Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Often people may wonder, “what did I do to deserve this?” Well, that is exactly what Elie Wiesel was thinking in 1960, when he was just 15 years old. Wiesel is the author of the memoir “Night”. He is a famous holocaust survivor. This novel describes his fighting journey in the concentration camp “Auschwitz”. He struggles with many factors, the two biggest factors being survival and faith. If there is a situation where cruelness is a key factor, the one being attacked may wonder why God isn’t helping them out in this situation. That can make them question God and may take over their sense of faith in him. Cruelty taking over the sense of faith is displayed in this novel, including the deaths of many innocent, the death of Meir Katz, and the death of Elie’s father, Shlomo Wiesel.

The brutal deaths of Elie’s peers was when Elie really started to question his faith in God. Moments after Elie enters Auschwitz, he states, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel page 34). As Elie states, he could see the flames of innocent people burning. After he saw this, his faith just went down hill. Elie barely made it into the camp, and already, he believed that god has left his side forever.
Soon, the beatings and cruelness even overcame him. He had no reason left to live, he thought. Shortly before Katz dies, “‘Don’t give in!’ my father tried to encourage him. ‘You must resist! Don’t lose faith in yourself!’ But Meir Katz only groaned in response: ‘I can’t go on, Shlomo!... I can’t help it… I can’t go on…” (Wiesel page 102). He had no faith that God could save him now. He did not have faith that he would survive. He let himself go. Even the people who believe in themselves can eventually lose faith after months and months of unfair punishment. They become stripped down to