Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

The novel, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel is a memoir that describes that struggles that Elie had to face as a young Jewish teen during the holocaust. Throughout the narrative, the author displays the terror that he faces when abruptly taken from half of his family and after going through two ghettos and then quickly being brought over to concentration camps. Many of the characters struggle with the deplorable conditions, the physical and mental abuse, and lack of faith in God while in the concentration camps. The characters slowly start to lose faith, mankind, and even the ability to survive. Although, in the end, Eliezer manages to survive. Through all the abuse, fears, loss of emotion, and lost of religion Eliezer survives. This leads many to believe that the lesson that Elie Wiesel is trying to portray is that you should never give up.
One of the main topics of the book is how Eliezer lost his faith and felt no need to pray. However, even though he claimed he has no reason to pray, he seems to without even trying.“I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to throw myself onto the barbed wire. Deep down, I was saying goodbye to my father, to the whole universe, and against my will, I found myself whispering the words: ‘Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba … May his name be exalted and sanctified …’ My heart was about to burst. There, I was face to face with the Angel of Death …” (Page 34) This quote portrays that in a time of great depression to the point of suicide, he still results to praying. This evidence confirms that he never fully lost faith if at the time of near-death, he still manages to pray. He never gave up on his faith and that is one of the reasons he didn’t kill himself and is still