Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

God Help Us Through its survivors, memories of the Holocaust live on today. During World War II, Adolf Hitler was destined to exterminate all Jewish communities in occupied Europe. Nazi Germany began this exterminated in concentration camps, which eventually became death camps. Elie Wiesel, a fifteen year old Jewish boy, becomes mindful to the corruption of human nature caused by concentration camps, which eventually become death camps. The remembrance of the Holocaust is resurrected in Elie Wiesel’s Night, where Elie proves to lose faith in God by evoking his feelings about the corruption of humanity. The murder of so many children under God’s supervision is unforgivable to Elie. “Why would I bless His name?” (Wiesel 67) Elie asks himself

His refusal to recite the benediction is caused by the burning children’s flesh, which is consuming his faith. He believes it is God who is responsible for creating the crematoria causing the children to burn, and the death factories, such as Auschwitz and Belzec. "'Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there.'" (Wiesel 28). This gruesome sight contributes to the termination of Elie’s faith because it intimidates him from wanting to go to Heaven. In a sense, he does not think it is worth burning in a chimney to go to Heaven. At this moment, Elie’s dream of God literally turns into dust. “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky” (Wiesel 34). There is no reason for Elie to bless the Master of the Universe because he chose the Jews to be victims of torture, therefore causing Elie to feel alone and not in touch with God. Despite the fact that Elie

“Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me…You’re killing your father…I have bread…for you too…for you too…” (Wiesel 101). Situations are so atrocious that the only way this unidentified man is able to convince his son Meir to stop beating him is by offering his food to him. Sadly, being his father is not a good enough excuse. The severely undernourished people are so desperate for food that they lash out on their own family for the sake of feeding themselves. Elie is killing his body by trying to help his father by willingly offering his extra rations of food to him. Eventually, Elie is convinced by the Blockalteste to stop giving his father his bread and soup because he thinks that since his father is too weak and ill for the food to have any effect on him, giving it to him is a waste. “I thought deep down not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father…” (Wiesel 111). Hunger proves to dominate during this depressing time because Elie betrays his own word and his father by listening to this German block leader. “Dozens of men fought and trampled one another for an extra ration of food” (Hawker 72). The seemingly universal conduct is selfishness- every man tries to steal from others just to save himself, like Meir killing his father to steal his bread. The victims of the Holocaust hastily become indifferent to this behavior because it is the only effective way to