Elie Wiesel's Response To Night

During World War II, there was genocide against Jews called the Holocaust. During this time, there were concentration camps where Jews were worked, starved, and beat daily. These camps deeply affected friends and families. Being separated, many never saw each other again. Living in unimaginable conditions and taken from their loved ones, these events had a major impact and changed the lives of those affected forever. In Elie Wisel’s memoir, Night, the events experienced by the protagonist and his responses to these events help to shape his identity by changing his beliefs and how he views the world.
Throughout the story, Night, by Elie Wisel, he encounters conflicts that affect his religion. Questioning his faith, Elie says,“As for me, I had ceased to pray. . . . I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (Wiesel 45).

Elie questions how “is it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (Wiesel 32). Never expecting to witness such horrible things, Elie wonders how the atrocities had never been made public and known. There were so many people in the concentration camps that he expected someone to have shared their story and help others stay away from the concentration camps, yet he himself had been one to ignore the warnings. Elie states that he “could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would not tolerate such crimes” (Wiesel 33). This shows his previous beliefs and views of how the world is being changed. Unable to fathom a reason that anyone would want to do anything so awful to other human beings, Elie is still confused on how they’re stuck in their situation. He begins to see the betrayal and abandonment in the world, which causes him to have a much more negative perspective. Elie’s drastic shift in how he views the world ultimately changes how he sees