How Does Elie Wiesel Maintain Faith In The Book Night

Like the progressive decline of concerned thinking, is the similar value of religious faith, and how it declined as well. Being in an area where one is subject to constant torture, can lead to the one’s with the strongest faith, to the lose it all together. Elie Wiesel was one of those people. Before being thrown in the ghetto and led to the concentration camp, living by his faith was a part of his life; it was natural for him. Being questioned about it--and questioning himself--was a rare and troubling occurrence. He explains here, “‘Why do you pray?’ he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 4). Never being able to imagine his life without his religion, caused him to view it as

Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz where they are separated from the rest of the family and first hear about atrocities such as the incinerators and gas showers. In the beginning Elie believes that everything is a rumor, a lie, that humankind cannot perform such crimes, but he soon is forced to witness the demise in front of his eyes. This is when his outlook on his faith starts to waver. While watching the smoke billow up from a crematory, Elie hears a man standing next to him begging him to pray, and for the first time in his life Wiesel turns away from God. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (31).

Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel loses faith from the beginning until the end, it’s continuous. Eliezer begins to lose his faith when he witnesses the hanging of the pipel, Elie was forced to watch the corpse of kids whilst he was allowed to eat dinner. "What are You, my God? I thought angrily. . . What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?"(pg 66) This is when Eliezer loses his faith indefinitely. Throughout the book some of Elie´s peers try to help him bring back his faith in god, i´d say it did not work very well. In chapter 5 of Night a friend of Elieś named Akiba says ¨God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base

The holocaust was a horrific event in which six million Jews died. There have been many books written about this horrendous experience. In this book, I read the author gives a good description of what he experienced. It makes you feel many emotions and realize how cruel it was.In the autobiographical novel, Night by Elie Wiesel faith and religion are one of the most important themes because throughout the book is about how Eliezer Wiesel needed his faith to keep him alive, but also was losing it throughout the process.

Though faithful as they enter the horrific camps of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buna, Birknau, Dachau, and Buchenwald, the Jews become capricious. They start losing grip and begin falling down the slippery slope of death the Germans set up for them as more horrors of the camps become unveiled. Soon after arriving in the camp and being told about the crematoria, he felt “anger rising with me [Elie]. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). This is the first time that his faith is challenged. After a few days in Auschwitz he “had ceased to pray. I [Elie] was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). As seen, Elie is beginning to have doubts about God and therefore his belief and faith in him. Finally, when Elie is looking for God to come though he doesn’t and he asks,

However, after being in the concentration camp and seeing the monstrosities that were happening to his family and his fellow Jews he began to question his god immensely. He questioned why his all-powerful god would let these terrible acts against the Jews happen. He could not understand why god and the rest of the world would not intervene and stop the Nazis from exterminating them. Even after the war was over and Wiesel was freed he still never got back to where he was before the holocaust with his religion. He still says he has faith but refers to it as a broken faith with many doubts and

Faith can make the road a bit clearer, because what cannot be seen through the eyes will show through the heart. During the Holocaust, however, many Jews had to live in concentration camps where they struggled to maintain faith. These people were put through such horrible atrocities that remaining faithful became a struggle for them. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel struggled to maintain his faith because he lost hope in humanity, believed that his God was no longer present, and was to weak to believe in himself. Wiesel lost hope in humanity after he had witnessed such devastating events.

In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel depicts how he is exposed to cruelty everyday be it from the Nazis or from his fellow Jewish prisoners. Everyday the more cruelty and dehumanization he is exposed to the more he loses his faith. As he and everyone around him lose their faith focus more on self-preservation. Wiesel focused more on the survival of both him and his father. As you read throughout the book his faith dwindles more and more. Some of the best examples of this is when he is told of the crematoria(33) the next example is when the little pipel was hung (65) the biggest example was during the jewish day of Yom Kippur(69).

