Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

Imagine being a Jew in World War II. Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Auschwitz, wrote an autobiography about his experiences during the Holocaust. Night is about what he went through when he was in Auschwitz. He was one of the few survivors to tell the story. During his time in Auschwitz he lost faith in himself, lost faith in God and he had changed as a person.
Elie saw some things that no one would believe of witnessing. These sight have appalled him to the point he no longer believes it’s not a dream. It can be seen when he says, “I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real. A nightmare perhaps…Soon I would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that I was back in the room of my childhood, with my books…”(32). Some of the terrible events that Elie witnessed involved men, women, and children being burned alive in crematoriums. He could not believe that man was capable of committing these types of crimes against fellow man. As a result, Elie pinches himself to make sure that he is not dreaming, and is in disbelief about what he is seeing being reality. This moment, one of his firsts in Auschwitz, is the first piece of evidence he started to loose faith.

After what he had witnessed at the camp, he had stopped believing in him. It’s shown when he says, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. 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?”(33). When the inmates started praying his name, he thought to himself, why would they pray to him? They shouldn’t be praying his name after what they had witnessed and he didn’t do anything about it. Elie was furious that God would ever let anything like this happen to anyone. It is evident that Elie lost all faith in