Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he loses faith in God. ¨But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises¨ (Wiesel 69). Wiesel is losing faith in God and not believing in him. Wiesel believes that he could still pray for God, even though he thinks God does not answer his prayers. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are losing faith in God and disbelief.

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

During the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie has a complex relationship with God. In beginning of the book, Elie’s has a strong connection with God and wants to strengthen his faith by practicing Kabbalism with Moishe the Beadle. His father forbids Ellie from doing so, but Ellie thinks that studying Kabbalism is worth the risk of getting punished by his father. Latter in the book, Elie’s faith is tested.

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania was he grew up to spend his childhood studying Jewish holy books. In 1944 his family was forced to live in one of two ghettos in Sighet. On May 16th, 1944 Elie and his family were taken to Auschwitz-Birkeua concentration camp. In the book Night, Elie writes about his experiences in the Holocaust when he was just 16 years old. Eliezer's faith in God and practice of his Jewish traditions are shattered by the experiences he had Auschwitz. His journey to the Camp's becomes a journey of faith that takes him from being orthodox and traditional, to being unsure about God and the faith that he has practiced since he was born.

In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the theme of God and Religion was able to play a vital role in describing the horrifying experience that the Jews faced from a new perspective. The events of the holocaust are usually described for its brutality and deadliness, but the impact of religion is rarely ever mentioned of. During the events of the holocaust, Wiesel’s faith experiences a change from the praising of God to completely losing his faith. The presence of God and religion was also able to create a sense of hope and optimism for some of the Jews, yet there were those that had completely lost their faith. Wiesel’s faith experienced a change during the holocaust that led him to eventually lose his faith completely, and even go to the extent of rebellion.

Night is an account of the Holocaust and persecution of the Jewish people, written by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel wrote, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky” (Night). Remembering the events of the Holocaust and the atrocities that occurred are a major theme of the book . The events of the Holocaust were unforgettable to Elie Wiesel and even on the first day, he saw children being burned. Throughout the book this is not the only atrocity that he saw.

Elie is watching over his father and fights for him to keep going until he no longer can. It’s in the emotional moments that they come together. “We had never understood one another so clearly.” (Weisel 65) They are seeking to understand each other and through having this emotional moment together where they are both vulnerable, they become closer than they had ever been. Without them fighting to keep one another alive they had multiple opportunities where they could’ve fallen into death. “We’ll look after each other.”(Wiesel 85) They say this while they sit in the cold both needing sleep but also knowing that falling into a deep sleep means death. When his father becomes ill Eliezer fights and begs for his father to not let go. “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore.” After using so much of his energy and putting it into his father, fighting for him to stay alive he feels like nothing matters because the only thing that remained through everything was his

There are many important themes and overtones to the book Night, by Eliezer Wiesel. One of the major themes from the book includes the protagonist, and author of his memoire, Elie Wiesel’s ever changing relationship with God. An example of this is when Moche the Beadle asked Elie an important question that would change his life forever, as the basis of his passion and aptitude for studying the ancient texts and teachings of Judaism, “When Moche the Beadle asked Elie why he prayed, Elie couldn 't think of an answer that truly described his faith, and thought, "a strange question, why did I live, why did I breathe?" (Wiesel 14).

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.

Thesis Statement: The hardships that Elie Wiesel faced in the concentration camps lead him to lose faith, until after when realizing it was crucial to keep faith in God despite the horrendous events of the Holocaust.

At first the book started out with their relationship being strained. This was because his dad did not support Eliezer’s interest in studying the Cabala. “You are too young for that, maimonides tell us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world of fraught with peril”(4). A reason that there could be problems with Eliezer and his dad is that his dad was not always present. “He rarely displayed feelings, not even with his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own”(4). But, even though at the beginning of the book Eliezer and his dad’s relationship was iffy, they grew a bond due to the tragic events they had gone

Like one of the symbols Elie uses is he father in his narrative. All through the book Elie doesn't leave his father, he never leaves his father's side. His father clearly means not being alone, comfort. I feel like is Elie didn’t have his father he wouldn't have survived. I only say this because Elie went to his father for anything and everything. If he didn’t have his father I think Elie would have lost it or possibly killed himself, because he's lived a life where he's never been on his own and he's only 15. To continue, Elie’s father also symbolises growing up. When his father started getting weaker by the day, Ellie grew up to take care of his father instead of his father taking care of him. Furthermore along the story you will see almost a pattern in the book, in the nights of the book that's well most of the horrible actions are taken place. When Elie’s father goes to that meeting with the council in the ghetto, that took place at night. Then every time Elie and his dad switched concentration camp that was at night. This is probably the main reason why Elie Wiesel named his book night, probably to get the reader to think more about the nights Elie went through in his narrative. Lastly, one of the symbols that I caught while reading is fire. In the beginning of the book, there's a woman by the name of Mrs.Schachter. She was in the cattle car with

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