How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout The Book Night

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

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

In Night Elie Wiesel was living in Sighet and was taken by the Nazis because he was Jewish. They took him and his family to a death camp where boys and girls were split up. From then he and his father never saw his sister and mother again. Elie and his father went through terrible things that nobody should’ve ever experienced. Elie almost gave up plenty

The concentration camp made Elie have to readjust to all of the transformations for his own survival. His first priority was for him to make it through the selection. He wanted his father to be with him, but at the same time he didn’t because he didn’t want to see his dad suffer or his dad to see him suffer. When His dad died and he said Elie’s name as his last word, Elie did not go to find him. He knew there was nothing he could do so he payed no attention to him. He thought it was a refreshment that he did not have to endure the pain of witnessing his father

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

Elie changed his views of death throughout he became immune to it.When Elie first arrived at camp he

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

Throughout the time Elie lived through the Holocaust, his devotion and relationship with God greatly changed. In the beginning of his life, Elie was a devoted observant Jew, who studied everyday, and went the synagogue and cry. He was also trying to convince his father to study the Kabbalah, so he could later become a Rabbi. But while in the camps, with all of the suffering, and labor, Elie begins to question God. While his dad was praying, Elie began to feel anger, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33). Elie sees what is happening around them, with people being burned and killed, and becomes

Elie begins to recognize this blind trust in God in the quote “Why do you pray?” He asked after a moment. “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live?

After Elie and his father were split up from his mother and sisters, Elie started to experience the horrific things that happened in the camps. This is where he first witnessed what would happen in the crematory and for the first time he felt a revolt rise in him, “Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (Wiesel 31). This suggests that Elie starts to question God’s intentions and he does not believe he has anything to thank him

God has not been there for him or the other prisoners. Elie says that god has died. Elie believes that god is not protecting them when times are rough. Elie thinks god does not care about them. Secondly, Elie goes through mental/emotional changes.

Another reason that Elie questioned religion is that if god were real, why would god create such awful things such as nazis? Why would god let people create things like Auschwitz? THings such as this are so awful, how could god let them exist? This could also be another reason Elie was starting to lose faith in his religion.

This disturbed Elie so much until he gave up all hope and stopped believing in the goodness of God. Elie also lost his praise, quote, "Why should I bless his name? The eternal, lord of the universe, the all-powerful and terrible was silent. What had I to thank him for?" (Wiesel 31).

“Blessed be Gods name? Why? But why would I bless him?” Elie says that on page 67 of this book. To me, when Elie says this, he shows his anger towards God and about everything that he is letting happen. He began to wonder, if he was God, why he was letting all the Germans do horrible things to them. However, this never made any sense to Elie. He was always contemplating the existence of God. On page 69 while supper