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Examples Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.”- Barbara Johnson

The quote by Barbara Johnson connects to the novel “Night by Elie Wiesel” because it explains what faith is and much faith is needed when a journey like Wiesel’s is taken. Elie Wiesel was a fairly young teenager at the beginning of the Holocaust yet he takes us on his extremely emotional trek from his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania to the horrifying death camps of Auschwitz. In the book, Mr. Wiesel takes us on his journey through a variety of concentration camps and how everyone begins with a faith that slowly deteriorates throughout the novel such as Elie himself, Moishe the Beadle, and Akiba Drumer. Elie Wiesel grappled to keep …show more content…

In the start of the book, Moishe is introduced by Elie as an awkward fellow who stayed out of people’s way but was very wise when it came to faith or anything about his God. In the beginning, we get to see a blossoming relationship between Moishe and Elie, with Moishe serving as a mentor to Elie in his study of the Kabbalah and God. However, we see a twist in their relationship when a transport comes to take all foreign jews away, and Moishe being one caused him to have to leave on the transport. This transport caused much distress in Sighet for a short while but “the deportees were quickly forgotten,” (Wiesel 6). All of the citizens of Sighet returned to their usual doings and rumored about what they thought had happened to the deportees. Meanwhile, Moishe had seen sights that he never expected to see in his lifetime. For example, Jews were told to dig holes not knowing that they would soon be shot and put in those graves they dug for themselves, and babies were being thrown up and shot in the air, something that seemed like a game to the Gestapo and S.S. men. Moishe happened to get shot in the leg and received the blessing of being able to sneak away from the Galician forest, where they were taken, and return to Sighet to warn the jews about what he had seen, yet no jew believed him and he ended up changing and not for the …show more content…

We met Akiba Drumer after Elie had already been devoured by loss of faith, and Akiba shows strengths like wisdom and strong faith towards his God. While the men were in Birkenau, Akiba Drumer shared many words of wisdom. For example, he told the men that “God [was] testing [them],” (Wiesel 45). Akiba told the jews that God was seeing if they would stay true and faithful to their god despite hurt and tragedy. However, Akiba began to lose faith slowly and by selection time he only had a small part of his faith left but when he saw that his name had been written down, he gave up saying that “God [was] no longer with [them],” (Wiesel 76). Akiba had completely lost all of the hope that was left within him and requested his fellow men to say Kaddish in three days time for him, when they saw the smoke rise up from the crematoria. Unlike Job from the Old Testament, Akiba could not remain strong with his faith, giving his life to

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