Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

The most important thing to Elie is God and he has devoted his life to God in Sighet. Elie goes to church every day and even studies ancient Jewish religion. “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple”(Wiesel 3). Elie is explaining how committed he is to his religion by doing this every day. Along with going to church every day.

     The spiritual change in Elie was substantial. He went from a pious, devout Jew who spent countless of hours studying his faith. He never questioned God, but that is probably because everything was always good. During his stay at the concentration camps, Elie never stops believing in God, although he does question what he is doing. On page 64, Elie says, “Why, but why I should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled. Because He had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because in His great might He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?…” This shows the

The change in Elie’s views on religion are best displayed by his monologue after a man beside him is praising God:

Elie believed so strongly in his religion. By taking time out of his day, Elie showed incredible discipline and focus because it takes time to learn about something new. While not perfect, Elie had some good things about him, but he would soon change because of his experiences in the concentration camps.

Another time Elie questions God and his faith is around Rosh Hashana, the new year. All the Jews gathered together to say prayers to God. He questions God for allowing all these terrible things to happen to them when they live their lives for Him.

Elie loses complete faith in god in many points where god let him down. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of the misery he was facing. "Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent..."(page 33). Elie was confused, because he doesn’t know why the Germans would kill his race amongst many others, and he does not know why god could let such thing happen to innocent people. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(page 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and a courage to

Understanding how his life is centered around religion is important in understanding how he has changed throughout the story. On page one of the book Elie states “During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple”. The way he spends his time and his life devoted to his religion shows how dedicated he is. On page sixteen as he leaves his house before going to the ghetto one of the last things he states is “ I looked at our house, where I had spent so many years in my search for God; in fasting in order to hasten the coming of the Messiah; in

Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.

Elie was a holocaust victim who was almost forced, by other jews, into a furnace, by order of the Nazis. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” Elie was very religious before the Holocaust and yet on the first night at Auschwitz he lost his faith in God. He regained faith

Elie was deeply devoted to his faith at the beginning but as the story progresses he loses that devotion and barely believes that there is a God that exists. The first signs of him losing his faith was when he arrived at the first camp and saw the horrible things people were doing to the Jews. Other people around him had already lost faith in God and Elie was beginning to doubt God due to Him allowing people to do this to others. “His

“Blessed be Gods name? Why? But why would I bless him?” Elie says that on page 67 of this book. To me, when Elie says this, he shows his anger towards God and about everything that he is letting happen. He began to wonder, if he was God, why he was letting all the Germans do horrible things to them. However, this never made any sense to Elie. He was always contemplating the existence of God. On page 69 while supper

Though faithful as they enter the horrific camps of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buna, Birknau, Dachau, and Buchenwald, the Jews become capricious. They start losing grip and begin falling down the slippery slope of death the Germans set up for them as more horrors of the camps become unveiled. Soon after arriving in the camp and being told about the crematoria, he felt “anger rising with me [Elie]. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). This is the first time that his faith is challenged. After a few days in Auschwitz he “had ceased to pray. I [Elie] was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). As seen, Elie is beginning to have doubts about God and therefore his belief and faith in him. Finally, when Elie is looking for God to come though he doesn’t and he asks,

He slowly loses his faith while there. He even thinks “never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel 32). During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. In the beginning of the book Elie is very religious.

Early on, Elie's main drive was his love for his studies and God. Soon after experiencing all of these horrific events, Elie gradually loses his faith and hope in God. He begins to refuse to praise God’s name at all. Instead he says “Blessed be God’s name?” Questioning why he should

An important nonfiction book that I think everyone should read is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was published in 1960 by Hill and Wang. It has 116 pages and it is told by a man who survived the Holocaust. This was a very important moment in history that everyone needs knowledge on.