While reading the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, I found myself having an epiphany on page 69 of the book. Here, Elie is discussing a predicament the Jewish people in the concentration camp are having as Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday is approaching and traditionally people of the Jewish religion fast on that day. Elle said, “the question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death.” These two lines provided me with the sudden revelation of how religious many of the Jewish people inside the concentration camp were and continued to be. This is an interesting concept to follow throughout the story. Elie Wiesel, Night’s protagonist, certainly seems to struggle with the idea of religion and God for the majority of the novel.
