Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

In this essay I am going to show evidence that he lost his faith, not only in his God, but in his leaders and his father. Elie lost faith in his leaders. The cruel actions the Nazis performed in the concentration camps says plenty about why. But when Elie's leg was still recovering in the infirmary, his neighbor said this, “ I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone has

During the beginning of the book, his faith was a significant part of his life. He had strong relationship with God. He states in page 8, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies”,and in page 5 he said, “ Not to learn it by heart , but to discover within the very essence of divinity”, which displayed his determination to have more of a connection and understanding of God. But as weeks go by in the concentration camp he no longer looks up to God for hope,or answers, and begins to accuse God for what’s happening the Jews and always ask himself why would God do this to them. In page 67 Elie begins to wonder, “ Why would I bless him?

(4). The answer Eliezer gives shows how his faith in God is not something he has to think about, doing just like living and breathing which he compared it to. During his time in the concentration camp however, his faith becomes tested. He is treated brutally and struggles each day to live to see the next. The time he spent in the concentration camp made it hard for him to maintain his faith.

This shows how much the trauma has affected him. In the beginning, Eliezer strongly believed in God and was so involved with his values. Whereas now he claims that he no longer believed in God; he is alone. The trauma caused by the concentration camps was so great that

But one day his life changed forever, he gets held captive in Auschwitz. One of the largest concentration camps used to exterminate Jews in the 1940s. Through these traumatic experiences, Eliezer starts to lose God. Although Eliezer prays occasionally, he never truly regained the faith that he once had and he never has the same trust in God again.

The almighty eternal and terrible master of the universe, chose to be silent”(Wiesel 33). As they saw the horrible things that were happening around them, Elie started to question his faith in god. He is thinking why should he praise god if he was letting these things happen to his people, the people that he cares about so much? “For god's sake where is god… hanging here from the gallows,” (Wiesel 65). Elie saw the people that had been murdered or hung frequently, so much so, he started to believe that god was dead because no god would sit there and watch this happen.

By overcoming his faith in both his father and his God, he turned to himself for protection and hope. With his father, his faith was created through the situational case of the Holocaust, as they transformed their relationship because of their need to survive. However, ultimately, this faith was deemed to be redundant, as his father ended up hurting him, and his chance of survival. Coming into the camps, Eliezer was a religious boy, even trying to pursue and further understand the Cabbala. However, after seeing innocent people get killed, under the so-called “watch” of God, he began to doubt his faith.

Elie struggled with his relationship with God frequently throughout the book. In the beginning he practiced Kabbalah but in chapter 5 he doesn’t even want to acknowledge God’s presence. He had a complex relationship with God and he wavered in his beliefs. His relationship with God is important because we see how hardships can change someone's beliefs and how easy it was for him to put the blame on God. During chapter 5 it was the end of the Jewish year and the prisoners got together and prayed.

Perhaps with an even more rooted belief in his existence and divinity than in the beginning, sort of like he’s been shaped and steered by the egregious events in his life to a point where he finally gains “the strength to ask him (God) the real questions”(5). Elie’s journey with his faith can be described as not completely losing the belief in God’s existence, but at many times questioning and doubting his goodness. A passage describes Elie as “one of God's chosen;” and “ from the time he began to think, he lived only for God”(Foreword 3). This quote from the foreword possibly answers the question posed in the thesis. The bigger question all readers and even the characters need to ask themselves is, ‘how does one keep his faith and handle the death/resurrection of God in the soul of a child who suddenly faces absolute evil?’

Eliezer was born in Romania, His family along with other Jews got deported to the German concentration camp. Eliezer had faith threw god, he remained faithful to him while he was in the camps. Some people use faith to strengthen them because they feel gods presence and feel at peace. If you have strong faith, it will give you more confidence in the times you struggle and help you lift that burden off of yourself. In the beginning, Eliezer used the gods' peace and presence to protect them when they arrived at the camps.

Elie couldn’t see the light anymore. He lost all his innocence being faced by a violent world outside of his home. He was surrounded by darkness and death. Elie was waiting for death to eventually consume him. He often questioned God why he would do this to the people he loved and were special to him, to where he became an atheist.

This validates that Elie is angry by the depiction of examples of harm that has been done to people that pray for god to save them. But, god hasn't done anything and these people result in being killed which is why Elie is angry that god is still being so hyped up and relied on when in reality destruction and killings are occurring. This evidence clearly proposes Elie’s loss of faith in god due to his disagreement with the way people think very highly of god and still believe god will save them when god hasn't been there to save thousands of people already. Next, the theme of loss of faith in god is depicted through Elie's negative feelings and talking negatively about god's name. Elie is angry with the destruction going on and believes that god should be there to save them.

Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? ,” (pg. 5). This contrast makes the reader think a great deal, and maybe challenges their own thoughts on God from how powerful the situation is; these inhumane things are being done so frequently, that it forces people like the Jews to revert to a

Eliezer has not only lost faith in god but he has begun to feel hatred towards him for letting innocent men and women be slaughtered and burned. Elie now feels strong hatred towards god for not protecting the Jews. Elie’s view of god changed for the worse. He was very religious and close to god in many ways. He slowly began to lose faith and hope in god.

Others remain faithful and retain the hope that He is on their side, explaining these happenstances as an example of God’s mysterious ways. While this may as well be the case, Elie stops praying, believing that he has been abandoned. He finds no hope of redemption in the Talmud like