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At the beginning of the novel Elie’s faith is all strong with God, but when gets put into the concentration camp Elie starts to lose his faith. Elie’s life changes when he got into the concentration camp. He was seeing many horrible and deadly events he shouldn’t see at his age. He saw babies being used as target practice, people digging their own graves, and also people being burned alive. Some Jews in the camp still had their faith, but for Elie his faith dropped so much that he never continued to pray. Elie was thinking to himself “his mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had to cease to pray. I concurred with job. I wasn’t denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice…. (45)” Elie didn’t deny that God’s existence wasn’t there but he was questioning and asking God why you have me in this place. As for Akiba Drummer he still had his faith with god. Akiba…
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In the book Elie went through a rollercoaster in his faith. When Elie and his family were first taken, everyone prayed, hoping their God would protect them through the journey. When things started to get horrifying Elie and all of the prisoners started to question their God, asking why would God put them through something like this and asking where he was while they were being…
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everything he went through. Before the Holocaust, Elie’s faith seemed very strong, and he demonstrated it by being extremely involved in his religion. During his time in concentration camps, Elie’s faith proved it had been weakened, and almost fully lost. After being liberated, Elie no longer had faith in God. His once mighty faith had been crushed by the Nazis and the Holocaust. Today, nearly everyone faces tough times, but we must learn to push through them just like Elie did. When put through life’s tribulations, people’s beliefs and faith will inevitably…
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Elie Wiesel relationship with god in the book night is quite rough! World war 2 breaks out in the late 1930's. Adolf Hitler plunges Gremany into darkness while trying to take over bordering countries with his army of Nazis. Elie is a 15 year old boy who lives in Hungary, Which is close to Germany. Along with a lot more Jews Elie is taken away from his home and into a world of terror. Night is a memoir of those expirences and a reminder that these events should never be able to repeat themselvs. The Holocaust presents one of the most disturbing dilemmas of the twnntieth century. Elie wiesel wound up surviving the Holocaust. He began to reevaluate god in his world. He did so in his writings, in which he questions god and tells us the answers that he recieves. The author of night, Elie Wiesel tells about his childhood and religous observances, he also shows his anger towards god to reveal how he is still a believer in his Jewish…
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¨For god´s sake where is god?¨, Elie Wiesel once was religious up until he gave up on God because he felt God gave up on him. Because God never helped him or any of the Jews his faith in Him began to fade away. Elie Wiesel was a jew during the Holocaust and got his life and religion ruined by the Nazi forces.…
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First and foremost, One of the biggest and most recognizable change that Elie went through was that he lost faith in God and himself. He shows it through his actions and from what he says and thinks in the story. In the beginning of the novel it’s shown that Elie is crying while praying "Why do you cry when you pray?" (4). Therefore, his family members must also be religious and occasionally praying and relying on god to hear them out. For example, when he got sent to the ghettos and in the cattle car he would pray and thanked God. Therefore, that was his protection; a sign that he believes that they will be saved. However, that wasn’t long when he got to the concentration camps and…
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At the start of this whole thing nobody knew what was going on “A prolonged whistle split the air. The wheels began to grind. We were on our way.”(57) Elie was angry with god at many points of his journey and “he did not deny God’s existence, but i doubted his absolute justice.”(42) Elie was angry at many things but “he was thinking of his father. He must have suffered more than I did.”(57) and Elie suffered through so much and he couldn't do anything about it. Elie Wiesel was just happy it was all over.…
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After surviving the Holocaust Elie Wiesel is trying to reevaluate god in his life. Elie was trying to figure out a way to basically forgive god for all the things that were happening with the Holocaust. Elie always thought of God as the protector and the punisher of the Jewish people. He was convinced that God was protecting him and that the Nazi’s were not real and that they would not take him or his family away for being Jewish. The rumors were spreading quick about the Nazi’s and all the things happening with the Holocaust, but all the Jews in the town still believed that God would protect them and not have all of them taken off. Wiesel blames God for having him taken into the Holocaust, but ends up forgiving him for still protecting him…
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Childhood is supposed to be an enjoyable experience, and by no means was Elie’s childhood formed under that principle. The childhood experienced by Elie was not normal, no child should ever have to experience the devastation he did. People are corrupt and capable of horrendous things. Elie experienced many things most people would not even begin to comprehend. After the gruesome events witnessed, he questioned God and slowly lost faith in Him. The faith in a God that he once truly treasured may have been lost, but he still knows there is a God. He knows there is a God and for that reason there is hope.…
