Night by Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust memoir based around Elie’s experiences leading up to and in the months he spent in concentration camps when he was 15. Published in 1956, a decade after the Holocaust, it details the brutality of the Nazi’s and the horrors of man. The memoir reveals that even the most devoutly religious people may question their faith and feel abandoned by God during traumatic times. As a child at the beginning of the memoir, Elie is devoutly religious and a large portion of his life is centered around religion. Elie recounts what he spent his days doing, “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.” (3). He wanted to devote himself even more to God by learning