What would you do if you were taken away from everything you know, everything you believe.During the holocaust many people just gave up in the concentration camps. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he describes one reason many just gave up. Elie had to experience this on various occasions. Partly because when he was a teenager, he was taken to a concentration camp. Because of this his family ended up dead meanwhile Elie struggled a great deal with keeping his faith and started questioning it throughout the book, as did many others throughout the book. During the holocaust it was a struggle to keep faith and many people were not able to hold onto their faith which is a reason some just gave up.
One of the reasons he struggled with his faith is that the S.S hung and killed many children. He started to question why was this allowed to happen. The fires costed them hundreds of innocent lives. “Yes, I did see this with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames.” (Wiesel, 32). Elie started to …show more content…
In the camps they became numbers. All they were worth was that they could still work. The effect that it had on them was that they started to become more like animals as they lost faith. “It’s over. God is no longer with us.”(Wiesel, 76). This quote is from another prisoner that Elie overheard and it’s one of the few things he said before he died. The truth is that he broke, he couldn’t deal with the things that were going on and he gave up on everything. Just before this, Elie and his father were celebrating Rosh Hashanah when Elie became angry with God. “Praised be Thy Holy Name for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?”(Wiesel, 67). He blamed God for all the death that is happening. This is also a bit ironic because those who lose their faith usually died and he talks about how they're being slaughtered on his
One of the reasons he struggled with his faith is that the S.S hung and killed many children. He started to question why was this allowed to happen. The fires costed them hundreds of innocent lives. “Yes, I did see this with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames.” (Wiesel, 32). Elie started to …show more content…
In the camps they became numbers. All they were worth was that they could still work. The effect that it had on them was that they started to become more like animals as they lost faith. “It’s over. God is no longer with us.”(Wiesel, 76). This quote is from another prisoner that Elie overheard and it’s one of the few things he said before he died. The truth is that he broke, he couldn’t deal with the things that were going on and he gave up on everything. Just before this, Elie and his father were celebrating Rosh Hashanah when Elie became angry with God. “Praised be Thy Holy Name for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?”(Wiesel, 67). He blamed God for all the death that is happening. This is also a bit ironic because those who lose their faith usually died and he talks about how they're being slaughtered on his