What Was The Role Of God In Night By Elie Wiesel

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,

Elie and his family never thought the rumors would ever reach them. Until one day it did. Sending them to ghettos, making them leave their lives behind. “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty.” (page 19) Elie didn’t know what to think. No one had a clue as to where they were going to be located now. The place where he used to worship his god was beginning to be taken away from him. He doesn’t realize that his god would make him feel so betrayed and little

Before Elie had been deported to the terrors of the Auschwitz, he was a completely different person. Some of the traits that he exhibited were hopeful, shielded, and religious. As Wiesel said in “Night” “There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under the blazing sun.” (16) The town was not concerned about what was going on. They didn't believe that anything else would get worse. Elie and the people of his town were unable to accept the fact that anyone would do such a horrible deed. Elie and his neighbors were ecstatic because they thought nothing could get worse than it was already; what Hitler would do to them in the future, did not even seen imaginable. The victims believed that God would

During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.

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

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).

The concentration camps were places of suffering. Elie described his first night at the concentration camp. “ ...Never shall I forget the little faces of the children , whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel 32). Elie was a child, pretending to be older in order to survive. Elie was not much older than the children that were too young to work and were murdered because they were of no use to the Nazis. Being as young as he was, the holocaust affected his life greatly. Children are more susceptible to events that happen to them. They tend to remember the more prominent events in their lives. The holocaust was a very prominent event in Elie’s life and because of it, he lost his faith. Since he was so young he

The holocaust was a horrific event in which six million Jews died. There have been many books written about this horrendous experience. In this book, I read the author gives a good description of what he experienced. It makes you feel many emotions and realize how cruel it was.In the autobiographical novel, Night by Elie Wiesel faith and religion are one of the most important themes because throughout the book is about how Eliezer Wiesel needed his faith to keep him alive, but also was losing it throughout the process.

Though faithful as they enter the horrific camps of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buna, Birknau, Dachau, and Buchenwald, the Jews become capricious. They start losing grip and begin falling down the slippery slope of death the Germans set up for them as more horrors of the camps become unveiled. Soon after arriving in the camp and being told about the crematoria, he felt “anger rising with me [Elie]. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). This is the first time that his faith is challenged. After a few days in Auschwitz he “had ceased to pray. I [Elie] was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). As seen, Elie is beginning to have doubts about God and therefore his belief and faith in him. Finally, when Elie is looking for God to come though he doesn’t and he asks,

When he is in Birkenau and Auschwitz, it seems that Elie's faith hits an ‘all time low’ as he witnessed many horrible things. On the night when Elie first reaches Auschwitz he is met with the horrors of the concentration camp and the crematory. " Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever... Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes." (p. 34)

In his anger stage, Elie gained strength from his anger and feeling of superiority, but while he needed help, he began to bargain for strength from God, sacrificing his superiority to help his father. After his trials were over, Wiesel was able to look back on his struggles and accepted the lesson that could be learned from them, the lesson God wanted the Jewish people to learn: that no people should be abandoned to the mercy of oppressors. Wiesel learned that people’s indifference to the strife of others was what allowed atrocities to happen because “Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike” (J. K.

Religion. Most of us have one and then again some of us don’t. Imagine if your religion was the one factor that shaped the outcome of your whole life. When you’re fifteen years old, you don’t have a real perspective on what happens in the real world. Growing up in a time when there is so much prejudice and hatred, it changes you as a person. The world around you is not subjected to the same things you are. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is wounded and hurt while others came out of the concentration camps stronger than they went in. I think that it is possible for two humans to be affected differently by the holocaust. Overall your character and personal beliefs are what help either build you up or bring you down.

When Elie arrived at the first concentration camp, he was a child, but when left he was no longer human. Elie’s character changed through his encounter of the Holocaust. Elie idolized his religion, Judaism, one relevant identification for him. Elie spent hours praying and learning about Judaism, but it was the reason he and his family were tormented for. Elie was so intrigued by Judaism, that he wanted someone a “master” to guide in his studies of Kabbalah, an ancient spiritual wisdom that teaches how to improve the lives (Wiesel 8). Furthermore, he loses hope in God and in life. Elie only had a few items when he arrived in the camp, one being his family, but that would soon be taken from him. When Elie and his family arrived at the camp in Auschwitz, he was kept by his father. He always gazed after his father, caring for him until his death.

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews. In today’s world, people don’t know what really happened inside the hell holes they called Concentration Camps. Jews, Gypsies, Gays, and elderly people were worked to death inside the detainment centers. To prevent a massive genocidal act like this from happening again, learning from past mistakes could prevent them from happening again.

In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, that recounts his story of survival and struggle through his experience during the Holocaust, the concept of belief resonates as a core theme. From his early life in Sighet, his deportation to Auschwitz, to his liberation from Buchenwald, the book depicts the dynamic view of belief of god through Wiesel’s eyes. He continues to argue in his book that his natural, unchanging belief in god assisted in his miraculous survival. Believing in something is a powerful tool to overcome the worst as seen through Wiesel’s experience. However, the belief in a god has turned from something widely accepted and possibly logical, to a mechanism of destruction and hatred. A vehement belief in god hinders society’s and the individual’s advancement through time and adaptation for new ideas.