The Loss of Faith in Night

The Loss of Faith in Night

Ellie Wiesel loses his faith through the course of his experience of the Holocaust in the memoir "Night". Ellie loses his faith in God in the brutal concentration camps, he believes that if there was a god then he wouldn't have allowed this to happen. "Why should I bless his name, The eternal, lord of the universe, the all powerful and terrible were silent.."(Pg31) This quote shows a major turning point in Eliezer's life, because it represents the first time that he questions his on faith. He goes through the book trying to understand and study god, but for once now he has almost completely disregarded him. "Never shall I forget those moments "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust..."(pg 32) He's struggling to even have the right to live, he believes that if there was a god he would've never been put through this misery. This quote shows he's lost his faith because of the predicament he found himself in. These 2 examples show that Ellie has indeed lost his faith in God.

The author of night brings to life the brutal hell known as a Concentration Camp to life in his memoir night, with this he shows how all Jewish prisoners were reduced to nothing but mere objects to the Nazi's. "Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns" (6) Precious lives of babies were treated as nothing, these kids could've grown up to be great lawyers and doctors, but the Nazi's saw them as mere objects and showed no regard for them, and they had just made it into the world. Eliezer used imagery to portray the cruel scene to give us an idea of how bad the Jews were treated. "Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there" (32) Jewish people got to see their fate before them, and saw their fellow family members going in. Usually dead people with their consent are put into a crematoria, never as a cruel punishment. The sad part is that they get to feel unbearable pain right to the point of their death. The author used Imagery in both of these quotes show how they were dehumanized, they saw the importance of people's lives that were close to them and realized their fate was the same as theirs'.