Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,

Through this whole time Elie has lost faith in those that he trusted. God wasn’t there for his followers that were suffering. Humanity turned a blind eye to the genocide that was happening. Elie himself was having moments of weakness where he would think about leaving his father behind. With each faith that was destroyed he grew more unfeeling and indifferent to what happened to

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 his faith after thinking about how God might not exist because if he does than he would let this ever happen. Elie loses his innocence after seeing the two corpses lying side by side, father and son. Elie kept his thoughtful ness and love because he didn’t want to leave his father to die or for myself to die because if he died than they would do unspeakable thing to his father. He loses a lot of things at Auschwitz including faith, innocence and his father. Many traumatic experiences are bad for ones health and could cause long-term illnesses including

“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

Elie’s faith before being exposed to the concentration camps is apparent and he works hard to strengthen and grow his faith. All throughout Night, Wiesel shows the eminent effect faith has on individual’s actions and attitude. At the beginning of Night, Elie’s faith is a key feature of his lifestyle and attitude. Studying under the wisdom of Moishe the Beadle, Elie can put his faith in retrospect as he says, “In the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become one” (Wiesel 5). It is very clear that Elie is very emotionally and physically invested in his faith. Before camp Elie was so eager to expand and connect to his faith in which he becomes, “convinced” that he fully understands his faith proving him to be a devout Jewish boy. Thus because, Moishe the Beadle is helping him “enter eternity” and build his faith. Elie’s whole life revolves

At this point in the story, Elie rarely showed the slightest glimpse or belief in a higher power. He started to decline in hope and questioned every move of his father and all of the prisoners he gazed upon. An example of this rare occasion is when they are running in chapter six and seven. Elie witnessed a split of father and son without realizing that the son intentionally left his father in the dust. He later met a Rabbi who lost his son while they were running. Rabbi Eliahou fathered the son that Elie watched disappear into the group. Rabbi Eliahou did not realize that his son gave up on him and continued on without him. Elie vowed that he would never leave his father in the way that Rabbi Eliahou's son left him. “Oh god, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done” ( Wiesel,87 ). Elie did not realize that with that statement he planted a seed of religion in his garden. It may seem acute but this monumental part caused the reaction of the

Throughout the time Elie lived through the Holocaust, his devotion and relationship with God greatly changed. In the beginning of his life, Elie was a devoted observant Jew, who studied everyday, and went the synagogue and cry. He was also trying to convince his father to study the Kabbalah, so he could later become a Rabbi. But while in the camps, with all of the suffering, and labor, Elie begins to question God. While his dad was praying, Elie began to feel anger, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33). Elie sees what is happening around them, with people being burned and killed, and becomes

In the end of the novel, an event occurs when the prisoners’ ghastly run from the country Buna. This demonstrates how the prisoners' godly point of view holds survival to be the most surprising standard and all other significant qualities to be useless. In the Jewish petition, God is frequently seen as a "ruler of the Universe." At this point, the prisoners have given up on their belief of God and they themselves are the experts of the nature around them. Elie’s encounters have informed him of his miserable sense that isolates him from everyone else.

It became clear Eliezer mentally and emotionally lost all faith in God. Everything that he had witnessed made him second guess if there really even was a God. Eliezer questions God when he is forced to watch an innocent young boy be hanged in front of the entire concentration camp. He mentioned that he had seen hangings before, but this one remained in his memory forever. Eliezer questioned God when he began to think about all of the horrible things he had seen.

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,

Throughout his stay at the camp he often questions God as he experiences the cruelty of the Nazis. At one point he considers god as “dead” when he thinks to himself “Where is He? Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows. . . .”(47). Elie’s dramatic shift in his religious beliefs demonstrates how powerful of an effect the Nazis had on the prisoners. Prisoners were told that they had no worth and eventually they began to believe it and give up on their families, themselves, and

I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” (P.45) He stopped praying because he lost his faith in God, he no longer believed he was this all merciful being. If he was really an all merciful being why would he stay silent? For Elie this was an indication that his God no longer cared about them.

May His name be exalted and sanctified…” (34). Although Elie begins to develop an anger towards God, he still recites prayers at the last minute when he believes he is going to die, showing he still has faith towards

In the book Elie is very resilient showing that he can recover quickly from what he is seeing throughout the camps and what he is witnessing on a day