Religion In Night Elie Wiesel

Everyone will face a time in their lives when they start to question themselves or beliefs. It forces them to reflect on their decisions and their moral code. Elie went through a very traumatic event, in which no one should have to endure, let alone a child. The Holocaust changed him, as it would anyone. Elie questioned his faith many times in God and humanity. Throughout the novel you can see specific times where his faith waivers and changes. In the beginning of Night, Elie and his father got put into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. All prisoners stood in a line and were asked a series of questions to determine whether they would be useful to the Nazi's. Soon later, the line got divided into the workers and those who would
The New Year comes around, which is a time of of celebration for the Jews. The Jews normally would celebrate and ask for repentance for their sins in the past year. Since they are prisoners of the Germans, they instead hold a small gathering in a church to pray together. Elie joins in on the Rosh Hashanah, but instead feels like an observer rather than a devoted believer. As he watches people pray he realizes something, "I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man." He turns bitter towards God because he feels that God has abandoned him and allowed the Holocaust to last this long. He truly believes that he has gone through this whole experience alone. Elie faith in God waivers and changes throughout the novel, and shapes him into a new person that he himself doesn't recognize. He grew stronger as a person, but lost sight of his religious beliefs. He felt that his time spent as a German prisoner God wasn't there for him. There was many times that he felt he abandoned him in a time that he needed him the most. He stated in the book, "As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute