Night Elie Wiesel Research Paper

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Night by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, is a powerful memoir about the Holocaust. The Nazis slaughtered six million Jews and five million Gentiles during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel underwent many transformations throughout the dreaded concentration camps, especially with his relationship with his father, and his faith in God. Throughout Elie’s experience at Auschwitz, his devotion and perception of God changed drastically. Elie, at the start of the book, was completely devoted to God and studied him day and night. He even found a homeless man to teach him about their religion. But when he struggled through the concentration camps, he started to wonder, how could a just god stay so quiet during all the atrocities at the camp. As Elie started to question his faith, he states”For the time, I felt anger rise inside me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe chose to be silent” (Wiesel 33). Elie started to wonder why he should worship God when God stood silent and didn’t do anything while innocent people were slaughtered en masse. Elie started to lose religious faith in and not show his devotion and love for God. Elie’s faith changed …show more content…

Towards the beginning of Elie’s life his father barely paid attention to him and they often fought over his desire to be a mystic. Near the end of the book, in the camp, Elie and his father were nearing death but they only thing Elie cared about was being with his father. Elie says”As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be seperated from my father”(Wiesel 82). Everything besides his father and him being alive had become less important. Elie and his father had a poor relationship at the start of the book, but during his journey at the camp Elie grew closer to his father and would do anything for him. This illustrated the transformation of their

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