Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

There were a total of 11 million people killed in the Holocaust. This is an extremely substantial number of innocent people that were killed, as a result of Adolf Hitler’s “Master Plan” of killing all Jews. These events altered millions of people’s lives and changed history.

How Hitler Almost Succeeded “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” This is said by a dying patient to Elie in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night. This statement alone shows how while the rest of the world was trying to stop Hitler, the dedication he had to his plan of eradicating the Jewish population was so great that even the Jewish people believed that he would succeed. Despite what every other country had said they would do, none of them fully kept their word.

Into dark depths of the Holocaust “Even in darkness, it is possible to create light.” this quotation by Elie Wiesel ties directly to the book Night showing the dark hardships and devastating things Elie had seen during the Holocaust but he still managed to get and push through to see the light. The book Night by Elie Wiesel talks about his eleven months time during the Holocaust affecting around seventeen million victims overall it was a time of mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals in places called concentration camps or labor camps. The time Elie had in the camps threw all the times of savage killing, theft of identity and brutal transportation during the time of raw dehumanization of the men and women in the Nazi lead death camps.

During the Holocaust between 1933-1945 over 6 million jews were killed because of their heritage. In our society there is a big issue with violence,intolerance,and marginalization so how can we resolve this peacefully?.(sentence tying these two things together)”There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution”(Milton n.pag.).Although countries value safety and security, people with different races,religion, and gender are often persecuted. In many cases people with different religions are persecuted because of their beliefs or rituals. In the book Night by Wiesel, people of the Jewish religion are persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious beliefs.

Where's God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?” (Wiesel 76). Elie explained how even though he is only a human in his faith, he still describes how God is not helping. He explains why he is starting to give up on his beliefs.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie, his family, and his mentality were torn apart by the terrorism of the Germans. The happiness and peace once flourishing in the Wiesel home was taken away, policy by policy; until nothing was left except Elie himself, alone on a cold bunk in a concentration camp. Wiesel grew up a devout Jew in Romania in the 1940s, in a family of six. Elie’s daily activities included studying Jewish scripture with his teacher Moishe the Beadle, and helping his parents with chores. Elie’s peaceful life was devoid of doubts of faith and God.

Shaped The terrible actions Elie Wiesel had become victim to changed his faith in religion and what he lived for. Amazingly through it all he refused to die which left us with his terrifying memory ”night”. Throughout the memoir Elie is faced with many challenges that make him question his faith and change his morals for his father.

To culminate the semesters worth of thoughts and readings of the relationship between religion and literature I decided to analyze the contents of the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This book is an account of Elie’s life in Nazi Germany. It addressed his inner most thoughts as a young man who’s life suddenly changes during the reign of Adolf Hitler. In the following paragraphs I have explored a few religious aspects of Night in relation to two of the required readings and a discussion post assigned to this class.

Is having a strong faith possible after living through one of the most difficult times in the world? At the age of 15, Elie Wiesel was taken from his home in Sighet, Hungary along with his family by the Germans and was brought to a concentration camp. Wiesel was a very religious child. He wanted to study more advanced lessons that grown men would be learning. While being religious, Wiesel’s beliefs were starting to be questioned as so many innocent people were being killed every day right before his very eyes.

“It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.” “(Webber).” This quote by Tammara Webber shows that no matter how much faith you have before in some situations it may go away in an instant making you not only wonder just how much faith did you lose and the lines of trust that was broken, but also how much you now doubt your god making you slowly grow as a new person gaining confidence as you start to go through more and more soul crushing hardships that make you think at what cost. Hard experiences that make you do and believe things you never thought you would of in your

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a frighteningly powerful novel that tells of Elie’s anguish in the German concentration camps. Wiesel is a Jewish scholar that faithfully worships God. Through the novel, Wiesel loses sight of God's love and faithfulness through his extreme torment and misery. During his time in the camps, his loss of God could have been secured by applying Old Testament verses to his daily life, changing his perspective and outlook on his situation. During Elie’s time in the camps, he is experiencing ghastly events that further diminish his faith in God.

Elie had lived in a sheltered home which had always consisted of praying and showing off his faith. At Auschwitz, Elie questions his faith because of the silence God has given him and his people, Elie rebels against him. When Elie sees a hanging of Pipel, he turns against his belief again. Elie’s faith had fallen under the horrors which he had seen. He had been exposed and ruined by the evil effects that the war brought along with it.

Lost Faith in Humanity The authors of Night, Elie Weisel, and Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki, both lost a lot of their faith in humanity, but because of certain experiences, it seems that Elie lost the most hope in the human race. Elie lost his mother, father, and sisters to the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Whereas, Jeanne did not have to go through the death of any of her family due to the internment camp, so she was not as traumatized by her unfair treatment. Because of Elie’s loss of family members, he had lost more faith in humanity.

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.

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.