The Role Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, his family and the other Jews in the small town of Sighet, fail to flee when they had a chance. As a result, they were sent to different concentration camps. As Wiesel struggled to survive against starvation and abuse, he also faced the struggle to maintain his own faith. Wiesel and the prisoners struggled to maintain their faith once they lost family members and friends, they lost faith in humanity and God slowly became absent in their life.

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.

Faith in God can help break down any fear, but an intense fear can cause anyone to abandon their God. In Night by Elie Wiesel, fear of death is what causes the Jews to lose their belief piece by piece. As they run, shower, work and eat in Auschwitz, a death camp, death never leaves their minds and swords hover over their heads. When the last survivors officially give up on God and themselves, as they are going to be blown up by the S.S., the resistance rescues them. Innocent Jewish prisoners struggle to maintain their faith when they are forced to scrutinize the appalling deaths of their fellow Jews.

People often begin to lose faith in God because of the results they faced from their life experiences. Some face things that seem cruel and unbearable while others are “confronted with the information presented from another viewpoint that rejects God” (Gospel Billboards). Elie was told by his father to never lose his faith in God, it would help him get through tough times and keep him strong. The faith is the only strong force that helped Elie Wiesel get through the Holocaust. Through experiences that involve cruel and unbearable moments, people start questioning whether God has the answers to life’s problems. This results in faith beginning to weaken, people stop communicating with God, which makes it easier for one’s faith to diminish. We encounter Elie questioning and refusing God, but also see his contradictory behavior he exhibits to praise. However, throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that leads him to lose his faith in his religion. The longer he stays in the concentration camps, the more he experiences and sees cruelty and suffering. Eliezer believes that people who pray to a God who allows their families to suffer and die are more stronger and forgiving to God. Elie was angry at God, he thought God didn’t deserve his praises or honors because he expected God to come save him but he never did. He observes people die and others around him slowly lose hope, starve, Elie ceases to believe that God could exist at all now. “Where He is? This

The Faith of Elie Wiesel In the Holocaust, many things happened. A boy confused about his religion. A boy named Elie Wiesel. Elie went through three hard phases during the book Night.

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.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a biography about his time in consittain camps during World War II. He had suffered from torture and loss. He first lost his mother and sisters while being spreaded from them. He, then, has to struggle to keep him and his father alive. After the amount and torture and the loss of his his, Elie was free with horror still inside of him. The novel is capable of teaching me about faith in God, family bond, taught society the worse in human nature, and inspired a writer to write their own society.

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.

Indian civil rights leader, Mahatma Gandhi, once wrote, “Faith is not something you can grasp, it is a state to grow into.” In this quote, Gandhi explains how faith is not only a strong concept, but also an individual journey one must take. However, since faith is described as a state of change, it is necessary that one can let go of the burden of religion. In the memoir, Night, the author, Elie Wiesel, details his personal experiences with God and faith. Set during the Holocaust, Wiesel was one of millions of Jews persecuted for his faith; he was thrown into one of the deadliest concentration camps at age 15. In the beginning of the memoir, Elie Wiesel attempts to study the Kabbalah and pursue numerous religious endeavours; as the memoir continues, Elie begins to lose his religion. Although many people in the world may rely on faith and religion, Elie Wiesel presents the memoir, Night, along with its many symbols to show that even in the most dire of circumstances, faith cannot always help an individual in need.

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.

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.

In the beginning of the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer’s faith was very devout. “Why did I pray? Strange Question. Why did i live? Why did I breathe?””(4). Eliezer prayed when in need and looked to God for answers, just like when the jews were evacuated to the ghettos. “Oh god, master of the universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us...”(20). While in Auschwitz 1, Eliezer was starting to feel changed. He still believed in the existence of God but ceased to actually pray to him. “Some of the men spoke to God..but I doubted his absolute justice”(45). Eliezer then went on growing more questionable about God and his abilities.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.