Examples Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

During the holocaust many things pile on top of each other and God worse and worse. As Elie witnessed this he began to wonder if God was real and wondered why God would do such a thing. He realized this as everyone told their opinions about the crematorium, "oh god, master of the universe, I'm your infinite compassion have mercy on us" (pg.20). Elie prays aloud to God for aloud and tells him why would God do such a thing to people who had no reason to be treated a certain way. Eventually Elie had ups and downs with his

In Night, a memoir, by Elie Wiesel, tells about his life during the holocaust and how he begins to question his faith as he witnesses the brutality of the Nazis. The Nazis force them into concentration camps and murder them without mercy. In Buna, he witnesses God being hanged as he watched a young boy being executed in front of his eyes. Wiesel starts to question his faith in God when witnessing the horrific events he experienced during the holocaust.

in the works of elie wiesel the night elie was a devortor to jewish faith and was sent to series of concentration camps were his faith was tested throughtout the novel. elie and other jews were confronting far evil depths of mankind. where elie saw the death of his family and his own soul. where he questioned the almight exitences. his faith was damged through the event that happen in the camp elie faith in god was bruised due to the abuse he was subject

After Elie and his father were split up from his mother and sisters, Elie started to experience the horrific things that happened in the camps. This is where he first witnessed what would happen in the crematory and for the first time he felt a revolt rise in him, “Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (Wiesel 31). This suggests that Elie starts to question God’s intentions and he does not believe he has anything to thank him

To prove this in the text it states, “‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where he is? This is where hanging here from the gallows’” (Wiesel 65). This is the point in the book where Elie officially lost his faith.

Elie Wiesel himself struggled to maintain faith after witnessing all of the crimes that happened during the Holocaust. “What was there to thank Him for?” Wiesel asked himself as the other prisoners sanctified God’s name (33). Wiesel had become angry with God because He did not do anything to put a stop to the crimes that happened in all of Europe. He had lost his faith that God would do anything to help them. During the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the other Jewish prisoners decided to fast and pray. They thanked God and blessed His name, but Wiesel questioned, “ … why would I bless Him?” he did not believe that they should bless God in the midst of their suffering (67). Elie Wiesel did not pray or fast, because he did not want to waste the little food he had or pray to a God that he believed was not helping him. Wiesel had lost his faith because of his anger and disappointment in a God who stood

Loss of Faith was the Result of Dehumanization Eleven million people killed in 6 years. Six million of those people were Jews and five million of those people were Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and other people the Germans thought of as ‘dangerous’. On September 1, 1939, World War II began when German troops invaded Poland: however, anti-Semitism had been escalating in European nations from 1933. Jews were sent to concentration camps where prisoners were forced to work until a majority of them died or others were killed immediately upon arrival to the camps. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, wrote Night, a memoir to the holocaust.

(Wiesel 34) He could no longer think of any reasons to praise God himself because of the circumstances He is putting Elie through, including lethal labor. Elie’s faith continuingly became more and more similar to a fraying rope. The more it is worked and handled, the worse condition it becomes and some of the strands begin to separate from the whole of the rope, which is represented as Elie’s

The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible was silent. What was I to thank him for?” This is the starting point in the book where Wiesel starts to develop his theme about man struggling with believing in a benevolent god. On page seventy-three, a rabbi Elie knows from Poland loses faith in God. Even the rabbi loses faith in God.

During the holocaust many believed that banishment from their homes was trial sent from God to be endured—a test of faith. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, his mother and sisters are taken from him and Elie and his father are forced to work in the Nazi concentration camps. But Elie's belief in God begins to falter at the concentration camps of Birkenau-Auschwitz. Here the furnaces are busy night and day burning people and German soldiers throw babies and children into flames. The longer he stays in the concentration camps, the more he sees and experiences cruelty and suffering.

Eliezer Wiesel finally arrived at Auschwitz when he was about fifteen. He soon finds out that the concentration camp is not what he thought it was which made him question his faith in God. “I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute Justice” (Wiesel 42). The reason he says this is because of all these innocent people getting beaten and starved. Eliezer realizes that God isn't acting to stop this disaster. “I no longer accepted God's silence” (Wiesel 66). Eliezer wants God to act upon this but he isn't doing as Elieser wishes so Eliezer guilts God, the “Lord of the Universe” for acting as if he wasn’t there. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (Wiesel 31). Eliezer has started to question, what is he there for if he is doing

Over the course of his time there, he is worked hard and witnesses horrific deaths. Because of all the traumatic events that occurred, he lost faith in the God he once believed in unconditionally. John Roth, author of In the Beginning, explained that the holocaust could only have happened if there was no God (35). However this is not true. In actuality, Eliezer explains that there is a God, he just does not believe in His power anymore. Elie does not say that he has become an atheist or that God had died as many people believe” (Brown 72). Elie simply does not believe in Him because of all the events that occurred while he was in the concentration camps.

As situations become tougher in Auschwitz, Elie loses his faith in God. When the prisoners are forced to watch their fellow Jews get hanged, Elie hears a voice behind him, “For God’s sake, where is God?” Elie thinks to himself, “Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows…” This demonstrates how Elie has no more confidence in God. Elie never would have thought that God would let his people suffer from watching friends, family or fellow Jews be hanged. Afterward, around ten thousand men gathered to recite the prayers of death. The prayer starts just like every other prayer, “Blessed be God’s name.” Even though they are reciting a prayer, Elie does not understand how everyone still believes in saying this, even believing that God

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.

Throughout the book you could see how faith and religion play a big role in it. Since the beginning you see how Eliezer is an extremely religious boy who has a very powerful faith and see the changes of it. Faith is really essential because Eliezer has to try to keep his faith in God, himself, and in humanity. Eliezer and the villagers are forced to give up on their religion because that is what has sentenced them to this terrible treatment. Their religion has also not prepare them to be ready to experience the things on the concentration camps (Dougherty). Such as the burning of people this has not prepared them for this because they can’t belive God would let this to happen because of God being good (Wiesel 32). It has also, made the Jews refuse This explains why the faith and religion have to be kept alive.