Only 37 percent of Jews survived the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jews that survived, and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to his first camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” based on his journey in the holocaust. “Night” is about Elie and how he changed emotionally through beatings, starving, suffering, and much more in the concentration camps. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book which led to him losing his faith, him having no motivation whatsoever (with the exception of his father), and him giving up on humanity as a whole.
Towards the end of the book, Elie lost his faith. An example of this occurs when the main character said, “Where is God’s mercy?
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The Jews no longer prayed to their God like they had at the beginning of the book. There was death all around them. They no longer sympathized for the deceased. They wondered why their God isn’t saving them and how he could ever forgive those who torture them. As stated in the text, “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… Deep inside me, I felt a great void opening” (page 69). Elie was furious that God kept silent and hadn’t assisted the Jews when they needed him the most. He hadn’t understood why He wouldn’t help them. Elie had swallowed the soup because he no longer believed God was doing the right thing. A piece of him was missing when he decided to go against his religion. He was now a changed person. He had been devoted all his life to his religion, and to give up on it is a huge change for anyone. Elie Wiesel demonstrated his lack of faith …show more content…
Elie’s father had stated when they first got to camp, “Mother… must be in a labor camp… Tzipora… must be in a camp…” (page 46). He wanted to give Elie a sense of hope, even if it is false hope. Elie heavily relied on this false hope at the beginning of the book. It helped him not end his life when the times got tough. Towards the end of the story, however, Elie said, “The idea of death… began to fascinate me” (page 86). The only reason Elie stayed alive was for his father. However, his father was becoming weak and losing hope. This led to Elie thinking about death. Since his father lacked hope, Elie lacked hope. If the one person who had hope through it all is losing hope, then why should Elie have hope? As stated in the text, “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (page 113). This proves that his father was his only motivation in the camp. He had nothing left that he cared about after his father’s death. Elie was lost without his father. He was not only a father, but a friend to Elie. His death destroyed Elie and his hopes for
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In the memoir Night By Elie Wiesel, was a boy who gives his story of his experience during the Holocaust .The Nazis had complete control over everything like how they could have just taken children and thrown them into a fire and burned them alive. While at the beginning of the story Eliezer's Faith in god was that he believed i the beginning and did not at the end. Therefor, Elie Wiesel faith in god changed throughout the memoir.
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The holocaust was a very horrible experience for everyone that got discriminated against, especially the jews. A jew that survived the holocaust named Elie Wiesel wrote a book named “Night” about his life and time in the concentration camps. Throughout the story, he shows many character traits. Elie shows strong determination, loyalty and very religious. He changes drastically throughout the book.
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
When Elie was first living in the ghetto, he was healthy, weighed a normal amount of weight, and especially religious. He was really focused on his religion, and as the book progressed, Elie stopped believing because he became tired of praying for it to get better, just for it to only get worse. Elie lost an unimaginable and unhealthy amount of weight, where he almost came across death many times during the less than a year that he and his father spent in the concentration camps. He looked unrecognizable, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”
It all started during spring in the year of 1944 when one simple piece of news turned
In the beginning of the book, Elie believed that he no longer had faith, though he had been a compelling believer before. He also reveals the strong relationship he had with his father, and because his father was the only sense of family he had left, he did everything he could to keep his father healthy and alive. In section three of the novel, Elie shows the first sign of loss of faith, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me… why should I sanctify his name… what was there to thank him for” (Wiesel 33). He believed that the terrible situation he was in, was to surely be blamed on God, due to the unanswered prayers that Elie received. Elie displays the great relationship he possessed with his father in section three as well, “Men to the left… women to the right… eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion... eight simple, short words… yet that was the moment when I left my mother… we were alone” (Wiesel 29). The quote demonstrates the fact that Elie’s family was literally split in half when his sister and mother went to the right and he and his father stayed left. Elie only has his father, so it makes sense for Elie to sacrifice everything for him.
“Blessed be Gods name? Why? But why would I bless him?” Elie says that on page 67 of this book. To me, when Elie says this, he shows his anger towards God and about everything that he is letting happen. He began to wonder, if he was God, why he was letting all the Germans do horrible things to them. However, this never made any sense to Elie. He was always contemplating the existence of God. On page 69 while supper
While his father is dying in his bed, Elie decides to give him his own ration of bread of soup. However, after doing this a man in the camp says, “I’ll give you a sound piece of advice--don’t give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There’s nothing you can do for him. And you’re killing yourself.” (pg. 115) . At this point in the book Elie himself realised that by helping and staying with his family made him go through much more hassle than what was necessary. After his dad passed Elie thought, “I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!” (pg. 116). He gathered that his father was keeping him from making the most of plight