The Black Flame
“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
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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
During Kaddis is when Eli finally realized that he has lost his faith. He no longer wanted to be a part of anything. “But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused,”(68). Even though he no longer was devoted, it opened another door for him, just like the saying when one door closes another one opens. All the events that Eli went through were traumatic and it took him so long to lose what he loved, faith.
Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel loses faith from the beginning until the end, it’s continuous. Eliezer begins to lose his faith when he witnesses the hanging of the pipel, Elie was forced to watch the corpse of kids whilst he was allowed to eat dinner. "What are You, my God? I thought angrily. . . What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?"(pg 66) This is when Eliezer loses his faith indefinitely. Throughout the book some of Elie´s peers try to help him bring back his faith in god, i´d say it did not work very well. In chapter 5 of Night a friend of Elieś named Akiba says ¨God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base
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.
In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel , A very brave contender, who slowly began to lose faith in God.
During World War II, Hitler's final solution was to annihilate all the Jews. He sent all the Jews to multiple concentration camps, breaking their families up and forcing them to do brutal things. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel tells us about how his experiences in the camps were. He and his father gets split away from his mother and other siblings, so he has to look out for his father like his father has to look out for Elie. Throughout the book, Elie gives examples of how he loses his faith in God.
In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie loses faith in his religion and begins to focus on survival as he continues to live in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. His desire to believe in God is clear because he wants a reason to live, such as the purpose that religion makes him feel. In the beginning of the memoir, Moishe the Beadle told Elie that “man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him”(5). Elie is shown searching for God when asking Him questions, such as, “Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds”(65)? He is referring to the torture God is allowing. Elie is questioning the justice behind God’s actions, showcasing the beginning of his loss of faith. Other Jews told Elie that he must trust in God
Elie had faith in God before he came to the camp, however his faith in God would change after his experience in the concentration camp. As a teenager growing up in the ghetto, his parents taught him that having faith in God was important and that no matter what happen in their lives, God will always be there to protect them from the evil that would manifest later on in life. For instance, when everyone made it back from the barber Elie and the others “were shouting thank God you are still alive” (Night pg. 35). As a result of this, Elie felt that he still had faith in God because those who were not sent to the fire was still alive. Because of this first time experience in the camp, this showed us that Elie believed that God was there protecting
Faith is something all humans want to believe they have. Faith can be religious, and everything in between. Faith gives people hope, especially in the darkest and hardest of times. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer experiences loss in his religious faith, questioning god and his quietness. Throughout the book, Eliezer's faith slowly diminishes as the years pass, wondering whether or not god will assist him in his times of need. Even the people who have the strongest faith, will question it in times of hardship
Faith plays a large role in the minds of most individuals, and this was especially true when regarding the Jewish people in Europe during the 1900s. However, at the time of Hitler’s regime and the Holocaust, the faith of many Jews came into question - Elie included. After all, why should they believe in God if they are going through such a tragedy and He shows no signs of being present? The Jewish people felt alone in the universe. They had no God, no faith, and no hope.
During the atrocity of the Holocaust, prisoners in concentration camps endured many horrific encumbrances; placed on their shoulders with jubilation by the Nazis. However, it was lack of faith that killed many, rather than the actual death they met. They disregarded the wise words of Oliver Wendell Holmes by not having faith to pursue the unknown end. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the majority of the Jewish prisoners mentioned underwent horrible sufferings in the infamous concentration camps of the Third Reich. As a result, a plethora of them struggled to maintain faith in God, hope, and humanity.
In times of hardship and strife it can be difficult to hold onto faith and religion. So imagine being taken from home at the age of 15 and being thrown into a concentration camp immediately separated from friends and family and being forced to work around the clock in harsh conditions hardly being fed and witnessing countless deaths at every corner. Well the main character in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel had to face this exact thing and many more which made him change spiritually and faith wise over the course of the of the novel going from being completely devoted to God to hating him during his horrific time in the concentration camp which drastically changed him as a person and shaped the story as a whole regarding the fact that it's easy to lose your spirituality in times of trials and tribulations.
Every man, woman, or child has his or her breaking point, no matter how hard they try to hold it back. In Night by Elie Wiesel the main theme of the entire book is the human living condition. The quality of human life is overwhelming because humans have the potential to make amazing discoveries that help all humans. Elie Wiesel endures some of the most cruel living conditions known to mankind. This essay explains the themes of chapter one, chapter four, chapter eight in Night by Elie Wiesel.
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the main message is that many people are losing faith in each other and everything. Once someone lose their faith, they lose their faith in God and they start to just give up on what their main focus was. People can start losing their faith once they see things that should be seen. It starts to scare them and their faith is lost. Elie started to slowly lose his faith once he was separated with his mother because he was brought to a place where inhumane things were happening. Once people start to lose their faith, they start doing things that leads to the loss of humanity.
Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -President Snow in The Hunger Games. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a true story about the holocaust. In the story the main character, Elie, experiences terrible things. He is so hopeful that things are going to get better (after all how could they get any worse) and he is so fearful that his last bit of hope will be taken away and he will give up on life. Elie experiences the worst things that we can imagine. How could anyone have hope in such darkness? What could anyone fear when they have lost everything?