Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

Elie's Faith Throughout Time In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer takes a crucial faith journey. Eliezer says that the flames consume his faith forever because he thought how could God let all these people die, and not help them in the concentration camps, but in the end he still had faith. In all the sorrow and trouble people go through in life there is always a light in the end. Eliezer thinks that God is not real because if he was real than he could have saved them from the Nazis. Eliezer saw imaginable things in the concentration camp that no one should ever see. At First, Elie wanted to learned more about the Lord and Kabbalah. Eliezer grew up in a very Jewish religious household, but he does not think God is real once at the concentration camps. Horrible things happened. In the end, the fire did signify that he had not lost his faith. When Eliezer was growing up he was devoted to the
“But I have faith. Faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and even in His creation. Without it no action would be possible. And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. Isn’t that the meaning of Alfred Nobel’s legacy? Wasn’t his fear of war a shield against war?” (262). Ellie still had faith in the end of all this tragedy. Humans can endure in hardship but in the end they will make it through. “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done.” (208). “Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us …” (70) During the time when Elie lost his faith. Elie started to pray in the concentration camp. It comforts him that someday he could get out. People can get through anything if they pray because it gives them