The Struggle With Faith In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

The memoir Night, written by Eliezer Wiesel, tells of the experiences that happened in the Nazi German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie is separated from his mother and three sisters early in the book. The book tells of the horrific experiences that he and his father must face together. There are several themes that can be identified in this book, but I will concentrate on the struggle with faith. Raised to be a faithful young man, Eliezer Wiesel’s faith is tested but never truly lost because of the events that he is forced to endure during the time of the Holocaust. In the Night, we are introduced to a young Jewish man named Eliezer Wiesel who lived in a small town in Transylvania called Sighet. He would study the Talmud and really lived only for God. He grew up believing in the goodness and power of God. Elie wanted his father to help him study Kabbalah. His dad felt that he was too young to study that mysticism and would not teach him. Eventually a man named Moishe the Beadle helped to teach Elie about the Kabbalah’s mysteries and revelations. Elie devoted days and nights to his religious studies. In the Night, Elie’s religious beliefs and rituals are challenged and begin to change. In the spring …show more content…
Elie survives in the end, and becomes a free man. Elie looks at himself in the mirror and sees a corpse. The significance of this is that a corpse is dead. Elie was malnourished, sick, exhausted, and by all accounts “empty”. He was, however, still alive. Elie was able to run, walk, and even march when he had to. He found the strength to survive hunger, cold, thirst, pain, worry, fear, despair, and heartbreak. There is no doubt that his faith waivered. Elie is a Holocaust survivor because he never truly lost his faith. His faith gave him the strength to pull himself through. Even is his darkest days, his faith helped him fight for his