Wiesel's Relationship In The Book Night

As Wiesel experiences the horrors of the holocaust firsthand, his faith in God begins to waver and eventually dissipates. In the beginning of the book, Wiesel is a young, devoted Jew who spent his days studying Jewish law and praying during the night (Wiesel 3). He even dedicates himself to the study of Kabbalah, which is a an ancient, complex Jewish tradition of mystical bible interpretations. Although Wiesel is faced with the consolidation of brutal oppressors and chaotic ghettos, his faith in God still remains steady, even asking him to have mercy on them within his “infinite compassion” (20). It's not until Wiesel arrives in Birkenau that signs of a wavering relationship with the Lord begin. As Wiesel spends his first night in the concentration camp, he reflects upon his first encounters inside the camp. Wiesel goes on to explain that it was that very night that his faith escaped him and his God was murdered (34). …show more content…
Early in the book Wiesel describes his father as “a rather unsentimental man, rarely displaying his feelings, even to his own family” (4). Based on this excerpt, Wiesel's relationship with his father seems to be somewhat distant and unemotional. However, once Elie loses his mother and siblings and is placed inside the concentration camp alongside his father, he begins to value their relationship