Examples Of Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

People never realized that, during the Holocaust, many Jews struggled to maintain their faith in God. So, how were they able to overcome countless outbreaks that occurred in their lives? Elie Wiesel, one of the few surviving Jews, demonstrates in his book Night, that many Jews struggled to keep their faith in God after they believed that he abandoned them in concentration camps to be dealt with by the Germans. Elie Wiesel uses the change in Eliezer's faith throughout the book Night to show that no matter how doubtful one feels about their beliefs, they should never give up hope for survival.
Stein, a prisoner at the concentration camp, claimed he had nothing left to live for. All thin, weak and dried up, he kept on struggling for survival

because he believed his family was still alive. “ The only thing that keeps me alive, “ he used to say, “ is that Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn’t for them, I couldn’t keep going. “ ( pg. 42 )
During a prayer many Jews praised God's name, but Eliezer did the opposite, he didn't praise God, but instead questioned him and gave up his pleas to him. Instead of feeling empty and alone, he felt strong and refused to be anything but ashes. “ I felt strong. I was the accuser, God the accuser. My eyes were open and I was alone-terribly alone in a world without God and without man. Without love or mercy. I had ceased to be anything but ashes, yet i felt myself to be stronger than the Almighty, to whom my life had been tied for so long. “ ( pg. 65 )
While walking to a new concentration camp, Eliezer was at wits end and began to feel fascinated by the idea of dying because he felt, since he no longer believed in God, that he could die. But at the brink of death he remember how his father was still there and how his father needed him to stay alive. “ The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me. Not to exist any longer. Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything.
My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me . . . . “ ( pg. 82 )
While struggling to sustain their faith, Elie Wiesel shows that even though many Jews weren't able to sustain their faith in God, they continued to live by believing in something else. Something that gave them a reason to endure everything that struck them down. The theme of this story is significant to real life because my people struggle to maintain their faith in what they believe in because they’re convinced they will never have their cries answered and they ceased the will to live. But if they have something or someone else they can believe in they continues the fight to live and survive.