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Loss Of Faith In Eliezer Wiesel's Night
Have you ever witnessed the loss of your family, or have been treated so brutally that you lose faith in something that you never thought you would lose faith in? In the book Night Eliezer Wiesel is a boy who struggles against losing his faith and humanity. When Eliezer was a young boy barely thirteen years old he had a deep faith in religion. One quotation from the book that was shown to me while reading is “ Studied Talmud by day and night.” Elie would run to the Synagogue to cry over the destruction of his’ people’s temple. This quote explains that he is devastated by why and how the jewish temple in his hometown is destroyed. Later on in the book The Jews are put in a concentration camp and Elie is forced away from his mother and sister.A

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