Loss Of Faith Elie Wiesel Analysis

Elie Wiesel Experiences the Loss of Faith. “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them again.” Elie Wiesel, who has written many memoirs, such as Night, takes the reader through what life was like for him throughout the Holocaust. The memoir is set in two Nazi German camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, at the height of the Holocaust towards the end of World War II. The first sign of Loss of Faith is when a Cabala teacher asked him why he prayed. This caused Elie to really think about why he actually prayed. He finally concludes that he in fact doesn’t know why he prays. “”Why do you pray?” he asked me.. Why did I pray? .. “I don’t know why,” [Wiesel] said even more disturbed and ill at ease” (Wiesel, 4). “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty… What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel, 33). When the Jews enter the concentration camp, some of them begin to realize what is about to happen. Others don’t seem to grasp the concept quite yet. Elie is one of the Jews that realizes what horrors lie within, he starts to lose his devotion to God. Another example of when the Loss of Faith is presented is at the hanging of the young pipel. “But the third rope was still moving: the child was still breathing.. He was still alive when I passed him … …show more content…
But is it really? Elie never really lost faith in God. He questioned the existence of God many times due to the fact that there was so much pain and so much suffering, and the God he believed in would put a stop to all of this chaos. But God didn’t, so that led Elie to question if he was ever really real to begin with. But he never actually stopped believing. He didn’t want to stop believing. If he had stopped, he would have nothing left to live for. The moral in this memoir is whenever you feel like you give up, and you just can’t take it anymore, just have faith that everything will turn