Elie Wiesel Night Themes

In Auschwitz, more people died than all of the British and American losses combined. This novel is about one survivor's story and how he made it through all of the challenges at Auschwitz. Elie gives a detailed account of events that truly show the horror and gore of the camps. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, is affected by the events in the book because he loses his faith, becomes immune to death, and his point of view of his father changes.
In the book, Elie experiences many harsh and severe events that make him lose his faith.
For example, when the author states, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (page 67). This shows that he not only didn’t believe anymore but that he despised God and has lost his religion. Elie was so furious at the concentration camp that he thought, “As for me, I had ceased to pray!... I was not denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice… a thought crossed my mind: Where is Mother right now… and Tzipora” (page 45). This shows that he starts to rebel and not believe in God because he has not gotten the luxury of seeing his Mother and Sister for a long time. In the words of Elie, “And in spite of myself a prayer formed inside me, a prayer …show more content…
As the author stated, “Father! Father! Wake up. They’re going to throw you outside…” (page 99) This shows his true love for his father and his desperateness to see him survive the camps. Towards the end of the book, Elie says, “I no longer thought of my father, or my mother” (page 113). In this brief period of time, he went from loving and cherishing his father to never thinking of him. Another difference is that on page 99 he capitalized father while on page 113 he did not. This transformation shows that the horror and death at Auschwitz majorly affected Eliezer’s view of his