Religion In Night
Night:
Everything happens for a reason, this statement describes life in many ways, and literature as well. In fact most of the horrible things that happen we must recover from. Elie Wiesel's Night tells the story of young Eliezer living in Auschwitz during the holocaust. Eliezer had to had to deal with the evil and inhumane acts of the SS officers. After all the tragedy Eliezer went through he has been desensitized to all the evil, such as the crematorium and having to be separated from his family.
In the beginning of the novel Eliezer comes out as a very religious person. After the horrors he faced in Auschwitz he started to question his faith in Judaism. For example, Eliezer states, “Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent.” (Pg 67) Eliezer is calling his “Master” evil because with all of the horrors in Auschwitz he isn’t saving them. He is not in doubt that there is no god, he’s in doubt that God is good. Unfortunately later in the novel Eliezer never states his perspective on religion, it is unsure whether he is still Jewish or has become Atheist or Agnostic. …show more content…
Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies!”(Pg 32) The evil and inhumane acts done at the concentration camps of burning babies and small children had scarred Eliezer, but later in the novel Eliezer had become used to all the evil of the SS soldiers. “Very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematorium’s furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention.”(Pg 104) Eliezer is explaining how the crematorium, which took away his sister and his mother, no longer scares him, or fills him with terror. It was part of everyday living in Auschwitz. The evil and inhumanity had changed Eliezer’s life forever, those are memories most people can’t forget, but he needed to recover from
Everything happens for a reason, this statement describes life in many ways, and literature as well. In fact most of the horrible things that happen we must recover from. Elie Wiesel's Night tells the story of young Eliezer living in Auschwitz during the holocaust. Eliezer had to had to deal with the evil and inhumane acts of the SS officers. After all the tragedy Eliezer went through he has been desensitized to all the evil, such as the crematorium and having to be separated from his family.
In the beginning of the novel Eliezer comes out as a very religious person. After the horrors he faced in Auschwitz he started to question his faith in Judaism. For example, Eliezer states, “Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent.” (Pg 67) Eliezer is calling his “Master” evil because with all of the horrors in Auschwitz he isn’t saving them. He is not in doubt that there is no god, he’s in doubt that God is good. Unfortunately later in the novel Eliezer never states his perspective on religion, it is unsure whether he is still Jewish or has become Atheist or Agnostic. …show more content…
Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies!”(Pg 32) The evil and inhumane acts done at the concentration camps of burning babies and small children had scarred Eliezer, but later in the novel Eliezer had become used to all the evil of the SS soldiers. “Very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematorium’s furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention.”(Pg 104) Eliezer is explaining how the crematorium, which took away his sister and his mother, no longer scares him, or fills him with terror. It was part of everyday living in Auschwitz. The evil and inhumanity had changed Eliezer’s life forever, those are memories most people can’t forget, but he needed to recover from