Faded faith
Elie Wiesel was one of the persons that survived the Holocaust. He was an author and wrote totally 57 books. Among them, the trilogy, Night, Dawn and Day, which were about his own experiences of the Holocaust. Wiesel achieved the Nobel peace prize 1986 and he unfortunately died this summer. He became 87 years old.
I think the book, Night, is a very special book to Wiesel. He even wrote that if only got to write one book, this would have been the one. I think that is because there are many things that Elie Wiesel wants to tell with it. One of these things that he wants the reader to understand is faith and how easy it can leave you. This book is full of faith but even more of lost faith. But why does the main character lose his faith? Why did he go so quickly from being a boy full of hope …show more content…
“Why, but why would I bless Him (God)? (...) Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?,”. (67). To pray to God even though he has left you is ironical and the way Wiesel explains it could not be better. “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night (...),”, (67). In these quotes, the irony is impossible to miss and the message is very clear. It is straight up thoughts that rebels against God, he no longer to accept His silence.
During the month in the camp, he manages to keep his faith together with his father. He manages to do this until his father dies. Then Elie stops caring about anything. “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” Wiesel writes, (113). What had remained of his faith, his father brought with him to his grave. “I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother.” (113). All that ever had mattered to him vanished and all can care about is to eat in order to survive, even if he do not really have any faith in life
Elie Wiesel was one of the persons that survived the Holocaust. He was an author and wrote totally 57 books. Among them, the trilogy, Night, Dawn and Day, which were about his own experiences of the Holocaust. Wiesel achieved the Nobel peace prize 1986 and he unfortunately died this summer. He became 87 years old.
I think the book, Night, is a very special book to Wiesel. He even wrote that if only got to write one book, this would have been the one. I think that is because there are many things that Elie Wiesel wants to tell with it. One of these things that he wants the reader to understand is faith and how easy it can leave you. This book is full of faith but even more of lost faith. But why does the main character lose his faith? Why did he go so quickly from being a boy full of hope …show more content…
“Why, but why would I bless Him (God)? (...) Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?,”. (67). To pray to God even though he has left you is ironical and the way Wiesel explains it could not be better. “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night (...),”, (67). In these quotes, the irony is impossible to miss and the message is very clear. It is straight up thoughts that rebels against God, he no longer to accept His silence.
During the month in the camp, he manages to keep his faith together with his father. He manages to do this until his father dies. Then Elie stops caring about anything. “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” Wiesel writes, (113). What had remained of his faith, his father brought with him to his grave. “I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother.” (113). All that ever had mattered to him vanished and all can care about is to eat in order to survive, even if he do not really have any faith in life