Loss Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Jew's religion was taken away by the Nazis. Before the Holocaust, Elie and his family would go to the synagogues to pray but when the Nazis invaded their country, they closed the synagogues and took all of their religious belongings. In the concentration camps, Elie’s father was getting weaker and Elie was barely surviving with nothing the German soldiers gave them. Elie starts getting angry with God because he is not doing anything to stop these German soldiers from killing them. God is letting Jews and non-Jews die and Elie’s faith in God is getting weaker and is losing strength.

After a hard day at camp Elie is lying in his bunk when the other prisoners start to sing. He questions why they are singing praise to God while they are being tortured because of him. Elie also wonders why God doesn't come and help them. He tells us " I was not denying his existence but I doubted his absolute justice."

When Elie Wiesel was only a teenager he was starved, beaten for no good reason, and was separated from most of his family… millions jews went through this same exact pain. Elie Wiesel was born in an isolated town of Sighet,Transylvania and was raised in the Jewish faith. But in 1944 he and his family were sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz and then Buchenwald where they worked hard labor. In his book ,“Night”, he wrote about his experience during the holocaust, what their daily life was, and the hardships they had to go through. Throughout Elie’s duration in the concentration camps has deeply affected him because he began to slowly lose his faith/religion, lose his emotions and sympathy for other people, and acted more hesitant to certain

The next step of his loss of faith starts again with a heartbreaking event. One night, Elie says that he and the other men at the Buna camp had to watch a young boy as he was hanged and “were forced to look at him at close range” (65). This agonizing event from the book upsets all of the witnesses as they watch the young boy dying in front of them “lingering between life and death” (65). From this, Elie admitted to himself “Where [God] is? This is where--hanging from this gallows…” (65).

His father whispers, “May his name be celebrated and sanctified.” Elie then thinks, “For the first time I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for” (Wiesel 33)?

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.

“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.” (Page 69) This means that Elie is irritated of God not doing anything

When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise… But look at these men whom You have betrayed, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!,” (pg.68) because of all the horrors and mistreatment Elie has endured, like witnessing infants being thrown into the trenches, “... Children thrown into the flames,” (pg.32), and watching his father being slapped, “... he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours,” (pg.39), his faith is distinguished. This contrasts to the beginning of the book where Eliezer says he cannot imagine a world without God, “Why do I pray?

Milos Kulina Elie’s faith towards God changes a lot as the story goes on. In the beginning of the work, his faith in God is complete. In chapter one when asked why he prays to God, he says, “Why did I pray? ... Why did I live?

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.

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.

“We are never defeated unless we give up on God” (Ronald Reagan).When no faith remains, it makes one a soulless man. Elie Wiesel uses Night to comment on the effects of the unforgettable experiences and grisly events that he has encountered during the Holocaust. Though Elie Wiesel was once a devoted Jew, when he experienced the gruesome treatments and witnessed the undeserved suffering in the concentration camps, he ultimately succumbed to the destruction of his faith and the ruination of his identity. Religion had always been an indispensable part of Elie Wiesel’s life, but the Holocaust prompted the faltering of his faith. Before his days at the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel was a fervently devout child who, unlike most kids , preferred

Elie, once so faithful, is one of the first to lose faith in God due to the horrific sights he sees. After witnessing the bodies of Jewish children being burned, Wiesel writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). He quite understandably has begun to doubt that his God is with him following the sight of the supposedly chosen people’s bodies being unceremoniously burned. Elie, though, was perhaps not a member of the masses with this belief; in fact, some men were able to hold on to their beliefs despite these horrendous sights. Also near the middle of the book, Wiesel reflects on the faith of other Jews in the face of these events, saying that “some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come.

Continuing on, people judge God 's power to let people die even though they pray to Him. Elie yells at God for his bad judgment for killing innocent people. “...you cause the heavens torain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom you have betrayed, allowing them tobe tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before you!

But look at these men whom you have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed and burned. What do they do? They pray before you” (68). Elie is loosing faith. He believes that God is not only betraying him but also all the Jewish people God is letting “die”.