Elie Wiesel's View Of God In Night

The travesty of Genocide has tragically claimed both his innocence and childhood prematurely. When the young child is hung for all the Jews to see he no longer tries to conjure or repeal god, Elie simply thinks to himself, “He [God] is hanging here in the gallows” (Wiesel 65).Elie

This is where– hanging from the gallows…” (65). This was a big turning point for Elie’s view towards god. He started to doubt God and what he stood for. Maybe he still thought God was there, but in Auschwitz, God was nowhere to be

What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33). This quote demonstrates the idea that Elie is beginning to grow angry with God, and is beginning to stray from his once extremely religious life. In the article “Holocaust and the Death of God: A Study of Elie Wiesel’s Night”, it is argued that this is the first time that Elie realizes that he is “terribly alone in the world without God” (Mehrotra & Vats 166) Nitisha Mehrotra and Naresh K. Vats would also argue that although Elie appears to resent God and his religion, this decision was not easy for him. Elie strove to be someone who would never renounce his faith, yet when faced with treacherous conditions and harsh persecution Elie found it growing more and more difficult to keep his faith in

1941, Elie Wiesel was a thirteen year old Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania, who spent his days learning about his God. The relationship between the boy and God was vigorous. A hopeful young Elie with a great love for God was cast into a harsh, cruel world where the Almighty’s presence is unknown. How did Elie stray so far away from his beliefs?

Throughout the book Night, the main character Wiesel's opinion of God changed once he experienced something as mortifying as the Holocaust. When his faith was tested, he decided to stop having faith in God, he stopped trusting God, and allowed himself to stop being illuded by God. On page 19 there are a few examples of Wiesel's views and beliefs on God before the Holocaust. “Where, according to Kabbalah ”, this shows that Weisel was interested in his faith enough that he knew the rules and standards/principles that his religion valued. “I succeeded on my own in finding a master for myself in the person of Moishe the Beadle.”

Generations to come, ponder the ideology of: Is God present within our society? Yet a simple question, the book Night, by Marion Wiesel interprets the existence of God within Elie’s life. The main character, Elie faces a multitude of life-altering occasions, one being when he is forced out of his home. It recounts Elie’s experiences as a Jewish teenager during World War II, particularly his time spent in Nazi concentration camps. His dad, a respected individual, is a constant symbol of feelings of love, duty, and commitment to his family; Eventually passing it on to Elie.

Elie says that he has more faith in humanity than he has in God, who has treated him unfairly. This is a big step for Elie compared to how devoted he was in the beginning. As a result, he becomes desensitized. Evidence of this is shown when his father dies, and Elie says “I might have found something like: Free at last!” (112).

This quote shows us that Elie is frustrated with God for not doing anything about all the bad things that are happing to incent people. This shows that Elie still belives in God but is upset with him which later in the book he will loose all of his faith and even even believe in

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel experiences the Holocaust at the age of fifteen. This horrible event happened from 1933 to 1945. Elie, along with numerous other Jews, experience pain throughout the entirety of the book. The events that occur alter the way that the Jews think. This especially happened concerning the way they thought about their God.

Elie did not understand why the suffering of his people who believe in God was put to this abuse as Gods plan. It was difficult for him to believe in God when he felt God was in control of everyone's life, Elie is left to question God and do nothing more to help. God's role in Elie and other faithful follower dropped, they no longer had faith and hope in the help God would give them. Those who remained faithful and who would continue to pray used it as a source of comfort for them to go to with all the hardships occurring. Unlike them Elie no longer cried while praying, it was no longer a source of comfort for him, it stayed with him but it was always on a tip of a scale ready to fall.

(Page 67) At the time, Elie is getting to be exasperated with Him. After everything that Elie has done; working industriously to keep up with his studies, God hasn’t returned anything or done anything to help to the situation. Elie starts to really lose his faith at the Yom Kippur gathering. Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. Traditionally, they are supposed to fast.

In a life full of atrocities and cruel treatment is it possible for decent people to turn into heartless brutes? In the novel “Night” answer to this question is exposed to the young eyes of Eliezer Wiesel. In this novel Elie describes his experience in the Jewish concentration camps of Auschwitz. In these camps, the prisoners were faced with extreme brutality facing inhumane torture. “The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain..

“I ran off to look for my father. And at the same time I was afraid of having to wish him a Happy New Year when I no longer believed in it,” (Wiesel, 75). Earlier, Elie talks about how he felt powerful and stronger than God himself, now that he was free from the Almighty. He also talks about how he felt alone but strong. Later, he shows retaliation against God.

I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (69). An obvious split from God is in this quotation. Elie refuses to honor this sacred holiday to rebel against the God who appears to have left him. He rebels against God’s notion of grace and protection of the Jewish people, for neither of these ideals are apparent in the live he seems to have been cursed to live.

My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God” (Wiesel 68). Elie is putting the blame on God by accusing Him which ultimately makes Him powerless. Since the power of God is being taken away, Elie sees