How Does Elie Lose Faith In Night

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Elie Wiesel's novel Night, inscribes the Holocaust and the horrors engraved on those who had experienced those nights inside the concentration camp. Throughout the novel, people, including Eli himself, lose faith in God and their own selves as lives perish and hope is irrelevant. There are many genuine examples of this at night as people try to hold faith in God as their savior. Yet God, in all his glory, let the Jew’s be sent to Auschwitz, torture ensue and innocent people be slaughtered? We see a few specific examples throughout the novel of Elie denying God and losing faith in himself. Elie arriving at Auschwitz is the first example of a loss of faith. When Elie and his father are sent into the direction of the fire pit he considers throwing himself into the electrical barbed wire fence, proving that he was so scared that he had no denial in killing himself. …show more content…

He’s thinking about God denying the Jews help and letting them suffer while his own denial is prevalent among his feelings as witnessing these horrors makes him ponder his own faith. Another example happens during the hanging scene where a man asks him where God was during the hanging, Elie says: “Where is he? This is where the gallows hang”( Wiesel 65). The little boy being hanged could represent a death of innocence, making them question God, and as this formality unfolds, their faith in the Lord unfolds with it. Holt 2 The Jews were maliciously tortured during their time at the camps, causing a denial of God’s mercy and justice. Another time Elie questions his faith is during Rosh Hashanah, the new year. He shows this denial while the other Jews pray towards God and he wonders how he lets them continuously suffer. Amidst the prayer he thinks “I was the accuser, God the accused” (Wiesel

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