Loss Of Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

In Night, a memoir, by Elie Wiesel, tells about his life during the holocaust and how he begins to question his faith as he witnesses the brutality of the Nazis. The Nazis force them into concentration camps and murder them without mercy. In Buna, he witnesses God being hanged as he watched a young boy being executed in front of his eyes. Wiesel starts to question his faith in God when witnessing the horrific events he experienced during the holocaust.

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.

After experiencing life similar to hell on earth for nearly a year very few people could truthfully say that their faith is unscathed. Even in the modern world, people who have not been starved and pushed to work beyond their limits find themselves questioning whether or not there is a god, and if he is a just one. Throughout Night, a Holocaust memoir, it is shown that faith does not only refer to religion, but also the belief that humanity is sympathetic and warm-hearted. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, demonstrates how he loses his faith and watches those around him lose their confidence in God, and each other. Wiesel shares his thoughts with the readers writing how from a very young age he believed profoundly yet within a few months Wiesel finds himself questioning “Where is God?” (61). Loss of faith only propels Wiesel to find the strength within himself to persevere until his day of liberation.

I have begun reading Night by Elie Wiesel. This novel is about the events that Elie Wiesel endured as a teenager and harrowing truths about the holocaust. The first chapter was quickly paced and straightforward. A major part of Eli’s day was studying. A man Elie meets named Moishe the Beadle begins to cause him to question his faith and why he prays. The man is definitely different and this later causes the community to miss a warning sign of their impending doom. Moishe the Beadle is a foreign jew and is taken away months earlier than the other jews. He witnesses and miraculously survives a mass murder of foreign jews by faking dead. After returning to Sighet he attempt to warn the residents of what happened but no one believed him. This is important because at this time there were still visas available but since no one could fathom the idea of an attack on a whole population that included millions no one listened. Eli thinks, “Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means?” (8) I liked this explanation in the book because most holocaust books brush over the reason of not leaving when they sensed conflict besides fear and this seemed much more logical in the fact that it does appear to be unbelievable.

For many people in the world they have their own religions and beliefs. For some this can be a great part of their life. With it being such a great part with their life, it might be the only thing keeping them going through the day. Keeping faith can be hard during hardship some stages some people might experience would be devotion, questioning faith and finally losing faith.

At first glance, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel does not seem to be an example of deep or emotionally complex literature. It is a tiny book, one hundred pages at the most with a lot of dialogue and short choppy sentences. But in this memoir, Wiesel strings along the events that took him through the Holocaust until they form one of the most riveting, shocking, and grimly realistic tales ever told of history’s most famous horror story. In Night, Wiesel reveals the intense impact that concentration camps had on his life, not through grisly details but in correlation with his lost faith in God and the human conscience.

As days went by in the concentration camp, many begin to lose their faith in religion just like Elie. The book, Night is written by Elie Wiesel, a winner of the Nobel Peace prize. In the book Night, Elie is the main character who is very religious at first. It begins with his family and him traveling to Auschwitz which his little sister and mother die. With only his father and him, they went through many hardships and moving from camp to camp. Unfortunately, Elie father did not survive the Holocaust but Elie did. By the end of the story, Elie did entirely lose his faith in God because he did not celebrate the important holidays, questioned God and his justice, and tries to forget his existence.

Elie Wiesel is a young, teenage, Jewish boy involuntarily placed in Nazi concentration camps. The concentration camps tested Elie’s sincerity of his faith. All of the inhumane events, destruction, and absent childhood, forced a method of non-belief on Elie and his fellow beings. In Elie Wiesel's Night, faith is seen as a controversial topic, and challenged throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said “If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be just the one” (Wiesel, Preface to the New Translation). Growing up he experienced many hardships that he'd never expect to go through. In his book Night he recounted his experiences and depicted everything that was going on during the Holocaust. Elie’s experiences shaped him into a completely different person and caused him to view things differently. As Elie spent more time in camp he saw a lack of justice which caused him to change his perspective of God; he was not denying God’s existence, but questioned his absolute justice, still he did not lose all faith.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

Someone's faith is something that is supposed to stick with you through everything, it is supposed to help find the light of things when it is dark. During the Holocaust prisoners went through hell itself, the Nazis put the Jews through every kind of pain and it as hard for them to keep that faith that they possessed. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel struggled to maintain faith in his experience on the way to Auschwitz, witnessing meaningless deaths and a family members loss.

In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his family from Germany are put into Nazi concentration camps, only to find what the true horrors are. During the holocaust millions of innocent people were killed by the German leader “Hitler”. Throughout the times in the Camps, faith and God is questioned. It is shown that it can be hard to keep faith in God, when faced with hardships.

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.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s faith progressively spirals downward from the moment he saw children being thrown into a burning pit in Auschwitz and proceeds to spiral throughout his journey. From the beginning of Night, Elie is a faithful Jew who, about a year before the end of the war, is taken from his home, where he is moved into a ghetto, in Sighet, Transylvania and then to Auschwitz. Slowly, as the front lines are being pushed back and his needs are found useful elsewhere Elie travels to a multitude of camps. Finally, his luck comes when he is liberated by the American Army on April 10, 1955. Throughout the book, Elie’s faith is constantly dwindling as the book goes on and he goes from being mad at God for doing nothing, to saying the Holocaust is His fault, and, finally, not believing in God at all. Elie shows the evolution of faith during the Holocaust as he, and others, slowly lose faith and belief in their God.

The novel Night depicts the life of ELIE WIESEL in the Nazi concentration camps, in the beginning, ELIE never wavers from his belief of god because he is convinced that everything is a result of god’s work and that it should never be doubted. His faith is stronger than most people in his village. In my opinion ELIE does give up his faith in god by the end of the novel Night. I would like to show this transition in three steps one at the start of the book, second at the camp's, third in the final stages of the book.