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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

Ever since Elie was in the concentration camp, he has slowly lost faith in God as he “...did not fast. First of all, to please my father, who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. 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” (Wiesel 69). By not fasting like he did before when he was not in the concentration camp, it shows his rebellion against God as he has lost any sign of hope for God. Elie also decides to eat for the sake of his health and his well being in that situation as everyone was starving even before the fasting occured. His beliefs in God has changed from his past as it affects his views on God and his beliefs about him. The concentration camp had also made Elie question his beliefs of God as he asked himself “Bless be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?” (Wiesel 67). Elie processes his decision onto why he should even pray to God as he had lost hope and signs of God ever since he saw the horrifying acts made in the camps. His views had been changed him from his past as he questions his beliefs and wonders why God has not saved them from all their misery. Elie had changed his ways of viewing his

A main factor to the loss of Elie’s faith is the absence of God. Many times in the memoir, Elie is

After experiencing the holocaust, Elie can no longer make sense of his world. His lack in faith results from his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but also from the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict on each other. Elie also becomes aware of the cruelty of which he himself is capable of. Everything he experiences in the war shows how humanity is lost people allow cruelty to show itself. “Our

Elie Wiesel’s God is more than a substantial part of his life. When Elie first

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

Elie conveys the images of the brutal conditions the prisoners were obligated to tolerate, as well as how incredibly traumatizing it was, especially from the perspective of someone

In his memoir, Elie recalls his suffering during the Holocaust. With this, Elie explains how he was shaped by the physical, mental, and emotional abuse he endured. During those dark, war-ridden times of the world, Jews were dying and suffering every day. One such form of torture was severe physical harm and neglect. Elie experienced his fair share of this.

As Elie experiences life in the concentration camps, his views on God change and no longer consume him. Elie had begun to lose his faith as the summer had come to an end. He said, “Blessed to be in God’s name. Why, but why should I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled.

Thousands are killed every day. Prisoners were often referred to as “filthy dogs,” or pigs (84). Despite the many examples of dehumanization in this narrative. There are moments of kindness and compassion. Particularly between Elie and his father, Chlomo, who promised to stay with each other (30-32) and take care of each other.

Night is an autobiography of Eliezer Wiesel’s life. Night takes readers through the horror, determination, and loss of hope during Elie’s journey through the Holocaust. This journey is wrapped up into a small volume; but it gives off enough powerful messages to be a one thousand page novel. Violence plays an important part in this story and is given much attention to through the trials Elie faces. Eliezer experiences violence against himself, his father, and many other people he is surrounded by.

In the beginning of the story Elie relies on God for help, but throughout the story, Elie starts to distrust God. By the end of the story Elie goes so far as to outright defy him. From this powerful memoir, the reader realizes that the Holocaust can change your viewpoint on God. In this essay, the reader will read about how Elie has changed from worshipping God, to questioning God, and finally by the end of the book you witness Elie rebelling against God.

Elie reveals how his experiences caused a deprivation of trust and belief in humanity and God due to being degraded of one's character and being treated inhumanely. Initially, Elie stressed the importance of faith and strongly believed in God. As the Nazi's oppressive

He never realized how strong one must be to endure such atrocities, and how faithful one must be to rely on God. Elie lost his ultimate faith in the end, he had lost all his family and saw the unthinkable and even unimaginable with his own eyes. His faith was challenged to the bitter end, and without a church for structure he lost guidance. The novel is very religious, yet it discourages belief in God. Many do not get their beliefs put to the test in such extreme conditions as Elie did, so this leads one to question another's faith. If God is puts one to the test they will either have the strength to survive, or they will fold under pressure and follow the weak to the grave. As the novel progresses, we can see Elie become more and more scarred that he eventually becomes numb to the pain. The fact that Elie even thought of himself as a ‘corpse’ at the end of the memoir, shows that his faith for God is dried up. He believes that he is no longer alive; meaning his personality is theoretically dead, along with his beliefs, which would include his faith for God. In conclusion, Elie Wiesel went from a lively, young boy, to a ‘walking corpse’ from the holocaust. He learned to not feel pain, eventually learned to lose trust in people, and finally

Through all the horrific and inhumane experiences, dehumanization deadened Elie's sense of life. The Holocaust was a horrific time in our Nation's history for Elie and as well as all the others. Whether we like it or not it happened. It is up to us to not let such a inhumane thing happen in the