...In the book Night Elie Wiesel has a strong faith in God at the beginning of the book.Wiesel has developed this faith by his studies in mysticism and Kabbalah he seems very eager to learn more . For instance, on page four he says “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah. ‘You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism.’”Wiesel’s loss of confidence in God who he once strongly believed in is thanks to the inhumane way people were treated, his lack of basic life necessities, and all the losses Wiesel experienced during the camp and the Holocaust in general. One reason Wiesel lost faith was because he did not believe...
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...In the beginning of the book when Wiesel would study his Kabbala religiously he said, "I pray to the God within me for strength"(Wiesel 4). This context shows that before he witnessed any inhuman experienced he was simply a boy with a strong passion for faith. This however changed as soon as Wiesel got to a death camp. While Wiesel was in a death camp, he watched as babies were burned saying, "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God"(Wiesel 34). Obviously, Wiesel saw so much horror and mistreatment he was unable to believe that a God actually exists because Wiesel had a hard time believing in a God who would let such things happen without intervening. This shows that a real God would not let such cruelty happen. Over time as he experienced more hardship and cruelty as his faith eroded to nothing. In conclusion when people experience dehumanization and cruelty their faith can be...
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...English 10 Rough Draft Essay In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the author uses symbolism, and metaphors to show the theme loss of faith. Both Elie and his father express signs that they have lost faith in the Jewish religion. This is important because religion is supposed to help people through hard times, and give them faith in the world around them. The first example of this is when all of the Jewish civilians are forced to wear the yellow Star of David. When Mr. Wiesel was asked what the community should do about being shamefully forced to wear the star. His response was rather nonchalant stating. “The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…” (11) This shows that Mr. Wiesel is not holding the offense to his religion in high regard, showing...
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...At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly.” His experiences at Auschwitz and other camps have affected his faith. At the beginning of the book, it shows that he still has firm beliefs in his faith and in Him, as evidence by this quote, “I was up at dawn. I wanted to have time to pray before leaving,” (Page 18). By him saying this, we can conquer that Elie still has faith. Due to his faith not yet being deteriorated, he continues to pray. Even when subdued to anti-Semitism and racism, he still believes that God is with him. He continues to keep his faith, as he is still a firm believer. Later on, Elie’s faith begins to become lucid. An quote that shows this within the book is, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for,” (Page 33). He said this because he is watching people being killed right in front of him. He is...
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...At the beginning of Night Elie said he was someone who believes profoundly. How has his faith changed throughout his experience at Auschwitz and other camps? Elie has been through a lot since the beginning of the book. His life has been turned around and changed completely, and so has his faith. In chapter one, page 4, after praying Moishe the Beadle was asking Elie why he had cried while they prayed. Elie responded saying “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” Elie’s faith was strong. He’d spend all day in the synagogue reading the Zohar, studying jewish laws and praying. Elie passionately believed in his faith and was very devoted to it. Nothing was going to stop him from being so dedicated to is religion,...
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...Night by Nobel Peace prize winner and famous Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, is a tear-jerking, thrilling memoir. The memoir is on Elie’s abhorrent experiences in Auschwitz and his transformation. Along with many others in the Jewish community, Elie is forced to leave his home and endure the torture and trauma of Auschwitz becoming a whole new person. Elie’s relationship with both his father and God transmuted from his experiences in the concentration camps. Elie’s experience in Auschwitz altered his view of God greatly. As a twelve-year-old boy, Elie was devoted to worshipping God. He wanted to become a rabbi when he was old enough. Although his father would not allow it, Elie found a mentor to help him in becoming a rabbi. After spending one day in Auschwitz, Elie began to lose faith in his God. Elie was put into a line with others who came on the train hearing his father recite the Kaddish thinking this was the end, he then thought, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for” (Wiesel 33). Elie is wondering why they should all praise and thank God when, in the worst of times, God isn’t making some kind of miracle happen or...
