Elie, once so faithful, is one of the first to lose faith in God due to the horrific sights he sees. After witnessing the bodies of Jewish children being burned, Wiesel writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). He quite understandably has begun to doubt that his God is with him following the sight of the supposedly chosen people’s bodies being unceremoniously burned. Elie, though, was perhaps not a member of the masses with this belief; in fact, some men were able to hold on to their beliefs despite these horrendous sights. Also near the middle of the book, Wiesel reflects on the faith of other Jews in the face of these events, saying that “some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come.
Elie witnessed some intense cruelty in the camps and he began to question his faith. The event that he was forced to spectate that really changed his view on God was the hanging of the young boy. A young boy with an angel's face was accused of sabotaging an electrical plant that gave power to the camp and was sentenced to death. The boy and three other men were hung in front of all the other prisoners. Before he actually died, he “remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes”(65).
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the theme of faith impacts Elie's experiences throughout the Holocaust. One time when faith impacts Elie’s experiences is when he believes that God is the reason he gets to keep his shoes. Elie writes, “I thanked God, in an improvised manner…” (Wiesel 38).This quote shows Elie's initial belief in God and his faith during the early times of the Holocaust when he expresses gratitude for his shoes not being taken.
Jacob Jalloway Ms. Klein E116 12 November 2014 God is Always There God is a very significant, and important being. He pulls many people through times of hardship, as well as times of joy. To many of the Jews in the concentration camps during the Holocaust, God was the only thing that they had to live for. In the Book Night, by Elie Wiesel, the main character Weisel changed his view on God as the book progressed. In the start of the book Weisel was a boy who came from a very religious background, and was very active, and interested in his faith.
Night is not merely just about a little boy during the awful time in the holocaust, it’s about how one would be able to endure all of the pain and yet not lose sight of their faith or religion. The main character is Eliezer’s. Eliezer is the son of the man i don’t remember but anyway eliezer is a jew in a concentration camp which is awful. In the story the reader will see from from eliezer’s perspective because while he is experiencing these events he thinks about it in his mind so psychological he will explain what’s happening in the camp.
The story of Night, by Elie Wiesel, shows the struggles that the Jews had. One might say the Holocaust strengthened the Jews’ faith. Throughout the story there has been situations where one can say that this is true. Night also shows that the Jews have came together to resolve their problems. The holocaust weakened the Jews’ faith in God.
Initially, prior to Sighet’s Jewish community deportation to Auschwitz, Elizer’s faith in his God is absolute; he is profoundly religious. As Moishe the Beadle questions him about his aim in praying God, Elie is troubled: “Why did I pray? […] Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 4).
Elie Wiesel & Religion “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” Elie Wiesel is the first person alive to receive a nobel peace prize on the topic of genocide and the remembrance. Elie strongly believes in keeping the memory of the Holocaust in our brains, not only just because it is history it’s also a lesson to us all. Genocide happens all over the world almost everyday, All of us together as whole need to learn from the past. Otherwise more and more this world will become dark almost like night.
“Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel 34). All of his experiences, from Sighet to his liberation at Buchenwald, are leading to faltering in his mind about whether or not the God he believes in is still there for him. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s view of God changes throughout the novel beginning with his views of God in Sighet, his view of God upon arrival at Birkenau, and his view of God during Rosh Hashanah. In the beginning of the novel, Elie, living in Sighet, has a different view of God. In Sighet, Elie is a young boy and religion plays an important part in his younger life.
Concentration Camps broke the will of many Jewish prisoners’ faith. They believed that their god had forsaken them, or that he never existed to allow such atrocities to be committed against his people. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s faith deteriorates rapidly in the concentration camps. Elie’s faith changed in that as time went on and hope waned, he first accused God of his crimes against his people, holding theocratic debates within himself. By the end of the Novel, he no longer seemed to belief in God.
“Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him?” Elie Wiesel is the author of the nonfiction book Night. The book tells of Elie’s true experiences during the Holocaust. The quote above is one example of Elie losing his faith overtime showing that he is a dynamic character.
In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel does a good job explaining just how hard it was to maintain faith in a place like Auschwitz. Elie also made it clear that it was crucial to remain hopeful if one was planning to survive for very long. Only the strong remained reasonably healthy, despite the harsh conditions they were put through in the concentration camps. It was explained as being a situation where it was every man for himself, and you couldn’t remain emotionally attached to your old life and people you care about. Only few survived, and the ones that did stood out from the rest.
Moreover, we pick up that Elie is leaning on Moishe as a resource for religious knowledge as he continues his religious path. A secondary source describes the opening of Elie wiesel's book and provides insight on how Elie sets the state for his upcoming religious developments. “Eliezer's story opens in a tightly knit and well-ordered Jewish community,
Every story written by Elie Weisel had a universal purpose, to cultivate change. In his novel Night or in his speeches “Perils of indifference” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.” And “He wanted to eliminate violent injustice from the world. After surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, he published 53 works in his lifetime and every single one was made to inform people of the horrible things from WWII and to inspire changes in the people’s mindsets. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, his purpose is to inform people of the terrible things he went through, racial injustice, genocide, and having his family taken away and killed.
In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he questioned God, ¨Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled, he caused thousands of children to burn his Mass graves?¨(Wiesel 68). Overall, Wiesel does not follow the words of God and is not believing in him anymore because he thinks God is the one thatś letting all the inhumanity occur. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause disbelief or incredulity.