Role Of Faith In Night Elie Wiesel

Faith plays a major role throughout the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel and in his interview with Oprah. Faith is what keeps most of them alive in the beginning of the novel and somewhat at the end because at the end Elie loses his faith due to all the suffering they go through. In the interview with Oprah Winfrey, Elie has reconnect with his faith because he understood why he suffered so much. I believe that he lost his faith towards the end of the book and then many years later when he returns to the camp he seems to have recovered his faith not fully but for the most part.

The lost of faith towards the end of the novel is shown as Elie doubts god's power from preventing their suffering. As Elie states, “Some talked of God, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of the Jewish people, and of their future deliverance. But I had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with Job! I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted His
As Wiesel states in the Interview, “ How grateful I should be that I am here, and look, you and I are here walking, remembering, helping, thinking of what to do with our lives without memories”(Wiesel). This shows how Elie was very grateful to be alive and seeing everything again and being able to give his testimony. This quote is important because Elie's faith has been somewhat recovered as he is is thankful for living and without his memories he could do nothing. Elie also states in the interview, “ believe me, Oprah I can’t understand either. I was the wrong person for it”(Wiesel). This quote shows how he doesn’t understand why he survived and he knows it's a miracle. This is important because miracle can only occur when you have faith in God which means that me has faith that God let him live in order for him to tell others what he went through. This is how in the interview Elie has recovered some of his faith as he is thankful to be alive and knows it was a