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...is not you anymore, you are just a number. Everything that you had practiced and grew up on didn’t matter anymore. What if you were being treated so badly that you finally lose your faith in the God that you believe in because you don’t see him doing anything In the worst situation possible. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel was taken out of his home and given the life that nobody could possibly imagine. Family throughout the story was about staying together and not losing each other, Faith, they were questioning their faith and wondering why god wasn’t there and why god wasn’t doing anything in there time of need, and strength was why were they fighting?...
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...religion, with the world being 31% Christian, Islam close behind with 23%. 15% of the world follows Judaism, a religion in which the author of Night followed. A religion that we followed, because of what we know, he rejected God because of loss of faith, he believed that God is cruel because he allowed suffering towards the ones that love him. Everyone that read the book of Night, have developed a different and unique aspect of their own, from his relationship with his father, the act of being tortured, the countless days of train rides, the horrible people that were SS soldiers or the Religion of Judaism, but my aspect is the motif of Night and what it means to him, and what he should take in for ourselves....
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...As Elie spends more time at these camps him and every other prisoner completely loses their faith in God and humanity. Spending time in these camps took a toll on everybody, and had everyone reexamining their opinions and perspectives on the world. “My forehead was bath in cold sweat.But I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it....' Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us, today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories....' His voice was choking.” (Night 30) Elie saw after what cruel acts humans are capable of is completely and thoroughly shocked, his father standing beside him supports him through Elie's awakening by giving him bitter words of guidance. With this Elie's faith starts destructing, as he sees how such vile deeds took place with absolutely no repercussions, and in the same way, his father also loses begins to lose faith and is shown through his tone of intense bitter, incensed words. “ 'Where is God? Where is He?' someone behind me asked... For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes..... Behind me I heard the same man...'Where is God now…'..... And I heard a voice within me answer ... Here he is-He is hanging here...
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...Rabbi looked out the car's window to see Lebanon’s tall mountains which protected the historical buildings of his hometown, Ehden. The view gave him comfort, to see the town he calls home instead of the tall modern glass buildings that plagued the view of Australia’s cities. The taxi curved along the road, avoiding the rocky mountains and it's neighbours, the cement houses. Some of these houses looked completely new and foreign to this old city making Rabbi feel out of place. He pouted, his town changed. As the taxi kept moving, Rabbi kept noticing differences. He noticed a stump instead of the tall green Cedrus Libani tree where he used to climb with his school friends and eat their carrots dipped in hummus after school to waste time. Rabbi then turned and faced the other side of the road, seeing his old school signalling him that his almost home, but that's not what caught his mind. His school's name changed from ‘Madaris Ehden’ *2 to ‘Abdel Halim’, almost reminding Rabbi of this new town. Rabbi felt that he no longer knew Ehden, that the city he knew like the back of his hand changed into a city he has never visited. Every house he saw as he drove by looked different. Change plagued the streets, and soon enough, Rabbi lost his way home. A sigh escaped his lips as he leaned into the uncomfortable seat. Rabbi wished to be in a familiar environment, he wished to be in Western Sydney driving to work in the populated streets, counting down the minutes till he was late, cursing...
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...Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the story of the Holocaust, the mass genocide of the Jewish people and important event in WWII. The memoir Night begins in the polish town of Sighet. The story is About Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy whose family gets deported to the concentration camp with other Jews from his town. Upon arrival his Mother and Sister, Tzipora are separated and executed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz death camp. Following that, after months of work, with the advancing allied front, the prisoners were forced to march all night to the Gleiwitz concentration camp. As Elie’s story continues, after being stuffed inside a camp barrack for 3 days without food or water, the Prisoners were let out for a selection, Elie’s Father was chosen to...
