Elie Wiesel Faith

For much of the book Eli is a dedicated Jew. He is committed in his belief in God,!despite the unspeakable trials of pain that he must endure. As the novel progresses Eli sees more of his people suffer unspeakable events. He begins to question what kind of God can let this happen,he begins to doubt God. I don't think Eli ever really forsakes his belief in God rather than consider his faith and God's role in a world that holds much evil.

In the beginning, although his faith has not died yet, leaving his home for transport to the concentration camp, Eliezer is still to have left his religious chase behind, along with his childhood home that was filled with his innocence and his memories. “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty.” (55) Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in the book Night. At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is absolute. Usually when he was questioned on why he prayed, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” His belief in God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in power.
Only in the lowest moments of his faith is where he does turn his back on God. Even when Eliezer says that he has given up on God completely, his constant use of religious beliefs is what Eliezer says he believes. Eliezer even refers to biblical passages when he denies his faith. When he fears that he might abandon his father, that's when he prays to God, and, after his father’s death, he does express regret that there was no religious perspective . At the end of the book, even though he has been changed and affected by his Holocaust experience, Eliezer comes to