Night By Elie Wiesel

In Night by Elie Wiesel, multiple themes revolve around his life

during the invasion of the Nazis in Sighet and moving from his Jewish
lifestyle to concentration camps and how he loses his faith in god as his
family is torn apart by Nazis. He witnesses atrocities in his lifetime that
cannot be removed from this head and it causes him to question his faith
because of the horrible things that happened to him when he was in need
of God.

During his time in Sighet, Wiesel has been a religious person,

praying to god everyday and encouraging others to do so because it was
the right thing to do as he followed the holy texts at the time. When
Wiesel is captured and taken to concentration camps, he had very little
faith in god because he did not understand why these terrible things were
happening to his fellow jews. Wiesels faith deteriorated because he
could not see God in his life as a prisoner during the Nazi era of this
lifetime. This can be seen in page 31 where Wiesel states "For the first
time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The

Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent.
What had I to thank Him for", meaning that Wiesel did not want to
associate himself with god because he believed the Jewish people were
being ignored by Him.

Later in the autobiography, Wiesel expresses the horrifying acts the

Nazis performed on the Jews. Wiesel sees the Jews being slaughtered by
the SS but he cannot do anything. He realizes that God also could not do
anything. A man in page 65 says For Gods sake, where is God? This
supports the idea that Wiesel lost faith in God because of his absence
during Wiesels time of need in the concentration camps. Also in page
64, Wiesel says "Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber, I
rebelled. Because He had had thousands of children burned in his pits?
Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and
feast days? Because on His great might, He had created Auschwitz,
Bierkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death". Wiesels hated God
because he was put in an atrocious environment where people were
killed and maimed out of spite.

I believe if I were in Elie Wiesels shoes, I would have lost faith

too. I wouldnt have kept my faith if I were him, because of all the
praying and worship to god Elie has done and God gave nothing in
return when he was in the concentration camps. I wouldve felt betrayed
by God because of all the time Elie spend worshipping God and saying
God is good when in reality, God did not save him and his family from
the Nazi invasion. The Red Army saved and liberated the Jews. You
could say that it was Gods plan to save the Jews by allowing the Red
Army to defeat the Germans, but during Wiesels time in the
concentration camp, he was alone with his father and faith had betrayed
him and left him for dead.