How Does Elie Wiesel Maintain Faith In Night

Imagine, losing the part of you that makes you unique, or being treated like you were worth absolutely nothing. Think about losing all that you hold on to: your family, friends, everything that you had. Imagine, being treated like an animal, or barely receiving enough food to live. All of these situations and more is what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. During the period of 1944 - 1945, a man by the name of Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of Jews that were experiencing the wrath of Hitler’s destruction in the form of intense labor and starvation. The novel Night written by the same man, Elie Wiesel, highlights the constant struggle they faced every single day during the war. From the first acts of throwing the Jews into

Sometime in life, it is unavoidable that one will lose one’s innocence in their life. Such as how cruel the world is. The novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie loses his own innocence in the Holocaust. Jew’s were brought to the concentration camp. Since Elie is a Jew, he was forced to come. When working, Elie sees how poorly the Germans treat the Jews. Since the death of his father, Elie loses his hope in life. Elie is impacted by the loss of innocence in three ways by losing his faith in his future, loses faith in God, and when he has no passion and sympathy by the deaths around him.

When Elie Wiesel was a kid, he had extreme faith in his religion. Moshe the Beadle is the first person to question Wiesel’s faith. Moshe the Beadle asks Elie Wiesel why he prays; after pondering the thought, Wiesel replies, “I don’t know why” (p. 2). Elie Wiesel does not know the reason why he prays to God when he doesn’t receive anything back. His faith now seems weaker, despite the hours he devotes to God. God gives him Moshe the Beadle when he wants to study the cabala, and his father won’t help him, but once Wiesel arrives at the concentration camp, God shows no such help as he did at that time. Although God may have left Wiesel, his father stepped up to take care of him and show him that all

At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel loses faith from the beginning until the end, it’s continuous. Eliezer begins to lose his faith when he witnesses the hanging of the pipel, Elie was forced to watch the corpse of kids whilst he was allowed to eat dinner. "What are You, my God? I thought angrily. . . What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?"(pg 66) This is when Eliezer loses his faith indefinitely. Throughout the book some of Elie´s peers try to help him bring back his faith in god, i´d say it did not work very well. In chapter 5 of Night a friend of Elieś named Akiba says ¨God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base

Elie and his family are sent to Birkenau,,near Auschwitz. “We gave thanks to God”. (p27) This shows how Elie had faith that

Eliezer Wiesel finally arrived at Auschwitz when he was about fifteen. He soon finds out that the concentration camp is not what he thought it was which made him question his faith in God. “I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute Justice” (Wiesel 42). The reason he says this is because of all these innocent people getting beaten and starved. Eliezer realizes that God isn't acting to stop this disaster. “I no longer accepted God's silence” (Wiesel 66). Eliezer wants God to act upon this but he isn't doing as Elieser wishes so Eliezer guilts God, the “Lord of the Universe” for acting as if he wasn’t there. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (Wiesel 31). Eliezer has started to question, what is he there for if he is doing

Many of those who believe in religion abide by their faith, but during times of immense suffering, that faith is often tested. Through his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel introduces the reader to his life during the Holocaust through the character Eliezer, a teenage boy from Sighet, Transylvania. Eliezer and his father move into multiple concentration camps with a constant risk of torture or death. The memoir gives the reader the perspective Elie had about the inhumane and brutal treatment the Jewish prisoners received. Wiesel writes about his experience of the Holocaust and its result of personal struggles with God and his faith. The Holocaust proves to be a trying time for Elie Wiesel and causes him to question critical aspects of life. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience: first believing

“Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death.” (Wiesel 67). This example shows how Elie is losing his faith. Wiesel does not understand how if God, “The Almighty”, was real with the greatest power how he could allow the burning and killing of so many innocent people and if He was then Elie would no longer want to praise someone of that much cruelty. Later Wiesel gives a greater example of how he loses his faith in god. “And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, Greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise, when You displeased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the flood… But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before you!” (Wiesel 68). This continues to show that Elie is extremely confused how God could turn his back on them when they worship him and didn’t do anything to get this type of torture such as

During World War II, the concentration camp prisoners were mentally and physically tortured causing them to lose faith in God. They believed that God would help them get through these tough times and help protect the inmates, but they soon came to the realization that he wasn't going to help and wasn't answering their endless amount of prayers. The Jews had to defend themselves and learn how to survive under these harsh conditions, especially since no one should ever have to face them. With this in mind, Elie Wiesel along with many others lost their faith. Although they should never be put into a situation terrible enough to forget the faith they once had, it was stripped from them in those concentration camps. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel, 34). The flames from the crematoriums consumed his faith forever because he witnessed so many deaths were God should have saved them. At that moment in time, he realized that God wasn't there with them and already clearly stated that Elie and other innocent Jews had to fight and defend themselves. On the contrary, some might say their faith and human spirit drove them to survive. In “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl,

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize men and cause them to revert to basic instincts. Wiesel and his peers devolve from civilized human beings to savage animals during the course of Night.

Eliezer’s inability to believe in a kind, fair God is a prevailing conflict in Night. At the opening of the book, his faith seems steadfast, but it is irreparably shaken by the Holocaust. Moishe the Beadle is briefly mentioned in the beginning as a means of foreshadowing. Moishe is the first person of many in the book to lose faith in God. Elie leaves behind some of his religious quests upon leaving his childhood home: “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God… Yet I felt little

Many endeavor to sacrifice and understand and many hold on to their beliefs, yet their thoughts and answers linger a secret; leading to elude one’s faith in humanity and God Himself. During his experiences in the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel loses faith in his fellow man and in God. He shows this through his thoughts and actions. In the novel

This story portrays the harsh reality about the events that had happened during the Holocaust, Wiesel who was a young boy living in Sighet, Transylvania, during the World War II. Wiesel even though young was known to be very religious, and was one who during prayer would cry. During this time Wiesel was wanting begin his study of Jewish mysticism, however his Father, Chlomo Wiesel who was a prominent leader in the Jewish community believed that his son was still too young. Aware of his father’s thoughts, Wiesel didn’t let them hold him back and he began his studies of with man named Moche the Beadle, who was known within in the community to be a less fortunate yet still humble man who worked in the Hasidic temple. Moche guides Wiesel on how he should seek to ask God the right questions and teaches him to