Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

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If a man has no faith, does he have any purpose in this life or the next? Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel tries to find the answer to this question. The Holocaust makes him question everything about the Jews’ faith. A support that proves Elie lost his faith by the tragic times he spent throughout the time he spent in the concentration camp. When he sees the times, when a family member turned on the other family member he began to question; why would god let a monster like adolf hitler away with the way he was doing the Jews and why they all had to suffer so much.

The first moment we see Wiesel loses his faith is when they all got to the camp he seen everyone praying for the dead, and Elie says for the first time, I felt
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Then when he showed he lost it even worse was on page 34 when he says Never shall I forget that first night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget smoke Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. When others start losing it to throughout the book we all can tell it plays with Weasels heart and mind. He slowly give in to the idea that god isn't there that god was a curl an sick joke because of what he an all the other jews went threw as a whole. Weasel realizes that he is losing his faith because everything he is seeing he can't believe everything that is happening and he can't believe if god was real god wouldn't allow that to go one. A man told Weasel that the only man who keeps his promises to the jews was hitler. Because everything he has promised the jew (never anything good) ne keeps that promise. And as you can tell after the Weasel started questioning more and more about faith and

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