Elie Wiesel once said “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”. Many people fail to truly understand the atrocious and haunting incident during WWII, the holocaust. Only the survivors and witnesses truly feel the timeless pain and long term effects that it caused. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and readers see what the Holocaust and concentration camps caused through his short novel "Night". During his experiences in the concentration camp, Elie Wiesel loses faith in his fellow man and in God. He shows this through his thoughts and actions.
In the concentration camp, Elie loses faith in humanity as he is treated less like a human and more like an animal. Actions that were once considered inhuman and utterly unacceptable became the …show more content…
To show this Elie talks about a deadly beating he endured from a guard because he “happened to cross his path” and in the end “he calmed down and sent me back to work as if nothing had happened.” He also talks about another beating, he says “[Madame Scheacter] received several blows to the head, blows that could have been fatal.” These both involved people of the same faith and situation mistreated by others in ways clearly inhumane. He also talks about a rabbi's son and how “his son had seen him losing ground, sliding to the rear of the column” this is an instance of a son abandoning his father for his own survival, an action Elie could never imagine. For Elie, humanity was gone and with it went his faith in man.
In addition to Elie losing faith in Humanity, himself and other prisoners as well, started to gradually lose faith in God. Once Elie arrives at Auschwitz,
In the concentration camp, Elie loses faith in humanity as he is treated less like a human and more like an animal. Actions that were once considered inhuman and utterly unacceptable became the …show more content…
To show this Elie talks about a deadly beating he endured from a guard because he “happened to cross his path” and in the end “he calmed down and sent me back to work as if nothing had happened.” He also talks about another beating, he says “[Madame Scheacter] received several blows to the head, blows that could have been fatal.” These both involved people of the same faith and situation mistreated by others in ways clearly inhumane. He also talks about a rabbi's son and how “his son had seen him losing ground, sliding to the rear of the column” this is an instance of a son abandoning his father for his own survival, an action Elie could never imagine. For Elie, humanity was gone and with it went his faith in man.
In addition to Elie losing faith in Humanity, himself and other prisoners as well, started to gradually lose faith in God. Once Elie arrives at Auschwitz,