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How Does Elie Lose Faith

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A person’s faith is given to the one, that is most believed in, and for this Elie’s faith was given to God and so was many other’s faith. However, according to all of the those specific Jews their faith was placed in the wrong hands, so many of them lose their faith throughout the story. Elie at the start of the book “Night” was a Jew, in a family that deeply believed in God for a considerable amount of their life. For example, in the book “Night” Elie had much faith in God; however, after arriving at the concentration camp his entire view of the world changed. Consequently, he was becoming a different person, and he had lost faith in God. This affected him greatly, Elie rebelled and didn’t fast, he didn’t see a point in celebrating new years,

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