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...Chapter 4 Once Elie Wiesel and his father arrive at Buna, they are put to work counting electrical fittings in a warehouse. They stay in a barrack of musicians with a nice head Kapo. Here, Elie meets Juliek, a musician, and two brothers, Yosi and Tibi. A little while later, Elie is summoned to have his gold crown removed by the dentist. Wiesel is able to continuously put this off until the dentist is hanged for keeping the gold teeth for his own profit. Then Wiesel's work Kapo, Idek beats him terribly, but then a French girl helps and talks to him. Years later Wiesel sees this girl again in Paris and gets a chance to talk to her. Later Idek savagely beats Wiesel's father, but Elie Wiesel isn't concerned for his father's health or safety, and is instead mad at him for not being strong enough to defend himself. Then Franek, another head of the camp demands that Wiesel hand over his gold crown to him. He refuses, and so Franek takes out his fury on Wiesel's father until Wiesel finally gives him the tooth. In the warehouse, Elie Wiesel accidently catches Franek with a woman, and in retaliation, Franek whips Wiesel publicly until Wiesel goes unconscious. Later there is an air raid, and all the prisoners are confined to their blocks. Some days later, a man is hanged for trying to steal during the air raid when he was supposed to be in his block. There were a few more hangings following that one. One which involved a young boy accused of sabotage. When Wiesel sees how they cruelly...
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...Wiesel’s Changes of Faith The Holocaust brought about many hardships and created severe adversity for its victims that may have created experiences ultimately too traumatic that transformed their lives for years to come, either through starvation and labor in the concentration camps or execution and incineration in the extermination camps. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells the story of himself as a young Jewish boy born in Romania, who in 1944, was forced into ghettos with the rest of the Jewish citizens and later deported, along with his father, to the Nazi’s largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. While living through this day-to-day horrifying basis, Elie begins to live with overwhelming fear and total alienation, as well as his increasing loss of faith on God and whether God is even existent or not for His lack of participation in trying to help the Jews. Although Elie manages to survive his long and frightening journey through both labor and death camps, his faith was never at the high-most air-reaching level as it dramatically changed throughout the course of the novel because of his disturbing experiences in witnessing cremated human beings, executions, and the going through the loss of his entire family. Prior to being deported to the camps, Elie’s faith was extremely high as he was well-established with his studies in mysticism and the cabbala and his great involvement with religion through prayers. Elie is finding a great interest in wanting to...
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...1 Symbolic Interaction, Functional Analysis, and Conflict Theory of Elie Wiesels’s Night Introduction 2 Symbolic Interaction, Functional Analysis, and Conflict Theory of Elie Wiesels’s “Night” Elie Wiesel’s Night begins in Sighet, Transylvania, 1941 when he was a teenager. He begins talking about a life before his world, along with his family, was torn apart. His family was Jewish, and he wanted to study Cabbala. He was very much involved in his faith and wanted to further pursue it by studying Cabbala, but his father would not let him. “There are no Cabbalists in Sighet.” (pg 4). He was very close with his shtibl, Moishe the Beadle, who later was taken by Hungarian Police and expelled from Sighet because he was a foreign Jew. Once they were taken over by the Gestapo, the babies were used as target practice and the adults were shot. Moishe managed to escape because he was shot in his leg and was able to get back to Sighet to tell Elie what happened. He also tried to tell everyone in town what had happened to him and the rest of the foreign Jews, but no one believed him and he was branded insane. 1944 was when the town of Sighet was split into two ghettos, and no one could leave the town. Shortly after that, the Hungarian police told everyone in town to turn in their valuables (gold, jewelry, etc.) because they were going to the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. This is where Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters, and never heard from or...
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...In today’s day, we respect the past but rarely delve into it except for certain days. Elie Wiesel’s book Night is the self-account of Wiesel’s life in the Holocaust. It reflects back to the time through the eyes of a Jewish boy living in the awful conditions. It tells the story from the first few steps that Hitler takes, to when the camps was liberated. Wiesel delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. The Final Days is a film about resistance in Nazi Germany of one woman in particular. The movie starts off showing the main character having fun and there is light and laughter. This quickly changes as it shows her with members of the White Rose, an Anti-Nazi organization. She was caught and found guilty. This movie is a true story based on an actual Sophie Scholl who lived throughout this and was a member of the White Rose. Although one is about standing up for your rights not matter the consequence, and one is about knowing when hope is but a lost phrase, barely living in your mind. While that is all true, they also have a lot of differences, for instance, they have very different main characters who come from different parts and are effected by the war in different ways, each story is told in very different ways and each has its own meaning, and they have different messages that are portrayed throughout each. In the memoir Night, Elie starts off as a regular Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania. He was a teenager when his family...
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