Elie Wiesel Faith In Night

Elie’s Faith Jack Lewis Language Arts This paper is about the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Throughout the novel, we get hints and implications regarding Elie’s faith. At the beginning of the book, we often talk about how he worships his God and his loyalty to him. But as the story progresses, and we see his experiences at Auschwitz, he sees that faith dwindle.

As well as the hanging of the Pipel, an angelic like creature. Wiesel also refused to fast for Yom Kippur along with his other Jewish friends. When the prisoners arrived at the concentration camps they were standing in the selection line, as they

The book Night by Elie Wiesel shows how suffering and witnessing the painful deaths of many innocent lives can be the cause of loss of faith in the benevolent god. This book is taken in a horrible, inhumane place called the Holocaust. It all started when Moshe the Beadle stopped talking about God after he had witnesses the massacre of Jews by the German Gestapo; at that time no one believed him but time would prove them wrong. When Elie witnesses the horror of the concentration camps and what they do to people especially children he feels as if his God has been murdered right before his eyes. In the camp he sees an atrocity after atrocity, death after death.

Have you have ever been there when a family member died, or been treated so cruelly that you lost your faith in something that you never thought you could lose faith in? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel is about his story of surviving the Holocaust. The Germans took everything the Jews had. The Germans took away their pride, family, and all of their possessions. The one thing that they couldn’t take away was their faith, or so the Jews thought.

Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement, had arrived and Wiesel questioned himself if he should fast or not. He believed that fasting was year-round, but many of the prisoners believed they should because they believed that they needed to show God that even being there they were capable of worshiping Him. Wiesel and his father decided not fast since they were going to need all the food and all the strength they could get to stay alive. By then Wiesel had lost faith in God and could no longer accept the silence of God, Wiesel protested against Him.(Wiesel 87). After a long day of working all the prisoners were sent back into their blocks and many would talk about God, Wiesel questioned why, why were they praying, begging, asking God for help and forgiveness, since God, Himself was making them suffer the worst thing possible to man kind.

Night Loss Of Faith In God In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel shows the decline of his conviction in God. Elie’s faithfulness in the beginning of his life is unquestionable. He has never thought about why he prays, much less breathes or thinks. He wants his dad to teach him about the supernatural virtue of his religion and he wants to devote his life to his Master of the universe, God.

Even though Wiesel's faith is the main focus point in the Night, other prisoners struggled with the same issue. For example afters months in the camps one of father’s friends, a man named Meir Katz, is starting to give up. He is not so much giving up on his beliefs towards God as he is giving up on life itself. He believes death is so guaranteed that there is no point in continuing to live. During this point in his thoughts Meir Katz goes on to tell Mr. Wiesel, Elie Wiesel's Father, “Why don’t they shoot us all right away” (Wiesel 98).

As Wiesel’s first Yom Kippur in a concentration camp was approaching, he was struck with the conflict of whether or not to fast. Although one reason not to was because of all of the prisoners’ extreme hunger and starvation, Wiesel in the end eventually decided not to fast just to spite God for all he had done to the Jews. He declared, “As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (Wiesel 69). Wiesel’s act of eating during a time of fasting showed his fading religious beliefs and changing identity. However, Elie was not the only one who lost his faith in God during this terrible time.

Each day, people all across the globe pray to the God they believe in and they rely on Him to ensure the safety and of themselves, their loved ones and others they know. But when their prayers fail, people start to wonder if they were even considered by God Himself. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie encounters these questions first hand while experiencing being a prisoner during the Holocaust. As he is sent through the processes of concentration camps, he experiences so many unwanted sights that one would automatically be astonished by.

Wiesel's loss of faith was brought on by the absence of God. This resulted in him questioning why it was God's will to allow Jews to suffer and die the way they had. Another portrayal of religious confliction within Wiesel was the statement of his faith being consumed by the flames along with the corpses of children (Wiesel 34). Therefore, he no longer believed God was the almighty savior everyone had set Him out to be or even present before them. To conclude, his experiences within Nazi confinement changed what he believed in and caused him to change how he thought and began questioning God because of the actions He allowed to take

It was a new low for the German soldiers to kill a child, and it was this execution that made many of the Jews’ question the presence of God. Wiesel says, “That night, the soup tasted of corpses” (62). They felt remorse at the hanging of the pipel because he had been kind to them and was “loved by all” (Wiesel 60). So even though the prisoners had to watch similar hangings in Wiesel’s

Belief and Faith is a “double-edged sword” to the jews, it cuts both ways. It keeps them alive, and at the same time makes them oblivious, and leads to their suffering. Over time, Elie’s belief in god, diminishes and eventually he questions God’s existence extensively and at point, Elie is infuriated that even though they are being tormented and enslaved, the Jews will still pray to god, and thank him, “If god did exist, why would he let u go through all the pain and suffering (33). This is a major point in the ongoing theme of faith and belief, because for once he is infuriated with the thought of religion in a time of suffering. Throughout the book, with the nazis ultimate goal is to break the jews and make dehumanize them and if anything, their goal is take and diminish their belief.

Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?”(Wiesel 68) Wiesel clearly is losing faith in God because he has seen babies burned alive, families killed together. Wiesel blames God for what has happened. Additionally, Elie Wiesel is not thankful for God anymore because he is not in Auschwitz helping him and the rest of the Jews. Wiesel feels anger towards God.

Traditionally, Jewish people fast during this extremely important holiday. When the day arrives, Jews in the concentration camp are conflicted: should they fast as they always have, or do circumstances outweigh traditions? Wiesel recounts this argument in Night: “...there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. I did not fast...

After such a long time without help, these people will start to question their faith and eventually, they will rebel against it. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of The Holocaust, Elie shows that faith is often lost in times of testing or trial. One example of Elie losing his faith is when he was questioning his belief in God. "I suffer hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and I see what is being done here.