Painful. Cold. Testing. Elie Wiesel author of Night writes us a memoir of his time in the concentration camps. It starts with him being sent into the ghetto. He is then relocated to Auschwitz, a concentration camp where Death's presence is everywhere. He is starved and forced to work. He loses everything, including his faith in God, during the process of being in the camp. His relationship with his God changes from a loving, trusting relationship to a relationship without trust and then ultimately to a hateful relationship. In the beginning of Night, Elie has a deep love in God. Elie is so passionate that he feels the need to master the Kaballah which is usually reserved for those who are older than thirty. It is a long process and he feels encouraged to do so because of his love to God. He says "One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kaballah."(Wiesel 4) His love in God is prominent in the fact that he wishes to study Kaballah which is very advanced. He feels he understands God enough to be able to do something of such a high caliber of teaching. …show more content…
After a hard day at camp Elie is lying in his bunk when the other prisoners start to sing. He questions why they are singing praise to God while they are being tortured because of him. Elie also wonders why God doesn't come and help them. He tells us " I was not denying his existence but I doubted his absolute justice." (45) He knows there is a God but he wonders why would God let him be put in such a position as his. He doubts that God knows what he is doing, because there are people singing praise to him but it feels like they are being ignored. He is skeptical of God and his plan for