Religion In Night By Elie Wiesel

“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live,” (Elie Wiesel, Night 71). Death, a thematic topic in Elie Wiesel’s novel, which was written about Wiesel’s experience in the Holocaust, plays a significant role Wiesel’s work. Wiesel had to experience death more than once while in Auschwitz, he experienced death in many ways.Death was felt by many Jewish people,whether it be a family member, neighbor, or friend death was something that was all to common in their lives. Many people fear death and what comes after death, for Wiesel it was more of a waiting game. Wiesel had no idea when or if he would die in Auschwitz, he fought, fought to live, even though his family was all gone. He fought even after he witnessed

However throughout the novel Wiesel explains to how his relationship and beliefs in God were slowly disappearing. Death was eloquent in Wiesels loss with his religion and belief in God, this reason being that seeing all of the deaths happening and the cruel actions that the Jews were put through made Wiesel believe that if God wasnt there stopping all of these horrendous things, then did he even exist? Wasn't God supposed to be his

Never.(Wiesel, Night). One of the most traumatizing experience of the whole experience for Weisel was losing his mother, little sister, and his father. Death was brought upon Wiesel’s mother and sister very early on, however death wasn’t brought upon Wiesel’s dad for a while. Wiesel and his dad were together for a while and under went many mortifying experience together before it was brought to an end when his father died. Before Wiesel’s father’s death fellow prisoners would beat Wiesel’s father because they were sick of his ill state. Wiesel’s father would beg them not to beat his father but they would mock him and laugh. This was a sickening act that such a young boy had to go through at such an innocent