Elie Wiesel's Loss Of Faith

Picture devoting your life to being faithful to a religion, only to experience such a detrimental event that it completely alters your faith. The Holocaust was an event known to have such an effect on people. In 20th century Germany, Nazis rose to power, and saw the Germans as the superior race and the Jews as inferior to all others. Millions of Jews were then forced from their ghettos or homes to labor at concentration camps, and were starved nearly to death. All of this suffering was on account of one man, Adolf Hitler, who thought of this as the change the world needed to see. From the beginning to the end of Night, the main character and author, Elie Wiesel, goes through a number of changes to his faith during his Holocaust experiences such as the separation of his family, the abuse his father received, and eventually his father’s death. A major moment that caused Elie to question his faith and why his prayers were not working, was when his family was separated. Upon arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters when eight shattering words were forced on the prisoners. Those words were, “Men to the …show more content…
His father was growing weaker and weaker from dysentery everyday, and by the end, Elie was giving his father his rations of food and drink for the day, though he hoped it would not go on much longer. When his father did die and Elie woke up to a new prisoner in his spot, Elie was not sad. If anything he was somewhat grateful to only be living for himself after that, and not needing to take care of his ill father. The moment this happened, it was clear that Elie had lost his faith, especially when his father, who he saw as his religious role model, passed away. This was when Elie’s faith crumbled away too. Elie did not believe anything could help him anymore after his faith died, and he was ready for whatever fate he would