Examples Of Faith In The Book Night

At the point where Chlomo dies, Elie has split emotions. The real part of Elie wants to mourn for Chlomo, yet the cruelty he endures gives him an emotionless personality. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep” (106). The last moments of Chlomo’s

In the allegorical short story entitled “Young Goodman Brown”, author Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the irony of words and their connotations to express his ideas. The most evident example of this word inference is the used of “Faith” as the name of Young Goodman Brown’s wife. Religiously, faith can be defined as “the belief and trust in God and in the doctrines expressed in the scriptures or other sacred works” (Merriam-Webster). Hawthorne uses the relationship between Brown and his wife to parallel that with his own personal faith.

At one point in Elie’s story, his dad is beaten by a Gypsy inmate in charge of the barrack Elie and his father are staying in. Elie recounts “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in from of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh!” (39). Another example of the theme of emotional death is when Elie and other prisoners are being shipped on a train to a new place. People are dying while on the train. Every once in a while, the train will stop and authority figures will collect the dead from the train cars. Elie says “It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead” (100). A third and final example of emotional death found in the book

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.

Elie first recalls Dr. Mengele’s “eight short, simple words” (Wiesel 27) when he enters the camps: “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 27) In this part of the book, Elie and his father are separated by his mother and sisters. This metaphorically kills Elie because he is very attached to his family as are they to him. A piece of Elie has been taken away from him forever. Later in his memoir, he mentions the cruel hanging of the Pipel. Previous hangings that day did not phase Elie, but when the young, angelic Pipel was hanged, Elie said his once flavorful soup “tasted of corpses.” A man near Elie was saying “Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows…”(Wiesel 62) This is a powerful quote that shows how Elie has also began to question his faith. This brings about the mindset of the death of God in Elie. Elie begins to show distrust and rebellion in his God. This is a sharp contrast to Elie’s former beliefs. When Elie’s father dies, Elie emotionally shuts his mind off. He says “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore.” He had finally given up. His father was his rock tied to the balloon, his reason to keep going. Without his father, Elie gave up and became zombified like the rest of the broken souls. Elie fully turned into the emotionless man that he was set to become as a result of surviving

Elie was deeply devoted to his faith at the beginning but as the story progresses he loses that devotion and barely believes that there is a God that exists. The first signs of him losing his faith was when he arrived at the first camp and saw the horrible things people were doing to the Jews. Other people around him had already lost faith in God and Elie was beginning to doubt God due to Him allowing people to do this to others. “His

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

The repression of Elie and the other prisoners in Night caused them to seek comfort in each other and resist the SS officers by keeping each other alive. A veteran explains, “You must never lose faith, even when the sword hangs over your head” (Weisel, 29). Here an older prisoner offers advice to the new men entering the camp. By giving them this valuable advice he is increasing their likelihood of survival. A girl working alongside Elie comforts him, “Bite your lip little brother… don’t cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on” (Wiesel, 51). Here the girl sees that Elie is in a tremendous amount of pain and tries to comfort him. By comforting him she reminds him that he is not alone, and this gives him strength. Elie

Elie's struggle with his faith to God is a major internal conflict he has with him self in the book Night. In the beginning of the book, his faith in God is completly untoched. When questiond about his faith and why he would pray to God, he ask, “Why did I pray? Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”( Winsel Pg 2) His belief in a powerful and able God is untouched, and he cannot think of living without his faith in his religions practices, as it has been one of the main guides in his life. But this faith he has is shaken by his experience during the Holocaust and the events that took place, what he lives and what he sees.

It is hard for someone to imagine that a person he/she loves and praises would have the potential to betray him or her. Elie feels that way every single day when God betrays him in the novel Night, he then finds himself questioning his faith very often. Through this text, the Elie Wiesel begins to lose his faith as well as many other prisoners in the camp and he believes God is just watching him suffer and not helping him or anyone else. Elie was a strong believer of God, but Elie realizes God wouldn’t do this to the Jews and Elie felt is was best to stop believing in someone who isn’t helping him. He wonders if good things happen anymore. Therefore, Elie starts to lose his faith when God no longer loves him and doesn’t help him when he needs the most help.

We encounter Elie’s lost of faith throughout the book. Once he was separate he was brought to an area where bodies were being thrown into a fire. He started losing his faith in humanity once he saw the cruel things that were happening. When people lose there faith, they lose their faith in God and themselves. They start looking on the negative side of life and just lose their focus for what they wanted. Elie would want to study the Cabala but his father didn’t approve of it. He would always look out for not just his family but the people around him. Elie would always pray but wouldn't know why. He fascinated with Judaism so he goes without his father’s permission to learn more. “Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever.” on page 45 clearly tells us that his faith was lost due to the fact that bodies were being thrown into the flames. As the book

Elie’s faith is very tight at the beginning of the memoir, he had faith in God when he and the other Jews of Sighet were taken to the ghettos. “And we, the Jews of Sighet, were waiting for better days, which would not be long in coming now'' (5). This show that Elie’s faith was strong enough to believe that life would get better and the hardship would soon be over. It was not easy for Elie to have doubt in God when the Nazis were brutally oppressing the Jews in the ghettos. Once Elie and all the others were transported to Auschwitz, Elie was separated from his father and was tortured and forced to work. In the camp Elie was in, some of the youth with him were planning to take down the Nazis and said "We must do something. We can't let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse. We must revolt."(31). Then an

Firstly, the words of characters are essential in displaying this theme through the quotes of two characters, a young French woman, and also Elie himself. The first compassionate quote occurs after Elie is maliciously assaulted by Idek, a Kapo who has episodic outbursts of fury. After the onslaught subsides, the French woman acknowledges a distraught Elie, and attempts to console Elie by saying, “Bite your lips, little brother... Don 't cry” (Wiesel, 53). In this statement, the French woman utilizes empathy for Elie to overcome her fear of speaking to Elie, visibly shown through the quote “I knew she wanted to talk to me but that she was paralyzed with fear” (Wiesel, 53), through compassion, consequently enabling her to feel an urge to ease Elie 's suffering and calms Elie

Amazed and frighten and in need of help, wondering if he is there or not. In need of faith but not sure if he should believe or not. If believing in him will save him or not. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie begins to lose his faith in God. he began to realize and understand that God can’t answer every prayer.

Baldwin questions problems in faith and how to address them, as well as continuing his insistence that relations with God must be forged in the fires of repentance and humility. To question faith only to rise from the temptation causes one to become stronger, but one must also repent in order to become holy (Bloom). In The Fire Next Time, He writes that “It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being… must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian Church”(The Fire Next Time, 42). The Christian church is not perfect, and through questioning religion and determining one’s faith one can create a connection with God. He questions the necessity of the existence of