One of the main themes of Night was the loss of and the finding of faith. Throughout the course of the book Night, Elie continuously questions his faith in God and wonders if there actually is a higher being. He believes that if there is a God then how did they allow such atrocities to happen? The book details Elie's conflicting ideas about faith. which has probably happened to most people throughout their lives. This internal conflict plays an important role in the book as well as most people's lives.
One of the most potent examples of questioning your own faith in religion occurs when Elie thinks "And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God"(67). He lost his faith in God even though he used to cry when he prayed. The horror that he has seen has completely demolished his faith in God. He felt angry that they were blessing the dead in God's name, the very same God that sent them to their graves in such a horrendous fashion. When some Jews continue to pray to God while in the concentration camps, Elie is stunned. He doesn't understand why they still have faith in God even after he has put them in such a horrible position. …show more content…
He believes that the hanging of the little pipel is the hanging of God himself. This was very symbolic, it essentially meant that any faith Elie had left in God had deserted him. The death of the little pipel had affected Elie tremendously. It went as far as that, Elie stated "That night, the soup tasted of corpses"(65). Eventually Elie feels as if he has lost a part of himself for not believing in God anymore. This is shown when he says "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me" (115). This symbolizes that he felt a part of him was dead; the part that held
One of the most potent examples of questioning your own faith in religion occurs when Elie thinks "And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God"(67). He lost his faith in God even though he used to cry when he prayed. The horror that he has seen has completely demolished his faith in God. He felt angry that they were blessing the dead in God's name, the very same God that sent them to their graves in such a horrendous fashion. When some Jews continue to pray to God while in the concentration camps, Elie is stunned. He doesn't understand why they still have faith in God even after he has put them in such a horrible position. …show more content…
He believes that the hanging of the little pipel is the hanging of God himself. This was very symbolic, it essentially meant that any faith Elie had left in God had deserted him. The death of the little pipel had affected Elie tremendously. It went as far as that, Elie stated "That night, the soup tasted of corpses"(65). Eventually Elie feels as if he has lost a part of himself for not believing in God anymore. This is shown when he says "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me" (115). This symbolizes that he felt a part of him was dead; the part that held