Night: Loss “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive.” -Tupac Shakur. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer is taken from his home and taken to Auschwitz where he loses everything. He struggles with the loss of his entire family, the loss of his faith and religion, and struggles with self-preservation. First is his family. At the beginning of the book he wouldn’t ever leave his family. Before being taken away to Auschwitz he had the chance to get away, though his father had other ideas. “If you wish, go there. I shall stay here with your mother and the little one…” Naturally, we refused to be separated.” (20). His father tells him that he could go, but Elie refused to. At the end, it’s the opposite. After his father died he was happy to be rid of him. “... I might have found something like: Free at last!...” (112) …show more content…
“One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbala.” (4). He was so devoted in his faith that he even sought a master to teach him its ways. Though later, after seeing the horrors of Auschwitz, Buna, and Birkenau, he had lost almost all of his faith in something he once believed in strongly. “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him?” (67). After he says that, he goes into detail on how and why his faith is