Faith In Night

Through human suffering, numbness, and Elie’s actions, Night shows that even though the main character Elie has been through these tragic experiences of the Holocaust, he tells his story accurately with strong verbal image descriptions. Weisel demonstrates the atrocities of the Holocaust through his descriptions of how he saw human suffering. In the book, Night, the author uses a lack of emotion with the character Elie to demonstrate the numb feelings of the Holocaust. Also in the book, Elie’s actions toward other characters reflect greatly throughout the whole story.

According to The Houghton Mifflin dictionary, night is defined as “the period between sunset and sunrise, especially, the hours of darkness” (p.887). Everything terrible happens at night. Every death, every tragedy, anything for that matter, happens at night. The significance that Elie Wiesel was trying to imply about night was a form of darkness. Darkness, as in danger. Darkness as in loneliness; loneliness as in sadness; sadness as in death. The symbol of death is expressed by the main character of the novel, Eliezer. Eliezer might not have died, but he experiences darkness, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith.

In the past many horrific events have happened that many people choose not to believe. One of those events was the Holocaust. Millions of innocent people died during this tragedy, but what about the people who survived? How did this affect them? A survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote about his experience during the Holocaust, and how it changed him as a person. In his book “Night”, the main character Elie went to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Throughout the story, he gained new character traits that he carried for the rest of his life.

Elie was once a devout Jew who always wanted to challenge his faith with new texts and interpretations of the Torah. He would “devote [himself] to [his] studies, Talmud during the day and Kabbalah at night” (32). Elie would then be exiled to Auschwitz, because of his faith, where he would endure a myriad of horrendous treatment and sights of many individuals who perish from starvation, disease, and the crematorium. This cruelty begins to makes Elie question, “Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?” (111) Prompted by his circumstances, Elie no longer concludes that God is all good as he was once taught. He was tortured for his faith, making him think that these beliefs were misplaced in God. The certainty in God is there nevertheless, because that was always an instilled concept in his life. He however thinks that injustice shouldn’t occur to anyone, especially believers, if God is divinely good. As a result of this belief, Elie finds joy in protesting God since he determines that God needs to be improved, a sharp contrast to the perfection he once thought God was. Elie’s identity as a pious worshipper is now gone as he no longer believes that God is all good. Elie has now lost the entirety of his identity without his father and God. His father and God represent Elie’s life before the Holocaust and without them Elie is just a creature manufactured by the Nazis without emotion and without life, “a corpse” (176). Elie no longer believes in compassion but only the bread and water that is survival. Elie writes the novella Night so that this life is not taken out of people as a result of their circumstances as was the case with

The Holocaust of 1933 to 1945 was a tragic period of time in history, killing more than 6 million Jewish people. One of its few survivors: Elie Wiesel, has written a book titled Night explaining his experiences as a prisoner of war. His novel is about young Elie Wiesel arriving in Auschwitz and beginning to labor under the Nazis’ unforgiving rule. Over the course of the book, Elie continually struggles with his relationship with God and feels conflict trying to decide between supporting his ever crippling father and his best chance at survival. Conclusively, because of his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s views of and relationship with God are challenged and his morals are changed.

The most important passage in Elie Wiesel’s Night is, “One day I was able to get up after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.”(p ) This passage is important because the book was based on Eliezer’s experience in the Holocaust, and was written from his point of view. The reader learns from this passage Eliezer survived the Holocaust and all of the harmful things that were happening to him, but he felt as if he was dead because of what he had been through. Everything he had gone through during the time of the Holocaust will have changed his whole life

Night by Elie Wiesel was heart shattering; The experiences Elie had, undoubtedly affected him and his perception of the world. Elie Wiesel was put through unbearable oppression; torture, starvation, and extreme labor, simply because he didn't fit the nazi standards. Due to his hostile environment he struggled with many things including his faith in God. Throughout the novel Weisel described countless acts of violence between men, causing him to question humanity, and whether or not humanity was present. The theme of Night is inhumanity as described by the pain and vulgarness towards him, along with Weisel losing his faith in God, but also humanity.

In Elie Wiesel's book “ Night” he reveals his experiences and memories during the Holocaust of 1941-1945. Elie Wiesel’s experience was dull, filled with violence and darkness. Elie changes not only emotionally but physically, and spiritually.

Imagine being cruelly tortured, starved, and worked to death everyday. In his autobiographical novel, Night, Eliezer Wiesel shares his experiences of being a Jew during the rule of Adolf Hitler, an anti-semite. When Hitler proposed the Final Solution, the eradication of all Jews, Eliezer and his family were forcefully taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although Eliezer survived, he lost his family and identity due to traumatizing horrors of camp. Over the course of the novel, Eliezer’s actions and words have demonstrated that he changed from being religious and caring to faithless and selfish.

― Primo Levi Elie Wiesel is the author of the book” Night”. The book night is about a boy Eli and how he survived the fought times in a concentration camp during the holocaust. He had many rough patches the year and a half he was there, but in the end he made it out alive. In the book “night” by Elie Wiesel , the main character,Elie, is affected by the events in the book, because he became immune to death, lost his religion and he was detached from his sympathy.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes in many profound ways. He had taken in things he witnessed, heard, emotions and perspectives which all shaped him into the person he became after the Holocaust. Eliezer Wiesel is a fourteen-year-old boy living in Sighet, Transylvania during the beginning of World War II. He is a pious boy and wants to study deeper into his religion and read the Talmud. His father, who is an unsentimental man and leader of the Jewish community, believes that he is too young. Out of the many ways that Elie changes, when he survived this historic event, by then he had become a completely different person. He withdrew himself from being pious and hopeful to unfaithful, considerate to selfish and grudgeful and significantly

Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War 2 were killed by Nazis. The book Night is about the author’s,Elie Wiesel (a young jew), experiences that he went through during his time in different concentration camps from 1944- 1945 before he was liberated. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character , Elie, was effected by the events in the book because of his mental changes, him losing his faith, and his changing relationship with his father throughout the book. One of the main things that Elie went through mental changes through the entry of the book. In the beginning of the book Elie is very eager to find himself “a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah” (page 4), but he was turned down because he was too young.

Elie Wiesel shares his horrific experiences and events from the Holocaust during 1941 to 1945 in his memoir Night. During these years Elie evolves from being a kind hearted, spiritually impassioned, and innocent little boy, into an emotionless and spiritually dispassionate young man. He drifts away from his devotion to the Jewish religion and wanting to further deepen his understanding of the Cabbala. Because of the separation of his family and the endless torture of his people, he questions divinity. If such a tragic and devilishly cruel monstrosity is able to happen to innocent people, then there can’t possibly be a God that would permit such cruelty to take place.

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.

The concentration camps in which Elie was constrained into also had a rather intense physical toll on him. Ever since the camp first started, marching was required and it was intensive. They were forced to walk tens of miles at a steady pace without faltering for a second. If one was to stop to take a quick rest, they would be dead either by an officer or over the feet of other prisoners trying to elude death. An example of these terrible deaths was when “Men were collapsing into the dirty