Examples Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

During World War II, Hitler's final solution was to annihilate all the Jews. He sent all the Jews to multiple concentration camps, breaking their families up and forcing them to do brutal things. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel tells us about how his experiences in the camps were. He and his father gets split away from his mother and other siblings, so he has to look out for his father like his father has to look out for Elie. Throughout the book, Elie gives examples of how he loses his faith in God.

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.

“Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.”- Barbara Johnson

In the 1930’s and 40’s, Jews were stripped of their identities and put into death camps by the Nazi soldiers. This is what happened to Elie Wiesel when he was only 15 years old. Elie and his family were captured and put into an extremely large death camp called Auschwitz. As soon as he and his family stepped through the gates, his mother and sister were murdered and Elie and his father were put to work. This memoir, Night, is a description of how Elie stayed alive in the camp and how he lost belief in his religion. When put into a horrible situation, it’s easy to lose faith.

In the book Night, the author Elie Wiesel, talks about his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the beginning, he is a religious young man with very faithful morals. As the book goes on, he experiences situations where he questions his faith and belief in God but also gains maturity without realizing it. The setting of these situations will change his life. Throughout the whole book, Elie Wiesel’s faith gets tested as he endures extreme events within the camp. The three main concepts are; faith is a constant battle, it’s never lost just shaken, and maturity come from challenges.

Due to the Jewish experiences during the Holocaust, many lost their faith in humanity and God. Many felt like the God they were so loyal to had abandoned them when they were put through such cruelty. In the novel Night the author, Elie Wiesel, writes about his experiences in the holocaust and the cruelty involved, which makes him lose his faith in God.

Elie begins his story, pre Holocaust, having great faith in G-d. He is on path to be a scholar, he is studying daily with Moshe the Beadle. All of this starts off by looking optimistic for Elie. His life is good, he has great faith in G-d. Their are no issues. However, as the war escalates and Elie begins to witness the horrors of the holocaust he loses faith. For example, as the holocaust is just beginning and Elie is yet to be saved despite the losses he is faith he begins to lose faith by saying “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. 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?” (pg. 33) As the war continues to escalate and Elie is removed from the gettho and begins getting deported to Auschowitz his loss of faith heightens as he lacks the support from god. Elie begins wondering. ““Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?” (pg. 74) The more atrocities Elie learns the the nazis are causing the more he begins to wonder where his god is.

Death, murder, bloody horror! The death of many can destroy the minds of millions, just imagine what the death of millions can do to one’s mind and soul. The Holocaust was a horrific event, changing people’s hearts and even their relationships with god after millions were forced to watch others die, be burned, and starved. This event of this mass murder is a great example of how man can be so inhumane to one another and how those events can have a great effect on someone’s faith.

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?

In the beginning prayer, faith, and religion were like second nature to Elie. He was very invested into God and treated prayer like it was just a natural thing that was supposed to be done. Wiesel proclaims, “why did I pray? Strange question, why did I live? Why did I breath?” (4) this demonstrates the intensity of Elie’s spirituality because of how he compares prayer to living and breathing. Although, when he first arrived at the concentration camp and begins to whiteness many cruel acts his spirituality slowly begins to diminish until close to the end he has grown a new found hatred for God because he believes that God was silent during him and all of the Jews struggle

In the book “night” Elies faith and his relationship with God change while he is in the concentration camp, because he finds out that he wasn’t going to leave anytime soon, so he starts losing his faith in humanity, and he questions wether he should continue believing in his god. Elies crisis of faith is shared with other prisoners as well.

Believing is part of life, everyone has their own opinions, religious beliefs, and point of view. Before the Holocaust many Jews strongly believed in God and going to temple very often, but after the Holocaust not many believe enough to go to temple. Elie Wiesel was one of them who stopped believing God would do the Jews justice. Elie says something unforgettable in the camps which is, “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. I was not denying his existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (Weisel 45). He explains how many still believed God was going to come and save the Jews and he is going to help them, but Elie doesn’t think he will. He thinks God exists but he doesn’t

Man’s humanity is lost during the time of World War II. People victimize other people. Family fighting family, brother fighting brother in an act of mass genocide. Thoughts are beaten and drilled into their heads turning humans into mindless, fighting soldiers for an outlandish cause of “purifying” the population. During the Holocaust many books were written about the survivors. One book, Night by Elie Wiesel, exemplifies the inhumane acts of people against other people. Eliezer was a young boy when he was taken to a concentration camp, he worked and traveled from camp to camp. Treated like feral animals, the prisoners are worked to breaking points and have to endure raucous conditions. Many events in Night show how sick the people were to one another, more than enough to fit in this paper. A single essay cannot do justice for this memoir. The Jews in Night were treated so inhumanely throughout the course of the entire holocaust, but even though they were treated like sickly animals they treated each other just as bad.

In class we previously read the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. This book told the story of young Elis’s life as he suffered through the holocaust. As we all know the holocaust was a very dark period, where millions upon millions lost their lives. Prisoners from all over were taken and jailed in concentration camps where they were tortured endless with no boundaries. Along the way to liberation many lost hope and gave up completely. Certain traumatizing events affected the prisoner's hope along with the inner and outer forces.

The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of the horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps, mainly Buchenwald, and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid, unforgettable, and shocking images of the past. It is beneficial that Wiesel published this, if he had not the world might not have known the extent of the Nazis reign. He exposes the cruelty of man, and the misuse of power. Through a lifetime of tragedy, Elie Wiesel struggled internally to resurrect his religious