Did you know that over 1.5 million Jews died in Auschwitz? The book “Night” By Elie Wiesel tells the story of the main character, Elie Wiesel, and his father trying to survive as Jews during the holocaust. This story shows us how a person can change drastically when everything they know and love is ripped from them. This can be seen through Elie Wiesel’s loss of faith, loss of family, and finally, his loss of emotions.
Elie can be seen changing through his loss of faith. In beginning, he was a devout follower of Judaism as can be seen on page 3 where Elie admitted, “By day I studied Talmud (Jewish oral tradition), by night I would run to the synagogue to cry over the weep over the destruction of the temple.” This text evidence divulges to us what Elie was like before the Holocaust. However, by page 33, when after arriving at Auschwitz, he questions “The Almighty lord, the eternal and terrible master of the universe… What was there to thank him for?” This means that Elie is starting to question/stray away from his religion. In all, this shows Elie’s transition from loving his god to questioning him, wondering why he would let this happen to his people.
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Elie loses family as early as page 29, Where he reveals that, “He (A SS soldier) commanded: Men to the left! Women to the right!... I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” These few sentences reveal to us that Elie, within a few seconds, lost both his mother and youngest sister forever. Furthermore, he wouldn’t be able to see his other two sisters until after the war, so he essentially lost over one half of his family in less than a minute. Sadly, he didn’t just lose his mother and his younger daughter. On page 112, Elie sadly admits that “They must of taken him (his father) to the crematorium. Perhaps he was still breathing”. This exposes the fate of his father, who died of either dysentery or being burned
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
His religion was one of his uppermost morals before they were seized by the Hungarian Police. When he was in the labor camps he identified that he had abolished his faith because of what was coming about in his life. He had debated if God was just experimenting on the Jewish population or if he just wanted to see them sicken. Elie ran across people who had also exterminated their confidence in God from the start of their episode in the Holocaust. There was even one person who he encountered at the hospital who said their only faith left was for Hitler because he kept all of his obligations to the Jewish people. Elie was unaware of why God would put him through all of that pain, so he cancelled his praying to him. He thought that regardless of how persistently he prayed it would not do
Stated in the book, “ How could I say to him: Blessed be thou, Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night” ( page 67). All the Jews in the concentration camps questioned why their savior was letting this happen and not helping them and Elie was one of those Jews. Without having much insight of what was to come of their lively hoods Elie and rest of the Jews pushed through tough conditions, Elie states, “ It’s over, god is no longer with us” (page 76). After time Elie and other Jews started believe that their was no God, and they should accept their fate. Elie’s will power decreased throughout the book, after understanding everyday was a fight for his life. When something is desperately wanted it is fought for, easier said than done when surviving the conditions Elie lived in: scarce food, bad weather, and poor sheltering, In the words of Elie, “I’ll run into the electrified barbed wire, that would be easier then a slow death in flames”(page 33). He wanted to give up once finding out his fate to be. At the time he thought why should he sit
Elie believed in God so much that he would spend all his time just learning about his faith. Before the ghetto, he felt extremely connected to God and his faith. Secondly, during the time when Elie had arrived at his first concentration camp and he thought he was being killed along with his father, he questioned God’s existence and if there was any point of
He slowly loses his faith while there. He even thinks “never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel 32). During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. In the beginning of the book Elie is very religious.
Elie experiences internal conflict due to the events that took place during the Holocaust. He starts to question God and begins to rebel against God while enduring an identity crisis at the concentration camp. To begin with, Elie is showing some resentment and displeasure towards God. He’s showing his disapproval regarding God’s allowance for letting his people be tortured. For example, on page 66 he says, “What are You, my God?
That would mean that his mother and sisters would be torn away from his father and himself. Also, during staying in the camps, Elie tried to protect his father and gave his rations of food to him. This shows that Elie cared immensely about his last remaining family
Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, reflects a time in his life during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, over six million people deemed “unworthy” were sent to concentration camps, where they were forced to work, or killed. Over three millions Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s feelings about God change from being very religious and wanting to learn more about God, to losing his faith in God and going against his religion after the young pipel is hanged.
There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.
Elie still has faith in God that he can now survive on his own without having his father with him. For instance, when Elie says, “ I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like- free at last!” (Wiesel 106).
Paragraph four - During the book Elie started to doubt God. ( man vs God )
The sanctifying of God during a time of war and horror enables Elie to question if he openly believes in Judaism, as if he would be murdered for believing in God and not following the footsteps of Hitler.
The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.
The murder of thousands can not only impact the universe, but the ones that live in it. For instance, victims of the Happiest had to deal with, not only losing all of their loved ones but the deaths of others around them. In “Night”, Elie is expiring death, of not only his loved ones, also other Jews who were taken by Hitler. The loss of your family is petrifying. But watching others have their lives slipped away from their fingertips, is indubitably scary. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes drastically throughout the book, because of the time he spent in Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.
Imagine, losing the part of you that makes you unique, or being treated like you were worth absolutely nothing. Think about losing all that you hold on to: your family, friends, everything that you had. Imagine, being treated like an animal, or barely receiving enough food to live. All of these situations and more is what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. During the period of 1944 - 1945, a man by the name of Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of Jews that were experiencing the wrath of Hitler’s destruction in the form of intense labor and starvation. The novel Night written by the same man, Elie Wiesel, highlights the constant struggle they faced every single day during the war. From the first acts of throwing the Jews into