Night By Elie Wiesel: Character Analysis
In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel explains his life in the concentration camps during the period of the Holocaust. At the beginning of the memoir, Elie is very interested in learning more about his religion. Elie wanted to become more involved and invested in his faith so he began questioning his father and his teacher. As Elie begins to learn more about his religion, the Jews were put into cattle wagons and sent off to concentration camps. Elie as a character changes form what he observes such as crucial torture and abusive things that happen to all ages of children and adults. Elies physical state deteriorates through many hardships and sufferings, his relationship with God also becomes weak, and his father-son relationship becomes stronger.
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Events such as seeing babies burned alive and seeing a young boy hung makes Elies faith in God decline. The following quote in section 4 of Night shows how he questions God, “… Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “Where is God now?” And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows…(62).”Elie along with others are so traumatized by what is going on in the camps that they have started believing there is no God. Elie started to question God’s existence as to why He let these crimes go unchecked and whether or not he should continue to believe in …show more content…
. As Elies relationship with his father becomes stronger, his relationship and faith with God has become weaker. Elie begins to lose faith in God when he can’t understand how God would let such things happen and questions Him, whether he should or should not believe in Him. While Elie is in the camp, his relationship with his father grows stronger. The relationship with his fathers is very strong which is why he uses his father as the reason for living in the Holocaust, since he no longer believes in God. Elie has changed throughout the period of the Holocaust, by his physical state deteriorating, his bond with God becoming weaker, and his realationship with his father becomes
Events such as seeing babies burned alive and seeing a young boy hung makes Elies faith in God decline. The following quote in section 4 of Night shows how he questions God, “… Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “Where is God now?” And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows…(62).”Elie along with others are so traumatized by what is going on in the camps that they have started believing there is no God. Elie started to question God’s existence as to why He let these crimes go unchecked and whether or not he should continue to believe in …show more content…
. As Elies relationship with his father becomes stronger, his relationship and faith with God has become weaker. Elie begins to lose faith in God when he can’t understand how God would let such things happen and questions Him, whether he should or should not believe in Him. While Elie is in the camp, his relationship with his father grows stronger. The relationship with his fathers is very strong which is why he uses his father as the reason for living in the Holocaust, since he no longer believes in God. Elie has changed throughout the period of the Holocaust, by his physical state deteriorating, his bond with God becoming weaker, and his realationship with his father becomes