Religion In Night By Elie Wiesel

Your circumstances or experiences can impact your beliefs and principles for the rest of your life. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel documents his experience as German forces take over their small town of Sighet. The entire Jewish population is sent to concentration camps. In a camp called Auschwitz, Eliezer is separated from his mother and younger sister, but he remains with his father, Shlomo. As Eliezer struggles to survive against severe malnutrition and the cruelty of the camp, he also develops a conflict within himself revolving around his faith. In the memoir, Night, Eliezer Wiesel, a young man’s, faith in god diminishes at times of hardship, as demonstrated throughout his experience of the Holocaust. In the

He ceases to believe there is a God at all because his righteous God would not allow this to go on. He is not alone in this feeling; Akiba Drumer, a religious prisoners who often comforts other prisoners in camp with his singing, also comes to the conclusion that God does not exist. After being picked for selection, Akiba says “It’s over. God is no longer with us… I know. No one has the right to say these things like that. I know that very well. Man is too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways… Where is God's mercy? Where is God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?” MLA FORMAT. Eliezer and his fellow prisoners all feel abandoned by God. How could this evil go on if there was a God? Even though Eliezer has moments where he gives up on his faith all together, he still practices it, particularly in times of hardship. For instance, when he fears that he may abandon his sick father, like Rabbi Eliahu’s son, Eliezer prays to God for the strength to never do what the rabbi’s son has done. Another time that he demonstrates his faith is after his father dies, “ No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory.” MLA FORMAT. Eliezer regrets that no memorial services were held establish his intact faith. Eliezer Wiesel once said, “I have never renounced my faith in God. I have risen against His Justice, protested His silence and sometimes His absence, but my anger rises up within faith and not outside it.” (Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. Schocken, October 22, 1996). Wiesel’s relationship with faith changed from the beginning of the Holocaust to the end. The hardships that he was forced to go through took his innocence as we as his sense of faith and secureness in God. Despite the hardships that he has faced, Eliezer clings to his fate although it may waver at