Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

The symbol I chose was God for Eli because he does talk about God quite often during his days in the holocaust from the book Night.

This picture I choose is a pile of dead bodies to represent death for the symbol God. The reason I choose this picture because Eli had witnessed a lot of cruel things at a young age. He had worshipped God so much and had trust and love for him. That all was shattered from the holocaust. It’s because God wasn’t with him and the others letting the Nazi’s do whatever they want to them. His encounter of deaths: “They brought a crate. “Lie down on it! On your belly!" I obeyed. I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip. "One! Two!… "He was counting. He took his time between lashes. Only the first really

The reason why I choose faith was because at the beginning of the novel night Eli had so much faith in God because he always prays. "Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? "I don't know," I told him, even more troubled and ill at ease. "I don't know."(Elizer,4) People pray because we believe that God is real and God is very powerful. It’s our mindset to pray. That’s why Eli doesn’t really know why he prays, but he does it anyways. He doesn’t want to live without faith that God gave him, but that faith was shattered when the holocaust happened to him. Eli seems like he was struggling his faith with God. He thought God himself had made him and the others suffer this evil, the cruel place called the concentration camps and how he has to fight for his life to survive. He struggles, asking god the nature what he is doing and why he had come to save them from hell. Which comes to this quotation "I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions." (Elizer,5) His experiences had made him ask horrible and cruel questions to God if the powerful God is actually there with him or does God truly exists. Eli’s dad has said this “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." (Elizer,81) This is an indirect quote towards God. Eli father has lost fate in God and that he trusts more from

“NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” (Elizer,34) Eli is struggling to wonder what is God doing and why does God not helping him and the others or answering all of their prayers. All they have is just silence. Eli has to witness people being tortured, dying and being injured. He wants to know where this powerful God at and why he is watching all this events happening. Silence also ties into faith because Eli is witnessing hell and his lack of response of the one person he look up to. He is questioning himself and having cruel thoughts towards God. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Elizer,33). He is only describing what God truly meant for him by Gods lack of