Faith And Faith In The Film 'The Book Of Eli'

Elie loses complete faith in god in many points where god let him down. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of the misery he was facing. "Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent..."(page 33). Elie was confused, because he doesn’t know why the Germans would kill his race amongst many others, and he does not know why god could let such thing happen to innocent people. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(page 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and a courage to

During Kaddis is when Eli finally realized that he has lost his faith. He no longer wanted to be a part of anything. “But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused,”(68). Even though he no longer was devoted, it opened another door for him, just like the saying when one door closes another one opens. All the events that Eli went through were traumatic and it took him so long to lose what he loved, faith.

Faith is something that everyone should have. Faith isn’t something that you can just throw away and expect to get it back in the future easily. No, faith is something that can't be gained easily once lost. In the book Night, a boy named Elie starts to lose faith as days pass while he is in the concentration camp. He loses faith in himself, and others. Elie losing faith could be a really bad thing that could’ve resulted in him harming himself.

First of all, his presence in faith is very strong at the start of the book, and as you unwrap each chapter, you start to notice a change. Elie was dependent on God to the extent where he revolved his life around Him. Elie really wanted to be as closely connected to God as possible so he did everything he could at the time to accomplish this goal. For instance, Elie states on page 3, “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.” Furthermore, this shows how passionate Elie was about his faith and learning everything about it.

Where’s God? ...” (Wiesel 76-77). After starvation, torment, persecution, agony, and anguish he had to encounter, Eliezer had to survive by his fathers side before he had even finished school. Clearly, religion had an enormous influence in Elie’s life due to the fact that he would play a role in his religion when he became a man. Unfortunately due to the circumstances, he lost his religion and faith along the

Throughout the entire book, we see Elie’s internal conflict with his faith. At the beginning of the book, Elie’s faith is undoubted, but as he encounters the hardships his Holocaust experience offered he questions the presence of God, and thinks that God is dead because if God were alive he wouldn’t be letting this happen. This is seen in the quote, “Where He is? This is where- hanging here from the gallows. Another internal conflict Elie faces is his father.

During through the Holocaust, their faith in God became less faithful than ever before. After all the suffering Eli has been through, he ends up not believing in God. Eli ​believed in God and wanted to learn more religions, but after going to the concentration camp seeing a boy getting hanged and see the Jews suffering, he starts not believing in God. At the Sighet, Eli wants to learn more religions about God so he can understand God's ways. At Sighet, Eli studied different religions during the day and at night he would go to the synagogue to weep and pray.

This shows how Moishe also follows the path of optimistic faith, giving Elie advice about his faith. Overall, Elie’s faith made him more powerful spiritually and emotionally before the evacuation.

In the beginning of this novel, Elie visits his Synagogue more than twice a day. Which is quite a contrast to the end when he loses all faith he has. “Yet the comparison with that biblical figure undermines the tendency to conclude that Eliezer lost his faith(Plank).” This quote, although seemingly contradictory, it proves that Elie sees what is going on around him, all of the death, cruelty, and prejudice, and comes to terms that, if there were a god, he wouldn’t allow man to tear each other apart like they are. “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust(Wiesel 28).” Elie sees flames coming from the graves of young children and infants. Seeing the young shoveling their soon to be eternity home then throw themselves into it is something he can not fully fathom. “In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void(110).” As he continues live through the Holocaust, he witnesses his father die right in front of him. This is something he lives with engraved onto the back of his eye

“Lesson” learned through analysis- Elie stands strong and tells his tragic story so readers remember this horrible event and so they are aware that such things can happen. Elie tells his story so we all make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Elie’s faith is very tight at the beginning of the memoir, he had faith in God when he and the other Jews of Sighet were taken to the ghettos. “And we, the Jews of Sighet, were waiting for better days, which would not be long in coming now'' (5). This show that Elie’s faith was strong enough to believe that life would get better and the hardship would soon be over. It was not easy for Elie to have doubt in God when the Nazis were brutally oppressing the Jews in the ghettos. Once Elie and all the others were transported to Auschwitz, Elie was separated from his father and was tortured and forced to work. In the camp Elie was in, some of the youth with him were planning to take down the Nazis and said "We must do something. We can't let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse. We must revolt."(31). Then an

In the beginning of the book, Elie believed that he no longer had faith, though he had been a compelling believer before. He also reveals the strong relationship he had with his father, and because his father was the only sense of family he had left, he did everything he could to keep his father healthy and alive. In section three of the novel, Elie shows the first sign of loss of faith, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me… why should I sanctify his name… what was there to thank him for” (Wiesel 33). He believed that the terrible situation he was in, was to surely be blamed on God, due to the unanswered prayers that Elie received. Elie displays the great relationship he possessed with his father in section three as well, “Men to the left… women to the right… eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion... eight simple, short words… yet that was the moment when I left my mother… we were alone” (Wiesel 29). The quote demonstrates the fact that Elie’s family was literally split in half when his sister and mother went to the right and he and his father stayed left. Elie only has his father, so it makes sense for Elie to sacrifice everything for him.

We encounter Elie’s lost of faith throughout the book. Once he was separate he was brought to an area where bodies were being thrown into a fire. He started losing his faith in humanity once he saw the cruel things that were happening. When people lose there faith, they lose their faith in God and themselves. They start looking on the negative side of life and just lose their focus for what they wanted. Elie would want to study the Cabala but his father didn’t approve of it. He would always look out for not just his family but the people around him. Elie would always pray but wouldn't know why. He fascinated with Judaism so he goes without his father’s permission to learn more. “Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever.” on page 45 clearly tells us that his faith was lost due to the fact that bodies were being thrown into the flames. As the book

Eliezer's main conflict that governs the story would be sustaining his belief in God. This

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