Symbolism Of Water In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

People often begin to lose faith in God because of the results they faced from their life experiences. Some face things that seem cruel and unbearable while others are “confronted with the information presented from another viewpoint that rejects God” (Gospel Billboards). Elie was told by his father to never lose his faith in God, it would help him get through tough times and keep him strong. The faith is the only strong force that helped Elie Wiesel get through the Holocaust. Through experiences that involve cruel and unbearable moments, people start questioning whether God has the answers to life’s problems. This results in faith beginning to weaken, people stop communicating with God, which makes it easier for one’s faith to diminish. We encounter Elie questioning and refusing God, but also see his contradictory behavior he exhibits to praise. However, throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that leads him to lose his faith in his religion. The longer he stays in the concentration camps, the more he experiences and sees cruelty and suffering. Eliezer believes that people who pray to a God who allows their families to suffer and die are more stronger and forgiving to God. Elie was angry at God, he thought God didn’t deserve his praises or honors because he expected God to come save him but he never did. He observes people die and others around him slowly lose hope, starve, Elie ceases to believe that God could exist at all now. “Where He is? This

There is one singular question that persists in humanity from the beginning of time, a question regarding the existence of perhaps the most influential figure in the universe: God. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel details his experiences in the holocaust, his journey from his small Jewish community in Transylvania to the subsequent concentration camps which housed him in his later youth. In this haunting account, Wiesel explores his own journey from a devout young man to one that will question his own faith, the existence of God, and how one could still believe in a “right and just” God after witnessing such atrocities.

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie writes about terrifying and heartbreaking experiences that took place during the time of the Holocaust. The Jews were actively involved in prayer, attending the synagogue, and almost every single person had a firm belief in God. When the Nazi’s invaded Sighet and started tearing away their liberties, the Jews were hopelessly optimistic and completely depended on God for a good outcome of the war. Throughout the entire time that the Jews were deported, transported, beaten, starved, and murdered, they cried out to God and worshiped Him in the most difficult times. Elie, a young man who devoted much of his time to studying the Zorah and developing His relationship with God, began to question and despise God when he, his family, and his friends endured such horrible pain and suffering during the Holocaust. Elie reminisces about the flames that he saw many Jews tossed into. He quotes, “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” (34). When Elie witnessed the bodies of many Jews be incinerated in a furnace, he said that the same flames also consumed his faith forever. The reasons that he said this are because Elie was stripped of his spiritual groundings, Elie lost hope in God’s providence, and Elie’s surroundings didn’t reflect the God that he thought He knew.

Imagine being one of of five hundred thousand jews that survived the mass murdering of over 7 million jews. Elie Wiesel's survival of the holocaust was very significant due to how many times death was just on the tip of his nose during the duration of being in camps and getting transferred numerous times. In the novel “Night” the book goes over the whole experience of the holocaust down to the bare bone from a first person point of view, the author Elie Wiesel was really able to grasp how things were to go down during the holocaust and how almost everybody was mistreated. Some may believe that Elie's faith in god is what kept him alive during his time in the concentration camp; however such as physical and emotional support he got from his dear father more strongly proves that the relationship with his father is actually what kept him alive.

Throughout the book, he faces challenges he never thought he would face and cruelty he never knew existed. There are many different cases of victimizing in his encounter, and one of the most important cases is at the end of Elie’s fathers life. He is beaten by a couple of other prisoners and Elie himself says “I did not move. I was afraid,” (Wiesel 94) He no longer feels anything inside of him, and instead of jumping to his fathers aid to help him from getting hurt, he stands back and lets it happen. Evil of inaction is when someone see’s an atrocity happening and they don’t do anything to help the victim. Elie falls under his own worst nightmare of losing his love for his father, and the outcome is that Elie becomes evil himself, after failing to help him. Elie isn’t the only prisoner of evil of inaction, though. The rest of the world falls under this spell as well. People pretend that others aren’t being slaughtered every single day because of their religion, so they don’t have to deal with the sickening thoughts that humanity is dark and cruel. It takes roughly about six years for other countries to start tearing down the reign of World War II, and if they hadn’t, it would have gone on for longer than anyone knows. Indirect victimizing was very prominent as well. Many years later, Elie is free from the Holocaust. He is reflecting about a time he went on a boat and men and women around him took great satisfaction in throwing coins to the small native children. After Elie saw two of them trying to strangle another, he begged the men and women to stop throwing the coins to the children. One woman responded, telling him that she liked giving charity. Even though this isn’t a direct way of victimizing, it still is in terms because they are pitting younger, smaller children against each other for their own satisfaction. They call it charity, but they’re really just amusing themselves over the fact that

