Throughout the memoir Night Elie Wiesel uses descriptive characterization and vivid imagery to illustrate his disbelief in God through the memoir to emphasize the recurring motif of loss of faith. Elie and the other prisoners received their food on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, but decided to wait until after the prayer to eat. Once the prayer begins Elie questions God, “How do you compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm you their faith, their anger, their defiance.”(Wiesel 66). When Elie questions “What are you my God?”(Wiesel 66), it reveals that Elie is now characterized as someone who does not believe in God because he is questioning why he and others pray to God., unlike young Elie from the beginning of the book who wanted to learn
