Loss Of Faith In Ellie Wiesel's Night

You’re in a concentration camp, lots of people are dying and there is a lot of torture everywhere. You find it hard to hold strong to the god you once believed in. This is how many people, including, Ellie felt during the Holocaust. In the book Night Ellie uses repetition, irony, and dictation to show loss of faith in his book.
To show how the workers were losing faith in God Elie uses repetition. In the book Ellie says “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). He’s describing how the Nazi’s killed his faith. Ellie continues to repeat this saying “Never shall I ever forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.” Ellie continues to show losing faith by using Moishe the Beadle. Ellie describes Moishe as being “He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He no longer sang”(7). Moishe the Beadle had lost his faith when he came back. He uses repetition to plant that in readers mind.
Throughout the book there is many examples of dictation. One example is Moishe the Beadle. At the beginning of the book Moishe is a happy person speaking often of Kabbalah with Ellie. But after all foreign Jews were deported and Moishe survived the atrocities of the forest, he was no longer a happy person. Elle describes it “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone” (7). Moishe was not happy and no longer talked anything but what happened in the forest. His dictation was changed to a very foreboding one. Additionally dictation can also be seen in Ellie’s father. He becomes more and more helpless. His dictation turns into one of a child's. At a concentration camp Mr. Wiesel is being beaten. He says “Eliezer . . . Eliezer . . . Tell them not to beat me . . . I haven't done anything . . . Why are they beating me?” (109). This is showing how Mr. Wiesel loses his belief because he doesn't pray for mercy. He just wants it to