Examples Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

Every man, woman, or child has his or her breaking point, no matter how hard they try to hold it back. In Night by Elie Wiesel the main theme of the entire book is the human living condition. The quality of human life is overwhelming because humans have the potential to make amazing discoveries that help all humans. Elie Wiesel endures some of the most cruel living conditions known to mankind. This essay explains the themes of chapter one, chapter four, chapter eight in Night by Elie Wiesel.

Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.

Faith is like a little seed; if you think about the positive aspects of a situation, then it will grow, like a seed grows when you water it. However, if the seed does not receive water anymore, it will die, which serves as a parallel to the horrors and antagonism of the concentration camps that killed Elie’s faith. After the analysis of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader can visualize the horrors and slaughter of millions of innocent people that occurred in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel explains how his faith in God was tested, as he was forced to leave his home, separated from his family, and observed the death all around him; he even witnessed children being thrown into huge ditches of fire alive. Elie felt abandoned, betrayed, and deceived by the God that he knew who was a loving and giving God. It was then he started to doubt His existence. Elie tried to hold on to his faith, but the childhood innocence had disappeared from within him, and he lost his faith in God completely.

I have begun reading Night by Elie Wiesel. This novel is about the events that Elie Wiesel endured as a teenager and harrowing truths about the holocaust. The first chapter was quickly paced and straightforward. A major part of Eli’s day was studying. A man Elie meets named Moishe the Beadle begins to cause him to question his faith and why he prays. The man is definitely different and this later causes the community to miss a warning sign of their impending doom. Moishe the Beadle is a foreign jew and is taken away months earlier than the other jews. He witnesses and miraculously survives a mass murder of foreign jews by faking dead. After returning to Sighet he attempt to warn the residents of what happened but no one believed him. This is important because at this time there were still visas available but since no one could fathom the idea of an attack on a whole population that included millions no one listened. Eli thinks, “Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means?” (8) I liked this explanation in the book because most holocaust books brush over the reason of not leaving when they sensed conflict besides fear and this seemed much more logical in the fact that it does appear to be unbelievable.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the main message is that many people are losing faith in each other and everything. Once someone lose their faith, they lose their faith in God and they start to just give up on what their main focus was. People can start losing their faith once they see things that should be seen. It starts to scare them and their faith is lost. Elie started to slowly lose his faith once he was separated with his mother because he was brought to a place where inhumane things were happening. Once people start to lose their faith, they start doing things that leads to the loss of humanity.

In Night, Eliezer’s faith, and the struggles he faces with it during the Holocaust is one of the main conflicts in the book. In the beginning of the book, Night, the main character, Eliezer, has very strong faith in God. In the first chapter of the book, on page four, he is asked by Moishe the Beadle why he prays to God, in which he responds, “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live?

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes profoundly. During the holocaust the protagonist of the book Night, Elie loses his beliefs, his faith, you don't believe me? I’ll show you.

Faith is supposed to be something that one allows to guide them through everything. They’re supposed to believe, in good times and bad, that whatever God or Gods they believe in will get them through anything. Unfortunately, faith can be put to the test when one is placed in harsh, difficult situations. The victims of the Holocaust lived with this intense struggle to maintain faith to the worst extent. Elie Wiesel’s personal experience with the struggle to maintain faith is conveyed in his novel, Night.

Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, depicts the terror spread throughout the Jewish community during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany occupation. All through the novel, Jewish people’s faith are challenged when put into concentration camps of the Holocaust. Through the eyes of Eliezer Wiesel, he reveals the Jewish experience during the Holocaust and how faith has intertwined with their survival. Eliezer’s faith has oscillated with his relationship and connection with God during his experience in the concentration camps in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel reveals that in extreme circumstances, humans begin to lose faith in a higher, godly power; but in order to survive they never completely lose their faith.

Faith plays a large role in the minds of most individuals, and this was especially true when regarding the Jewish people in Europe during the 1900s. However, at the time of Hitler’s regime and the Holocaust, the faith of many Jews came into question - Elie included. After all, why should they believe in God if they are going through such a tragedy and He shows no signs of being present? The Jewish people felt alone in the universe. They had no God, no faith, and no hope.

We as people are built to be strong mentally and physically, but when we stir off course and hit very extreme and violent hardships we tend to accept defeat. In the case, of World War II, the Jewish concentration camp prisoners had to overcome these challenging obstacles in order to survive. In particular, their faith in God was demolished when they faced horrible conditions and violence in the camps. Specifically, the Nazi soldiers beat, tortured, and killed, innocent victims every day. As a result, prisoners like Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of the book Night, lost his faith in God over the time in the camps during World War II. Even though the human mind overpowers the body allowing the Jews to stay strong throughout their

In Night, Elie shows off how much he believes in God and how his faith is strong. Elie tries to be all religious when it comes to God. He tries to show everyone that believes in him. Elie in his own actions runs to the synagogue. Elie in his tears introducing, “I was almost thirteen and deeply observant by the day studied talmund night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 3). This shows how much he cares about the synagogue. With this it proves that Elie cares for things in his religion being destroyed. Therefore, Davis agrees that “I am on the edge of despair. But, God alone is alone. Man is not and must not be alone” (5). Davis agrees that God Should be with

He first had strong faith, the confused about his faith and lastly, lost his faith. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, faith was a motif of the silence of God. In Night, Elie shows off how much he believes in God and how his faith is strong. Elie tries to be all religious when it comes to God. He tries to show everyone that believes in him.

Faith in God can’t save anyone. Many Jewish and Catholic people believe that God can save them in challenging situations. Once one is dependent on Him, he/she realizes that He cannot actually save anyone. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist, Eliezer, and his Jewish family, live in Sighet and are extremely religious. Eliezer prays often and trusts God to protect him.