Faith in God can help break down any fear, but an intense fear can cause anyone to abandon their God. In Night by Elie Wiesel, fear of death is what causes the Jews to lose their belief piece by piece. As they run, shower, work and eat in Auschwitz, a death camp, death never leaves their minds and swords hover over their heads. When the last survivors officially give up on God and themselves, as they are going to be blown up by the S.S., the resistance rescues them. Innocent Jewish prisoners struggle to maintain their faith when they are forced to scrutinize the appalling deaths of their fellow Jews.

Faith plays a large role in the minds of most individuals, and this was especially true when regarding the Jewish people in Europe during the 1900s. However, at the time of Hitler’s regime and the Holocaust, the faith of many Jews came into question - Elie included. After all, why should they believe in God if they are going through such a tragedy and He shows no signs of being present? The Jewish people felt alone in the universe. They had no God, no faith, and no hope.

When the 3 men were hung publicly by the SS officers others reacted as, “”Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked.” (Wiesel 71) Other prisoners start to question why is god not protecting them. Whether god is really watching over them, protecting them. He had just let 3 innocent men die and does not seem to punish those who have killed them. Elie continues to rant on later, “Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled. Because He had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Saturdays and feast days?” (Wiesel 74) He wonders and seems to had lost hope in humanity and faith. He wonders if there really is a god why would he allow such treachery to these people who only praised his name. Thus he had lost faith in everything he knew about god

During World War II, the concentration camp prisoners were mentally and physically tortured causing them to lose faith in God. They believed that God would help them get through these tough times and help protect the inmates, but they soon came to the realization that he wasn't going to help and wasn't answering their endless amount of prayers. The Jews had to defend themselves and learn how to survive under these harsh conditions, especially since no one should ever have to face them. With this in mind, Elie Wiesel along with many others lost their faith. Although they should never be put into a situation terrible enough to forget the faith they once had, it was stripped from them in those concentration camps. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel, 34). The flames from the crematoriums consumed his faith forever because he witnessed so many deaths were God should have saved them. At that moment in time, he realized that God wasn't there with them and already clearly stated that Elie and other innocent Jews had to fight and defend themselves. On the contrary, some might say their faith and human spirit drove them to survive. In “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl,

He shows how some people can be so cruel. Mr. Wiesel described how the amount of food that he had been eating was very low. He wrote how he only got watered down soup and a roll of bread. Mr. Wiesel also wrote that while they were the concentration camps they had to do a lot of work. He described how that the people that didn’t or couldn’t work anymore put in the crematorium. Another event Mr. Wiesel wrote about was the fear people had for dying at any moment. He described how the people’s fear of not knowing where the people were going to be killed or moved. Elie described his story very well and that give his reader the view of how absolutely awful the holocaust was for the Jews in the concentration

He first had strong faith, the confused about his faith and lastly, lost his faith. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, faith was a motif of the silence of God. In Night, Elie shows off how much he believes in God and how his faith is strong. Elie tries to be all religious when it comes to God. He tries to show everyone that believes in him.

Having never seen this kind of cruelty Elie was especially surprised upon seeing this. He continues to lose even more of that innocence, sadly in such a horrifying way. Since before this he would have never though possible that people were capable of doing such things. It is evident from his tone that he is shocked, and sickened by what he sees and gives the reader an overall impression of being disheartened by all of this. Not just in humans did Elie questions about, he despite his loyalty began to question his faith. Something that he had also been so devoted, and passionate about, ”How was it possible in that cursed place, to praise the Eternal One for His supposed love of His people? How was it possible, without telling lies, to say in Auschwitz, ' Ashreinu, ma tovBalkann '--how happy we are to bear our heritage? How and by what right can we peak of happiness in Auschwitz? As I have said elsewhere, Auschwitz is conceivable neither with God nor without Him… II may someday come to understand man 's role in the mystery Auschwitz represents but never God 's ” (All Rivers Run 84). Wiesel’s tone is very clearly accusatory, and disbelief because he just doesn’t understand how this is all just happening and for it doesn’t seem like anyone is trying to stop. He believes that it was God’s place to do something about it, rather than letting all these Jewish people just suffer.