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Significance Of The Forgotten Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Gabriel Stokes
Mrs.Stripling Teacher
Tenth Grade English
2/2/2023
The Forgotten Faith in one's Lord and Reality
In the story NIGHT written by Elie Wiesel, the main character named Eliezer had been traumatized from his most recent experiences, of which ¨the Holocaust has been currently taking place of which during that time 44,000 camps were in operation and during the end of world war 2 six-million jews were killed in said concentration camps¨ and Eliezer explains in a highly subjective manner of which events are occurring to him and his father. But as these traumatic events are occurring we see glimpses of Eliezer losing faith in his religion, humanity as well the faith in everything around him. However, ever since Eliezer …show more content…

Though after these horrendous events they seem to get much worse of which he starts questioning if any of this was real, and when they had arrived at their new torturous home; not surprisingly Eliezer after these events also seems to show that they’d started to go mad from their experiences from signs …show more content…

However during Eliezer’s first departures end, In the text Eliezer prays to God in his head and thinks "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us ... " (PG 20) but sadly in this story his calls will go unheard and shall be acquitted with years of torture and no help from his lord. Nevertheless later during the line that Eliezer and his father were taken he questions to himself why should he praise the name of the almighty master of the universe as they had not done anything to be thankful for. Moreover after the initial transportation and encounter with the angel of death Eliezer shall never forget the day his god was killed and his dreams turned to ashes. Nor had he prayed not confirming that his god wasn't real but denied his lords

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