Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

Another time Elie questions God and his faith is around Rosh Hashana, the new year. All the Jews gathered together to say prayers to God. He questions God for allowing all these terrible things to happen to them when they live their lives for Him.

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.

People often begin to lose faith in God because of the results they faced from their life experiences. Some face things that seem cruel and unbearable while others are “confronted with the information presented from another viewpoint that rejects God” (Gospel Billboards). Elie was told by his father to never lose his faith in God, it would help him get through tough times and keep him strong. The faith is the only strong force that helped Elie Wiesel get through the Holocaust. Through experiences that involve cruel and unbearable moments, people start questioning whether God has the answers to life’s problems. This results in faith beginning to weaken, people stop communicating with God, which makes it easier for one’s faith to diminish. We encounter Elie questioning and refusing God, but also see his contradictory behavior he exhibits to praise. However, throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that leads him to lose his faith in his religion. The longer he stays in the concentration camps, the more he experiences and sees cruelty and suffering. Eliezer believes that people who pray to a God who allows their families to suffer and die are more stronger and forgiving to God. Elie was angry at God, he thought God didn’t deserve his praises or honors because he expected God to come save him but he never did. He observes people die and others around him slowly lose hope, starve, Elie ceases to believe that God could exist at all now. “Where He is? This

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.

In the beginning of the memoir Night, Eli was very devoted to his faith. Eli was asking the question, “Why do you pray?” In his head he thought,-“Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breath?” (4). Comparing breathing to prayer shows how much this was a part of his life. “By day I studied the Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “Profoundly.” However, as the book carries on, that tends to change. The experiences he goes through changes him as a person.

In the beginning, Elie was just like any other religious boy who believed in god or whoever he prayed every night in the synagogue. He was a happy and safe young prodigy who focused on school; his parents ran a shop with his other siblings. Kids were running in the streets; life seemed normal and tranquil for a while, until it wasn’t any longer. Once the Germans came into their town, everything changed for Elie and his family. Throughout the book Night, Elie goes from being devout to being skeptical during his entire journey.

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

Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz where they are separated from the rest of the family and first hear about atrocities such as the incinerators and gas showers. In the beginning Elie believes that everything is a rumor, a lie, that humankind cannot perform such crimes, but he soon is forced to witness the demise in front of his eyes. This is when his outlook on his faith starts to waver. While watching the smoke billow up from a crematory, Elie hears a man standing next to him begging him to pray, and for the first time in his life Wiesel turns away from God. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (31).

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.

Once introduced to the camps, he begins to understand the horror of the camp. He witnesses a death of young ones who didn't get to live. Elie begins to question God why are you staying silent. He wonders why do I praise him if he does nothing. "For the first time, I felt anger rising within me, why should I sanctify his name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible master, chose to be silent" (33). Once the Jewish boy entered the concentration camps he had a big change of heart he discovered that God was horrible and did not care for us. This is the moment that he begins to question God due to seeing the atrocity in the camps. He begins to question the faith because of how God was

Throughout the Novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel was dedicated to his religion and faith but after awhile he started to give up on God. Elie saw children burned and all kinds of people getting killed for no reason in the concentration camps. He could not believe God would let this happen to innocent people. His faith began to diminish because of the images he saw. People around Elie kept doubting God and that influenced him also. Throughout the Novel “Night” Elie Wiesel thoughts towards God changed in major ways.In the begining of the novel Elie was very religous but that changed extremely fast after arriving at Auchwitz and saw what he say. Towards the end of all of his pain he went through he lost all his faith in God.

Most humans all around the world are brought up with a religious belief. Although people may believe during times of hardship and chaos people may cling onto loved one and their beliefs, but in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night it is seen that many people actually experience a loss in faith and humanity when brought to the brink of death. Loss of faith is seen an incredible amount of times in Night do to the diabolical actions brought upon by a group of people raining terror on those who have done absolutely nothing to deserve it.

Elie in the book Night was put through challenges mentally, physically and through his faith in his god during the story. Elie shows us as a prisoner at the concentration camps that faith can tested at difficult times. “God has betrayed us, allowing us Jews to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned” (Wiesel 65). Elie shows the reader that faith was hard to understand at the concentration camps. Elie's faith changed because he was calling on his god wondering where he as. When people we getting burned alive, young boys were getting hanged and people were getting beaten constantly. Elie was challenged during the his time in the concentration camps in what he believed in. Elie shows that he had to go through hard times even with his family.

The statement, "Faith in God is only attainable in terms of peace and freedom," I believe, is one statement that possibly presents itself as a theme for the novel, Night. My reasoning for this is quite simple: Elie presents the Jewish faith in a moment of extreme darkness, hence, "...only attainable in terms of peace and freedom." When Elie witnesses the horror of the Auschwitz concentration camps he feels that his God has been murdered before his eyes and that God is no longer in his reach. Eliezer cannot balance the abuse that he sees with his belief of God. He does not stop believing in God, but loses his faith that God is fair. Other Jews also have some loss of faith: Akiba Drumer, more or less, gives up and dies once his faith in God is lost, and even a rabbi feels guilt at doubting God’s mercy. In the concentration camps, many men continue to observe Rosh Hashanah and other religiously significant days, but it is unclear how many of them retain their faith. lie cannot imagine living without faith. But this faith is shaken by his experience during the Holocaust.