Examples Of Family Over Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

During the years prior to Elie's Wiesel's experience in the Holocaust, Elie and his father shared a distant relationship that lacked a tremendous amount of support and communications but, eventually, their bond strengthens as they rely on each other for survival and comfort.

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.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a short book about Wiesel's experiences in the Auschwitz sub-camps. The theme developed by Wiesel throughout the text is the idea of loss and dehumanization, which are prevalent during the entire book. Wiesel writes this book from his own perspective, but he alters the character slightly to distance himself from the horrible events that occurred. The book is organized into parts, each with differing times which in turn cover the five years of his experiences. This essay will describe the relationship between Eliezer and his father, Schlomo. The relationship development aspects I will discuss occurred at the fire pits of Birkenau, the constant beating of Schlomo at Buna, and finally, Schlomo's death in Buchenwald.

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.

Lost hope, brutal disciplinary actions, and mistrust among starving men, Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, sets in 1944-45 in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. An optimistic, 15 year old German, perseveres the harsh living conditions as a Jewish boy and is forced to abide commands of SS officers in concentration camps. Witnessing Chlomo Wiesel nearing death first hand made Elie realize “... there was no more reason to live.”(93). His father, his only blood, was a symbol of motivation to continue Elie’s desire to live. Without Chlomo, Elie would have approached death sooner. He could not abhor the thought of his father bereft of life, as he “slapped him as hard as I could”(94) till he was conscious. Elie grasps to the hope of being

The Holocaust is known for its vast dehumanization; nevertheless, history does not acknowledge the faith destroyed as a result. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the memoir Night, recounts his experiences telling his own story of faith being taken away from him. Wiesel, like many other Jews of this time, was taken from his home to Nazi-controlled concentration camps. Before his deportation, Wiesel’s faith used to be an eminent aspect of his life, describing himself as a child of the Talmud; however, the camps, Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald, shatter all of his remaining faith. Wiesel’s writing conveys the idea that the less one is respected like a human being, the less one sees themselves and others as a

This is a gradual transition that starts, first, with Wiesel’s questioning of God. The first day at Auschwitz, Wiesel witnesses babies being thrown carelessly into pits of flames, burning alive. To Wiesel’s utter disbelief, God is not present to save these poor innocent children from premature death. Wiesel cannot comprehend why his God is not showing up in the face of such adversity and starts to question whether he should worship such a God that ignores his people’s obvious pleas for help. Instead of praying to God for strength and guidance, Wiesel skeptically asks, “Why should I sanctify his name? What was there to thank him for?” (33). Instead of trusting that God is beside him through this experience and investing every last bit of faith into optimism, Wiesel infringes on God’s path for him and becomes suspicious of God’s motives and loyalty. He does not understand, “how can anyone believe in this Mercy of God”, when the Jewish people, their own people, are slaughtered daily

The holocaust unleashed unparalleled cruelty and suffering to a great number of people; Elie Wiesel survived these hardships, but his innocence was shattered. For this reason, he wrote Night to share his personal memories of his time spent in the concentration camps and details the transformation of his faith and understanding of God. Each person Elie writes about attempts to reconcile their agony with their faith, albeit many fail or have their faith transformed. In this paper, I will describe how Wiesel’s understanding of God transforms as he experiences tragedy and how the various prisoners come to terms with their faith.

Often times it is very difficult for one to get through a difficult situation without the support of others. Relationships have never been as stressed as they were in the Holocaust, when the relationships of millions of Jewish families were forever changed. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, is just one of the millions of people whose relationship his family was forever altered by the Holocaust. The memoir, Night, displays the relationship of many fathers and sons that all changed in different ways. Through Wiesel’s memoir the reader discovers that the most adverse situations can pull relationships apart, but more often than not, they bring them closer.

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

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Holocaust and its atrocities are presented to us in a detailed manner. However, this book takes us deeper than just the physical triumphs and horrendous encounters, but also the pain of loosing complete faith in God. Wiesel goes as far as saying “In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void” (60). Anyone who went through such an atrocity, where the most unfathomable things occurred, where children and families were ripped apart and murdered, would question or even loose their faith in a God.

Wiesel, his mother, and his sister were separated at the concentration camp and he did not have hope that he would see them ever again. For instance, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29). This demonstrates that Wiesel believed that he struggled to maintain faith by the loss of his family since numerous families and friends had been separated apart. A few cleared out alone to guard themselves. The reality that the German soldiers isolated friends and families and didn’t care displays of how the Nazi’s really were. The Nazis basically sent honest and good people to their awful deaths and didn’t have the courage to have feelings for them. Another example of what Wiesel said was, “...not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father…,” (111). So, therefore, Wiesel’s father was getting really weak and he realized that his father did not have the quality to outlive on his own and it was too late to save him. In addition, Wiesel felt guilty because he could not help his father survive, but he already knew the only way to live was to watch out for himself. In conclusion, this defines that Wiesel struggled to maintain faith by losing and the loss of his

Elie Wiesel wrote the novel Night to tell of his journey and experience inside concentration camps during World War II as a young boy. Throughout being separated from his mother and sisters, losing his father, and fighting desperately for life, Elie slowly lost faith in not only God, a previously very important aspect of his life, but also in himself and his fellow man. He responded dramatically by losing his faith because he blamed God for the injustice he was seeing, and developed a resentment for him. Like Elie, faith can be destroyed, but years later, one can grow and use their experiences to help others. When adversity puts a person in a very vulnerable position, some take the opportunity to grow their faith and improve as a person, while others lose faith in what they believe.

Moreover, the only reason why Chlomo was not thrown into a wagon to await the crematoria was because of his son. Another instance in which Elie was vital to his father’s survival was how he would give his own rations of bread to Chlomo. This was an extremely selfless act which was demonstrated by the Blockälteste when he noticed Elie and exclaimed, “‘…stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore’” (Wiesel 110).