This quote shows that to Elie all these things he witnessed literally murdered the God he believed in. This quote shows that because all of this most if not all people lost faith in God and religion.…
I believed profoundly…” “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” In those quotes Elie had proclaimed he believed in God “profoundly” yet when Moishe had questioned him why he believed in God, Elie replied with questions himself.…
The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for”(Wiesel 33)? This shows us that Elie is starting to lose faith in God. This surprised us all greatly because at the beginning of the book Elie acted as if God played…
Ignorance of those who are not being affected makes the enemy stronger and the victim weaker, because even if people don’t mean to, silence is often interpreted as support to the enemy. If no one is stopping Hitler and the Nazis, how would there be an end to the persecution of the Jewish people? No one can stop Hitler if not a single person is willing to truly recognize what was truly happening. Lastly, in The Voices of the Holocaust, the poem “First they came...” by Martin Niemöller explains the attitude of the bystanders watching their friends and neighbors being taken away.…
We must get going before we are left behind; however, I am looking at Eliezer’s foot with astonishment. Meanwhile he keeps asking questions that I have no answer. I have not such plan for my son’s foot. How in the world is he going to run in this horrendous situation? I have no idea what I’m going to do.…
Elie loses his faith in himself. He has struggled physically and mentally; he no longer believes there is justice. " Never shall I forgot those moments that murdered my god and soul and turned my dreams to ashes" (Wiesel 34) Elie has done so much in his life, he has worked so hard to get where he was at. This moment was when god no longer was with Elie; he was no longer hearing Elie.…
Throughout the novel, Elie accounts the state of his faith and perspective of God. At the start of the book, Elie is “deeply observant”…
Elie’s faith stemmed from his father being held with high regard in the Jewish community. From that perspective, Elie must be observant of Judaism, furthermore Elie said, “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple” (Wiesel 3). This quote gives off a sense that Elie is a very religious person, especially coming from such a young person. Elie looked up to his dad since he was held up to the highest esteem among everyone in the Jewish community of Sightet, but was not a man to show his feelings to his family. His dad tried to be strong for Elie as long as he could for the sake of Elie’s survival.…
In the beginning of novel, his faith in God was absolute. When Moishe the Beadle asked, “‘Why do you pray?’” Elie thought, “Why did I pray?…
Jessica R. During the Holocaust, over six million individuals died, many deaths occurred from living in the concentration camps. Within the camps, inhumane acts were performed on the Jewish people. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s identity is changing from being religious and a follower of God to not having any faith in God, by staying true to himself and his faith, by dealing with tortious acts and by feeling that God was behind all of the danger. Elie Wiesel 's Identity was always based on a connection with God, during the prison camps Wiesel always stayed true to his identity and kept God within his soul.…
Losing the Most Valuable Possession Identity is important because it truly defines who the person is, but it is very easy to lose your identity. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazis killed many Jewish people. The Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camps, tortured them and striped them out of their identities. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel describes the awful actions the Nazis did to him and his family; for example, they forced the Jews to wear a yellow star armband, which makes them feel less of a human, and slowly made the Jews forget who they were. By using details that describe pain and suffrage, Wiesel shows that when mankind is tormented and isolated from the rest of the world, people can lose their identity which leads to a desire to give up on life.…
He asks him, “What are You, my God... compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to You their faith, their anger, their revolt?” (63). In the quote Elie wonders, how could the Jewish people still pray to God even though He allowed such horrors to be inflicted on his followers? Although many have endured indescribable cruelty, the Jewish people’s proclamation to God “their faith, their anger, their revolt” displays their inner conflict in which they pray to God and simultaneously feel rage towards Him.…
For example, “As if all the troubles in the world were not already upon us...”(Wiesel 38), this shows that Elie feels as if his world cannot get any worse. Since this quote is early on in the book, it is the beginning of him losing faith in everything, including his religion. Another example of Elie losing his faith in God is whenever he saw God hanging from the gallows with the child. This is a piece of the proof of him believing that the God he once believed in was no longer with him. To conclude, Elie and many other Jews were feeling as if God was abandoning them.…
The Meaning Of “Night” “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night, seven times sealed.” (Weisel, 34). This quote from Elie Wiesel 's novel “Night.” signifies the beginning of his journey as a 15 year-old Jewish boy living throughout the Holocaust. As he goes into detail of his horrific experiences in 5 different concentration camps, he symbolizes what he has lost with his thoughts and feelings at this time.…
To begin with, when Elie was sitting, praying, Moishe, a friend of the the community, smiles and asked, “Why do you cry when you pray?’ , he asked as though he knew me well”,(p.4). Elie was a true believer in god and had an image of god that he had immense faith in. He was a very spiritual man and he was a very god- conscious person. To him, praying was like a second nature.…