There are many things that could tear someone from their beliefs. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there are even more things. The jews in this story have viewed things many of us have not, and those things they cannot bring themselves before that time. In my opinion, Elie had the worst fall of his faith while viewing the things he did at the camps. Being religious and believing in certain things really can change a person, and nothing should be able to take them from that. In this book you will see a lot of people being killed off or simply just being torn away from their everyday lives and beliefs. Elie and his family got taken into a concentration camp. When they arrived his family was taken away from him and they were not seen again. After that, his father and himself were left to fend for themselves.There were a lot of people in charge at the camps. There were a lot of things that you could just not bring yourself back to, especially for the jews that made it out of the camps. Religion was their thing and when these things were happening, they thought God was right there with …show more content…
What they had been through made them feel the need to back away from all close to them. Throughout the entire story, Elie had tried to save his father and wanted to stick with him whatever the case was. At a point in time, Elie had watched his father get beaten and he stood there in complete shock. There was a soldier who was stopping him from doing anything and was getting in his way. Later that night, his father had passed away and he did not seem as sad as one would've thought. After his father had died, he said he had felt relief. The type of relief that came with no sadness, no worry about another being. When he said this it seems as if he felt relief from the responsibility of his
Elie felt they had killed his God and now there was no one to protect them from the evil that had manifested in the camp. Therefore, all of Elie hopes and dreams
Throughout different types of tragedies, people’s reactions also differ. Many people turn to religion as a way to cope with daily life, a guide on how they’re supposed to live, or even a way to justify their way of thinking to the world. Others may turn to more physical forms. In the book Night, Eliezer Wiesel chronicles the progression of his stance on faith in humans as well as religious during the Holocaust. Elie, when confronted with a traumatic event, turned against his faith, one of the main aspects of his life and chronicled how it decayed throughout the book until it finally gave out when his father died.
Concentration camps led thousands of Jewish people to lose hope in God and question God’s existence, one of them was Elie Wiesel. Elie’s view on God drastically changed from the beginning of the book to the end. Elie’s life before the concentration camp revolved around Judaism. Every passing day in the camp caused his faith for God to falter and by the time he was liberated he had lost all faith in the existence of God.
He started to get angry and question if there was a god or not, all he had cared about was his father and surviving. The quote “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered
Identity, God and Religion In Elie Wiesel’s novella, Night, the themes of identity, God, and religion become present due to the association Wiesel has with Judaism. Both themes intertwine, and are displayed ascribable to the oscillation Wiesel experiences, the statements he makes regarding God’s death, and his loss of interest for cabalistic mysticism. Eliezer undergoes change, he was passionate about his religion, but there were instances where he felt the need to pull away due to the circumstances he found himself in. When, “[Elie] … was thirteen, [during the day he] studied Talmud, and by night [he] would run to the synagogue to weep,” (Wiesel 3). Eliezer’s strong connection with his religion is shown, because he chooses the synagogue
They were badly beaten and starved. Elie was so worried about dieing he gave his food to his dad and let him eat his dad was so worried about elie he didn’t eat. He was so frail he could break abone. Elie’s dad finally passed away and Elie didn’t want to be alive anymore.
He spent countless days in misery. His faith in god started to weaken due to no result of anything getting better and lack of hope. One's belief can make a huge impact in one's life but once it falters, it leads to a dark path of loneliness, despair, and betrayal. In the beginning of the book, Night Wiesel described himself as a religious person
The prisoners seem to become cold-hearted and turn their backs towards each other; their only concern is survival. These horrid events in the multiple concentration camps and the inevitable deaths of many lead Elie to wonder how the world can hold so much grudge and fury, only to make matters worse, instead of making
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 men, women, and children in Auschwitz tried to find some peace by believing that God would have their backs, even if it meant enduring this hardship. Personally, I know what it is like to have a wavering faith in my relationship with God. It can be really hard to thank him and rejoice in him when I am going through a tumultuous time. It's easy to go to God and worship him when life is easy, the real test of faith is going to him when you're faced with tragedy. During Covid, I found myself becoming depressed and questioning why God was putting me through the ringer.
First his family is split up, then his name is taken, and finally his faith in God was slipping away. Elie almost has nothing left to hold onto but his father, but like all the others even that bond was slowly breaking. “I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows.
For this reason the Elie wouldn’t have known about the extreme horror that was lying ahead for his entire family. This choice positively impacted the author’s life by not being separated from his father. “Naturally, we refused to be separated” (20). Hypothetically, if Elie left with his sisters, his father would have no motivation to survive by not knowing if his family is
Jews were sent on death marches during this time by the Nazis. These marches led to mass death and destruction. This is seen when Elie Wiesel feels they are “strongest creatures alive” and they can “deny the desire to die” (Wiesel 107). In believing they are the strongest and can live forever through these harsh conditions, gives them a sense of hope that they will get out alive and
The Holocaust affects Jews in a way that seems unimaginable, and most of these effects seem to have been universal experiences; however, in the matter of faith, Jews in the concentration camp described in Elie Wiesel’s Night are affected differently and at different rates. The main character, Elie, loses his faith quickly after the sights he witnesses (as well as many others); other Jews hold on much longer and still pray in the face of total destruction. In the beginning, all of the Jews are more or less equally faithful in their God and religion.
My family is very important to me and the thought of losing them makes me cringe. In this book Elie lost everything. His mother and sister killed before he could say goodbye and eventually losing his father after sacrificing so much to keep him alive. When Elie and his family were first expelled from their homes, his father cried. I don’t know what