Elie Wiesel wrote in one of the most difficult style writer can ever do: Put the worst human feelings, thoughts, and emotions into words. His purpose of writing a book “Night” was to show how he didn’t lose his faith during the Holocaust. And that’s overall theme of the book – faith. In the book, when Nazi took them to concentration camps, Elie thought: “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, snore to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” Little my little Elie began to lose his faith, this is hard to write in words when you are losing something that was with you for the whole your life (Wiesel 33). As the “long nights” passed, Elie still losing his faith: “Die today or tomorrow, or later? The nigh was growing longer, never-ending…” (#98). It was hard to write about death that …show more content…
Elie was beloved by his father: “… I understood that he did not wish to see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames…” (#33). As father loved his son, Elie showed the same feelings to his father: “As for me, I was thinking about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had alredy duffered so much, endured so much. This was not the moment to separate…” (#82). They both were supporting each other, they enforced themselves to live for one another, and that’s when Elie was gaining faith. But, after a while his father died: “They must have taken him away before day break and taken him to the crematorium…” (#112). It’s the most hurtful moment in a life and the most difficult thing to write about because when Wiesel saw his father were taken to crematorium. Surprisingly, Elie didn’t lose his faith, he thought that his father is “free at last” when he died. Surely, he was destressed, but it helped him in gaining
How do you react when your faith is being tested? For Wiesel in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel the reader witnesses the loss of faith. The response of Wiesel faith was effected by the surrounding he was faced with. The foundation of his beliefs was questioned by the events he saw. Thus as time passed more individuals began to lose their religious behaviours.
Religion has always been controversial, throughout history there have been hundreds of wars fought over religion. World War II may not have been solely based off of religion, but it had a major part in the war. During World War II Jews and other ethnic groups throughout Europe were harshly persecuted by Nazi Germany. Elie Wiesel, a Hungarian Jew and holocaust survivor recount the tragedy, he endured during the holocaust in his memoir, Night. With only 109 pages, Wiesel manages to write about almost every horror he faced, one of the worst being his loss of faith.
”The news spread through Sighet like wildfire. Soon that was all people talked about. But not for long. Optimism soon revived: The Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest…
The Holocaust was one of the worst things to ever happen in the civilization of mankind. The mass genocide resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jewish people all over Europe. During the Holocaust, the people that were not immediately executed were put into concentration camps. During the peoples’ time in the camps, their faith in Judaism was tested as some had an even deeper faith in their religion, meanwhile others lost all faith in God for allowing such things to happen to human beings. Richard L. Rubenstein wrote about how the people in the world lost faith in God and questioned religion as a whole.
Elie believed that if there was a God, he would most certainly would not allow these acts of horror. He was terror-struck by the crematories, the hangings, and the gas chambers that he felt like a part of him just died, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust..."(Wiesel 32). During his time in Auschwitz, Elie experienced innocent Jews being tortured in cruel ways, people starving, and family members killing each other over a piece of bread. Elie witnessed a father and son beat each other nearly to death over something as simple as a piece of bread, “"Why should I bless his name? The eternal, lord of the universe, the all-powerful and terrible was silent.
However, his father wanted to be dead like those bodies in those corpses. Moreover, the Jews felt hatred from the Germans, and they struggled through those situations. That’s why Elie’s father was sentimental when he lost hope. In life, people react differently to unexpected events, like the Challenger explosion in 1986. But in this case, it is different from that catastrophe.
”I did not weep and it pained me the i could not weep. But i was out of tears. And deep inside me, if i could i have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, i might have found something like: Free at last!... ” When his father died Elie wasn't sad all he could think of was the weight that was lifted off his chest, that he no longer had to be constantly worried or tending on his
Elie could not believe his eyes; how could this been kept covert. Some people began to recite the Kaddish, which is the Jewish prayer for the dead. Elie felt irate for the first time at this. He thought; “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent.
At the beginning of night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes ‘’Profoundly’’. How have his experiences at Auschwitz and other camps affect that faith? Eliezer's faith has changed tremendously throughout this book. This may be because of the concentration camps and other horrible experiences throughout this book.
In the book it says “ My father presence was the only thing that stopped me. What would he do without me?” This quote show how elie realtionship with his father save his
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.
He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support” (Wiesel 86-87). Elie told himself that he had to live because his only family was now his father. Because of this, Elie realized that if he died then his father would be alone and he would lose all of his motivation to keep on going without Elie.
As for me, I had ceased to pray... I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45). It is apparent here that the effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish people’s faith was delayed on some level. Elie refuses to pray to the God that apparently abandoned him. This is personified when he says he doubts that God has absolute justice.
(Wiesel 112). Before the Holocaust, Elie and his father never really spent time with each other and didn’t have a good relationship. When Elie and his family got split up, the only person he had was his father. Towards the end of the book Elie and his father split up, and they started getting farther and farther away from each other. When Elie's father pasted away he started to feel a
Elie started to struggle physically and mentally. There was a time when the Jews were celebrating Rosh Hashanah in the concentration camps and the jews got together and gathered to thank God. As they were praying, Elie thought, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled.