In his memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel writes of his experience during the Holocaust, and how he questions God and begins to lose faith in god for allowing all these terrible things to happen to them.
Elie is very religious and believes in his faith wholeheartedly in the beginning of the story. After Elie and his father arrive in Birkenau, Elie begins feeling questionable with his feelings on God after seeing how horrible the men were being treated. Eliezer thinks about commiting suicide by throwing himself on the electric wire instead of being be burned alive, but Elie and his father are assigned to labor units, during the night Eliezer loses faith in God’s justice and mercy.
In the third section of night, when Elie and his father survive the first selection in Birkenau, Elie loses faith saying,“Never shall I forget that night Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.”(page 34) Although he says the first selection murders consumed his faith he still says “even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself,” meaning he still …show more content…
We had forgotten everything death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.”(87) God is supposed to be the Master of the Universe, so by saying this Elie means that he believed he was his own God. Believing that if they were able to overcome that experience they could do anything, just as God can do
Elie is very religious and believes in his faith wholeheartedly in the beginning of the story. After Elie and his father arrive in Birkenau, Elie begins feeling questionable with his feelings on God after seeing how horrible the men were being treated. Eliezer thinks about commiting suicide by throwing himself on the electric wire instead of being be burned alive, but Elie and his father are assigned to labor units, during the night Eliezer loses faith in God’s justice and mercy.
In the third section of night, when Elie and his father survive the first selection in Birkenau, Elie loses faith saying,“Never shall I forget that night Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.”(page 34) Although he says the first selection murders consumed his faith he still says “even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself,” meaning he still …show more content…
We had forgotten everything death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.”(87) God is supposed to be the Master of the Universe, so by saying this Elie means that he believed he was his own God. Believing that if they were able to overcome that experience they could do anything, just as God can do