The Theme Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes profoundly. During the holocaust the protagonist of the book Night, Elie loses his beliefs, his faith, you don't believe me? I’ll show you.

When Elie and his father before they went into the concentration camp they were not close enough to each other his father didn’t put much attention to him but when they went to the, camp no one in the world could separate them from each other. “I knew that my sins grieved the almighty and so i pleaded for forgiveness. In those days I fully believed that the salvation of the world depended on every one of my deeds, on every one of my prayers (wiesel 68).’’ everything that Elie Wiesel said was important to him because he was losing faith to his god but he tried not to, even though he thought that god left him and the rest. Also when people revalved they start to lose faith and start to disbelief in positive things. Another theme in Night is that inhumanity causes become closer to love ones. Take care of your land and your love ones and always keep them

In the 1930’s and 40’s, Jews were stripped of their identities and put into death camps by the Nazi soldiers. This is what happened to Elie Wiesel when he was only 15 years old. Elie and his family were captured and put into an extremely large death camp called Auschwitz. As soon as he and his family stepped through the gates, his mother and sister were murdered and Elie and his father were put to work. This memoir, Night, is a description of how Elie stayed alive in the camp and how he lost belief in his religion. When put into a horrible situation, it’s easy to lose faith.

It is a well known and obvious fact that if a boy who strongly believes in God gets starved and tortured nearly to death along with six million other Jewish people, he is going to start to lose faith in God. If God not taking action and stopping or even helping the cause and results of the Holocaust he is definitely not going to have faith in God anymore. The Holocaust was one of the most famous genocides of all time. It was started by the Nazis in Germany, and Hitler was the leader of it all. His goal was to eliminate all Jewish people like it says in Hitler's “Final Solution”, which states All Jews must be killed during the war. No exceptions!!! Elie Wiesel’s Night shows us what Elie (Eliezer) and his father went through during the Holocaust. Even though Eliezer starts his life with a lot of faith in God, all that he witnesses and suffers in the concentration camps makes him start to question whether he believes in God or if He's really there due to all the bad that is happening to not only

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.

Elie in the book Night was put through challenges mentally, physically and through his faith in his god during the story. Elie shows us as a prisoner at the concentration camps that faith can tested at difficult times. “God has betrayed us, allowing us Jews to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned” (Wiesel 65). Elie shows the reader that faith was hard to understand at the concentration camps. Elie's faith changed because he was calling on his god wondering where he as. When people we getting burned alive, young boys were getting hanged and people were getting beaten constantly. Elie was challenged during the his time in the concentration camps in what he believed in. Elie shows that he had to go through hard times even with his family.

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

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.

In Night, Wiesel shows that while faith may not solve everyone’s problems, it does however have the power to reduce conflict and act to protect a person’s humanity, when it’s being challenged by impossible circumstances.

“Words of gratitude. First to our common Creator. This is what the Jewish tradition commands us to do,” said Elie Weisel during his “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech” in 1986. Here, Wiesel explains that religion is an incredibly important factor in his life. The concept of religion shows up numerous times throughout his novel, Night. Through the use of religion, Elie Wiesel shows how theme, symbols, and mood, change throughout the novel.

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.

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.

Often, the theme of a novel extends into a deeper significance than what is first apparent on the surface. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of night and darkness is prevalent throughout the story and is used as a primary tool to convey symbolism, foreshadowing, and the hopeless defeat felt by prisoners of Holocaust concentration camps. Religion, the various occurring crucial nights, and the many instances of foreshadowing and symbolism clearly demonstrate how the reoccurring theme of night permeates throughout the novel.

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.