Night Theme “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night Summary In 1944, Elie Wiesel spends much time on Jewish mysticism. His teacher, Moshe the Beadle, returns from almost dyeing warns that the Nazi will soon threaten that they we kill ever single Jew here. To move Jews, the Nazis force the Jews into supervised ghettos. Through all of the moving, Elie's family remains calm. The authorities begin shipping trainloads of …show more content…
Elie and his father lie about their ages, which allow them to work. Elie's mother and three sisters had been placed into Birkenau, the death camp. After viewing babies being tossed into a burning pit, Elie stops believing in god. Elie and the father, Chlomo, struggle to stay alive so they can stay working. After three weeks, Elie and his father are forced to march to Buna where they sort electrical parts as their new job. Then the guards hang a thirteen year old before Elie's …show more content…
At the beginning of the book, Elie believes in god and he wants to learn more. There is a part of the book “when he is asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”” But his thought in religion completely changes during the camps. In the beginning of the book, he has a strong feeling about religion and he wants to learn more about it. He sates, “God is everywhere in the world, that nothing exists without God, that in fact everything in the physical world is an emanation of the divine world.” What this basically means is that Elie thinks that god is everywhere in the world. His studies tell him that god is good, and that god is everywhere in the world. Elie basically thinks that the camps are just a nightmare. He wonders how God, someone that he trusts and believes in could be part of such a killing in the concentration camps. His religion is also made fake when he sees a ton of in humanity happening in the prisoners. Elie says, “If all the prisoners were to unite to oppose the cruel oppression of the Nazis. Then maybe he could understand the Nazi menace as an evil aberration. He would then be able to maintain the belief that humankind is essentially good. But he sees that the Holocaust exposes the selfishness, evil, and cruelty of which everybody—not only the Nazis, but also his fellow prisoners, his fellow Jews, even himself—are