. “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. … How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine Altar?” (Wiesel 67) Wiesel’s repeated use of questions imply the loss of confidence in his religion, meaning the loss of faith. Through using questions, the reader is allowed to infer answers to these questions that lead the reader to a more deeper and complex understanding of the confusion and complete loss of trust that Elizer develops from all of the death and torture of other Jewish people that he witnesses and endures. By using the motif of questions, Wiesel builds a deeper connection between the reader and Eliezer, and is able to better share his experience of his loss of

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