How Does Night Elie Wiesel Have A Loss Of Religious Faith

Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.

Night by Elie Wiesel develops many themes such as: emotional death, the struggle to maintain faith, and self-preservation versus family commitment. Night is a story of a young Jewish boy, Elie, sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War. Elie is the narrator of the story. Throughout the story, Elie experiences many experiences that will haunt him eternally. Wiesel writes about Elie’s horrendous experiences, feelings, and thoughts at Auschwitz. The themes emotional death, the struggle to maintain faith, and self-preservation versus family commitment are prevalent in Elie’s story of perseverance and triumph despite hard circumstances.

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

Sometimes in the worst conditions we turn from God, losing faith in him and give into the present events. This happened to Elie Wiesel author of Night which accounts the events of him surging the Holocaust and losing faith in God. Weisel previously was a Jewish bible scholar but after going to through the horrific events the holocaust held, he started to not believe and lost hope. If he had remembered some of the many verses he had learned he could have kept his faith.

Wiesels faith in god went on a rollercoaster during the Holocaust. At the beginning of the book Wiesel mentioned how him and his friends stayed in the synagogue during all hours of the day, meaning that his faith in god is very strong. On page 27 wiesel was very thankful for his relationship with god. Wiesel mention that his “god was murdered” during the middle of the book Night (Wiesel 34). On page 77 Wiesel said something along the lines of why should he be merciful to god as he is “a simple creature of flesh and bone”. Around page 35 Wiesel was thanking god though which was confusing to me, as on page 34 he talked about his god being murdered.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie wrote about his journey through the Holocaust and how it impacted his faith. Before the Holocaust, Elie became very passionate about Judaism, but his learning was stopped abruptly because the Nazis had arrived. The Nazis took away his teacher, along with his neighbors. Soon, the Nazis came back for the remaining citizens and loaded them into a train. This was the beginning of the Holocaust, in which Elie would experience many horrific events. Throughout Night, Elie’s faith decreases because of the harsh conditions of concentration camps and the declining health of his father.

Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel. In this book Wiesel tells about his experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel was only twelve years old when the Holocaust first affected him. Early on Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister. Him and his father were then moved from camp to camp having to endure harsh conditions. Together they both saw terrible things that they will never forget. Many conflicts in The Holocaust changed both Wiesel and his father. The two factors that affected Wiesel the most was him having to indirectly face the entire Nazi society and his believe and trust in God.

As days went by in the concentration camp, many begin to lose their faith in religion just like Elie. The book, Night is written by Elie Wiesel, a winner of the Nobel Peace prize. In the book Night, Elie is the main character who is very religious at first. It begins with his family and him traveling to Auschwitz which his little sister and mother die. With only his father and him, they went through many hardships and moving from camp to camp. Unfortunately, Elie father did not survive the Holocaust but Elie did. By the end of the story, Elie did entirely lose his faith in God because he did not celebrate the important holidays, questioned God and his justice, and tries to forget his existence.

Elie Wiesel is a young, teenage, Jewish boy involuntarily placed in Nazi concentration camps. The concentration camps tested Elie’s sincerity of his faith. All of the inhumane events, destruction, and absent childhood, forced a method of non-belief on Elie and his fellow beings. In Elie Wiesel's Night, faith is seen as a controversial topic, and challenged throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

Throughout the book we see him struggle with his concept of faith and beliefs. For example the quote “…there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (Wiesel 69). We can see his frustration with God and how hurt he is by what is going on around him. However we also see him wanting to hold on to some hope that things will get better and that God is real.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s faith progressively spirals downward from the moment he saw children being thrown into a burning pit in Auschwitz and proceeds to spiral throughout his journey. From the beginning of Night, Elie is a faithful Jew who, about a year before the end of the war, is taken from his home, where he is moved into a ghetto, in Sighet, Transylvania and then to Auschwitz. Slowly, as the front lines are being pushed back and his needs are found useful elsewhere Elie travels to a multitude of camps. Finally, his luck comes when he is liberated by the American Army on April 10, 1955. Throughout the book, Elie’s faith is constantly dwindling as the book goes on and he goes from being mad at God for doing nothing, to saying the Holocaust is His fault, and, finally, not believing in God at all. Elie shows the evolution of faith during the Holocaust as he, and others, slowly lose faith and belief in their God.

In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, Wiesel matures through his suffering of World War II as a young teenage boy. His faith and view of his father undergo many changes as a cause of his struggles. Through these transformations, Wiesel communicates the ideas that (faith change/loss theme) and that tragedy can bring people closer. Before arriving at the concentration camp, Elie is faithful and has a strong belief in God.

Elie Wiesel went through the Holocaust and wrote a story about his experiences. Throughout the story, Elie Wiesel develops three major themes. The theme that is most prominent in the story is “In extreme difficulty, man struggles to maintain faith in a benevolent God.” The book “Night” shows the human struggle to maintain faith. In the beginning of the book, Elie loses his faith in God very quickly. Elie ideology of a benevolent God is ruined by the abhorrent conditions and the lack of humane treatment in the concentration camps.