Elie Wiesel Night Reflection

The book Night by Elie Wiesel describes his time in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s life before The Holocaust was studying the Jewish religion day and night. During the day he would go to school to study religion and at night would go to the Synagogue to pray. He did the exact same thing every day. He was static and unchanging. But when he was forced into the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he had to adapt for it. This was the only way he would survive. EIie had changed from the boy he was in the Jewish town of Sighet to the Holocaust survivor he is today. The concentration camp redefined the way he thought and acted, therefore he was never the same afterwards.
Before Elie was packed off and sent to the concentration camp where his life changed forever he lived in the town of Sighet in Romania. He studied Judaism but also the study of Kabballah which is the mystic interpretation of the bible, he was very curious in the unknown of the Jewish studies. Even his father said “You are too young for that… First you must be able to comprehend the basic subjects”. He was very inquisitive and curious in all subjects before the war but in the camp the
He witnessed so many horrors and atrocities in the camp it is logical to believe he may lose faith in his God. In the novel he constantly questioned God, with the question why he would allow this to happen. It did not make sense to him that the God he trusted to provide for him would put him in the situation he is in. In the book Elie asks himself “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent…What was there to thank Him for?” One might wonder what happened to the faithful young student who learned and studied about his God almost every minute of his life, his faith had been broken by the ruthlessness of the