During the Holocaust, many Jews lost their religious faith when they were annexed and tortured by the totalitarian Germans of World War II. Elie Wiesel emphasizes this concept in Night when he loses his religious perspective which he regains later in his life. Elie’s perspective changes dramatically throughout Night because he does not believe that God is alongside him. During the first month of the tragic year that he has yet to endure, Elie starts to inquire whether God is flanking the Jews with support in their fight. When Elie is first in the camp, he supports the opinion of Akiba Drumer, another inmate who bonds with Elie and his father, that “God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, of

Inhumanity can cause you to give up and lose your faith. When Elie was talking to another man at the camps, the man said to him, “it’s over. God is no longer with us” (76). In the beginning of the book, everyone believed that their God would bless them so they relied on him. This man has persuaded Elie that God is not their to support them anymore. Elie was being very sarcastic when he was thinking of a way to “bless God” because he said, “but why would i bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled… how could i say to him: … praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?” (67). Elie doesn’t know how to handle his disbelief, so he choses to give up on God because he feels like he was betrayed. Being treated like animals can make you want to give up because you feel abandoned.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, throughout the book Elie was losing his faith towards God little by little because of the thing that were happening to him and his people. In the beginning, Elie had the strong love for God because Elie has lots of faith in him. In the text it says, " 'Why do you pray?' he asked after a moment. Why do I pray? Strange question. Why do I live? Why did I breathe?" (Wiesel pg:4). This quote is showing how Elie has faith in himself. Throughout the book Elie started realizing God wasn't there for him and everyone else so Elie was losing his faith towards God. In the book Elie says, " 'But look at these men whom you have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They

Every day would pass by with new obstacles and horrific torment. As one day would end he would be forced to relive the same horrors of yesterday countless times over. The events that occured day by day were now normal for him, “The thousands who had died daily at Auschwitz and at Birkenau in the crematory ovens no longer troubled me.” (Elie Wiesel 59). This is an example of how the soldiers dehumanized the victims of the Holocaust. Elie became emotionless and unbothered by the countless deaths that happened everyday. Not only was Elie, but every victim was losing their grip on humanity, if the Germans treated them like animals then that’s what they would become. The last shred of Elie’s humanity and spiritual faith had slipped away and into the darkness after the hanging of the young pipel, “Where is He? Here He is--He is hanging here on this gallows …

The holocaust destroyed the lives of many people in Germany. Families were torn apart, belongings were stolen, and human beings were referred to by numbers. Among everything else, they lost faith, innocence, and humanity. In Elie Wiesel's memoir, entitled Night, the author utilizes imagery to show The Death of Faith. Elie displays the death of faith by using imagery such as, "Where he is?

Originally a devout Jew, Elie can no longer believe in a God who would permit such nightmare places to exist and begins to question his faith and views of the Almighty.     In the beginning of the

Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, depicts the terror spread throughout the Jewish community during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany occupation. All through the novel, Jewish people’s faith are challenged when put into concentration camps of the Holocaust. Through the eyes of Eliezer Wiesel, he reveals the Jewish experience during the Holocaust and how faith has intertwined with their survival. Eliezer’s faith has oscillated with his relationship and connection with God during his experience in the concentration camps in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel reveals that in extreme circumstances, humans begin to lose faith in a higher, godly power; but in order to survive they never completely lose their faith.

It shows that God will keep His promises to the Jewish people, thus saving Elie’s hope and

The Faith of Elie Wiesel In the Holocaust, many things happened. A boy confused about his religion. A boy named Elie Wiesel. Elie went through three hard phases during the book Night.

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel writes about his terrifying experiences in the holocaust and how he loses his faith because of all the horrible things that are happening to him, his father and his fellow Jews. Elie’s belief in god changes throughout the book because he had faith in god at first, but then lost it because of his horrifying experiences in the camp. This is shown when he first comes to the camp and is scared because he doesn’t know what is going to happen to him and he would have never expected that he would lose his father and his family. He is seeing that people who love each other are turning onto one another which doesn’t end well. Since he is believer in God, he feels that God has let him and many others down