Aldo Shabanaj McAdams English 9 May 10, 2024. Night Essay The memoir Night guides the reader on a journey through the Holocaust from the viewpoint of Elie Wiesel, a young survivor of the horrific event. Along the story, a strong connection between religion and the Jewish people’s hope to survive is revealed and presented multiple times in many ways. In order to survive the Holocaust, Elie goes through a crisis of faith, first believing in God, then placing his faith in his father. In the beginning stages of the Holocaust, Elie maintained a good but shaky connection with God. When Elie, his father, and many other Jews were being marched into what would be their certain death. Elie, although he did not want to, began unconsciously reciting the Kaddish, or the Jewish prayer for the dead. “Deep …show more content…
May His name be exalted and sanctified.’” (Wiesel 34). Elie, even when he blamed God and asked why he would do this, still had faith and believed in God, and believed that he would help them in their suffering. Later in the book, when the Kapo was checking and taking people’s new shoes, Elie found his new shoes covered in mud. He wrote “I had new shoes myself. But as they were covered with a thick coat of mud, they had not noticed. I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe” (Wiesel 38). Even something so simple as mud hiding his shoes, Elie thanked God. Regardless of his claims that God left them earlier, he continues to praise and thank him. However, his faith in God slowly began to dwindle. When the SS officers were hanging