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Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the beginning of Elie Wiesel’s Night Elie is very faithful to God and eager to learn about God, the Kabbalah, and mysticism. When asked why does he pray Elie answered, “Why did I live? Why did I breathe?(4) ” After one of God’s Followers and Elie’s leader, Moishe the Beadle gets back from the forests everything changed. News about the Holocaust starts to spread. The Jews from Sighet are taken away to the concentration camps in Auschwitz including Elie Wiesel, his Father, Mother and Sister. Elie and his father are the only ones to survive. As they spend more time in the camps their faith in God gets weaker and weaker. Elie begins to question his religion and doubts God. One theme emerging from Night is that people tend to lose faith in God when they are going through trials and feel betrayed. …show more content…

Moishe would speak to Elie for “hours on end about the Kabbalah’s revelations and its mysteries.(5)” Both Moishe and Ellie were strong faithful followers of God. But after Moishe witnessed what was being done to the Jews he was not the same. He had watched the Jews being forced to dig their own trenches and babies being tossed into the air and used as shooting targets. When Moishe got back “the joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang” and as a man who used to be the “jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer (” he no longer mentioned God or the kabbalah. Moishe has lost all his faith in God after seeing the Jewish people get murdered. It seems as if he no longer believed in

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