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Night by Elie
Faith is like an eraser, it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake. Quote is related to the way how Elie lose the faith on his journey towards the concentration camp. In novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust Survivor, he loses his faith as time goes on and he keeps seeing different incredible crimes and atrocities committed by the Nazis. The novel Night starts from 1941 in a Hasidic Community in the town of Sighet. Throughout the novel Elie, as well as other many prisoners, lost their faith in God. Before Elie’s deportation to the camp at the beginning of novel he was a deeply religious boy but he keep changing in his faith, when he first saw young piple hanging on the gallows, and when he feel about what Rabbi Elighou’s son had done in abandoning his father and lost his faith like an Eraser.

Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favourite activates are studying the Talmud and at Night spending time at Synagogue. He was really faithful to religion, just keep talking about religious things and praying and keep questioning about pray. As Elie said “I would run to synagouge to weep over the destruction to the temple.” He used to cry for the destruction of the temple, if something goes wrong with temple than he used to think about that. The religious talks with Moishe the beadle when he makes different question, all were about pray and religions. When Elie said “And why do you pray, Moisho? Asking this question he is showing his interest on god and religion. He used to cry while he pray because he really used to keep faith in god and prayer. He was really interested on studying kabbalah. His father was stopping him to study kabbalah though he found a teacher himself. A young boy showing interest on reading religious book is not the simple thing, only who has faith on god and religion can do such things. As Elie was really religious he was interested on studying kabbalah.

He saw young piple hanging on the gallows and lost faith in God. Nazi’s

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