The Influence of a Setting “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (34). As Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, remembers a life altering encounter, he explains to his readers in his book, Night, how his whole world turned upside down by his experience in the holocaust. The setting of the holocaust created horrific memories that destroyed everything he had ever known and mattered to him. Elie Wiesel, a 15 year old boy, starts out with a strong faith towards Judaism. He and his family are forced into the ghettos, where later they are transported to concentration camps, where almost everyone he knew dies. Nothing is ever the same for Elie, from the way he looks at people and the world, to his perception on life. There are three main concepts that altered him as a person: faith, morals, and mindset. Imagining how much Elie was changed by his surroundings cannot start to compare to my changes due to surroundings, but since I have been affected I am able to support that settings changes everything. I feel the need to write about this topic to give it justification, just as Elie has done in Night. Elie Wiesel emphasizes the loss of faith, morality, and mind set in order to demonstrate the amount of change that occurs due to the influence of …show more content…
Elie questions God when he first arrives at the camp and when the pipel dies, who represents innocence and the loss of Elie’s faith. He believes if God was really there He wouldn’t have put the Jewish people through those tragic events. Elie questions whether or not he should bless Him when he thinks, “ Blessed be God’s name? Why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves” (Wiesel 67). He goes against his faith in times of disparity, as he watches disaster strike all around him. As Elie went through these events, his faith was degraded and