Night, By Elie Wiesel Essay

“There is no longer any reason to live; any reason to fight” (Wiesel 99). In the book “Night”, worte by Elie Wiesel, it depicts the many struggles of the prisoners of the Holocaust. Elie writes about his own experiences and his own struggles. Elie’s life changed and was influenced by what happened during the Holocaust. His life changed by his faith cheapening, having only his father, and the things he had seen.

The first life changing obstacle that Elie face during the Holocaust was his faith degrading. Elie starts to question who is God? He asks “What are You, my God?” (Wiesel 66). He starts to question God himself, for he has let them down by letting the Holocaust even become a thought. Another example of Elie’s devotion to God decreasing,

Elie saw many horrendous events during the Holocaust; including babies being thrown into a pit of fire. “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames” (Wiesel 32). This quote is relevant because it tells of one of the many gruesome acts Elie witnessed. The next reality Elie saw was Bela Katz throw his own father into the crematorium. “Bela Katz, the son of an important merchant of my town, had arrived in Birkenau with the first transport, one week ahead of us. When he found out that we were there, he succeeded in slipping us a note. He told us that having been chosen because of his strength, he had been forced to place his own father’s body into the furnace” (Wiesel 35). The last foul deed he witnessed, and many other saw as well, was the Pipel being hung. “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing…” (Wiesel 65). This quote is important because it shows that even children were treated in a disgraceful way. No one was spared. The amount of struggles that pipel had to face before that moment were just as great as everyone