Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

How is one person capable of losing all faith in their God, after being in an extensive, deadly, and cruel circumstance? Just ask Elie Weisel. Elie Wiesel is an American Jewish writer who wrote Night based on his accounts of the Holocaust. At the age of 15, Elie, his three siblings, and his parents were all taken by Nazi forces to Sighet, a local ghetto. He was separated from his mother and sister and deported to Auschwitz. He faced many obstacles along the way to his liberation. Throughout Night, Elie is struggling to hold on to his religious beliefs, while experiencing the brutal reality of the Holocaust; this is shown through his commitment to his religion in the beginning, his fluctuating beliefs in the middle, and his undecided religious conviction at the end.
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Elie has gone through a lot, including: separating from his mother and sisters, witnessing hangings, being forced to work under atrocious conditions, and being starved. After the hanging of the the young boy, a fellow prisoner states, “‘It’s over. God is no longer with us’”(76). After all that Elie has undergone, he agrees. He now firmly believes that there is no god present for him and all the Jews. Another prisoner states, “I have more faith in Hitler, than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (81). The Jews believe that Hitler is now more powerful than god. They believe that their god has disappeared and does not want to help them in this of tragedy. The Nazis now feel accomplished in achieving a major goal. In The Conversion to Ambiguity, it “describes Wiesel as a ‘Job of Auschwitz’” (96). The goal of Hitler was to have the population of Jews killed or to honor him, in which he has acheived through brutal and unforgivable ways. Elie’s faith is no longer in existence and feels lost and