“It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.” This is the quotes which from Tammara, Webber. Have you imagined stay in a horrible environment like camp and got injure all most every day and Lord still being generous to those German who hurt them? As government started an act to kick out all Jew, no one believed what would happen to them next. The reason that people didn’t believe what Germen did was not so obvious, maybe because of the faith on God or because of the blind optimisms. But when those horrible things did happen, everyone began to lose their faith in God. Soon …show more content…
Eliezer was not able to keep his faith with lord it was hard for him to understand after Nazi had done bad afflicts to Judaism in the camp. “Compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?” (Wiesel 63). Eliezer felt angry to compare the greatness and the weaknesses from God he cannot understand why God still blessed those Jewish sick mind and give them more chances. “Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber, I rebelled” (Wiesel 64). While the Jews are celebrating the Jewish holiday and shout loud “Blessed be the Name of the Eternal!” Eliezer still thought he has no reason to bless Him, he cannot find out a reason to persuade himself to follow and celebrate the Jewish holiday with other Jews. Eliezer cannot persuade himself as a follower of God, he feels pleasant to revolt to God. Eliezer lost his faith of Lord. When he first got beaten and no one helped him, it seemed that Germans got no punishment. When he cannot find out any reason to persuade himself, he lost his faith in the lord. He felt helpless and despair after he went through all the punishment from
In this essay I am going to show evidence that he lost his faith, not only in his God, but in his leaders and his father. Elie lost faith in his leaders. The cruel actions the Nazis performed in the concentration camps says plenty about why. But when Elie's leg was still recovering in the infirmary, his neighbor said this, “ I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone has
Firstly, Eliezer had a strong relationship with God until The Holocaust occurred. Eliezer grew up having faith that everything on Earth reflects on God's holiness, and power. Eliezer's beliefs revolved around if God is good, then the world must be good as well. Eliezer believes that God is in the presence of everyone all the time. So therefore everything must always
Everyone should always have faith in what they believe in. Eliezer is a Jewish boy that is very faithful. He slowly loses faith in God. Elie lost his home and family. Before, the invasion from the Germans started, everyone in the village is living a normal life.
Eliezer Wiesel, the author of Night, wrote the book with the goal of teaching his audience to never lose faith. As a Holocaust survivor, Eliezer faced obstacles that most of us will never have to face. These hardships however, did cause him to finally lose his faith in God. Throughout the book, Eliezer questions his faith. Because of the severe trial and adversity, Eli Weisel questions his faith in God, even though he was a faithful man before the Holocaust.
He is much more involved in religion than the rest of his family. When his father asks “why do you pray?” Eliezer’s response is shocked at first, as if it was a ridiculous question to ask. To him, religion and prayer is so innate and important that it’s simply second nature. His decline in religious faith is a direct consequence of the inhumane circumstances of concentration camps.
Elie and other Holocaust survivor’s reactions to their placement in the concentration camps and systematic murder varied along with the strength of their faith after they were freed. Ultimately, there is no ‘average’ response in conviction among humans; rather, reactions vary due to the miscellaneous conditions of the victim and their surroundings.
Wiesel and other Jews in the concentration camps had many warning of what was to come, especially from the previous survivors of the Nazi camps. In fact, the new arrivals, when they arrived in camp, were warned right away, by some older men, “‘You’ve had done better to have hanged yourselves where you were than come here. Didn’t you know what was in store for you at Auschwitz?... Do you see that chimney over there? …
Eliezer questioned his faith in God, he never understood how such a fatality could happen and why. The one person Eliezer trusted was Hitler because everything Hitler said he made happen. Eliezer said the holocaust “murdered his God” Eliezer had always had faith the holocaust challenged his faith and connection with God. Elizer witnessed major horrors in the camp that was forever burned into his memory. Eliezer's faith in God came and went, but his faith to live stayed with him.
Elie Wiesel uses many factors to display the horrors that took place at Auschwitz, but his use of Judaism and faith are by far the most prevalent and, in my opinion, the most meaningful. His transition from an ultra-orthodox Jew to an Atheist in such a short time period showcases the amount of trauma and dehumanization caused in order to put in motion such an upheaval. Elie Wiesel begins his memoir by describing himself as, “deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” (3) With this statement, he is trying to articulate that at this point in time, Eliezer’s life was mainly comprised of his faith.
When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise… But look at these men whom You have betrayed, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!,” (pg.68) because of all the horrors and mistreatment Elie has endured, like witnessing infants being thrown into the trenches, “... Children thrown into the flames,” (pg.32), and watching his father being slapped, “... he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours,” (pg.39), his faith is distinguished. This contrasts to the beginning of the book where Eliezer says he cannot imagine a world without God, “Why do I pray?
The torturing and suffering caused is what widdles down the belief, and this present throughout the novel. Only the strong and the ones who have most faith would survive, yet at the same time, if they didn’t originally have faith, they could’ve avoided the concentration camps
Eliezer was very close to god and wanted to learn anything he could. Once he was taken away from his home, he began losing faith in god and lost all hope. Eliezer stopped praying and he believed that god was unjust. Eliezer felt as though god was uncaring and so he stopped believing in him. His view on god changed juristically throughout Night.
In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he questioned God, ¨Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled, he caused thousands of children to burn his Mass graves?¨(Wiesel 68). Overall, Wiesel does not follow the words of God and is not believing in him anymore because he thinks God is the one thatś letting all the inhumanity occur. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause disbelief or incredulity.
Elie, once so faithful, is one of the first to lose faith in God due to the horrific sights he sees. After witnessing the bodies of Jewish children being burned, Wiesel writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). He quite understandably has begun to doubt that his God is with him following the sight of the supposedly chosen people’s bodies being unceremoniously burned. Elie, though, was perhaps not a member of the masses with this belief; in fact, some men were able to hold on to their beliefs despite these horrendous sights. Also near the middle of the book, Wiesel reflects on the faith of other Jews in the face of these events, saying that “some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come.
Religion is something that many people have consistently believed in and turned to in times of need and support. Some of these people rely on their faith more than their own family and friends. Their religion is their entire life and they can’t imagine their lives without it. Imagine a scenario that’s so terrible that God won’t take you out of it. These people will wonder where God is and pray for Him to come.