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However, it took a first hand experience for him to realize that the world is full of hate. As he hears about and experiences the Holocaust his faith starts to die. A good example of this is on the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, thousands of men came to attend services. Thousands of voices repeated, "Blessed be the Name of the Eternal!" Eliezer thought, "Why, but why should I bless Him? Because he had thousands of children burned in his pits?... How could I say to Him: "Blessed art thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe, Who chose us from among the races to be tortured day and night? Praised be Thy Holy Name, Thou Who hast chosen us to be butchered on Thine altar?” This shows that through his journey, he has come to question why such a divine and pure God would let such cruelty be unleashed onto his people. His faith is equally shaken by the cruelty and selfishness he sees among the prisoners. He sees that the Holocaust exposes the self-interest, malicious, and cruelty of which everybody, the Nazis, his fellow prisoners, his fellow Jews, his brethren and even himself is capable of such sin. If the world is so horrible and cruel Elie feels God either must be horrible and cruel or must not exist at all. His feelings are shared within the Jewish community during that time. This is significant because for a religion to exist there has to be…
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Briefly, in the first chapter, Wiesel had stated “I pray to God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions” (Wiesel 5). It is clear where Wiesel stands with God, which is looking for God’s answers to his questions of life and its purposes. Wiesel looked to God to help him figure out life when he was confused or needed him. Wiesel then opened up about God more in the fifth chapter, where he was experiencing the Holocaust in full effect. According to Jane Elizabeth in “An essay on Night”, Elie Wiesel describes eating on Yom Kippur, a traditional day of fasting and atonement of sins, as an act of defiance against a God in whose mercy he no longer believes. Yet he feels a great emptiness within him, as his identity, and thus his humanity, depended on his…
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Elie tells the story of a Polish Rabbi that lost his head faith. As soon as he lost his faith, he lost his reason for living and began to die. Luckily, this does not happen to Elie because he continues to live for his father. However, watching another person go through losing ownership of their faith is another influence on Elie that justified himself losing it. Although, the rabbi did not lose his head faith he kept his heart faith. Right before he was going to die he asked the other Jews to say the Kaddish for him. The Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. If he had completely lost his faith, he would have viewed this exercise as pointless and not asked anyone to carry it out. Another person that loses faith that Elie writes about is his neighbor in the hospital. This neighbor said, “I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” (P. 77 T). This man had lost all of his faith including his heart faith. He has because he believed more in Hitler than anyone else which includes God. If he still had heart faith he would still believe in God more than Hitler and have faith that God would deliver them from Hitler. The loss of faith is part of the reason he is in the hospital dying. He has lost all his faith and with it the will to…
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At a young age when the Nazis moved into Elie home town and was torn apart from more than half his family he began to slowly lose his innocence and began to realize just how cruel the world was and lost faith in God. He claims he lost himself, “My eyes open and I saw that I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy” (Wiesel 68). The holocaust eliminated any chance of a normal life, never again will Wiesel have a day where he doesn’t think of what…
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He faces the decision of either putting himself at risk of death by showing compassion for others, especially his father, or just surviving and having a part of his soul die. He is in the midst of a catch-22, a situation that will end badly no matter what, that he does not realize he cannot win. All of the protagonists face this problem and all of them are looking for the answer but no one is answering them. Elie needs someone to blame for the things that are happening. When his question, “What are You, my God?...How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all the cowardice, this decay, and this misery?” (Wiesel 66) goes unanswered, he throws the blame at God for leaving him in the dark. Elie cannot comprehend why God is letting all of these people suffer, and he loses faith in Him because of it. He becomes angry at God's silence during the horrible things he is dealing with in his life. Elie needs some kind of guidance to help him to make the right decision but he isn't receiving…
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My personal faith and beliefs contribute to every aspect of my life. I come from a Christian family and a congregation of baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. My parents have always given me unconditional love and dedication, while teaching me healthy boundaries pertaining to life. Such as always putting the Lord first, being more concerned about the pain of consequences for irresponsibility, the rights and wrongs of my behavior, and what pain any of my actions may cause for others and God.…
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