How Does Elie Wiesel Lose Faith In Night

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During Elie Wiesel’s time in the Holocaust, from time to time he started to change as a person and started to question the God he praised so much. When the reader first realizes that Elie starts to lose his faith was on the very first night of his time at the camp, “Never shall I forget these moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). The quote explains when Elie first starts to lose his faith in God when it says that his God was murdered. After that event Elie also starts to begin to give up any kind of hope he might had had. Elie starts to show how much he has already changed after one day in the camp, “I stood petrified. what had happened to me? My father had just been struck in front of me and I had not

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