What comes to mind when one thinks of total loss, confusion, and anger towards something? To Eli Wiesel, this is his life as less than a human. His life following his capture by the Nazis and the inhabitants in the multiple concentration camps turned his life upside down. Some would say he faced all odds and even had his doubts regarding who he was and why he was part of these dreadful, seemingly, God-forsaken events. Needless to say, his memoir Night, will follow his life as an eager child of God, to almost complete loss of faith in Him. Eli’s terrifying journey would begin in his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania. Before the madness fell, Eli was young, studying deeply, the Talmud, teachings regarding the rabbinic law("The Talmud" 2017). He, at the time, was aspiring to be vastly knowledgeable in his faith, perhaps to eventually become stronger in it, so aspired in it that he even asked for a master to help guide him in studies, despite his young age. This shows already, how dedicated Eli was to become stronger in his faith which would heighten the severity of his crippling of his faith. The first evidence of Nazi reign in Eli’s world started when Moishe the Beadle, …show more content…
This is where the true downfall of Eli’s faith had started. Seeing the babies cast to their demise was only the beginning. He questioned if he should continue praising God, even after all this. He even dared to dub Him as: “....terrible Master of the Universe”(Wiesel 33). He couldn’t find any reasoning in this allowing of such horrors, especially one by a thought-to-be, loving God. Not only does he start to lose faith in God, but also in humanity itself. The beating of his father by the Kapos broke this once clear view of the human race. Seeing man being subjected by man was too much for Eli to understand. His young mind could not understand and only had one choice but to erase what he once knew of humans as a whole. Fear was what he lived by at this point, lest he wanted to lose his