Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

During the Holocaust 6 million Jews were thrown into systematic camps designed to tear them apart. There were a handful of survivors and of these Jews, one of them is Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust and shares their experiences in their novel Night. A major topic that Elie Wiesel talks of in Night is his transformation of his belief in God. Elie before the Holocaust is praying on a regular basis and takes part in Kabbalah. However, as the Nazis advance and Elie is thrown into a concentration camps he loses faith. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel portrayed how Nazis performed acts of hatred towards the Jews that physically and spiritually ripped them apart causing Jews to question their God and eventually lose faith.

In times of distress many people turn to their faith to help guide through the situation. This book Night by Elie Wiesel is a sorrowful memoir of Elie Wiesel’s experiences in the Holocaust. Through his experiences as a teen in concentration camps with his father, Elie struggles to find his faith and will to live another day. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses Eliezer’s change in faith to demonstrate that in order to survive he needs to either have faith in god or humanity.

Many people turn to God when there is something good is going on with their lives and it is customary to give thanks to God for that specific good thing that they are living through, but why do people turn their backs on him when the tables turn. A good example is the Holocaust against the jews, it is said that they are the people of God, yet many turned their backs on him when their entire race was under extreme genocide.

This indicates that his belief in God was strong and can guide with answers. However, Wiesel was soon to lose his optimism in God when he was sent to the concentration camp.

Throughout the story, readers see the struggles prisoners faced and the brutality of the camps. In the autobiography Night, the author Elie Wiesel embodies the idea that dehumanization can lead to a loss of faith through the cruelty and horrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. The public hangings in the camp clearly show the dehumanization of the prisoners and cause their faith to falter. After three people are hanged, two

The holocaust unleashed unparalleled cruelty and suffering to a great number of people; Elie Wiesel survived these hardships, but his innocence was shattered. For this reason, he wrote Night to share his personal memories of his time spent in the concentration camps and details the transformation of his faith and understanding of God. Each person Elie writes about attempts to reconcile their agony with their faith, albeit many fail or have their faith transformed. In this paper, I will describe how Wiesel’s understanding of God transforms as he experiences tragedy and how the various prisoners come to terms with their faith.

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

In the book Night, the author Elie Wiesel, talks about his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the beginning, he is a religious young man with very faithful morals. As the book goes on, he experiences situations where he questions his faith and belief in God but also gains maturity without realizing it. The setting of these situations will change his life. Throughout the whole book, Elie Wiesel’s faith gets tested as he endures extreme events within the camp. The three main concepts are; faith is a constant battle, it’s never lost just shaken, and maturity come from challenges.

Faith is essential to many people's lives, whether faith in humanity or a God. Faith shapes who people are as individuals; it frames who people are, their existence, their hopes, and their dreams. Dehumanization is a significant cause of losing faith. Elie Wiesler, who wrote the memoir Night, describes the many terrible conditions he experienced while in a concentration camp. These circumstances affected a large number of Jews and other groups, leading to more than six million deaths.

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

Drastic events may change the way we view the world. It may cause us to lose our belief in God, family, and humanity. Loss of faith is displayed in Elie Wiesel’s “Night”. “Night” follows Elie’s teenage life in a Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Initially Elie has a great faith in family, humanity, and God. As days gone by inside the camp, he witnessed and experienced countless cruel acts by humans against humans. This acts have made Elie question his beliefs. In the memoir people have questioned their faith in humanity, family, and lastly God.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said “If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be just the one” (Wiesel, Preface to the New Translation). Growing up he experienced many hardships that he'd never expect to go through. In his book Night he recounted his experiences and depicted everything that was going on during the Holocaust. Elie’s experiences shaped him into a completely different person and caused him to view things differently. As Elie spent more time in camp he saw a lack of justice which caused him to change his perspective of God; he was not denying God’s existence, but questioned his absolute justice, still he did not lose all faith.

Due to the inhumane methods towards the Jews during the Holocaust, many lost their faith and commitment to Judaism. Jews were appalled that God, who was supposed to be their savior, abandoned them in a time where they needed him the most. Although many Jews kept their faith and did not question God’s mysterious ways, many did not have the same outlook. People assume that hard times strengthen people’s faith, but that was not always the case. During great tragedy's, people’s faith may disintegrate and become completely absent from their minds. Many prisoners including Elie Wiesel could not accept God’s silence and rebelled against their religious upbringing during the Holocaust.

Faith is like a little seed; if you think about the positive aspects of a situation, then it will grow, like a seed grows when you water it. However, if the seed does not receive water anymore, it will die, which serves as a parallel to the horrors and antagonism of the concentration camps that killed Elie’s faith. After the analysis of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader can visualize the horrors and slaughter of millions of innocent people that occurred in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel explains how his faith in God was tested, as he was forced to leave his home, separated from his family, and observed the death all around him; he even witnessed children being thrown into huge ditches of fire alive. Elie felt abandoned, betrayed, and deceived by the God that he knew who was a loving and giving God. It was then he started to doubt His existence. Elie tried to hold on to his faith, but the childhood innocence had disappeared from within him, and he lost his faith in God completely.

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.