At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly”. His faith begins very strong, but as the struggles and challenges that happen go on, he starts to lose faith and stops believing in something he once believed so strongly in. “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I …..breathe?” -Elie page 4 in night. In the beginning of the book Elie's faith was strong he believed and followed all the rules. When Elie is talking to Moishe, he is asked why he prayed Elie didn't know why, but he prayed when he thought about it he compared it to life why did he live? Why did he pray? He believed that by praying everything would be ok that he needed to pray in order to survive and that not believing
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Elie has given up all hope at this point and just wants his life to go back to what it was before he had been forced into the ghettos and concentration camps. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallow my ration of soup, I turned up that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against …...Him,”-Elie page 69 Elie has lost hope of getting out and believes that his life will end in the concentration camp and he will be working until one day he will be chosen for selection and will go to the crematorium and be burned to death one day. At one point Elie is in the infirmary for an infection in his foot, he was kept in a nice bed and given an abundant amount of food compared to what the healthy prisoners were given. Elie attempted to avoid leaving the infirmary until the next selection because of the dire need for rest and food. During his time spent in the infirmary, he had many conversations with the man that was in the bed next to him. The man had once said “I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, to the Jewish …...people,”-page 81. Which just goes to show that people had really begun to lose all hope and faith and that Elie Was just one of the many who thought that god had left and abandoned them after Hitler had started to discriminate against the
Elie has given up all hope at this point and just wants his life to go back to what it was before he had been forced into the ghettos and concentration camps. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallow my ration of soup, I turned up that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against …...Him,”-Elie page 69 Elie has lost hope of getting out and believes that his life will end in the concentration camp and he will be working until one day he will be chosen for selection and will go to the crematorium and be burned to death one day. At one point Elie is in the infirmary for an infection in his foot, he was kept in a nice bed and given an abundant amount of food compared to what the healthy prisoners were given. Elie attempted to avoid leaving the infirmary until the next selection because of the dire need for rest and food. During his time spent in the infirmary, he had many conversations with the man that was in the bed next to him. The man had once said “I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, to the Jewish …...people,”-page 81. Which just goes to show that people had really begun to lose all hope and faith and that Elie Was just one of the many who thought that god had left and abandoned them after Hitler had started to discriminate against the