Loss Of Religion In Night By Elie Wiesel

Sometimes when people are faced with a challenge they change their views about religion. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, himself Elie Wiesel was a 15-year-old boy who was taken by the Nazi, at first he was interested in his religion but as more time went on and he stayed at the camps more his views changed. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel it is clear that People belief in religion change when they are put through hard times. People in the beginning of the book they still believed in god. All of the prisoners were forced to watch a little kid be hung.

Many of those who believe in religion abide by their faith, but during times of immense suffering, that faith is often tested. Through his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel introduces the reader to his life during the Holocaust through the character Eliezer, a teenage boy from Sighet, Transylvania. Eliezer and his father move into multiple concentration camps with a constant risk of torture or death. The memoir gives the reader the perspective Elie had about the inhumane and brutal treatment the Jewish prisoners received. Wiesel writes about his experience of the Holocaust and its result of personal struggles with God and his faith. The Holocaust proves to be a trying time for Elie Wiesel and causes him to question critical aspects of life. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience: first believing

HOOK Elie Wiesel, a Romanian Jew, uses his memoir, Night, to illustrate his experiences of the Holocaust through the character, Eliezer. Once a devout Jew, young Eliezer, struggles to maintain his faith as he witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust. Especially during his time in the concentration camps, Eliezer questions God, however never brings his questions directly before God. While the victims of the Holocaust might question the events around them, because they do not directly argue through prayer, a lack of trust in God is created leading to a loss of faith. Before ever entering the concentration camps, Eliezer was devoted to learning about God and spending time with him.

“If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one.” Said Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, who uses his book Night to highlight the true terrors of what happened during his life in the concentration camps during World War II. As the author and main character in Night, Elie describes his personal experiences that drastically changed his life forever. As a result, we can tell Elie is a dynamic character because he begins to question his faith in God and in his religion, his attitude towards his father and his father’s survival changes, and his childhood and innocence are lost. First and foremost, Elie begins to question his faith in God and in his religion.

At the very beginning of the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer is very religious. Moche the Beadle claims that "man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him"(Wiesel 15).This statement by Moche the Beadle sets the tone for the way Eliezer deals with his faith throughout the rest of the novel. Elie starts denying and questioning if their is a God. When the Nazi’s came and took him to Auschwitz. Throughout the novel Elie has struggled to maintain his belief in God.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

Religion often holds a huge amount of significance in one’s life. Since it requires lots of time and patience, some people lose their faith when confronted with a tough situation. When a population becomes persecuted or executed for their beliefs, this becomes especially noticeable. In the Holocaust, a number of Jews began to question their faith, and departed from the religion as a whole. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel obscures the distinctions between his father and God, displays an opening void, and shows the misunderstanding of his belief in religion to express the loss of faith and the role that the spiritual and physical body possess in retaining religion.

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania was he grew up to spend his childhood studying Jewish holy books. In 1944 his family was forced to live in one of two ghettos in Sighet. On May 16th, 1944 Elie and his family were taken to Auschwitz-Birkeua concentration camp. In the book Night, Elie writes about his experiences in the Holocaust when he was just 16 years old. Eliezer's faith in God and practice of his Jewish traditions are shattered by the experiences he had Auschwitz. His journey to the Camp's becomes a journey of faith that takes him from being orthodox and traditional, to being unsure about God and the faith that he has practiced since he was born.

Religion. Most of us have one and then again some of us don’t. Imagine if your religion was the one factor that shaped the outcome of your whole life. When you’re fifteen years old, you don’t have a real perspective on what happens in the real world. Growing up in a time when there is so much prejudice and hatred, it changes you as a person. The world around you is not subjected to the same things you are. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is wounded and hurt while others came out of the concentration camps stronger than they went in. I think that it is possible for two humans to be affected differently by the holocaust. Overall your character and personal beliefs are what help either build you up or bring you down.

What is religion? The dictionary states that religion is: “Possessing beliefs concerning the nature and purpose of the universe and the supernatural” (A student’s Dictionary 268). Different cultures have different definitions for the word religion. However, they all have one characteristic in common, faith. The Jewish, for instance, believe in God and that the Messiah will come in the future to bring them once again to the land of Israel. They continue to wait for Him to come. Over time, the Jews were shunned by many people. Hitler pushed all the blame for his, and his people’s troubles on the Jewish people, which then started the holocaust. The holocaust annihilated millions of people many of which were Jews. Six million Jews, making up

After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.

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.

Elie’s faith before being exposed to the concentration camps is apparent and he works hard to strengthen and grow his faith. All throughout Night, Wiesel shows the eminent effect faith has on individual’s actions and attitude. At the beginning of Night, Elie’s faith is a key feature of his lifestyle and attitude. Studying under the wisdom of Moishe the Beadle, Elie can put his faith in retrospect as he says, “In the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become one” (Wiesel 5). It is very clear that Elie is very emotionally and physically invested in his faith. Before camp Elie was so eager to expand and connect to his faith in which he becomes, “convinced” that he fully understands his faith proving him to be a devout Jewish boy. Thus because, Moishe the Beadle is helping him “enter eternity” and build his faith. Elie’s whole life revolves

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses his change in faith to show that extreme conditions, such as the Holocaust, will drastically alter how one sees and takes the world in. Elie’s faith in God started out strong and prominent and was quickly questioned as the horrible experiences of the Holocaust carried on which, in the end, resulted in the death of his beliefs in God and religion.

The early 1940s, an observant, young boy, and his caring father: the start of a story that would become known throughout the world of Eliezer Wiesel. His eye-opening story is one of millions born of the Holocaust. Elie’s identity, for which he is known by, is written out word for word his memoir, Night. Throughout his journey, Elie’s voice drifts from that of an innocent teen intrigued with the teachings of his religion to that of a soul blackened by a theoretical evil consuming the Nazis and Hitler’s Germany. Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, examines the theme of identity through the continuous motifs of losing one’s self in the face of death and fear, labeling innocent people for a single dimension of what defines a human being, and the oppression seen in the Holocaust based on the identities of those specifically targeted and persecuted.