No Faith In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie loses complete faith in god in many points where god let him down. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of the misery he was facing. "Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent..."(page 33). Elie was confused, because he doesn’t know why the Germans would kill his race amongst many others, and he does not know why god could let such thing happen to innocent people. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(page 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and a courage to

He is angry at God because even though God created Auschwitz, and has turned his back on the victims of the Holocaust, people are still praying before him. The God that Elie had trusted and given his life to turned his back on him when he faced death and suffering. This caused Elie to debate whether this “God” was ever going to save them from the torment of the concentration camp. It is debatable whether Elie has completely lost faith in God or if he is venting his rage upon God. Nevertheless, at this time in the Holocaust, Elie’s faith has definitely

Elie experiences internal conflict due to the events that took place during the Holocaust. He starts to question God and begins to rebel against God while enduring an identity crisis at the concentration camp. To begin with, Elie is showing some resentment and displeasure towards God. He’s showing his disapproval regarding God’s allowance for letting his people be tortured. For example, on page 66 he says, “What are You, my God?

Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz where they are separated from the rest of the family and first hear about atrocities such as the incinerators and gas showers. In the beginning Elie believes that everything is a rumor, a lie, that humankind cannot perform such crimes, but he soon is forced to witness the demise in front of his eyes. This is when his outlook on his faith starts to waver. While watching the smoke billow up from a crematory, Elie hears a man standing next to him begging him to pray, and for the first time in his life Wiesel turns away from God. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (31).

When Elie is ordered to go on a march, he and others witness a youth about his similar age being hung for stealing food. “I remember that on that evening the soup tasted better than ever” (Wiesel 63). This indicates that Elie had shown no emotion towards the event, and in turn was happy that he was able to eat the soup, even if it was at the expense of another individual. Additionally, as Elie’s father is dying towards the end of the novel, Elie shows no empathy towards him as he is being beaten by the Nazi SS Official. “I heard his voice...yet I did not move” (Wiesel xi). Elie later regrets this terrible event however, but this just suggests how he was corrupted at that time after seeing all those people suffer and not do anything about. It then ultimately it happened to his father, and he did not do anything about it. Moreover, Elie is very religious at the beginning of the story, and is eager to learn more about the Jewish religion. However, as the book progresses, he begins to lose faith in his own God. After seeing all these terrible horrors, he exclaims, “For God’s sake, where is God?” (Wiesel 65). This statement clearly validates that as he watches all this abomination take place, he wonders where God

Faith can make the road a bit clearer, because what cannot be seen through the eyes will show through the heart. During the Holocaust, however, many Jews had to live in concentration camps where they struggled to maintain faith. These people were put through such horrible atrocities that remaining faithful became a struggle for them. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel struggled to maintain his faith because he lost hope in humanity, believed that his God was no longer present, and was to weak to believe in himself. Wiesel lost hope in humanity after he had witnessed such devastating events.

Losing faith is when people don’t believe in something or someone anymore. Some people face things that seem brutal or truly terrible that is going on in someone's life. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel contributed his life experienced as a young Jew that survived within the feared of his time in the concentration camp during the Holocaust. Wiesel’s religious was a Jewish boy trying to know God, which taught him that God is everywhere in the world no matter what and that nothing exists without God. During his first night in the concentration camp and during the hanging of the young pipel, Wiesel really struggled to maintain his faith. Wiesel struggled to maintain faith in God due to what he thought was the absence of God, the loss of his family,

“Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel, Night 34). This is implying that from Elie’s first moments in a concentration camp, seeing the burning bodies of his flesh, and then realizing that no one is able to help, nor reach out to help any of this that has been happening, not even God, he begins to lose faith in god. He saw things no one should see. “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.”

Through these hard time, Elie is confused and wondering about his faith to the one. Elie thinks to himself about God's name. Elie complains that “For the first time I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless his name? The eternal, Lord of the universe, the all powered and terrible, was silent.

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

For example, Elie stated that he “...had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” (45). Elie’s faith in God displays that he has major doubt about the reasoning and significance about why him and his father were suffering through this disastrous event. He states that he “ceased to pray”, which demonstrates how he does not care to keep up with his morals through a time of despair and injustice. It is not that Elie doubted the existence of God, he just doubted that God had healthy intentions of this event and that the millions of Jews were being “punished” for the previous years that they were not at fault for. Later in the novel, Elie further explains why he felt insecure and skeptic about the reasoning behind this cataclysmic event. “Why, but why would I bless Him? Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death. How could I say to Him: Blessed by Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch us as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?” (67). Elie genuinely vents about the way he thinks about God, the way he despises and feels misguided by the Almighty who is supposed to lead his followers to a place where chaos will no longer be available. To a place where millions are supposed to feel safe and secure, while also enabling to put their faith and loyalty to someone who will guide them to adventures in life that will not be treacherous. But, He requires that his followers must put faith in Him and are able to die for their optimism in

This shows Elie’s change in his thoughts on God and having faith. At the beginning of the story, Elie strives to be a spiritual kid and is fascinated by learning about God. He goes behind his father's back to learn about God with Moishe the Beadle, and has intense prayers everyday which he cries during. However, he becomes bitter towards God, angry about all the pain he has inflicted on the Jewish race. This change in perspective was brought on by the torture, abuse, and inhumane treatment by the Nazis. It causes Elie to question how God, who is supposed to be helpful and good, could ever allow such horror. This connects to loss, and how the traumatic

Another time Elie questions God and his faith is around Rosh Hashana, the new year. All the Jews gathered together to say prayers to God. He questions God for allowing all these terrible things to happen to them when they live their lives for Him.

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.

While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,